Lord Palethorn: Difference between revisions

|image = MediEvil2-LordPalethorn-Render.png

|titles = [[Magic Circle]] member (? - 1877)<br>Lord (? - 1886)

|aka = Reggie Pallthrop <small>(birth name)</small><br>Palethorne <small>(by [[Professor Marcus Effington Christy|Professor Christy]])</small>

|family = [[Honourable Lord Daniel Roger Palethorn|Daniel Roger Palethorn]] <small>(great-grandfather)</small>

|birth = {{circa|1841}}<br>London, United Kingdom

|death = 1886 (aged 45{{Siteref|MED2-EU-Site|uk/nonshocked/characters/five.htm|Lord Palethorn}})<br>London, United Kingdom

|voice = [[Marc Silk]]{{Citation needed}}

{{Quote|Curse you! Curse you all! You think you've won? I'll have my day and when I do, I'll...|Lord Palethorn, after losing the boxing match.}}

'''Lord Palethorn of Shoreditch''' (''né'' '''Reggie Pallthrop'''; {{circa|1840}} – 1886) was a powerhungry sorcerer bent on conquering the city of [[London]] and beyond. He almost succeeded after obtaining numerous pages of the legendary [[Zarok's spell book|Zarok spell book]], but his plans were undone by the return of the [[Sir Daniel Fortesque|Hero of Gallowmere]].

A successful industrialist, Palethorn embraced the ethics of the Victorian age. He exploited every opportunity and was hungry for wealth and social acceptance. This led to him changing his name from Reggie Pallthrop to Palethorn, joining the [[Magic Circle]] and buying the title of 'lord' to make him seem more a part of the establishment.{{Bookref|MED2-Manual}} Palethorn believed that Black Magic was the key to obtaining both power and wealth.

In 1878, one month after his expulsion from the Magic Circle for practising Black Magic, Palethorn approached [[Professor Hamilton Kift]], a fellow member of the Circle, about travelling to the Hebrides to acquire some pages of Zarok's spell book. After arriving on a Hebridean island, they found the spell book in a tomb located at the island's northern point. Once Palethorn took the book from its resting place, the tomb began to collapse. Palethorn shoved Kift aside and abandoned him, escaping the collapsing tomb with the spell book.{{Gameref|MED2}}{{Gameref|MED2|[[MediEvil 2 books#Book 2 - The Diary of Prof. H.KIFT|The Diary of Prof. H.KIFT]]}} Using the power within its pages, Palethorn planned on taking over London and eventually, the world.

In 1886, Palethorn resurfaced and used Zarok's spell book to unleash havoc upon the city of London. The spell resurrected the dead across the city, including the skeletal remains of dinosaurs housed in Kensington [[The Museum|museum]]. Because the spell book was missing some of its pages, Palethorn was transformed into a red-skinned demon with elongated ears as a side-effect. Palethorn then set out to find the missing pages so he could fully control the [[zombies]] he had brought back to life. During this time, Palethorn and his lackeys, [[Dogman]] and [[Mander]], worked on a machine - the Great Scope - at the [[Greenwich Observatory]]. Using the machine, Palethorn hoped to instantly locate all the missing pages of the spell book. However, his plans were foiled by the resurrected hero [[Sir Daniel Fortesque]] after he crashed an airship into the Great Scope. Soon after Palethorn built the [[Iron Slugger]] and organized a boxing match between himself and Kift's team, with the Egyptian [[Princess Kiya]] as the prize. The Iron Slugger was defeated by Dan and Palethorn's plans were thwarted yet again.  

Realizing that Sir Dan is becoming more of a nuisance than he had anticipated, Palethorn contacted his ally [[The Count]] to help dispose of him whilst he continued his search for the pages. Palethorn finally confronted Sir Dan at the [[Cathedral Spires]] and recovered the [[Spell Page|last page of the spell book]] from him. Finally in possession of all the pages, Palethorn summoned a [[The Demon|demon]] to destroy Daniel once and for all. Dan managed to outsmart them however by diverting Palethorn's bullets into the demon, which eventually led to his defeat. In a desperate final attempt to kill Dan, Palethorn activated a bomb which ultimately killed him, but not Dan.

In an alternate timeline, Palethorn used the spell book to travel back in time.{{Siteref|MediEvil-Boards|11632|Interview with Jason Wilson|February 10, 2012}} Dan and Kiya used [[Kift's Amazing Confabulating Chrono-chair]] to travel back in time, however they also ended up in this alternate timeline where they encountered a beastly version of Palethorn in what appeared to be [[Zarok's Lair (MediEvil)|Zarok's Lair]].

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