As the boy explores the island, he makes new friends and dangerous enemies, all of whom help him grow into a respectable young man worthy of carrying the title of greatest wizard of all time. As luck would have it, a storm overtakes him and he washes up on the shores of Fincayra, a legendary isle said to be the gateway between heaven and earth, an "in-between" place. He then leaves the village where he has dwelt his entire known life and sails away on a self-built raft in order to find his true home. When a terrible incident results in the severe wounding of the bully and the loss of the boy's sight, he lives in anguish for several weeks until he slowly begins to develop a magical "second sight," the true awakening of his latent magic powers. The boy is rooted in humble beginnings in a remote village implied to be somewhere in Wales (called Gwynedd in those days), where he lives with his well-intended and doting mother, is tormented by the local bully, and yearns for greater things. Barron, which details the adventures of a teenaged Merlin as he explores the magical isle of Fincayra, with a great amount of focus on how the wizard we all know and love today develops from a bratty teenage boy into the wise and all-knowing wizard. The Lost Years of Merlin is a five-book epic authored by T.A.
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