Can you be a little more desciptive than "fight"? What versions(Novel/movie/TV/Game etc)? Battleground and time of day? Who,Where, and what the hell is Darquesse and what is his/her feats?
Darquesse is the magically unleashed personality off Stephanie Edgely aka Valkyrie Cain of Skullduggery Pleasant fame
Its been a while since I read the books but this is what I can remember
First book
Stephanie's uncle does and she becomes sole inheritor of his mansion
She finds out magic is real
She meets Skullduggery, a "living" skeleton with elemental magic powers ie mastery over flame, water and air (using stone turns you into a statue)
Stephanie finds out that she is a descendant of the first magic users (all elemental magicians [there are over types I'll come back to that]) who fought off the mad gods (can't remember if the gods were crazy though I do know looking at them turns you crazy) that were ruling humans at that time.
Due to her inheritance of that magic she is also heir to the 'Sceptre of the Ages' [citation needed] the only weapon known to actually kill and destroy the Old Gods [citation needed] and basically anyone or anything it was pointed at.also you need to kill the previous owner to be able to use the sceptre
They defeat the bad guys trying to steal the Sceptre
She starts using mirror magic to be able to go off adventuring whilst the mirror sites the mundane stuff
Skulduggery Pleasant
Stephanie Edgely is a normal teenage girl who
grows bored of her uneventful life in Haggard
in Ireland. Though following the death of her
uncle, Gordon Edgely, Stephanie’s wish comes
true and her life turns upside down.
Approached by a fire throwing skeleton-
detective named Skulduggery Pleasant and a
world of magic and wonder, Stephanie takes a
new name of Valkyrie Cain and assists
Skulduggery in solving the murder of her uncle
Gordon. But when all the signs lead to
Skulduggery’s nemesis, Nefarian Serpine, and
the notorious Sceptre of the Ancients, Valkyrie
and Skulduggery are lead on a dangerous
mystery of stopping a weapon of destructive
power falling into the wrong hands.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire
Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant return
as the villainous Baron Vengeous escapes from
prison to hatch a plan involving the rebirth of
the Grotesquery. The Grotesquery, a dark
creature formed from the limbs of the Faceless
Ones, is a creature loyal to Vengeous himself.
With the Armour of the Necromancer
Vengeous will be able to bring him back. An
army of vampires by his side, Vengeous seems
unstoppable though Skulduggery and Valkyrie
still have some tricks up their sleeves.
Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones
A string of murderers involving the world’s
final Teleporters leads to the return of the
Faceless Ones once again. A team named the
Diablerie are planning to use the Earth’s final
Teleporter to open a gateway into the realm of
the Faceless Ones and bring the evil gods back
to the world. With information from the old
Sea Hag and the assistance of the Teleporter,
Fletcher Renn, Skulduggery Pleasant and
Valkyrie Cain seek a way to prevent the return
of the dark gods. Though what will happen
when the Faceless Ones return shall change
Skulduggery and Valkyrie’s world forever.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days
To save Skulduggery Pleasant from the world
of the Faceless Ones, Valkyrie Cain must learn
the art of Necromancy. Once the Skeleton
Detective has been saved, Valkyrie and
Skulduggery are met by a new mission: to
defeat the Revengers Club. The Revengers Club,
being made up of petty criminals such as
Dreylan Scarab, Billy Ray Sanguine, Dusk,
Springheeled Jack, Detective Crux and Vaurien
Scapegrace, plan to take the ultimate revenge
involving the mysterious Desolation Engine. On
top of all this, the Sensitives are having visions
of a dark messiah, Darquesse.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil
Learning her true name is that of the evil
sorcerer, Darquesse, Valkyrie Cain seals her
name with the help of Doctor Nye. However,
Valkyrie has other problems as she and
Skulduggery have to beat a new enemy – the
Remnants, shadow-like creatures who latch
onto people and change them into dark,
vicious murderers. To stop their reign of
terror, Skulduggery, Valkyrie and the survivors
must find the key to the Giant Soul Catcher
and lure the Remnants there. The only thing is
that the Remnants are after Darquesse...
Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer
Melancholia St. Clair has taken the role of the
Death Bringer and is willing to lead the
Necromancers to their destiny. The
Necromancer’s plan however is unknown to
everyone and anyone who doesn’t serve the
Necromancers and their temple. The Death
Bringer is supposed to break the wall between
life and death and begin the Passage. To defeat
the Death Bringer however will need the
Necromancer’s true messiah Lord Vile. Lord
Vile is nowhere to be found however, as
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are
about to learn an ancient secret that can
change the chain of events.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom Of The
Wicked
Magic is somehow spreading through the
mortal world, infecting regular men, women
and children. These actions are leading to one
man and one man only. His name is Argeddion
and his plan of an improved world is infecting
the globe. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie
Cain must find a way to defeat this god-like
sorcerer. Though Valkyrie’s frequent trips to
another dimension where Mevolent is king
might hold the answers to their problems. And
then there are the three infected teens; Doran,
Sean and Kitana, who plan to make everything
more difficult.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead
Men
War has come between Sanctuaries and to stop
it Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with
the rest of the Dead Men. Meanwhile Valkyrie
has another war that rages inside her as
Darquesse is ready to rise...
