Hakon was the leader of a band of Vikings that traveled to Scotland for plunder.
History
Past and Death
His band first chased a group of refugees that had among them Mary and Tom to Castle Wyvern. His men were wary of attacking a supposedly gargoyle-protected castle at sundown, but Hakon convinced his men to attack anyway- which turned out to be a mistake. The gargoyles of Wyvern awoke, and trounced his men. Hakon vowed revenge, and made an alliance with Castle Wyvern's Captain of the Guard to ransack the castle on the next dawn, which he succeeding in doing, thanks to the Captain's sabotage. However, against the Captain's wishes, he had his men destroy all the visible members of the Wyvern clan while they slept as stone.[1] After destroying Goliath's brother,[2] he and his men left with the captured survivors of Castle Wyvern.[1]
Unfortunately for him, six survivors of the Wyvern clan tracked his men down, and attacked them, freeing the prisoners. Hakon and the captain were chasing Princess Katharine when they were was faced by an enraged Goliath, at the edge of a cliff. Goliath believed that they were responsible for the death of his clan and mate, making it clear that he wanted vengeance and started to advancing on them. Terrified, Hakon tried to incriminate the Captain for his crime, which caused the Captain to angrily grapple with him. They fell from the cliff to their "apparent" deaths while Katharine was saved by Goliath.[1]
Their bodies were dead, but their souls remained bound to the earth plane by the magical power of a monolith in a cavern nearby[3] that had served as the lair of the Archmage in AD 984.[4] Though the Captain and Hakon hated one another, they ultimately decided that they hated Goliath even more for causing their deaths. They waited for 1001 years for Goliath to return, gaining mystical power from the monolith.[3]
Present
In 1995, Goliath returned, arriving there on the first stop of the Avalon journey. Along with him were Elisa Maza, Angela, and Bronx. Hakon and the Captain used their power to create illusions to torture Goliath and lure him to the monolith proper, where their power was the greatest. There, they first created animated stone statues resembling the slain members of the Wyvern clan to attack and torture Goliath with, but they were found out when they mistakenly created a statue of Demona, who had, unknown to them, survived the massacre. Hakon and the Captain then revealed themselves and explained their circumstances. The two used the power of the monolith to drain Goliath's life force to replenish their own, making him into a ghost while they became flesh and blood once more. Hakon was pleased to feel and torture his enemy with his impending fate as a ghost. However, the Captain had a change of heart, revealing that it wasn't Goliath that he hated, but rather he hated himself for betraying Goliath and his clan and being too weak to protect them, and he attacked Hakon instead, disrupting the draining process, returning Goliath to normal, and destroying the monolith. The Captain, having atoned for his crimes and now freed of the "shackles of guilt and hatred" that had held him to the monolith, finally passed on to the afterlife. Goliath's group left while Hakon, on the other hand, was trapped within the shattered monolith. He pleaded that he couldn't be left alone, "without anyone to hate."[3]
Luckily for Hakon, he had a link with one of his present-day descendants, a former human, now mutate known as Wolf. This link, forged of their common hatred of and desire for revenge upon Goliath, drew Wolf to the cave where Hakon was imprisoned. The two joined forces to gain revenge on him. Hakon linked himself to a battle-axe, and Wolf took him to Manhattan. There, they attacked Goliath and Hudson. First, Wolf attacked them on his own. When he was defeated, Hakon took over his descendant's body and used it and his supernatural powers against the pair of gargoyles. Despite the fact that Hakon/Wolf had Goliath and Hudson on the run, Wolf didn't like having Hakon in control of his body and forced him out. Hakon and Wolf confronted Hudson and Goliath in a junkyard, and Hakon eventually faced Hudson one-on-one. Hudson tricked Hakon into getting the battle-axe stuck in a garbage compactor, where it was destroyed. With his link to the earth plane severed, Hakon's spirit dispersed.[5]
Gallery
Image Gallery for Hakon. Click here to see all of the images, featuring Hakon.
Appearances
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2. Awakening, Part Two 3. Awakening, Part Three 4. Awakening, Part Four 5. Awakening, Part Five 6. The Thrill of the Hunt 7. Temptation 8. Deadly Force 9. Enter MacBeth 10. The Edge 11. Long Way to Morning 12. Her Brother's Keeper 13. Reawakening |
2. Metamorphosis 3. Legion 4. A Lighthouse in the Sea of Time 5. The Mirror 6. The Silver Falcon 7. Eye of the Beholder 8. Vows 9. City of Stone, Part One 10. City of Stone, Part Two 11. City of Stone, Part Three 12. City of Stone, Part Four 13. High Noon |
15. The Price 16. Revelations 17. Double Jeopardy 18. Upgrade 19. Protection 20. The Cage 21. Avalon, Part One 22. Avalon, Part Two 23. Avalon, Part Three 24. Shadows of the Past 25. Heritage 26. Monsters |
28. Sanctuary 29. M.I.A. 30. Grief 31. Kingdom 32. The Hound of Ulster 33. Walkabout 34. Mark of the Panther 35. Pendragon 36. Eye of the Storm 37. The New Olympians 38. The Green 39. Sentinel |
41. Cloud Fathers 42. Ill Met By Moonlight 43. Future Tense 44. The Gathering, Part One 45. The Gathering, Part Two 46. Vendettas 47. Turf 48. The Reckoning 49. Possession 50. Hunter's Moon, Part One 51. Hunter's Moon, Part Two 52. Hunter's Moon, Part Three |
2. Ransom 3. Runaways 4. Broadway Goes Hollywood 5. A Bronx Tail 6. The Dying Of The Light 7. And Justice For All 8. Genesis Undone 9. Generations 10. ...For It May Come True 11. To Serve Mankind 12. Seeing Isn't Believing 13. Angels In The Night | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes & References
Notes
- Hakon appears in a flashback to the wyvern massacre.[2]
- Hakon is one of several characters played by an actor who had a role on Star Trek. In this case Clancy Brown, who portrayed Zobral in Star Trek: Enterprise episode: "Desert Crossing," though this was several years later.
- He was illiterate, as he stated upon ripping out the page in the Grimorum Arcanorum.
- He had at least one child before his death, as his bloodline continued to produce Wolf.
