Bethany Darkthorn

Dr. Adam Darkthorn was a professor of Ancient History at Oxford, until he was transported to planet Gor by the Priest-Kings: - to be reunited with his father Robert Darkthorn, a physician in the city of Ko-Ro-Ba .

After a series of adventures serving his Home Stone, Adam Darkthorn rejected his father's patrimony, and embarked on a military career. Taking the nautical pseudonym Captain Dagon Ravenwood, he sailed up and down the coast with his crew in The Black Herlit - posing as mercenaries, while perfoming secret missions as an agent for the Priest Kings.

This happy era came to an end when Captain Ravenwood and his crew were betrayed by the Rence Farmers while on a secret mission hunting Kurri in the Vosk Delta, and were given over to the Kurri. On a spaceship hovering over the marshes, the captain and his crew were subjected to an horrific experiment, designed to undermine the very basis of Gorean society: - a serum that will ensure gorean men can no longer count on remaining *male* after suffering capture and defeat.

Transformed into "exotic" kajira, designed to serve as wet-nurses or breeders (rather than dancers), with outsized breasts & childbearing hips, Captain Dagon and her crewmen were sent to serve the Cu Sith gang in Port Kar. Here Captain Dagon Ravenwood was given a complete personality overwrite which left her believing that she had grown up as a simple-minded blonde farm-girl in Torvaldsland called Dagny, who had run away to work in the Big City...

Here Dagny served in a tavern until the Cu Sith fled, and she was sold to serve a Chieftain in the Swamps of Schendi. The Chieftain renamed her "Bosk", on account of the breadth she retained in her shoulders, her large udder-like breasts, and nose-ring with which she was fitted. Here, Adam Darkthorn finally snapped out of her trance: to discover herself heavily pregnant, and about to give birth to her first child...

Unfortunately, as her child grew it became clear that he possessed the placid and docile characteristics which the Kurri were hoping to spread throughout the human gene-pool (in order to render humans more suitable as livestock). Chieftain Makeen was outraged, and Bosk faced execution but escaped with the help of a prisonguard, who smuggled her to the women's city of Tharna...

Here Dagny Ravenwood secured freedom from the Tatrix, and served as Chief Librarian, before residing for a while in the peaceful city of Sulport (under a false identity), until she was sufficiently recovered in body and soul to begin adventuring again: collecting members of her lost crew, and seeking news on the serum-technology that might permit her to undo the transformation.

Returning to Port Kar, where her misfortunes began, Dagny encountered a tall handsome man, whom she recognised, after a moment of disorientation, as the long lost father she had rejected. Revealing that she is in fact what remains of his son, Adam Darkthorn, the prodigal son has at last been reconciled to her father - albeit as a meek, submissive and dutiful daughter.

Retreating with her family to her old island-fortress of Calarel, Captain Dagny Ravenwood resumed her Quest, and made contact with her old comrade Nephtides na Neidos, a fellow Initiate. Dagny at last made her plight known to the Priest Kings - and was able to undo something of what the Kurri did to her, removing the artificial memories and behavioural conditioning that compelled her to behave as a Kajira..

Finally in a position to start over, Dagny Ravenwood has relinquished her mutilated nom de guerre and resumed her family name, albeit with the name she would have had, had she been born a girl rather than a boy: Bethany Darkthorn. Her status as an agent has been fully reinstated, and she will soon be commanding missions again in space, albeit not on Gor, where such a role is no longer possible. Here, Bethany is re-training to be a physician, so she can finally follow in her father's footsteps and practice his profession.