It is high enough to be above the clouds, thus the conditions of the spell were met and the Gargoyles were revived. In 1994, a wealthy multibillionare named David Xanatos bought the castle and transported the whole structure to Manhattan where he placed it on top of the Eyrie building which he owned. A further misunderstanding during the clan's retaliation on the invaders and rescue of their hostages left the clan frozen in stone by a magic spell that would only be broken when the 'castle rises above the clouds.' For a thousand years, the castle laid abandoned and the clan condemned by this curse. The uneasy alliance was shattered when human prejudice provoked a betrayal that allowed the castle to be sacked and most of the resident clan destroyed, leaving only six adult survivors and a rookery of unhatched eggs.

One Scottish clan made an alliance with humans to help protect a castle by night if the humans would protect their stone forms by day. These creatures existed as stone in the day, but become flesh and blood at night. Storyline: Gargoyles (19941996) In the Dark Ages, there was a race of heroic warrior monsters known as Gargoyles.

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