Characters with Merlin Sickness live or age backwards in time. What happens to their memory is highly variable; some options include: * The character remembers the past, but ages backwards (so they remember what happened when they were "older"). * The character remembers the future, and is exceedingly confusing. This can be a form of Cursed with Awesome--it allows the character to serve as a seer, but if taken seriously more or less precludes them from developing much of a connection with anyone (as just about any event carries the opposite sort of emotional resonance for them as for anyone else). Sometimes characters like this come off as Mad Oracles. * The character remembers the past, but remembers successively less of it as they get younger. Usually this occurs when Merlin Si