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Race: Human

Gender: Male

Location: Dead; location of corpse unknown

Alignment: Evil (eventually)

Status: Dead

Blackthorn is a great, tragic villain of our world. His name is very often misspelled to "Blackthorne," but "Blackthorn" is the proper spelling.

• Background

Blackthorn was a nobleman, noble-born, noble-bred, with a nobleman's refined tastes.

• Politics

Originally, Blackthorn was a friend and ally of Lord British. He founded a philosophy called "Chaos" that was designed to counteract Lord British's philosophy of the Virtues. Sherry the Mouse claimed in a written work that Blackthorn formed Chaos after overhearing a conversation between British and the Time Lord, to the effect that if everyone in all shards followed Virtue, the shards would re-integrate. While this eventuality would help heal the wounds caused by Mondain to time itself, which would surely be a "good" thing in objective terms, it would effectively end the existences of everyone on the shards. Blackthorn thus reasoned that a competing philosophy would prevent this eventuality, and thus invented Chaos.

Broadly speaking, Chaos held that there was value in all lives, even the lives of evil creatures and evil people, and that it was difficult to define "Virtues" in terms of objective morality in the manner contemplated by British's Virtue systems. More details can be found in Blackthorn's various written works, which continue to be printed, sell well, and be read.

• Blackthorn and British

Blackthorn and British maintained their friendship despite their competing philosophies, and while their more fanatical followers slaughtered one another in the streets.

• Blackthorn's Damnation

As stated above, Blackthorn was a nobleman, and aristocrat, with an aristocrat's tastes, education, and expectations.

When he did not immediately ascend to the throne upon British's first absence, Blackthorn became bitter and resentful. Despite the tolerance and egalitarian sentiments of Chaos, at heart Blackthorn was an aristocrat, and thought, simply by right of noble birth, that he should have the throne until British returned. He thus succumbed with remarkable ease to the temptations of the villain Exodus, and became true evil. He also became a half-human, half-machine monstrosity, and converted many other humans, followers of Chaos no doubt, to follow him in his evil. We know these as the "Betrayers," and they continue to pose a threat to us, showing up as foot soldiers in a variety of evil armies, allying with anyone they can to strike out against Britannia.

During this period, he took up residence in a new castle in Central Ilshenar.

• Blackthorn's War on Britannia and Death

Blackthorn and his forces participated in the attacks on Britannia launched by the Juka and Exodus.

After the fading of Exodus's power, Blackthorn grew impatient, gathered up some apparently random evil forces, and launched an all-out attack on the City of Yew. During the fight, he was slain by Dawn.

• Blackthorn's Memorial

Upon his return to the realm, Lord British heard of the fate of his own friend, and mourned him despite the evils Blackthorn had done. It was, British stated, Blackthorn's death that had caused him to return to Britannia.

"My friend Lord Blackthorn is dead," stated the King, "and I am sorrowful at his passing. He became corrupted by great Evils, and now is no more. Though we were often at odds, the truth of his downfall wears upon my soul." Words of praise for Blackthorn's slayer, Dawn, sadly did not come.

British also stated that, as a monument to Blackthorn's ideas, he was abandoning his goal of uniting the Shards, under the Virtues. Thus, in death, Blackthorn effectively won the Chaos/Order wars.

Blackthorn has 3 castles: In Central Ilshenar, still used by evil forces as a base, and in the City of Britain on both Trammel and Felucca (where it gathered dust until it was used by the evil King Casca as a base of operations). Blackthorn's grave/memorial is located near his castle on the Felucca facet.

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