Mursa the Merciless (often called just Mursa) is a villain in Galtar and the Golden Lance.
Overview[]
Mursa is a witch who steals the faces of other women to look beautiful.
Biography[]
Mursa the Merciless[]
Mursa first appears when Galtar and Goleeta are brought to her by her dwarf helper, Tuk. Upon learning of Goleeta's desire to overthrow Tormack, she tells Goleeta to look into the fire. Goleeta does, whereupon Mursa casts a spell that causes Goleeta to want to stay with her. Galtar leaves in horror when he discovers that Goleeta does not want to leave.
Mursa takes Goleeta to her lair and steals her beauty and youth. However, she is then kidnapped by Rak and Tuk, who do not know about the change (although the strange behaviour of "Goleeta" causes Tuk to suspect that something is amiss). Galtar and the White Knight head to Mursa's lair to save Goleeta, while Mursa is taken to Tormack. However, it is right then that the spell is broken, whereupon an angry Tormack imprisons Rak and Tuk.
Wicked Alliance[]
Mursa is making a potion when Krimm visits her hut. He proposes that if she helps him get the Golden Lance, he will get Tormack to reverse his banishment order on her.
The duo spies on Galtar and his companions heading to the river and uses a trinket to call on a force to destroy Galtar. A rock monster rises to attack Galtar, Goleeta, and Zorn. Galtar pulls out his lance, but Mursa casts a spell on a mountain to send rocks falling down on Goleeta and Zorn. Galtar stops the rocks, but in his distraction, he is grabbed by the rock monster and drops the Golden Lance.
Fortunately, Zorn uses his Skyscreamer to bring the rock monster back to him and Goleeta, still carrying Galtar. Goleeta puts some ice that causes the rock monster to slip and release Galtar. Upon hitting the ground, the rock monster breaks into pieces. This destroys the trinket that Krimm and Mursa used to summon the rock monster.
A lazar attacks Galtar and his companions while they are camping by a river. Krimm has no more magic dust, so he and Mursa go at close range. They find Galtar and his companions in a hut with the lazar's friend, Torcoom. Mursa and Krimm send a wave to wash them away, but Torcoom and the lazar quickly intercept it. Another wave wipes out the hut, but Galtar and his companions manage to grab a log. However, Krimm then casts a spell that causes the lake to boil Zorn and freeze Goleeta. Mursa then casts a spell to trap Galtar in cement, whereupon Tormack arrives with Otar, Rak, and Tuk.
Krimm asks Galtar to give him the Lance, but instead, Galtar prepares to use it to fight him, only for Mursa to turn it into snakes. As luck will have it, however, a sneeze from Rak reverses the spells of Krimm and Mursa (even turning Tormack's staff into a snake). Torcoom, who was actually the retired wizard Othar in disguise, returns to get his book of magic spells. Rak and Tuk run from Tormack, but are soon turned into ducks by Mursa.
Personality[]
As her moniker implies, Mursa never shows any mercy to her opponents. She is shows no be a sadist, casting spells that could kill Galtar, Goleeta, and Zorn.