Cronan Darkroot

Cronan Darkoot is the main antagonist of the fantasy adventure series LEGO Elves: Secrets of Elvendale.
Cronan is the son of Quartzine Darkroot, who was among the elemental Elven sisters who had tasked themselves with being guardians of the dimensional portals to Earth and the Shadow realm. When the magic of the portals kill her in her attempt to control it, Cronan tries to access them to revive her and becomes power hungry in the process of finding methods.
He was voiced by Riley Murdock.
== Biography ==
Cronan's mother, Quartzine had attempted to harness the portal's power in a show of hunger for power and control over the sister's duties. Her attempt to access the portal overwhelms her with magical energy, killing her. Her young son Cronan witnesses this and believes that he can revive her using the sister's enchanted amulets.
Years later, Cronan befriends the main characters and charms them to gain their trust, a ruse to get Emily Jones' amulet, and combine it's magic with his to reopen the hostile portal to the dimension Quartzine accessed. In the past he falls in love with the water elemental elf Rosalyn, but abandons it to deforest her territory. He starts hewing enchanted crystals, presumably to build the portal, and it begins to corrupt the docile animals in the forest making them primal and aggressive. He also magically torments and enslaves his dragon mount Ashwing and injures Rosalyn's dragon Sapphire (although in his version he hadn't done anything wrong and that in his mind Rosalyn went insane and attacked him for no reason).
Cronan makes many attempts to steal Emily's amulet and mistakenly captures her younger sister Sophie, who has already doubted Cronan. He keeps her imprisoned in his castle to use her against Emily, who finds out too late. She and the other elves travel towards the castle and meet Rosalyn, gaining her trust by helping her heal a dying Sapphire. During this Sophie sees how cruelly Cronan treats the goblins and adores torturing them when he loses his temper. The water elf Naida also attempts to visit him hoping there's a misunderstood side to him, where he discloses his dead mother.
When the goblins fail in abducting Emily, he sends a Shadow beast (parasitic predators from the Shadow realm who were previously banished). Sophie actually manages to escape and unite with Emily, who is taken by the beast thus giving Cronan her amulet. Rosalyn risks her life fighting the brainwashed Ashwing and manages to cure him with a potion, in time to stop Cronan from opening the unstable portal to Earth. During the opening he has a vision seeing his mother's spirit, with her telling him to stop and that if he continues the dark magic will kill him too, and that she has to be let go. Realizing that releasing the Shadow creatures into Elvendale will destroy it, he aborts and uses the magic to contain the Shadow beast and close both portals.
He gives Emily the amulet back and apologizes grievously for his actions, and is relieved to see Rosalyn still alive. They reconcile and take a joyride on their dragons.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Cronan is depicted as a sword combatant in portraits but this is not seen on screen and is unconfirmed. He does however have elemental Earth abilities and can produce plant material, such as vines to bend to his will. He has also demonstrated energy manipulation and telekinesis, as well as electrokinesis using the magic of the amulets.
== Appearance ==
Cronan is an average built, pale skinned man with hazel brown eyes and a purple rune on his face. He also has moderately short dark-green hair, a golden helm with an eye emblem and wears armour with a purple cape, as well as his mother's amulet on the chest.
== Trivia ==
* Cronan is described as being Emily and Sophie's cousin on screen, however he's technically their very young uncle in their generation, as his mother Quartzine is a sister to their grandmother.
* Cronan's name translates to "the dark one".
* Cronan has a liking for pickle sandwhiches.
* According to a LEGO Magazine, the dark sorceress Noctura is responsible for his dark side but it's not disclosed how. However Noctura has been imprisoned in a the same magical fountain where Ragona gained her dark magic, meaning that Cronan may have suffered the same fait. This also means that Cronan is not inherently evil and that his actions were influenced by a corrupt external force.
* Cronan's castle depicts a portrait of him riding a unicorn and posing with a sword very similarly to a famous painting of Napolean Bonaparte.
Category:Villain