Skullduggery Pleasant
Plot summary
Stephanie Edgley's novelist uncle, Gordon dies,
leaving her his vast mansion and the royalties
from his best-selling books. At the reading of
the will, a strange man in a tan overcoat, a
hat, sunglasses and a scarf is present, who is
left a piece of advice, along with Fergus and
Beryl, Stephanie's unlikable aunt and uncle.
Stephanie's aunt and uncle are given something
as well: a seemingly useless brooch, a boat,
and a car, which they both do not want.
Spending a night alone in the mansion,
Stephanie is attacked by a strange man,
demanding she gives him a "key". As the man
attacks Stephanie, the mysterious man in the
tan overcoat from Gordon's funeral, known as
Skulduggery Pleasant, arrives and saves her,
throwing a fireball and then shooting the
attacker. Skulduggery's disguise of a hat, wig
and sunglasses fall off to reveal that he is an
undead sorcerer, made up of only a skeleton
held together by magic. He takes Stephanie as
his partner and races to save the world from
the Sceptre of the Ancients, a mysterious staff
located only in folklore. However, one of his
old rivals has already retrieved it and
Skulduggery may be too late to save the world,
with or without Stephanie.
Plot summary
A year after the events of the first novel,
Stephanie Edgley (now known as Valkyrie Cain)
continues to work with Skulduggery Pleasant,
an undead skeleton detective, capturing villains
for The Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is now ruled
by Thurid Guild in a new location after the
massacre in the previous Sanctuary.
Soon Baron Vengeous (one of the original three
generals of Mevolent) is freed from prison and
begins searching for the armor of Lord Vile,
another one of Mevolent's Generals, with
which he will be able to resurrect The
Grotesquery, a hybrid monster made from a
Faceless One's remains with the power bring
back the Faceless Ones . Arriving in Ireland, he
meets an accomplice, a vampire named Dusk.
He orders Dusk to kidnap Valkyrie Cain. Dusk
bites and enslaves two humans to help him but
is unsuccessful.
Baron Vengeous goes after China Sorrows who
was once part of a cult that worshiped the
Faceless Ones and also included Serpine and
Vengous himself. The Baron confronts China
Sorrows in her apartment whilst Valkyrie is
visiting. Valkyrie hides whilst China and
Vengous talk. Vengeous reveals that he was
released from prison by an assassin named
Billy-Ray Sanguine who promptly arrives along
with Dusk. A battle ensues during which
Valkyrie reveals herself and defends China.
Valkyrie is then chased by Billy-Ray Sanguine
who can travel through the earth and
structures. After a struggle, Valkyrie is saved
by Tanith Low. In the progress Valkyrie steals
Billy-Ray Sanguine's razor, his primary weapon,
leaving the psychopathic assassin with a
grudge against her.
Valkyrie and Skulduggery along with a convict
called Vaurien Scapegrace go to the Sorcerer's
village of Roarhaven to find a mysterious man
called the Torment who has information they
need. After a battle in a seedy pub with some
thugs and a fight with massive spiders, they
find the Torment and ask for his help. The
Torment only says he will help them find the
Grotesquery if Skulduggery kills Valkyrie who is
descended from the Ancients of whom the
Torment despises, as he thinks their power will
corrupt civilization. Skulduggery takes Valkyrie
around a corner and they summon her
Reflection, a living mirror image of Valkyrie
who she uses as a decoy, enabling her to live a
double life. Skulduggery takes Valkyrie's
reflection before the Torment and shoots it.
The Torment is satisfied and tells Skulduggery
the whereabouts of the Grotesquery. He and
Valkyrie return Scapegrace to prison and go to
find the Grotesquery. They arrive just in time
to see Vengeous discover the Grotesquery and
Skulduggery attemps to stop them. He is
unsuccessful and Valkyrie is forced to reveal
herself as a distraction. After a chase in which
Valkyrie cuts Dusk with Sanguine's blade, the
wounds of which never heal, she manages to
regroup with Skulduggery. However, before
they can leave Sanguine bursts from the
ground and kidnaps her.
Sanguine takes Valkyrie to an abandoned
church where Vengeous cuts Valkyrie's finger
and spills some of her blood onto the
Grotesquery's body before harnessing Vile's
power with his armor, using it to perform a
ritual to revive the Grotesquery. Skulduggery
subsequently arrives, interrupts the ritual and
rescues Valkyrie. After stealing the
Grotesquery, Valkyrie is incapacitated and
wakes up in hospital. Skulduggery turns the
lifeless Grotesquery over to Kenspeckle Grouse
to take apart, however, the Grotesquery has
already absorbed a lot of power from Vile's
armour and Valkyrie's blood, and so wakes up
in the middle of the night whilst being
operated on. It kills Grouse's assistants and
goes after Valkyrie. Skulduggery and Tanith
arrive and the three of them attack the
Grotesquery before escaping.
