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| Name(s) | Dublin |
| Inhabitants | Finbar Wrong, Caelan, Moloch, China Sorrows |
| Part of | Ireland |
Dublin is the capital city of Ireland and the headquarters of the Irish Sanctuary.
Locations[]
Haggard[]
The coastal town that Valkyrie Cain lived in.
An alley in Dublin.
Ratoath[]
A battle took place here in Mevolent's dimension.
Donnybrook[]
Suburb where Brendan Cassidy worked.
Tattoo Parlour[]
Business and safe-house in Temple Bar, run by Finbar Wrong.
Smock Alley Theatre[]
A number of Operatives converged here during the Theatre of Shadows incident.
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History[]
Skulduggery Pleasant[]
Stephanie Edgley’s uncle Gordon, a horror writer, dies. At his funeral she notices a strange man in a tan overcoat, a hat, a frizzy wig, sunglasses and a scarf. Afterwards, everyone goes to Gordon’s house, Grimwood House. Stephanie enters Gordon’s study and briefly encounters the man again.
A few days later, Stephanie and her parents, Desmond and Melissa are summoned to the reading of Gordon’s will. Also present at the reading are her aunt and uncle, called Beryl and Fergus, and the strange man again, named Skulduggery Pleasant. Fergus and Beryl are given Gordon’s car and boat as well as a brooch. Skulduggery receives some advice: that often the greatest enemy we face is ourselves, and a cryptic warning of darkness on the horizon, and that the key to safe harbour was in plain sight. Desmond inherits Gordon’s villa in France, and the will states that Stephanie is to inherit Gordon’s house, possessions and royalties on her eighteenth birthday, which causes an uproar from Fergus and Beryl.
Stephanie and Melissa drive over to Grimwood House. When they go to leave they find that their car has broken down. Melissa calls a mechanic, who comes and states they will have to take the car back to their garage for repairs. Melissarides with mechanic and Stephanie, not wanting to ride sitting on her mother’s lap, decides to stay the night on her own. During the night she answers a call to the house phone from a man who asks her her name and demands to know why she is in the house. Stephanie doesn’t answer his questions and hangs up. The man then begins banging on the front door, and then breaks in through the window. He deamnds she hands over a “key.” At that point Skulduggery breaks down the front door and hurls fire at the man, who is impervious to it, so Skulduggery shoots him and he flees. Skulduggery’s disguise has fallen off, revealing that he is a skeleton.
Stephanie faints, and when she returns to consciousness Skulduggery makes her tea and tells her about magic, a secret war against an evil sorcerer called Mevolent, and how near the end of the war Mevolent put out a hit on Skulduggery and others, resulting in many of their deaths, but Skulduggery came back to life. Skulduggery goes to leave on his own, and when Stephanie asks to comes with, he states the last person who joined him on an adventure, his partner, died horribly on their first case, but Stephanie holds his hat hostage, demanding he take her with him. He relents.
They take Skulduggery’s Bentley to China Sorrow’ library. Skulduggery tells Stephanie about Elemental magic, showing off the magical uses of air, fire and water, and stating that he hopes she never sees someone use earth magic. Skulduggerytells Stephanie not to tell China her name, and when China asks she stays silent and Skulduggery asks if she’s heard any recent rumours about Serpine. China states Serpine has been asking around about the Sceptre of the Ancients, which both China and Skulduggery dismiss as foolishness. When asked if Gordon has anything worth stealing, China says she does not know, but points out that whatever it is, it took Gordon dying before someone tried. When they leave, Skulduggerytells Stephanie about sorceror’s three names, and how Given and True names can be used to control people, and how Taken names can be used to protect Given Names. Stephanie asks about Serpine and the Sceptre of the Ancients. Skulduggery tells her about Serpine, how he was one of Mevolent's top generals, and his deadly red right hand. He then recounts to her the tale of the Sceptre's creation by the Ancients, the first sorcerors, and its use to kill the Faceless Onesand later most of the Ancients, though he dismisses the story as merely a myth. While drives a car rams into the Bentley.
