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Myrnin standing in front of a white wall

Myrnin is a Welsh vampire and a scientist (alchemist to be specific) and he also becomes Claire's mentor in Midnight Alley. He is ancient, and in the further stages of the Vampire Sickness that is plauging the undead of Morganville.

Myrnin is a fan of Commedia dell'arte, even going to a dress up party as Pierrot. He also dressed Claire, his lab assistant, as a Harlequin. He tells Bishop that he always thought that Pierrot was the evil one.

He created Ada three hundred years ago, turned her into a vampire then after killing her because of the vampire sickness saved her by putting her brain into a machine and has been arguing with the vampire computer ever since.

He has been working on a cure for the Vampire Sickness for many years, and every few years he takes a new assistant to help him. He has used human and vampire assistants, and during relapses he has killed at least five and has had at least seven, the two that are still alive are Claire and Dr Irene Anderson.

Though he and Claire have made breakthroughs with the cure, there have been times when they had no choice but to lock him in Morganville's underground vampire prison, or, on occasion, stake him. With the help of Claire he later discovers the cure using Bishop's blood.

During his episodes, he has threatened to bite or kill Claire, but during Fade Out he bit her. This was also after he was cured with Bishop's Blood.

There have been hints that he likes Claire more than as an assistant and in Last Breath it is quite clear about his feelings for her. A popular fanfic called Myrnin's Kiss had been circulating and being mistaken for an actual passage of the book and another called Myrnin & Claire's Kiss. It should be noted that any reports of Myrnin kissing Claire, apart from on page 143, chapter 4, of Bitter Blood when Myrnin kissed Claire and she did not mind it, saying that she wasn't sure if she wanted to stop him are false.

He dresses in a random collection of clothing that includes vampire bunny slippers, Hawaiian shirts and long coats. Claire describes him as "Hollywood pretty with dark eyes and full lips". He has curly black hair that reaches his shoulders.

He owns a pet spider by the name of Bob. Sometimes he lies for fun and he also believes, or says he believes, that gravity is a random occurrence. He smokes cigars and can play the guitar

It is revealed in Myrnin's tale that he was Gwion's apprentice. Myrnin also says at one point that he was "dead before the ink had dried on the Magna Carta" and that he had a secret relationship with Queen Elizabeth I. Claire unearths a mirror that belonged to Myrnin's mother and he says that she was evil.

Quotes[]

  • [After handing Claire a tupperware of brain tissue] "Please take it…I’m giving you a piece of my mind.” (Feast of Fools)
  • [After being asked to swear] "Frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs! ....is that what you meant my lord?"
  • "There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl."
  • "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough."
  • "Question everything: accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself."
  • “I would never build a lawn trimmer. What did the lawn ever do to me?..” (Ghost Town)
  • "If anyone comes to bite you while I’m gone - well, try not to attract attention. Die quietly."
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