Gargoyles and Gravel marks the second time (after Blood Money) that Merasmus ran into trouble without any help from Soldier. At that time, he also started to set out Merasmissions. While at the same time, the mercenaries constantly kill each other, creating an impromptu burial ground thereby allowing Merasmus to summon Bonzo, the evil circus god of Sumeria. However, he forgot to construct it over an ancient burial site, and so he invites the mercenaries to collect tickets for entry to the World's Largest Strongman Machine. In Blood Money, Merasmus borrowed $12,000 from the Japanese Mafia to construct a Carnival. While continuing his practice of brewing, he relayed to the other inmates the tale of Grave Matters. Merasmus was imprisoned and while in prison he received several tattoos (one of them the Soldier's class emblem) and is permitted to wear a skull hat. After Merasmus called the police, Miss Pauling arrived and tricked him into checking Tom Jones' pulse, and thus Merasmus was believed to be responsible for the murder and arrested. Southwest, where he moved in with Tom Jones, who was later murdered by Soldier. When he found later that the Soldier had trashed his home and evicted him, he took on a ghostly form and attacked the Soldier's team.įollowing this eviction, Merasmus left Badlands to live in a city in another area of the U.S. Years later, the magician's tumultuous relationship with the RED Soldier was revealed, and he summoned MONOCULUS (the haunted eye) for the RED team to fight.ĭuring the events of Soldier Needs a Home, Merasmus kicked the Soldier out of his castle for being a nuisance. Ultimately, the Demoman lost his left eye when the Bombinomicon haunted it and Merasmus was forced to remove it. Merasmus hired Demoman to sweep the library of his castle, but told him not to look at a certain book. In the Bombinomicon comic, the RED Demoman, then seven years old, discovered Merasmus's castle in the Highlands while seeking work.

He remained in Scotland until relocating to Badlands sometime between the late 1950s and mid-1960s. Not particularly a top tier wizard, the earliest available records show Merasmus to be a brewer of potions for the Scottish Drug Company an example being his 'Wizard's Brew' Hat Tonic as advertised in the August 21, 1861, issue of The Teufort Bystander on display in the Coal Town Museum. While his place of birth is unknown, this age would make Merasmus's origin contemporary with the rise and fall of the Sumerian Civilization. In gameplay, not only does Merasmus (stylized as 'MERASMUS!') make an appearance as the boss the players must fight in Ghost Fort, Brimstone, Gravestone and Slasher, he is also the owner and host of the Carnival of Carnage, a summoner of both MONOCULUS in Eyeaduct and the Horseless Headless Horsemann in the Bumper Car games, and the keeper and wielder of Bombinomicon, which itself appears on multiple maps.īy his own claim, he is six thousand years old. His appearances in comics or other media are usually related to releases of paranormal or haunted Halloween maps, with Soldier’s actions generally being the reason the mercenaries end up fighting there. In the Team Fortress 2 Storyline, Merasmus has a connection with Demoman in the origin of MONOCULUS however, he most often appears as Soldier's long suffering former roommate. He has more roles in gameplay than any other non-player character. Merasmus has several appearances or references in the comics, hidden pages, and game maps. Merasmus the Magician, or simply Merasmus (also referred to as wizard, magician, The Necromancer of No Refunds, and ' idiot in a dress') is an important character in the Team Fortress 2 Storyline.

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