The man who had attacked Stephanie earlier pulls her out of the Bentley. She struggles and breaks free. Skulduggery, trapped inside the Bentley, yells at her to runs so she bolts off down an alley. Just as the man catches up to her, Stephaniethrows herself into the River Liffey taking the man in with her. The water tears the man apart, and Stephanie swims away and returns to the Bentley where she meets a now free Skulduggery, who states that the man used Adept magic to make himself immune to fire but very weak to water. When she complains about returning back to normality after tonight, Skulduggery suggests she tag along with him tomorrow, stating she has as eye for this line of work. He drops her back off at Grimwood House, where Melissa picks her up in the fixed car thirty minutes later.
Mr. Bliss visits Serpine in his castle on behalf of the Elders. Mr. Bliss state that two Sanctuary agents who had been monitoring Serpine, Clement Gale and Alexander Slake, turned up dead yesterday, their bodies unscathed. Serpine fakes shock at this fact. Mr. Bliss warns Serpine that he may not like what lies at the end of the road he has chosen, before leaving to catch a plane to London for a meeting.
As soon as Stephanie is home she goes to bed, and walks up at a little past two in the evening. She thinks about it and realises that Gordon was murdered. She walks around Haggard, and when she spots the Bentley, she goes and confronts Skulduggery about not telling her Gordon was murdered. He states he did it to protect her and promises to no longer withhold information from her.
Skuluggery takes Stephanie to visit Ghastly Besoke, his friend and tailor, in what appears to be a rundown neighbourhood, as his family has a large collection of art and books about the Ancients that may prove to be useful. Ghastly begins making notes to make an outfit for Stephanie that will keep her safe. Skulduggery tells him they need his help, and Stephanie says they think Serpine is after the Sceptre. Ghastly says that that is foolish, as the Sceptre doesn’t exist, and that she doesn’t know enough about this world to understand that. He chastises her for seemingly enjoying this when she is in danger and not taking things seriously. The start arguing and Stephanie storms out. Skulduggery follows a few moments later, stating that Ghastly called him irresponsible and won’t give them access to his family’s collection. So they decide to break into the collection, which is located in the Vault under the Dublin Municipal Art Gallery.
They stake out the art gallery, and see that they have two vampires on the night shift as protection. Skulduggery drops Stephanie back home.
The next day, Stephanie is awoken when Desmond breaks the stereo and it is stuck playing Ride of the Valkyries at full volume. Skulduggery appears at her bedroom window, and makes her draw a symbol on her wardrobe’s mirror. He makes an incantation, and when Stephanie touches the mirror her reflection comes to life and steps out. Skulduggery explains that the reflection will be her stand-in at home and school while she is with him, and that when she returns she will gain all the reflection’s memories and experiences. They leave and get in Skulduggery’s replacement car while the Bentley is being fixed, a yellow car Stephanie calls ugly and nicknames the Canary Car. Skulduggery explains that the Elders want to see him as they are saying he is dragging Stephanie, an innocent mortal, into trouble.
Skulduggery pulls into a fast-food place and reveals that Ghastly finished making Stephanie’s protective clothing, and gives it to her to try on in the bathrooms. They then head to the Waxworks Museum, which the Irish Sanctuary is hidden under, and where she sees Cleavers for the first time. The Administrator shows them the Book of Names in the Repository, which contains the Given, Taken and True names of every person. The Book cannot be destroyed so the Elders combined their powers to protect it. Called the Will of the Elders, this spell makes someone want the Book less the closer they are to it. They are then taken to meet the Elders: Eachan Meritorious, Morwenna Crow and Sagacoius Tome, who try to deter Stephanie from involving herself in the world of magic, and asks Skulduggery about his recent claims of threats to the truce. When they learn he believes Serpine is after the Sceptre, they dismiss it as nonsense and leave. Outside the Waxworks Museum Skulduggery and Stephanie meet Mr. Bliss, who tells them he knows Serpine is after the Sceptre and that the Elders underestimate Serpine too much to act against him.
Trivia[]
- Dublin is the most frequent location to appear in the series.
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