Meanwhile, members of Sanctuary's all across
the world are being murdered by assassins to
distract people from Vengeous's plan and cut
off aid. Billy-Ray Sanguine has also released
Springheeled Jack from prison and sends him
after a Sanctuary official in London. After
discovering that he is being manipulated by
Vengous in a plan to bring back the Faceless
Ones, Jack kills his victim.
Skulduggery works out that Vengeous is
actually a pawn in someone else's plan and
accuses Thurid Guild of being in league with
this mystery benefactor. In a rage, Guild fires
Skulduggery who decides to go after Vengous
anyway.
Valkyrie begrudgingly goes to her family
reunion to bait Dusk who holds a vendetta
against her for cutting him, in the hopes of
finding the Grotesquery's location. The
Torment, meanwhile, has discovered that
Valkyrie is alive and goes after her only to be
confronted by Skulduggery and Tanith. The
Torment transforms into a giant spider but
Skulduggery and Tanith defeat him
nevertheless.
Valkyrie is subsequently attacked by vampires
and forced to flee. Dusk corners her and vows
that when he has transformed her into a
vampire he's going to set her loose on her
parents while in her bloodlust. Valkyrie stabs
Dusk in the leg with the syringe he uses to
curb his vampiric side whilst he is
transforming, and as a result, he is caught
between vampire and human and put in
intense pain. Springheeled Jack comes and
rescues her and defeats Dusk so as to frustrate
Vengeous's plans because he doesn't want the
Faceless Ones to return. He then reveals the
Grotesquery is located in Clearwater Hospital.
Meanwhile China is attacked by Vengous in an
underground carpark. Hebrutally murders
China's bodyguards and viciously beats her
unconscious before taking her to Clearwater
Hospital, his headquarters.
Accompanied by Tanith, Mr Bliss and some
Cleavers, Skulduggery and Valkyrie go to
Clearwater Hospital to fight the Grotesquery.
Mr Bliss and Tanith are incapacitated but the
Cleavers mercilessly attack the Grotesquery
and almost overpower it when Vengous arrives
along with China whom he has taken captive
and together with the Grotesquery, kills the
Cleavers and beats Skulduggery and Valkyrie
into submission. Valkyrie tricks Vengous into
releasing her, saying that she will join him but
she releases China who attacks Vengous and
the Grotesquery, giving Valkyrie time to free
Skulduggery who joins in the assault against
Vengous, tearing off his helmet and his
breastplate before shooting him in the
stomach. In a swoon, Vengous crawls toward
the Grotesquery but his god callously breaks
the Baron's neck. The Torment subsequently
arrives and attacks the Grotesquery but he is
defeated and almost killed. In the ensuing
battle Valkyrie stabs the Grotesquery through
the heart, killing it but before it dies it utters
a terrible scream.
Sanguine is then seen meeting his mysterious
master who reveals that he had never expected
the Grotesquery to succeed but he knew that
when it was vanquished, the beast's dying
scream would alert the Faceless Ones spirits as
to the whereabouts of the Earth meaning that
all he has to do now is open the door. The
mysterious man then pays Sanguine and takes
his leave.
Valkyrie is later seen talking to Skulduggery on
a pier. They reason that they must find out
who Vengous and Sanguine were really working
for and if Thurid Guild is in league with him.
Skulduggery ominously tells Valkyrie "Bad
things are coming." They are subsequently
attacked by a vampire and the book ends with
them going into battle once again.
The Faceless Ones
Plot summary
Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant are
investigating the murders of four Teleporters.
After discovering the recent murders may have
been linked to a Teleporter murder 50 years
ago, Skulduggery and Valkyrie talk to the Sea
Hag in the lake and they discover that a man
named Batu killed the Teleporter. They
discover that the Isthmus Anchor and a
Teleporter can open a gateway to the Faceless
Ones. With China Sorrows 's help they locate a
teenage boy named Fletcher Renn, who is an
unskilled Teleporter, and save him from Billy-
Ray Sanguine who is working for the Diablerie.
Batu, the head of the Diablerie, wants to use
Fletcher to open the portal.
Tanith Low is guarding another Teleporter, but
is distracted with a phone call, and she finds
him dead in his apartment. Tanith is
ambushed, but escapes with a few injuries.
Skulduggery and Valkyrie go to Finbar, a
Sensitive, who tells them the location of the
gate where the Faceless Ones can enter earth.
They then meet with a Necromancer, Solomon
Wreath who offers the help of himself and
three other Necromancers. The Grotesquery is
the Isthmus Anchor, which is the part of the
Grotesquery that belonged to the Faceless
Ones.
