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===Death=== | ===Death=== | ||
====Canonical account==== | |||
[[File:MediEvil-BattleOfGallowmere-FMV-Render.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Fortesque leads Gallowmere's militia into battle.]] | [[File:MediEvil-BattleOfGallowmere-FMV-Render.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Fortesque leads Gallowmere's militia into battle.]] | ||
Everything changed when an army of the undead began marching towards [[The Haunted Ruins|Castle Peregrin]]. Unbeknownst to the king, it was led by his very own court magician Zarok. The king was in desperate need of a hero who could tackle the threat, and he knew exactly who he wanted. | Everything changed when an army of the undead began marching towards [[The Haunted Ruins|Castle Peregrin]]. Unbeknownst to the king, it was led by his very own court magician Zarok. The king was in desperate need of a hero who could tackle the threat, and he knew exactly who he wanted. | ||
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In order to save face, King Peregrin declared Zarok the Sorcerer dead and organised a hero's burial for Fortesque, including the construction of a custom [[Dan's Crypt|crypt]]. From then on, Fortesque was revered as the Hero of Gallowmere.{{Bookref|MED-Manual|9}}{{clr}} | In order to save face, King Peregrin declared Zarok the Sorcerer dead and organised a hero's burial for Fortesque, including the construction of a custom [[Dan's Crypt|crypt]]. From then on, Fortesque was revered as the Hero of Gallowmere.{{Bookref|MED-Manual|9}}{{clr}} | ||
====Apocryphal account==== | |||
Some sources offer a different version of Fortesque's death. They claim that Zarok had trapped a genie called [[Al-Zalam]] in Fortesque's head on the day of the battle, that Fortesque caught his foot on the grass and twisted his ankle before being shot,<!--Bloodmonath dialogue in Resurrection--> and that the one ultimately responsible for his death was none other than Zarok's right-hand man, [[Lord Kardok]].{{Gameref|MPSP}}<!--Implied by dialogue in Zarok's Lair in Resurrection --> | |||
===First resurrection=== | ===First resurrection=== | ||
====Canonical account==== | |||
[[File:MediEvil-DansResurrection-FMV-Render.png|200px|thumb|Sir Dan is resurrected.]] | [[File:MediEvil-DansResurrection-FMV-Render.png|200px|thumb|Sir Dan is resurrected.]] | ||
In 1386, Zarok resurfaced and cast a spell called the Evernight, which turned the skies over Gallowmere black and robbed the innocent of their very souls in order to revive the dead. Fortesque was unexpectedly reanimated when magic from the Evernight drifted into his crypt and settled upon his decomposing corpse. <!--This is a bit speculative, no? It is (perhaps intentionally) unclear whether this act was a side effect of the spell, or an unseen force willed Fortesque's revival on its own.--> | In 1386, Zarok resurfaced and cast a spell called the Evernight, which turned the skies over Gallowmere black and robbed the innocent of their very souls in order to revive the dead. Fortesque was unexpectedly reanimated when magic from the Evernight drifted into his crypt and settled upon his decomposing corpse. <!--This is a bit speculative, no? It is (perhaps intentionally) unclear whether this act was a side effect of the spell, or an unseen force willed Fortesque's revival on its own.--> | ||
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Frustrated, Zarok made a last-ditch decision to face the would-be hero one-on-one, transmogrifying into a [[Zarok's Beast Transformation|beastly form]]. The battle was intense, but Fortesque made good on his mission and became the hero he was always meant to be. As Zarok destroyed his own fortress, a [[vulture]] swept Sir Dan in its talons and carried him back to his crypt. For his heroic deeds, Dan had earned a place in the Hall of Heroes, where he remained for the next five hundred years. | Frustrated, Zarok made a last-ditch decision to face the would-be hero one-on-one, transmogrifying into a [[Zarok's Beast Transformation|beastly form]]. The battle was intense, but Fortesque made good on his mission and became the hero he was always meant to be. As Zarok destroyed his own fortress, a [[vulture]] swept Sir Dan in its talons and carried him back to his crypt. For his heroic deeds, Dan had earned a place in the Hall of Heroes, where he remained for the next five hundred years. | ||
====Apocryphal account==== | |||
An alternative account exists, according to which Zarok allegedly elected to use Sir Dan's ophiophobia against him and morphed into a giant king cobra-rattler hybrid instead of a figurehead-shaped beast. The outcome remains the same, but for the genie Al-Zalam to turn back and pull Sir Dan from the rubble, flying him back to the crypt.{{Gameref|MPSP}} | |||
===Second resurrection=== | ===Second resurrection=== | ||
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==Legacy== | |||
[[File:MediEvilComic-ProfessorDarrow.png|thumb|200px|Professor Darrow, author of several works on Dan Fortesque.]] | [[File:MediEvilComic-ProfessorDarrow.png|thumb|200px|Professor Darrow, author of several works on Dan Fortesque.]] | ||
Future members of the [[Fortesque family]] would follow in Sir Dan's footsteps, fighting on behalf of Britain on battlefields the world over.{{Gameref|Ghosthunter}} | Future members of the [[Fortesque family]] would follow in Sir Dan's footsteps, fighting on behalf of Britain on battlefields the world over.{{Gameref|Ghosthunter}} | ||