Hakon

Hakon

Hakon was the leader of the Vikings who attacked Castle Wyvern in 994, and also an ancestor of Wolf.

History

He and his followers were initially defeated by the gargoyles, but Hakon vowed revenge. When the Captain of the Guard offered to betray the castle to him, Hakon eagerly accepted his offer, but after sacking the castle and taking Princess Katharine and her court prisoner, proceeded to smash almost the entire Wyvern Clan in its stone sleep. When Goliath attacked the Vikings' camp to rescue the human prisoners and avenge his clan, Hakon and the Captain of the Guard fell off a cliff to their deaths. ("Awakening" Part One; "Awakening" Part Two)

Or so it appeared. But the ancient magics of the Archmage's cave nearby, alongside the sheer force of Hakon and the Captain's hatred of each other (alongside Hakon's hatred of Goliath and the Captain's self-hatred for having failed to save the clan), caused the ghosts of the two men to remain there, bound to the cave. They haunted the area for a thousand years, until Goliath and his companions came to Wyvern on their first stop on the Avalon World Tour. There, Hakon, seeing his opportunity for both revenge and freedom, joined with the Captain in an attack upon Goliath, first breaking him down with a series of illusions designed to destroy his sanity and fill him with guilt over the Wyvern Massacre, and then manipulating the magics of the cave (and particularly those contained in the Megalith Dance) to transfer Goliath's life-force from himself to Hakon and the Captain, making Goliath a ghost and Hakon and the Captain fully alive once more.

However, the Captain, in the end, proved unwilling to betray Goliath again, and foiled Hakon's scheme, saving Goliath's life and winning freedom for the Captain's ghost. Hakon was trapped in the cave once again, this time on his own, screaming in fury, "Don't leave me here! Not without anyone to hate!" ("Shadows of the Past")

But he was not imprisoned in the cave for all time, after all. Reaching out to Wolf as his descendant, he drew the mutated former-Pack-member to Wyvern, and there arranged for himself to become linked to a Viking battle-axe in the cave, which Wolf then took to New York. The two of them attacked Goliath and Hudson there, hoping to destroy them at last in conjunction, but the two gargoyles won in the end, and destroyed Hakon's axe, banishing him from this world forever. ("Vendettas")

Appearances

• "Awakening Part One" (First Appearance)
• "Awakening Part Two"
• "Shadows of the Past"
• "Vendettas"
• "Nightwatch" (No Lines)

Production Background

Voice Actor: Clancy Brown

In early drafts of the script for "Awakening" (before Michael Reaves was attached as a writer), the Vikings were generic Marauders. Hakon name was originally "Lochter" and then "Cole".[1][2][3]

See also

• Hakon at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia