Goliath

Goliath was born in 938 A.D. In 984, Goliath was second in command to his mentor (later called Hudson). When Prince Malcolm was poisoned by the Archmage, Goliath, his mentor and his mate (later called Demona) went after the Archmage to get the Grimorum back for the cure to the Prince's poison. He held the position as leader of his clan at Castle Wyvern, until 994. Like the rest of the clan he faced prejudice from the human residents of the castle, and members of Wyvern's court often compared him to his biblical namesake Goliath, especially the head of the castle herself, Princess Katharine. Her father, Prince Malcolm had named him years before. During this time, he had mated with a female gargoyle that he called his "angel of the night". During the Viking attack he was led away from the castle with his mentor, Hudson, on bad information by Demona and the Castle Captain of the Guard. This information was part of a greater plot conceived by Demona and the Captain of the Guard to evict the humans and leave the castle to him and the Gargoyles. When he returned, he believed that his love had been killed with the rest of his clan, and desired vengeance. He led the five surviving clan members in a raid on the Vikings, and personally chased the Viking leader Hakon when he fled with Princess Katharine as hostage. He rescued Katharine, but Hakon himself was tackled by Wyvern's Captain of the Guard and fell to their deaths. Things were only compounded when he returned to the main group of Wyvern's refugees to discover that the five remaining members of his clan had already been turned to stone by a grief stricken Magus, who believed that they had been responsible for killing Princess Katharine. Upon realizing his mistake, he followed through with Goliath's request that he join them in stone sleep, and, along with Princess Katherine, vowed to protect the rookery eggs. Goliath and his clan was to remain in stone forever until, as the spell stipulated, "the castle rose above the clouds". In 1994, Goliath and his clan were reawakened by billionaire David Xanatos who moved Castle Wyvern and the clan to the top of his Manhattan skyscraper, effectively breaking the spell. Initially distrustful of Xanatos's intentions, after an attack on the castle by enemies of Xanatos, he agreed to work for Xanatos for a time. It was through the intervention of an NYPD detective, Elisa Maza, that he came to see Xanatos for the ruthless individual who had manipulated him, and finally agreed to lead the clan away from their ancestral home. He also encountered his former love, his "angel of the night". Now called Demona, she had also survived through to modern times, and had been partially responsible for the Viking attack that wiped out the clan. Cruel and twisted, and spiteful of humans, Goliath nevertheless held out hope that she could be redeemed for a long while. Eventually, he came to realize that this could not happen, and his affections turned instead to the human, Elisa Maza, though for longer still neither of them would acknowledge the fact. Later, Goliath discovered that the rookery eggs from Castle Wyvern had escaped to the mythical island of Avalon and was cared for by Princess Katherine and the Magus who had vowed to protect the eggs as atonement for freezing the clan in stone. On Avalon they formed a new clan, and among them was his own daughter, Angela. He was reluctant to accept parenting responsibilities, partly because of the Gargoyle tradition that the entire clan acts as a parent rather than one particular Gargoyle acting as a parent to his/her biological offspring and partly because he knew that Angela's mother was Demona, but was eventually convinced to treat her as a daughter. She became a part of the Manhattan Clan when they finally returned from Avalon. He also has an evil clone, Thailog, whom he has grudgingly accepted as a "son".

Will you be bold and enter into the clock tower to encounter Goliath, or will you be a helpless victim in need of saving to the point the leader of the Wyvern Clan will have to soar down and rescue you?

Goliath: 1000 years ago, we lived in a world that understood our purpose. It was the age of Gargoyles. 10 centuries later, we awoke to a world bent on our destruction. Somehow, we never lost hope. And today, we come full circle. A new age has begun. And we live, again.

Goliath: The yearning for renewal is universal. The human New Year takes many forms, but each message is the same. The struggles of the old year die away as the unspoiled hopes of the new year are born. Sometimes hope is all we have.

Goliath: You would destroy all these innocent lives, for WHAT? An ancient hatred! John Castaway : [laughs] I never intended to hurt them. How ironic your last efforts to save lives, shall end up costing them! [Castaway destroys the controls]

Brooklyn : [after a victim they saved runs away from them] Now that's gratitude for you. Lexington: No matter how many we help, people still look at us like we're going to eat them. Goliath: Thanks to John Castaway. Hudson: Aye. His Quarrymen have spread their hatred and bigotry across the island like a virus.

Broadway: [the clan is trapped] Angela, NO! Dawn's almost here. It's too late for us! But you still have time to find shelter! Angela: Uh-uh. I'm not giving up on you that easily! Goliath: STAY AWAY! That's an order! Angela: Too late! We're already here.

Brooklyn: Maybe Xanatos was right. Why should we stay when we're not wanted? Lexington: Yeah. Hey, what about all those places Goliath talked about, Avalon or - or Japan? Places where we could meet other gargoyles. Brooklyn: Other female gargoyles. Goliath: I understand your feelings. But we have worked all our lives to prove we deserve a place within human society. We have fought and suffered together to gain acceptance. Not because it was easy, but because it was right! We cannot throw all that away. Hudson: [the crowd cheers the gargoyles] I sure like the sound of that! Goliath: It has been a long time coming.