Kerrigor
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Kerrigor is a character from Garth Nix's fantasy novel Sabriel.
[edit] Origin
Kerrigor was originally Prince Rogirek (Rogir), heir to the Old Kingdom and friend of his half-brother Prince Torrigan, later Touchstone. He disappeared for a vast period, where he began to study Free Magic and necromancy, unknown to others.
Rogir returned to court, and through trickery, broke two of the Great Charter Stones with the blood of his sisters and killed his own mother, the Queen, in an attempt to destroy the next stone. He was then banished by the Abhorsen of the time and his servant Mogget.
[edit] Rise to Power
Rogir, now using his childhood nickname Kerrigor (his ceremonial name Rogirek spelt backwards), began to raise armies of the dead to his side. He was no longer a necromancer, but the ultimate of the Greater Dead, since as long as his body remained intact in the living world, he could not be fully destroyed.
Many Abhorsens, including Sabriel's father Terciel, attempted to destroy him over the years, but since they could not find where he had kept his body safe and preserved, various necromancers reawakened him after being banished.
[edit] The Fall
Kerrigor was finally defeated when, after again being sent back to Death by Terciel (dying in the process) ringing Astarael, he rose near the Wall. He attempted to cross the Wall dividing Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom. A long struggle at Wyverley College, resulted in Mogget (who had been unbound by Terciel) launching himself at Kerrigor, only to be subsumed. Sabriel then bound Kerrigor with Mogget's binding ring and the bell Ranna. This resulted in the reformation of Mogget in his white cat form, and Kerrigor in the form of a black cat. Sabriel then had two binding rings: one for Mogget and one for Kerrigor. He is (when he is last mentioned) sealed below the Abhorsen's House. Mogget later reveals that Sabriel was able to bind Kerrigor in this way because Kerrigor's true power was channelled from his servants, and the binding ring cut him off from this power.
| Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series | |
|---|---|
| Novels | Sabriel • Lirael • Abhorsen • Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories |
| Characters | Chlorr of the Mask • Disreputable Dog • Kerrigor • Lirael • Mogget • Orannis • Sabriel • Terciel • Touchstone |
| Magic | The Charter • Five Great Charters • Free Magic • Nine Bright Shiners |
| Places | Ancelstierre • Death • Old Kingdom |
| Magical objects | Necromantic bells • Nehima • Paperwing |