Skulduggery and Valkyrie go to the Sanctuary
to steal the Grotesquery, but are attacked by
Remus Crux. The Diablerie use Sanguine to
steal the Grotesquery, unintentionally framing
Skulduggery and Valkyrie. Skulduggery and
Valkyrie use an emergency exit to avoid being
captured by the Sanctuary. Remus wants
China's help and reveals he knows something
about China's involvement on how Skulduggery
came back to life. Ghastly Bespoke wakes up at
Kenspeckle’s after being a statue for two years
and Tanith, Skulduggery and Valkyrie go to
Bespoke Tailors, Ghastly's shop, and Ghastly is
informed of current news. Ghastly makes
Valkyrie new clothes and tells her about his
mother, a Sensitive, who had a vision of
Valkyrie dying and screaming in pain. In an
effort he tries to make Valkyrie quit magic and
return to normal teenage life.
The owner of the farm where the gate will
open, Paddy, learns about magic, and Fletcher
locates the exact point where the gate will
open. Skulduggery and Valkyrie retrieve the
Sceptre of the Ancients and find another black
crystal, which powers the sceptre. Batu goes
and enlists the Sea Hag's help in exchange for
transporting her to the sea. Skulduggery and
Valkyrie go to Gordon’s house and Valkyrie is
able to take a large black crystal from the cave
under his house.
Valkyrie goes home to say goodbye to her
parents who are leaving to Paris on their
anniversary. She is then chased and arrested
by Remus Crux. Crux puts her in a cell with
Vaurien Scapegrace. Scapegrace tries to kill
Valkyrie but she defeats him. Crux attempts to
arrest China but Jaron Gallow shows up.
Thinking they are working together, Crux
jumps through a window to escape and China
refuses Jaron’s offer to lead the Diablerie and
escapes as he tries to kill her.
At the trade on the bridge, Fletcher and Thurid
Guild walk towards each other crossing at the
center of the bridge and Sanguine tells
Skulduggery that there is a bomb in Guild's
jacket. Skulduggery shoots Guild in the leg to
stop him from coming closer and tells Fletcher
to stay near Guild as Jaron won’t risk killing
Fletcher. Both sides begin fighting, and the
necromancers show up to help. In the end,
Tanith believes they have won, then the Sea
Hag, on Batu's request, jumps out of the water
and takes Fletcher.
Valkyrie tricks a security guard into letting her
out of her cell and she knocks him out and
takes Scapegrace with her as a distraction.
Valkyrie sees the new Administrator, the
traitor, attempt to kill Mr. Bliss. The
Administrator pins her up against a wall and
Scapegrace runs into the room chased by
Cleavers. The Cleavers look at the situation
with Mr Bliss in a circle of blue light that is
killing him, Valkyrie suspended on the roof by
the Administrator and the Administrator
standing there, and advance on the
Administrator. The Administrator tries to run,
letting Valkyrie fall to the ground. Valkyrie
trips her causing her to fall into the blue light,
killing herself not Bliss. Valkyrie then runs out
of the Sanctuary and Skulduggery drives her to
the farm.
Tanith, Ghastly, Skulduggery and Valkyrie hide
with Paddy in his farmhouse. The Diablerie
begin to open the Gateway. Hollow Men
ambush Valkyrie and the rest of her team.
Paddy persuades Valkyrie to put on the ring he
was going to give to the woman he married.
China, a dozen Cleavers, and the Necromancers
appear and start killing the Hollow Men.
Fletcher involuntarily opens the Gateway.
Tanith is injured and goes in the house. Bliss
arrives and starts fighting Krav. While Valkyrie
and Paddy are looking for First Aid supplies
for Tanith, Sanguine arrives and attacks Tanith.
Paddy tries to shoot Sanguine with his shotgun
but is knocked out. Valkyrie then slashes open
Sanguine's stomach with Tanith’s sword. Three
Faceless Ones come through the gate and
Fletcher manages to escape. A Faceless Ones
takes over Krav’s body and makes Mr. Bliss
explode, killing him.
Paddy hits Valkyrie with the Sceptre, reveals
himself to be Batu, and knocks Tanith out.
Valkyrie realizes that the ring Batu gave her
prevents her from using magic, and removes
it. They fight, and Batu escapes, taking the
Sceptre and hiding it. The Faceless Ones kill
many Cleavers and Murder Rose is taken over
by another Faceless One. Skulduggery battles
the Faceless One and a Necromancer is killed.
Jaron panics because he realises that the mark
on his arm allows the Faceless Ones to track
him down. So he finds a dead Cleaver's scythe
and chops off his own arm in hope of repelling
the Faceless One. China finds Crux with the
Sceptre and persuades him to give it to her.
She gives it to Valkyrie who raises the sceptre
and fires black lightning twice into the Faceless
One that had consumed Krav, killing it.
