Lady Kale
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| First appearance | Jewel Quest |
| Last appearance | Spirit of Avalon |
| Cause/Reason | Rightful queen |
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| Aliases | Madame Lapin |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | Mid-30s |
| Title | Lady, Princess |
| Relatives | Queen Anya (sister) Gwenevere (niece) |
| Portrayed by | Corinne Orr |
| Created by | Robert Mandell |
Lady Kale is the lead villain character on the animated television series Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders. Kale is an evil sorceress who uses her magic in her quest for the absolute power. She refers to herself as to Princess Kale (and self-proclaimed Queen Kale for two episodes).
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[edit] Character
Being an elder princess of Avalon, Kale firmly believed that she, not her sister Anya, should rightfully become the next ruler of the land. However, Merlin did not grant her the Sun Stone which would have given her the power to become the Queen, as he judged her unworthy - instead, he gave that precious jewel to Anya. After angry Kale attempted to forcibly overthrow her sister, she was banished from the Crystal Palace of New Camelot and declared an outlaw. Kale then dedicated her life to seeking revenge upon her former teacher and take his place as well.
Some time after (at the beginning of the series) Kale had discovered and tuned to herself the legendary Enchanted Jewel called the Dark Stone. She has two dweasle servants, Rufis and Twigg, whom she uses to find Enchanted Jewels for her - the more jewels Kale takes control of, the stronger her powers become. Her mean of transport is a dragon wagon powered by the huge red winged dragon called Grimm, who transports Kale to and from her forbidding castle in the dark Thornwoods, a former area of Ravenwoods changed by her evil spell.
Her original costume was a Jewel Rider-style red jumpsuit-type costume with a big gloves and a relatively short cape. After gaining the Dark Stone in the first episode, she magically transformed it into an also red jewel armor consisting of a long cape, a high boots and a dragon-shaped crown-like helmet.
[edit] First season
In the first season, after banishing Merlin to Wild Magic, Kale spends most of her time searching for the Crown Jewels in order to gain magical powers, battling Jewel Riders along the way, and seeking to capture a key to the Merlin's jewel box and find a way to destroy him once and for all. Her only human allies are a group of bandits.
Eventually, after all seven Crown Jewels were found, Lady Kale sneaked into the Crystal Palace disguised as Anya. There, after she hijacked the powers of the Jewel Keep and defeated all her enemies, seemingly all-powerful Kale sat on the Anya's throne. However, after this initially successful coup the reign of Queen Kale quicly ended, as she was soon tricked by Merlin and seemingly destroyed.
[edit] Second season
In the second season, instead of Crown Jewels, the Jewel Riders sought out the ancient Wizard Jewels, with an extra adversary to deal with besides Kale. While it was believed for a while that Lady Kale was lost forever, in reality she was merely sucked into the Wild Magic and drifted there until she was rescued and freed by another captive of the realm, the evil wizard Morgana Le Fay of Arthurian folklore, of whom Kale becomes an uneasy ally.
Because Morgana can only make illusions of herself in Avalon, she sends Kale to find the lost jewels of all the ancient wizards. Kale becomes somewhat of a sidekick to Morgana, appearing only in 8 out of 12 episodes and with her own powers inferior to these newly-acquired by the Jewel Riders.
Kale meets her end in the episode Lady of the Lake, transformed by her niece into a stone statue together with her dragon; her last words were "I want those jewels!" (In this form she also appears briefly at the beginning of the final episode.)
[edit] Trivia
- Kale was known as Kaluixa in the Catalonian language version.[1] Nickname of one of the Jewel Riders' writers was Lady Kay.
- Her villianess status, evil sorcery, costume, and imprisoment of someone dear to the series's lead character are several things she has in common with the Queen of the Crown from Galaxy Rangers, another show by Robert Mandell. They even share the same voice actress (Corrine Orr).
| Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders | |
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| Jewel Riders: | Princess Gwenevere | Tamara | Fallon |
| Villainesses: | Lady Kale | Morgana |
| Other main characters: | Drake | Prince Ian | Merlin | Queen Anya |
