Griselda

"History sure is crazy"
- Griselda
Griselda (also known as Baroness Griselda and Lady Griselda) is the main mastermind villainess of the Down in the Mines series. Though she doesn't show any major villanous behaviours during her debut installment, her true intentions are revealed in the finale. She's a Polyhare Order mistress, loyal to The Grandmaster with a heavy obsession with clutfunium.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Nothing is known about Griselda's past. We can only assume, that at one point, she became a very rich aristocrat with her own castle in Ireland and tried many hobbies before ultimately joining the Polyhare Order and submitting to The Grandmaster.
===Down in the Mines===
During the events of the series, Griselda organised a party in her castle, which involved many VIPs from the world of science. Soon after Dr Saturn and Alice entered the feast hall, the baroness herself appeared on the stage to reveal some treasure found by Sir Murray's crew, which was funded by Griselda herself. After overhyping the event, it's soon revealed, that the 'treasure' was actually an ordinary amethyst geode. Alice quickly hops on the stage and corrects the hosts, but her statement gets quickly mocked by Griselda, which makes Alice mad. Later, Griselda is seen giving Sir Murray a briefcase full of money. Saturn senses a fraud and suggests to follow Murray.
During the rest of the series, Griselda remained hidden from the Spyman's Cosmos scientists until they were caught by Murray. Inside the facility's main core chamber, Griselda unveiles herself as the mastermind of the whole operation as well as the mistress of the Polyhare Order. She then points a gun at the protagonists and explains her true intentions; that being world domination under the Polyhare Knights' feet.
After explaining her plan, Charles reveals, that he planted an explosive "somewhere near", which causes everyone to panic and run for their lives on board of the Desman. Before Alice and Saturn could enter the driller, Griselda stopped them and shut the door, holding a remote detonator before leaving the facility forever. She then escaped the facility with Murray and the Polyhare Knights on board detonating the explosives planted in the mineshafts ultimately destroying all workstations. Unfortunately for her, she didn't reach far, because Charles actually planted the bomb inside the Desman. The driller exploded in the middle of the ride dumping tons of clutfunium on the road.
In her final scene, she's seen waiting for Grandmaster's plane in a canyon area somewhere abroad, after finishing a giant clutfunium gem nicknamed The Polyhare Brain. The Knights overhyped the abilities of the gem, which ultimately turned out to be useless and shattered into green dust upon touching. After the embarrassing failure, she was left puzzled by Grandmaster and began questioning the crystals.
==Personality ==
Griselda is a sophisticated, but cold-blooded huntress, ready to wipe out her enemies like wild animals, but having a very extravagant, extroverted and stylish side (as seen in Down in the Mines 1/4). She forces the miners to work in her fake excavation places and is ready to attempt mass murder on her facility's workers.
==Appearances==
#Down in the Mines 1/4
#Down in the Mines 2/4 (mentioned)
#Down in the Mines 4/4
== Trivia ==
* Griselda's original concept was based on Count Razoff from Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc.
* She was originally meant to be a minor antagonist in the Bigfoots universe.
* In the early version of Down in the Mines (then called Orange Canyon), she was meant to serve as a motherly figure to the Cosmos during their time on planet Clutfun 42 E.
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