Another Faceless One attacks them. Fletcher
teleports Valkyrie out of the way. The Faceless
One shatters the Sceptre, destroying itself.
Skulduggery decides to get the last Faceless
One which had taken control of Batu's body, to
chase Valkyrie and go back through the portal.
Fletcher opens the portal and Solomon gives
Valkyrie his cane to knock the Faceless One
back, which destroys the cane. The Faceless
One shoots out tentacles made of Batu's
organs to save itself, grabbing Skulduggery and
pulling him through the portal along with it, as
the portal closes.
Later, Solomon Wreath approaches Valkyrie
and she informs him that Guild is claiming full
credit for stopping the Faceless Ones. Solomon
tells Valkyrie that there is another Isthmus
Anchor, Skulduggery's real skull. Solomon says
that after seeing her use his cane, he has
determined that she may have a gift for
necromancy, and she will need more power
than she has now to save Skulduggery, in
hopes that she will choose to become a
Necromancer.
Dark Days
Plot
Valkyrie , Tanith , Fletcher and Ghastly are
hunting down Skulduggery's original skull in
order to rescue him from the Faceless Ones.
They discover the skull was retrieved by
Detective Marr, Skulduggery's replacement,
and is in the Sanctuary. They break in to
retrieve it, getting Ghastly and Tanith captured.
After an unexpected kiss from Fletcher,
Valkyrie goes through the portal alone,
retrieves Skulduggery, who is initially
convinced that he is hallucinating and flees
back through the portal outrunning several
Faceless Ones. While Valkyrie is in the
alternate dimension, a Sanctuary agent attacks
China and Fletcher, badly wounding China.
Valkyrie has been learning necromancy from
Solomon Wreath, which Skulduggery
disapproves of. He forces Wreath to tell her
about the necromancer's prediction that soon,
a Death Bringer will be powerful to break down
the walls between life and death forever. The
last person they believed to be the Death
Bringer was Lord Vile. Wreath strongly believes
Valkyrie to be the Death Bringer, but the other
necromancers do not agree and want proof.
Skulduggery and Valkyrie also learn about a
vision shared by many Sensitives, in which
Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Valkyrie's parents
are killed by an evil sorceress called
Darquesse, apparently in only a few years time.
Valkyrie is even more horrified at this when
she learns her mother is pregnant.
Vaurien Scapegrace, Dusk , Springheeled Jack ,
Remus Crux , Billy-Ray Sanguine and his father,
Dreylan Scarab have formed a "Revenger's
Club" which plans to destroy the Sanctuary and
attack the characters who have wronged them
in the past. They begin by attacking the
Sanctuary with vampires, so that Scarab can
get revenge on Thurid Guild for framing him
and sending him to prison for 200 years. The
attack allows Valkyrie, Skulduggery and
Fletcher to rescue Tanith and Ghastly from
prison.
The Revenger's Club steal a bomb called the
Desolation Engine, kidnap Kenspeckle Grouse
and Tanith, and then use a horde of zombies -
headed by Vaurien Scapegrace, who they
murdered for lying to them – to break into the
Midnight Hotel and free a remnant. They use
the remnant to control Kenspeckle, forcing him
to repair the Desolation Engine, and then allow
the remnant in his body to torture Tanith by
nailing her to a chair. Valkyrie and
Skulduggery rescue Tanith, free Kenspeckle and
recapture the Desolation Engine, but Tanith is
left severely injured and afraid of Kenspeckle.
Kenspeckle then deduces the Revenger's Club
made him build a second Desolation Engine.
The team track Scarab and the others to Croke
Park stadium, and fight for the Desolation
Engine. In the fight, Valkyrie is bitten by Dusk,
but he reacts strangely to her blood and does
not kill her. Scarab informs Thurid that his
family will be killed unless he activates the
Desolation Engine, and Thurid agrees to do so,
but Fletcher teleports him away just before he
is able to. Valkyrie goes after Billy-Ray and
Thurid's house, but he refuses to attack her,
saying that Dusk has decided that leaving her
alive will be more chaotic and entertaining.
Fletcher safely returns with Thurid, who the
bomb was designed to spare, having left him in
an isolated area to detonate the bomb safely.
Realising she was horrified by the thought of
Fletcher's death, Valkyrie kissed him before
getting her bite treated, preventing her from
becoming a vampire. After she has recovered,
Valkyrie and Skulduggery go to transport
Thurid to jail, as he has confessed to the crime
he framed Scarab for. However, as they are
leaving, Myron Stray detonates the Desolation
Engine on Detective Marr's orders, destroying
the Sanctuary and narrowly missing Thurid,
Valkyrie and Skulduggery, burning the bottom
of Thurid's legs off in the process.
Valkyrie returns home, only to remember with
horror the moment in the first book where she
glimpsed her true name in the Book of Names,
discovering that she is the evil sorceress that
destroys the world. She is Darquesse.
