Woke up with this question

Tales of Arcadia viewers out there - do you think Merlin knew about like… the world wars and stuff. Did someone have to sit him down and be like “Hey man… we have nukes now.”

Cos like. If he went to sleep in the 12th Century, he doesn’t even know what Germany is. Imagine trying to explain the First and Second World War to somebody who thinks The Holy Roman Empire is a country.

Like this is what I found on Google for 12th Century map:

God he’s going to have a lot of conversations awaiting him.

GOD. I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS A BIT MORE.

The Tales of Arcadia main heroes cast consists of a guy who was asleep for like a thousand years, a whole species worth of guys who live underground and seem to just live until they’re killed so some of them might even be older than Merlin, a whole bunch of literal aliens, a guy who was basically confined to rural California for 900 years if I interpreted ‘guardian of Arcadia’ correctly and a history teacher.

Strickler must have been losing his fucking mind at all of these people who have the WORST understanding of human history. Like imagine

Strickler, explaining: “So, the Second World War started in Germany.”

Merlin: “What’s Germany.”

*Confused background whispering from the trolls and aliens*

Did he have to run fucking remedial history courses or something for all the immortals (and aliens) who can’t get their timeline in order. More for his own sanity than their sake obviously. Like the trolls clearly don’t bother with surface history because “Sorry, Mr. President Eisenhower.” is burned into my brain (thank you Blinky).

And full disclosure even though I have not watched this show in years, I literally woke up in a cold sweat thinking about this.