Lord Rottenday

Professor Rodney Castor, now known as **Lord Rottenday**, is the sworn enemy of Bernadette Willows, and the main antagonist of the Punch Time Exploders series.

## History

Rodney Castor was born in the Greylands and grew up to be a scientist. However, he kept being accused of being a mad scientist due to his obsession with the Darkspawn. One day, he had enough, and decided to lead an expedition to the then-not-forbidden Video Game Universe in order to prove that the Darkspawn were real. Armed with a team of researchers, warriors, and some of his closest friends, Rottenday ventured to Thedas in order to conduct a proper search for the Darkspawn. On his travels, he came across a visiting wizard that would teach him the art of magic.

While Rodney was learning how to do advanced summoning spells, he had the brilliant idea to perform a ritual that would summon Darkspawn, but the wizard warned him that summoning a Darkspawn would be risking a catastrophe, and that the magic he was taught shouldn't be used for malice, and if those two factors should ever coincide, something terrible will happen to him. Ignoring the warnings, Rodney went off and found a clearing in the desert and prepared to start the ritual. When he finished the incantation, a pool of darkness formed and a powerful blast of winds burst out of the ground, as well as devious ghost-like Darkspawn knows as Ruers, which swirled around Rottenday and appeared to consume him, when in reality they were joining his powers with theirs to create a being that would become the terror of the United Universes themselves... Lord Rottenday.

However, both the darkness pool and the resulting storm were still growing, threatening to consume everything in its path. Rottenday was revealed to have retained his humanity and used a spell to close the summoning portal, which swallowed up both the pools and the storm, only leaving behind a small amulet, which Rottenday wore as a sign of what he had become, as well as a reminder of what he once was. Once Rottenday had recovered, he left to confront The Universal High Council about his plight, resulting in a great battle that ended up landing him in a special prison cell on the planet Incarcecon.

Shortly after his imprisonment, Rottenday had become infamous in the Greylands, even inspiring a prophecy of his escape and his eventual defeat by a princess who was brave and pure of heart. When it was revealed to be the second-born Princess Bernadette Willows, she was sent on a mission to train for the day she would meet Rottenday and defeat him. However, when she was aiding a Galvanic Mechamorph named Mah-ree create a copy of the Omnitrix, she was arrested and offered a choice to request its approval from Azmuth himself. But along the way, she and a young Ben Tennyson traveled to Incarcecon, and inadvertently allowed Rottenday to escape. After the two had a clash on Xenon, Rottenday escaped again and found Void the Living Planet to hide from the law. What he didn't know was that while Rottenday had laid low, rumors of his power were scattered throughout the far reaches of the United Universes, mostly by Void.

Shortly after Rottenday banished OC villain Sir Ripto from Dedoralyvia all the way to the rebuilt Dragon Realms, villains from the Video Game Universe became inspired to join the fight and fought against the barrier put up by the High Council. Their forces were led by a Dark Portal master named Kaos, whose final attack against the Skylanders unleashed a move so powerful it completely obliterated the barrier. Now with one Lord found, Rottenday and Void quickly went to work and scouted more members for their alliance. Soon afterwards, they found Lord Dominator, but deemed her unfit after hearing her vent via a journal, and decide to have her replaced in due time. But their first attack would have to wait...

## Personality

Before his corruption by Darkspawn magic, he was calm, collected, and friendly. As a result, he was respected in the science community. However, he could be a little touchy on his subjects on researching the Darkspawn, to the point where his superiors continually refused to fund his travels to the then-forbidden Video Game Universe to research the Darkspawn.

After his corruption, his personality changed drastically, not for the worse, but not necessarily for the better either. After The Universal High Council was attacked by him, they deemed him Universal Public Enemy Number #1. In short, he's a mischievous troublemaker at best, and a reluctant budding Darkspawn Lord at worst.

In battle, Rottenday tends to prefer a fair fight when in a one-on-one fight, which quickly becomes ironic when he uses underhanded tactics.