Mortal Coil
Plot
Solomon Wreath is ordered by the senior
necromancers to use a Sensitive to confirm if
Valkyrie is the Death Bringer, the person that
brings down the wall between life and death.
Since the only Sensitive powerful enough,
Finbar Wrong , is a friend of Valkyrie, they
order Wreath to use a remnant on him to force
him to comply. However, when he does so, the
remnant can only see Darquesse, making
Wreath think Valkyrie will be the one to defeat
her. The vision makes the remnant believe
Darquesse is a messiah for the remnants, and
attempts to possess Wreath. When this fails, it
travels to the Midnight Hotel, possesses
Shudder, and frees its fellow remnants. Having
killed Marr, Tesseract returns to Roarhaven to
collect payment from the Torment , but is
double-crossed and nearly killed, making him
go on a hunt for revenge. He manages to kill
one of the conspirators easily, but after he
kills the second the sanctuary is attacked by
remnants and he is possessed.
Valkyrie spends Christmas with her family,
learning that her cousins Crystal and Carol
have become more friendly as their other
relatives make fun of them. However, she is
told that she must leave to seal her true name,
and is taken to Doctor Nye , an androdgynous
doctor who's woorkshop is filled with body
parts, seals her true name but then attempts
to experiment on her. Since she is technically
dead within the workshop, she struggles to
think clearly enough to escape, but succeeds in
using necromancy to force Doctor Nye to let
her go. She explains to Skulduggery that she is
Darquesse and has sealed her name, and the
pair track down Scapegrace and take him to
Grouse in the hope of preventing his body
from decaying further. While the remnants
begin possessing people Solomon Wreath goes
back to Finbar Wrong to check up on and
discovers that he has been partially mentally
disturbed by the remnant, when he goes to
leave however he is possessed.
Valkyrie introduces Fletcher to her parents and
they go dancing together, but everyone in the
club is possessed by remnants and the pair
only narrowly escape. They run into Crystal
and Carol, and Valkyrie is forced to explain to
them that magic is real in order to persuade
them to leave. After several close calls while
the remnants take over, searching for
Darquesse, the sorcerers regroup at the
Hibernian, and arrange a plan to activate the
giant Soul Catcher at MacGillycuddy's Reeks to
recapture the remnants. In the meantime,
Grouse is unleashing a harmless virus which
makes people act as though they are
possessed, as a cover for the remnants'
escape. To complete the plan, Valkyrie reveals
Gordon's Echo Stone to help the group with his
knowledge on the matter, which Skulduggery
claims he suspected all along.
The group split up to find the key to the Soul
Catcher, motivating Tanith and Ghastly to
confess they have feelings for each other.
However, while the key is recovered
successfully, the plan comes to a halt when
Fletcher is possessed. Valkyrie is rescued from
her boyfriend by Billy-Ray Sanguine, who has
been hired to bring down the remnants, and
who asks after Tanith, hinting he has a crush
on her. Valkyrie discovers that Clarabelle has
been possessed and murdered Kenspeckle, and
is later attacked by Fletcher. She is saved by
Caelan before escaping with Skulduggery,
Ghastly, Tanith, China and Billy-Ray. The group
drive to the Soul Catcher, and Skulduggery
reveals to Valkyrie that he suspects that one of
their group is possessed. This suspicion is
proven correct when China turns on the group,
launching a surprise attack on Ghastly,
incapacitating Skulduggery, and attacking
Tanith using symbols. She orders a Remnant to
possess Ghastly instead of Tanith, and kidnaps
Valkyrie. However, before she escapes,
Sanguine steals the key for the Soul Catcher
from her.
While the group find the Soul Catcher, Valkyrie
is possessed by a remnant in an effort to spur
their messiah's coming, bringing out
Darquesse. However, Darquesse is not the
remnant in control - instead, it is a part of
Valkyrie which hates everything. It overpowers
the remnant possessing Valkyrie, and sets
about killing all bystanders with pleasure, with
no regard for whose side they are on.
Skulduggery arrives after a few minutes and
explains that Darquesse is what Valkyrie will
become if she refuses to fight back against the
apathy, bitterness and hopelessness, and she
finally destroys the struggling remnant in her
body, which returns her to normal. He then
holds Valkyrie hostage (threatening to kill her)
to force the remnants to release their bodies,
which allows the Soul Catcher to retrieve
them. However, the one possessing Tesseract
escapes and possesses Tanith. Valkyrie and
Tanith fight, but Valkyrie is unable to get her
to the Soul Catcher in time: the possessed
Tanith escapes.
As the sorcery community recovers from
several deaths, a new Council is chosen, with
Ravel as Grand Mage, and Ghastly and Madam
Mist as Elders - Madam Mist being a close
friend of the Torment, who insists she is
accepted before allowing the use of the
Sanctuary. Ghastly wasn't keen on taking the
job, but was keen on finding a cure for Tanith.
