Staff of Merlin

The Staff of Merlin is a type of technology from the The Last Knight portion of the live-action film continuity family.

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A device of great power originally owned by Quintessa to wield control over the planet Cybertron, the artifact later became known as the Staff of Merlin. The Staff was a device created long ago, it's original owner Quintessa could use it to literally drain the "Life Force" of other worlds to restore Cybertron, or simply destroy that planet. The Staff can be Bonded to a particular being, and so at that point could only be used by that person, or someone of that bloodline. The staff can also preform other abilities, giving it's user the ability to wield advanced science beyond the comprehension of "primitive" beings. The staff can also disguise itself as a primitive looking staff, until a person with the ability to wield it could pick it up. It could also shrink in size for smaller beings to hold or use it.

Previous Users include:

• Quintessa
• Merlin
• Viviane Wembly
• Stormreign (temporarily)

Fiction

The Last Knight film

The Last Knight

Long ago in the distant Past, Quintessa the self proclamed "creator" of the Cybertronian Race desired to use the Staff for nefarious purposes. Upon Discovering this, the Twelve Guardian Knight's of Iacon stole the Staff and took it with them on their search to find worthy allies on another world. By the Fifth Century C.E., the Knights had crash Landed on Earth where their existence would be kept secret by the "Wizard" Merlin. However in the year 484, an Invasion of Camelot by the Saxons had led to King Arthur requesting Merlin's help to win the battle. Merlin pleaded with the Knights to help turn the tide, his words would help the Knights decide that humanity was worthy and granted Merlin the Staff, which bonded to his DNA.

After Dragonstorm defeated the Saxons, Merlin would use the staff's abilities to conjure "Magic" in many future battles, or at least that's what humanity comprehended it to be. At some point later Merlin had died and his tomb was placed inside the Knights Ship, at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The staff lay inside his tomb alongside the Knights who were in stasis guarding the staff. By the 21st Century the exploits of Merlin and the Knights would be rendered mere legend by the efforts of the Order of the Witwiccans, however this would not last as the Talisman Knight crashed in Chicago, the Talisman ended up bonding to Cade Yeager. This would start a chain of events leading to Cade and Viviane Wembly finding and entering the Knights ship.

Viviane and Cade found the Staff which came online in Viviane's hands. One of the Knights' activated and tried to defend the staff, destroying Merlins' tomb in the process. The Knight was killed by the TRF force who also breached the ship. Two more Knights awoke and tried to also protect the staff, but they were cut down by "Nemesis prime" who under the influence of Quintessa, desired the Staff by any means necessary. Optimus demanded the staff and Cade recognizing something was wrong with him, advised Viviane to hand it over. She did so, and Optimus escaped the ship with the staff with Bumblebee in hot pursuit. The ship rose to the surface and Optimus and Bumble engaged in a brutal battle before Optimus overcame his control. Optimus disheartened after all he had done was easily wrestled of the Staff by Megatron and his Decepticons.

Megatron took the Staff to Cybertron so Quintessa could begin the process of draining Unicrons' life force from Earth, which would Destroy the Earth in the process. Cade, Optimus and the now awoken and rallied Guardian Knights, joined with TRF and the Autobots to take the fight to Quintessa. After a battle against Megatrons' forces, they made it to the Ignition chamber, where Quintessa escaped and Vivane stopped the Staff from completing the process of destroying Earth. With Quintessa's plan thwarted The threat the Staff posed was now gone, and Optimus prime would call all Autobots' to return to the restored Cybertron to rebuild.