The Merrylin Cryptid collection is actually a fictional invention of Alex CF , a Londonbased illustrator , writer , and sculptor with a fantastically warped imagination and a talent for the obscure . And now you can add ' marketing specialist ' to the list , as this ' true facts ' approach worked wonderfully promoting his Merrylin Cryptid Museum . the guy made the story up to promote his museum made entirely from his artwork , which was inspired largely from the works of h . p . lovecraft . s k u l l s s k e l e t o n s t h o m a s t heodoremerrylinhomelondon hope this helps . <| sep |> He meant it in the sense that he didn ' t expect them to win it , but he didn ' t want them to lose either . It would have been an intelligent fight to just disengage from , you feel ?