Ned Collie – Ned Kelly
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly
Ned Collie is the head of the notorious Collie Gang of Dingoes. Is he hero or heathen, champion or criminal? Depends who you ask. Your wizard fights his brothers in Hope Springs. Ned turns out to be an ally in your fight against Freddie Kroaker. Ned’s “crimes” included kidnapping and fighting against the Judges repossessing lands from Dingoes and Drovers. The Judges tried to repossess Claudia Bee’s farm because the grass didn’t get enough sun. Ned socked the judge and became a focus of the Judges ire.
Ned’s methods of getting what he wants do border on the criminal. He takes a Judge and a Drover hostage and builds himself armor made out ground up dispel charms and truck parts. Judge Veg supercharges your magic with Warrigal Greens (Wallaru Spinach). After you defeat Armored Ned you return him to Hope Springs for trial.
Me merry band and I are anything but. We simply take from those who have too much and give it to those with nothing at all. Indeed, we are heroes… – Ned Collie.
Edward Kelly (December 1854 – November 11, 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armor during his final shootout with the police.
Kelly was born and raised in rural Victoria, the third of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died in 1866, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector family who saw themselves as downtrodden by the squattocracy and as victims of persecution by the Victoria Police. While a teenager, Kelly was arrested for associating with bushranger Harry Power and served two prison terms for a variety of offences, the longest stretch being from 1871 to 1874. He later joined the “Greta Mob”, a group of bush larrikins known for stock theft. A violent confrontation with a policeman occurred at the Kelly family’s home in 1878, and Kelly was indicted for his attempted murder. Fleeing to the bush, Kelly vowed to avenge his mother, who was imprisoned for her role in the incident. After he, his brother Dan, and associates Joe Byrne and Steve Hart shot dead three policemen, the government of Victoria proclaimed them outlaws.
Kelly and his gang, with the help of a network of sympathizers, evaded the police for two years. The gang’s crime spree included raids on Euroa and Jerilderie, and the killing of Aaron Sherritt, a sympathizer turned police informer. In a manifesto letter, Kelly—denouncing the police, the Victorian government and the British Empire—set down his own account of the events leading up to his outlawry. Demanding justice for his family and the rural poor, he threatened dire consequences against those who defied him. In 1880, the gang tried to derail and ambush a police train as a prelude to attacking Benalla, but the police, tipped off, confronted them at Glenrowan. In the ensuing 12-hour siege and gunfight, the outlaws wore armor fashioned from plough mouldboards. Kelly, the only survivor, was severely wounded by police fire and captured. Despite thousands of supporters rallying and petitioning for his reprieve, Kelly was tried, convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging, which was carried out at the Melbourne Gaol.
Historian Geoffrey Serle called Kelly and his gang “the last expression of the lawless frontier in what was becoming a highly organized and educated society, the last protest of the mighty bush now tethered with iron rails to Melbourne and the world”. In the century after his death, Kelly became a cultural icon, inspiring numerous works in the arts and popular culture, and is the subject of more biographies than any other Australian. Kelly continues to cause division in his homeland: he is variously considered a Robin Hood-like folk hero and crusader against oppression, and a murderous villain and terrorist. Journalist Martin Flanagan wrote: “What makes Ned a legend is not that everyone sees him the same—it’s that everyone sees him. Like a bushfire on the horizon casting its red glow into the night.”
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