Skulduggery tells Valkyrie that there is no cure
for removing a remnant after it has taken over
someone for more than 4 days. Fletcher takes
Valkyrie to Australia to apologize for his
actions while possessed, and she tells him that
she loves him, but she finds herself unwillingly
interested is Caelan. Tanith arrives at Valkyrie's
house, after the four-day period before a
Remnant fuses itself to a host, and explains
that she does not plan to attack Valkyrie, but
rather to lead her subtly towards her "destiny"
as Darquesse; Tanith leaves with Sanguine, her
new boyfriend. Skulduggery attempts to arrest
Tesseract after Tesseract kills the Torment, but
during the chase Tesseract is mortally-
wounded by a man claiming to be Lord Vile,
who says to Skulduggery that he has returned
and is building up his strength, and that he
plans to kill Valkyrie, who he thinks may be the
Death Bringer, and all of the Necromancers.
Before he dies, Tesseract recalls that
Skulduggery never fought Vile, and asks if
Vile's necromancy reanimated him, but
Skulduggery does not answer. Tesseract asks
Skulduggery to bring him outside as a dead
man's last request and he dies looking out at
the sunrise.
Death Bringer
Plot
In the start of the book, Cleric Craven "helps"
Melancholia through her Surge by tattooing
her with symbols of magic, and she becomes
very powerful - but unstable. She is then given
the title "Death Bringer". This shocks and
relieves Skulduggery and Valkyrie, as this takes
a burden off Valkyrie's shoulders. Skulduggery
and Valkyrie interrogate Kenny Dunne, a
journalist, under the murder of a psychic, Paul
Lynch. Paul had been receiving visions of the
latest apocalypse (The Passage). Kenny reveals
that Paul spoke to an old woman in the
countryside about his visions. Skulduggery and
Valkyrie immediately go there only to find her
dead. When Fletcher joins the pair, he spots
the killer who places a wooden box on the
ground and runs away. Skulduggery orders
them to hide back in the old woman's cottage.
It is then revealed that inside the box are the
Jitter Girls, triplets who were both physically
and mentally altered when something from a
different dimension attempted to enter our
world through them; reducing them to
murderous flickering images of little girls.
Fletcher teleports away to get help while
Skulduggery and Valkyrie attempt to fend off
the Jitter Girls. When they fail, Darquesse
emerges from Valkyrie's subconsciousness and
forces the Jitter Girls back in the box.
Skulduggery manages to convince Darquesse to
bring back Valkyrie. In the Necromancer
Temple, Craven reveals Melancholia to
Tenebrae, Wreath and Quiver, who then admit
they must have missed something within her.
Valkyrie and Skulduggery visit the Temple only
to find the killer, who is revealed to be Bison
Dragonclaw. They chase him until he uses
another delaying tactic which comes in the
form of hiring a Warlock. After battling and
killing the Warlock, Skulduggery drives off to
the Sanctuary while Valkyrie returns home, to
see Caelan who loves her to no end, although
Valkyrie tires herself out by constantly
reminding him not to "let this get serious" and
that she doesn't love him. Later, Melancholia
is given a break, which she uses to attack
Valkyrie and almost rip her into shreds. She is
rushed to the medical ward in the Sanctuary,
where she is treated by Doctor Nye.
Skulduggery, angered that Valkyrie was hurt,
orders an arrest warrant for Melancholia from
The Elders (Ghastly Bespoke, Erskine Ravel,
Madam Mist) who grant him the warrant.
Skulduggery and a group of sanctuary agents
visit the Temple with the arrest warrant but
the Necromancers refuse to give Melancholia
to them. Meanwhile, China meets Jaron Gallow
in the woods who tells her that he has
switched sides and that he will help her
assassinate her blackmailer and rival, Eliza
Scorn and 12 other spies in the form of highly
important and influential figures. Later,
Skulduggery, Valkyrie and many other
Sanctuary agents and Cleavers ready
themselves to break into the Necromancer
Temple. Before the Siege starts, Skulduggery
and Valkyrie receive a call that Dragonclaw has
been spotted at the airport. After interrogating
him, they find out a group of Necromancers
from London, who came here to fend off the
siege, have just landed. Valkyrie manages to
delay them and returns to find out a secret
entrance into the Necromancer Temple.
Valkyrie and Skulduggery stealthily breaches
the Temple and disguise themselves as
Necromancers. They mange to reach the door
to the Antechamber but find it is locked.
