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Promotional artwork of Castle Hellebore as depicted by artist Kev Walker for SilverFin (2006).
Castle Hellebore is a fictional castle in the fictional town of Kiethly, Scotland. It first appears in the premiere novel of the Young Bond prequels to the main James Bond series: 2005's SilverFin by Charlie Higson.
History[]
Background History[]
Castle Hellebore sat on an island in the middle of the fish-shaped Loch Silverfin, named for a legendary fish who allegedly inhabited the area, which served as the "eye" of the "fish". In the year 1928, the Laird of the castle died, and it went to the American brothers Algar and Randolph Hellebore. The two, alongside Dr. Perseus Friend, used its basement as a laboratory for their experiments with Human Growth Hormone (HGH). It was full of secret passages and rooms, and served the Hellebores nicely as both a home and a workplace.
Randolph enacted tight security to keep unwanted variables out of his test pool of chemically altered eels that densely populated loch Silverfin, and so had several barracks erected on the grounds, and added a fence around the outside of his land.
SilverFin[]
When the young James Bond and George Hellebore decided to stop Randolph's highly dangerous experiments, they ended up burning it down, which did not bother George, as the castle, which, built in the traditional Scottish style more resembled a very large house, had long since lost its charm, and after years of living with his deranged father had long felt like a prison. After setting the documents and vials of SilverFin serum on fire, the boys doused the laboratory with flammable chemicals, which caused the castle to burn as well.
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