From TES issue 1 (December 1995)

SERIES 1-4 : LEVEL 1/2/3 : MOGDRED

Here he is, surely the most frightening character ever to haunt the dungeon. Played by John 'Merlin' Woodnut, Mogdred appeared to epitomise the general atmosphere of Knightmare's early years. Occasionally you would find him capturing maidens in level one, but Mogdred was far more at home scaring the wits out of dungeoneers foolish enough to encounter him in the lower levels.

There are endless examples of quests clearly thrown off course simply by an eerie, echoing and thoroughly evil cackle from this man. Yet, for all of his threats, taunts, and sneers - Mogdred rarely chose to kill dungeoneers himself, though he did often hurry dungeoneers into a fatal error. In fact, this was the very reason for Mogdred's exsistence. Children are easily frightened, and this man did so comfortably. Just one problem - the hat spoils the image !

FEAR FACTOR: 10 Literally terrifying!
HUMOUR RATING: 6 A certain sick humour I suppose!
KILLER INSTINCT: 4 All mouth ?
OSCAR STANDARD: 9 Evil personified

Written by and submitted with the kind permission of Paul McIntosh.

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The username of a member of the Knightmare Discussion Forum who joined in June 2003 and posted from the following month onwards. Mogdred, real name Andrew, once provided a link on the forum to a cartoon he'd drawn of Treguard working as a driving instructor.

Other forum members commemorate Mogdred in their usenames too, though less accurately. mogred joined in June 2003, making a fourth and final post in the same month. Moggydredlock also registered in June of 2003 and made four posts.

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Mogdred was the original enemy in Knightmare, and was Merlin's alto-ego. He lasted from series 1 to Series 4, although he never appeared in series 1 due to only one team reaching level 3 (though his name appears in the credits). Mogdred tended to appear to the dungeoneer as an image rather than been phyisically in the same room as the dungeoneer.

"Welcome to one of Mogdred's little play pens, play a while ...play forever!"

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