Skulduggery tells Valkyrie to stay at the door
while he tries to unlock the door. Although
Valkyrie obeys at first, she follows Wreath
when she sees him. When he discovers her,
Valkyrie asks him about the Passage. When she
finds out that half the worlds population will
need to die in order for the Passage to work,
Wreath attacks her and knocks her
unconscious. She wakes next to Skulduggery
who also has been captured. Tenebrae walks in
and reveals that Skulduggery was Lord Vile and
that it was he who prevented Skulduggery
dying and turning Skulduggery into a walking
skeleton. Tenebrae walks away from the pain in
Skulduggery's voice and the hurt in Valkyrie's
but is soon angered when Craven is yet again
late for their meeting. Not bothering to hide
his contempt, he orders Craven to take him to
Melancholia, who kills him and eventually
killing half of the temples occupants, making
her stronger. She faces off against Valkyrie and
Skulduggery, easily overpowering them, but is
terrified when Vile's armour attacks her. She
manages to fend the armour off and
disappears when the Sanctuary agents finally
manage to breach the Temple. Valkyrie returns
home to find out that her mother was mugged
by a man named Moore who was later
arrested. Fueled with rage, Valkyrie breaks into
the police station and brutally beats him.
After, the remaining necromancers take
residence in the Willow Hill Retirement Home,
where Craven is enjoying his position in power
but is confronted and embarrassed by Wreath.
Valkyrie breaks up with Fletcher in her rage
and soon finds the twins near the beach who
beg her to teach them magic. Valkyrie tries and
fails to teach them but is seen by Fergus who
is aware of the magic in the world and berates
Valkyrie for trying to drag his daughters into
the world of magic. Valkyrie promises not to
teach them in the future and confronts Gordon
about the matter, discovering that he is
surprised Fergus is still aware of magic.
Meanwhile, Fletcher has gone to Ghastly for
advice about Valkyrie.
Soon, Wreath attempts to kill Craven but his
prevented from doing so when the White
Cleaver intervenes. Wreath escapes to Valkyrie
and Skulduggery, who at first is hostile to
Wreath but grant him amnesty when he reveals
the location of the necromancers. Valkyrie and
Skulduggery and several others ambush the
necromancers via Fletchers teleportation. It is
then appeared that Melancholia was killed by a
stray shadow but is then revealed that it was
Melancholia's reflection. Later at Valkyries
home, she is ambushed by Moore but manages
to yet again severely injure Moore. Later that
night, Valkyrie and Skulduggery attend the
Requiem Ball at Gordon's house with 300 other
powerful sorcerers. The Ball is interrupted
when a group of gunmen attempt to rob them
but they are easily dispatched by the
sorcerers. Meanwhile a group of necromancers
sneak into the ball with Melancholia, who kills
all of the sorcerers but Valkyrie and
Skulduggery manage to escape. They chase
after the remaining necromancers (Melancholia
and Craven) and attempt to stop them but
another apparition of Vile appears but
Melancholia quickly stops it. Skulduggery, after
shooting Craven dead, and seeing no other way
to stop Melancholia, turns into the real Lord
Vile who defeats Melancholia easily. Valkyrie,
who is unable to stop Vile, carries Melancholia
and the pair runs through the network of caves
underneath Gordon's house, trying to find an
exit. Valkyrie is delayed when rock creatures
attempt to bury her in the ground but she
fights her way out and rescues Melancholia
from Vile. The pair then finds the White
Cleaver who sacrifices himself to delay Vile.
The pair manages to find an exit and Valkyrie
tells Melancholia to kill her so Darquesse can
surface. She succeeds and Darquesse and Vile
engage each other in the air and on the
ground, eventually reaching a tie with the pair
of them reverting to their normal selves. After,
the pair drive to China's library only to find
her being beaten up by Eliza Scorn. Scorn then
reveals to Skulduggery that China was the
reason that his family was dead and Scorn then
blows up China's library. China later tells
Valkyrie and Skulduggery that they can leave
her. Skulduggery drives off while Valkyrie
confronts Caelan that she is breaking up with
him. Angered, he overpowers Valkyrie and
attempts to turn her into a vampire before
Fletcher stops him. Valkyrie then throws
Caelan into the sea, closing up Caelans throat
and killing him. Valkyrie and Fletcher teleport
to someplace while a shaken Kenny Dunne
watches on, and plans to reveal the world of
magic to mortals.
The thing it doesn't mention is that Darquesse is able to wield the stuff of pure magic not necromancy or elemental stuff she is basically a low end reality manipulator with an insane healing factor
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The 'Last Stand of Dead Men'book doesn't have a page so
There is war between the magic communities and Darquesse is a constant niggling voice in the back of Valkyrie's head
nothing really important to this discussion happens until the last quarter when Valkyrie and Skullduggery get stuck in a witches coven in Egypt
The witches aren't pleased with the intrusion and immediately start blasting the shit out off Valkyrie. She manages to evade the witches for a while but even with necromancy and elemental magic her arm gets cut of then her leg and get mouth is ruined [citation needed]
She let's Darquesse take over and it cuts to a few days later when Skullduggery says that all that was left of the 300+ coven was gore [citation...]
Another magic war and Skullduggery finds out that his friend from the previous magic war betrayed him and others leading to their death
Warlocks are trying to use the Accelerator from the previous book to supercharge thirty powers and Darquesse stops them
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