Bidley
By default, Bidley is not playable, but he may be enabled in custom scenarios in the map editor.
Story[edit | hide | hide all]
Bidley Roberts is the brother of 
Jeremy, owner of the 
Horn of the Abyss and the de-facto Pirate King of Regna.
One day, when Bidley was a simple pirate captain lounging in the Shark Chowder Inn, he overheard the tale of a prisoner held in a magical prison in Zargand. Thinking to get a handsome reward, Bidley rescued this prisoner, who turned out to be 
Xanthor. In hopes of getting rid of him, Xanthor told Bidley the location of the Horn of the Abyss. After meeting up with Jeremy amd 
Casmetra, the three of them decide to go on a quest to obtain the horn. They assemble the Cornucopia to fund their operations and in the process they free 
Tark, the prince of the Nix. On the way to the horn's location, most of their fleet is sunk by the Tatalians, with the exception of the ships captained by Jeremy, Bidley and Patris. To ensure their escape, Casmetra uses her magic to sink the Tatalian ships, destroying Patris' ship and killing him in collateral damage. When they arrive at the horn's location, Jeremy and Casmetra are separated from Bidley.
During his search for the horn, Bidley frees 
Dargem, who is secretly a former agent of Casmetra's who failed in his task to find the horn. Upon finding the horn, Dargem captures Bidley, claims the horn for his own and flees. When Casmetra and Jeremy catch up to him, Dargem reveals that he was employed by her and is about to blow the horn when she casts a spell at him. A huge magical explosion occurs and sends Dargem, Casmetra, Bidley and Jeremy to wildly different locations.
Bidley was cast into the Plane of Water. Since the Elemental Lords were aiding in the War of the Blade against the Kreegans, they had all the gates to the plane thoroughly guarded. By consulting with Marinus, Bidley discovered the way back to Enroth was through the fortress of Coralgate, which he promptly sacked.
Upon returning to Enroth, Bidley met back up with Jeremy at the Black Mark. Together, they located Casmetra, who had ended up with the Horn of the Abyss. Before she could figure out how to use it, Jeremy and Bidley defeated her and reclaimed the horn. Once they had the horn, they became the targets of Dargem, Bracada, the Elemental Lords and Nighon and had to defeat them all before Bidley became the de-facto Pirate King.
Appearances[edit | hide]
Another of Bidley's exploits is featured in the scenario Ville'de'Porte.
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User Commentary
Bidley is basically a Cove's counterpart of Gelu. But he only upgrades the Pirates and Corsairs, while Gelu can upgrade both the Archers and the Wood Elves, thus having less creatures to upgrade. Upgrading them to the Sea Dogs is expensive, yet reduces a need in upgrading Frigate (which is even more expensive!), gets you them faster and makes the early game easier. With a group of Sea Dogs you can quickly clear many neutral creatures on a map during the early game.
Moreover, he has only Advanced Offense, so he may choose seven secondary skills.