[Charu]

From what I can tell, merlins know each other but not the colors. They also know a wolf of their respective color, but only them.

Wolves know each other and are handed five names, three of which are merlins while the other two are VT. The caviat here is wolves can't kill these five players the very first night, they're 100% safe sans today's vote.

So... this game is going to be about not being super obvious for both sides it seems. Merlins can't just outright start accusing because if they did, the wolves would know instantly and just guess the colors to end the game prematurely.