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Elan was a young Scottish "wise woman" who lived in the late 1600s. She was in love with the chief the MacNeil clan, Sandy.
One day, a sword fell through her roof. She gave this blade, later known as the Sword of Destiny, to Sandy as a gift. Unbeknownst to her, however, Sandy had evil in his heart, and the power of the sword began to feed that evil and corrupt him further over time. Sandy's clansmen could see what was happening and Elan began to regret giving Sandy the sword. Conspiring with her four sisters, they got Sandy and his loyal soldiers drunk, and then Elan attempted to abscond with the sword. Elan was unable to secure the sword without waking Sandy, unfortunately, and he stabbed her with a dirk. Wounded, Elan fled with the sword, never to be seen again. When Elan's sisters refused to give up her whereabouts, Sandy had them sent to his dungeons to die. Upon their deaths, the sisters became banshee, haunting Castle MacNeil ever since.
In 1993, April O'Neil, Splinter, and the Ninja Turtles went to Scotland to visit April's uncle Tam. Shortly after arriving, she was visited by the ghost of Elan, who pointed her in the direction of her uncle's house. At the same time, Krang and Shredder were spying on their enemies, and as Tam was telling April and her friends about the sword, he realized that it had to be the Plutonian psychlotron, a weapon that magnifies psychic aggression and channels it as a nuclear particle beam. Krang had shot down the Plutonian warlord over Earth about 300 years prior, but was never able to recover the sword.
As the heroes and villains tussle in the Castle MacNeil, they are besieged by the banshees. Elan tells her sisters to desist the Turtles/Splinter/April and encourages April to find the sword at the tower's top, guiding her to Elan's own skeleton on a veranda, still clutching the sword. April slashes Shredder with the sword, knocking him into Krang, but when he recovers his footing, Shredder holds Splinter captive, bartering his life for the sword. April tosses the sword into Loch Ness, with Splinter flipping Shredder (again into Krang) and knocking the two of them into the loch as well.
See also[]
- Character gallery: Elan