Editing Merlin Township (section)

==Town Founders and Historical Personages==
Seven founders were responsible for establishing Merlin Township along the Lethe River, in Lethe County, and are memorialized with statues in front of the Town Hall. These seven are:
*'''Abner Allegro Callahan''', giant and possibly a descendant of Paul Bunyan. Stories about him are contradictory, at best.
*'''Skadi Gilling Callahan''', Jotun and wife of Abner Allegro Callahan. At least seven feet tall, and an accomplished hunter, swimmer and fighter who helped feed the fledgling town.
*'''Odelia McKay''', navigator possessing a preternatural amount of knowledge and strange machines, likely a time traveller. Some report seeing Odelia walk around the town in the present day.
*'''Marcellus Roland "M.R." Hendricks''', who created the Merlin Town Charter and many of the public institutions, and whose vast collection of journals chronicled the early history of Merlin Township, including the devastating Reality Storm of 19-Something
*'''Vassia Gorista''', a Greek wise woman who, along with her seven daughters, founded the precursor to Merlin's Bluebell Coven.
*'''Ermintrude Norman'''  Founder. Born long ago in Southern England, Ermintrude was a robust woman blessed with unusual strength, constitution, and lifespan. When people started to notice that she was not aging normally, she moved to America, settling in upstate New York. Twenty years later, she needed to move again.and joined the expedition that founded Merlin Township. Throughout her long life she had avoided marriage due to her different lifespan than most men. Shortly after the founding of the township she met and married an American Indian shaman. This was the first wedding held in Merlin.  In a few years, she gave birth  to a daughter. Young Ermintrude Norman, (the father was from a matriarchal tribe) appeared exactly the same as her mother, no trace of her father's blood flowed in her veins. It was eventually discovered that Ermintrude reproduced by gynogenesis, a process that requires a male to instigate conception, but all of the genetic information comes from the female. The young Emintrude was an exact physical copy of her mother. After the birth of her daughter, the elder Ermintrude began to age and died 30 years later. The younger Ermintrude eventually had a daughter that she named Ermintrude Norman and the cycle has continued up to the present.  The current Erminitrude Norman was born about 50 years ago and appears about 20 years old. She is as strong as a male Olympic weightlifter, once regrew a finger in a month, and is unaffected by most diseases and toxins. Not surprisingly, she is also a Hero of Merlin.
*'''The Unknown Founder''', whose life and deeds were destroyed in the Reality Storm of 19-Something. Where his statue would be, there is an empty pedestal and a blank plaque.

*'''Lord Archibald Darling''', an Englishman whose life was uneventful, who managed to make the town a welcoming place for the undead long after his own death. Passed on to the afterlife some time before the 20th century. Darling Street was dedicated to him after his passing. Although not a Founder, he was a key figure and pioneer.

Along with the founders, there were at least a few inhabitants that inhabited Merlin Township long before any human being stood foot in Lethe County.

*'''The Old Man''', an enigmatic creature living at the bottom of Lake Morgan. It's generally reclusive, has only surfaced a few times in the history of the town, and seems to want nothing but solitude and a lack of crazy kids dumping things in his yard.
*'''Aunt Snarky''', a 40' long Sarcosuchus that has apparently lived from 119 million years ago to the present age with no problems whatsoever. She understands English, German, Norwegian, and several American Indian languages.
*'''The Lake Morgan Monster''' is a giant freshwater squid, it never hurts anyone and have been known to save drowning people. The only downside is that it gathers items from the shore, both trash and useful items smaller than boats and puts them in its underwater cave. You can also play with it if you throw a ball to it when it surfaces on dark nights.