Terrah Horton

## Terrah Rexam Horton

**Terrah Horton** is a character appearing in *Solar Shadow 2*. He is the true final boss of the game, fought in the Hidden Attic after defeating Ataraxis. He is the grandfather of Serenity Horton, Shinica Horton, Ilina Horton and Valerie Horton, aged 70.

## Story

Sometime in the distant past, Terrah created the Curse of the Castle Masters, gaining fabulous powers and becoming the first Castle Master in the process. He used these powers to build the first iteration of the Lunar Soul Castle as a gift for Valkyrie Horton in 1995.

In 2011, he was defeated by Aidan Flamberge, who took over as castle master. After this, there were no records of Terrah for the next 11 years. It is possible that Shinica knew of his whereabouts during this time.

In 2022, he emerged to reclaim the castle. While he was away, the castle was destroyed and rebuilt three separate times, and the New Lunar Soul Castle now stood in place of the original. At some point, he challenged Eron Araia Armweak, the Castle Master at the time, and took away both the Curse of the Castle Masters and her powers. He then stole one of Eron's prototype androids, 4ZC-1009, and placed the curse into her, so that it would not harm any humans, before installing her as a fake Castle Master through which he could rule.

## In-Game

Rather than appearing immediately on reaching his arena, he must be summoned by activating the two terminals in it which removes 4ZC-1009 from LichenNet 9.0, killing her body and activating a deadly failsafe. Upon this happening, Terrah will appear and exclaim that his plan to seal the Curse of the Castle Masters has been ruined, vowing to make Selena burn in incarnadine flame before making the broken ground of Newerth slimy with her blood before the fight begins.

This is one of the toughest fights in the game due to both skill and luck being required to pass the fight. Terrah Horton has 450 HP, the most of any boss, and his fight is divided into five equal phases. Phase 1 involves a fast moving set of projects on several rows similar to the Mossmouth fight and Nemesis bolts, the latter which can be dodged by hiding at the sides. After taking some damage, he'll reveal that Eron used to be cursed until he took her powers and put them into a robot so the curse couldn't hurt anyone.

Phase 2 begins and he'll alternate between firing 6 rings similar to the Headmaster before casting incarnadine flames above the player. Some of these flames will fall down though some may drop downwards. After taking enough damage again, he claim that now that the Curse is free, it'll take on a mind of it's own before bringing ruin to everything, especially Selena. Phase 3 begins and he'll summon 3 different patterns of ascending bullets which must be dodged and vary by difficulty based on formation. If the player strikes quickly enough to start Phase 4, the current bullet pattern will be cancelled. After taking enough, he'll claim that the Kleure cannot harm living animals but only defeat them, ensuring that he'll simply get back up again.

Phase 4 begins and he fires out several red bubbles which must be avoided while moving either left to right, or right to left depending on Selena's direction. These bubbles tend to take up most of the screen, forcing Selena to find a path with enough space to either dodge or jump over the bubbles. After taking enough damage, Terrah asserts that he is the Castle Master and he can do many things Selena can't. He then enters his final phase where he summons vertical beams across the battlefield while throwing red energy swords. This phase is the hardest of all his phases because the beams start at the furthest sides before moving in, before moving outwards. In addition to the beams, the player has to focus on avoiding Terrah's swords and unfortunately for the player both the beams and swords do very high damage.

## Trivia

* Most characters appear as "???" in dialogue boxes if Selena does not know who is speaking, but Terrah appears as "!!!" instead until they face each other in the Hidden Attic.
* Terrah is not a Horton by birth but rather married into the Horton line and chose to change his name.
* All of his attacks are red, similar to Andrea Yauman who uses blue attacks only and The Mossmouth who uses dull green attacks.

**Characters** Serenity Horton • Ilina Horton • Serenity Clones • Shinica Horton • Valerie Horton • Valkyrie Horton • Xydia Horton

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**Non-Canon** **Terrah Horton**

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