~ Veronica Gorloisen after Balthazar Blake freed her from Morgana le Fay's evil influence.
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What you did for me.
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~ Balthazar Blake to Veronica Gorloisen after he freed her from Morgana le Fay's evil influence.
Veronica Gorloisen is a powerful, compassionate sorceress, and the overarching protagonist in the 2010 Disney fantasy adventure movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice. She is Balthazar's love interest, and is also one of the 3 apprentices chosen by the noble wizard Merlin on a mission to fight against the dark witch Morgana le Fey.
She is portrayed by Monica Bellucci, who also played Alex in Irreversible.
Not much is known about Veronica's past, aside from the fact that she was once one of the 3 apprentices of Merlin. She, Maxim Horvath and Balthazar Blake had many adventures together, during which both Balthazar and Horvath developed feelings for her, but she only loved Balthazar, which unfortunately resulted in Horvath turning on her, Merlin and Balthazar, and joining Morgana out of petty jealousy. In spite of her extraordinary life and abilities, Veronica longed for a normal life, Balthazar was aware with this, as when they passed through a market together, he saw her looking at a beautiful necklace among items sold by a merchant, but was dismayed that they had no time to buy it. Little did she know that Balthazar bought it for her and intended to give her the necklace on the very night Morgana attacked their stronghold.
When they returned to a Merlinean stronghold somewhere in Britain that night in 740 A.D., they found knights who guarded the castle had been murdered by Morgana. They arrived too late upon discovering that Merlin was mortally wounded, and upon seeing Horvath fleeing with the page of Merlin's Encantus that contained the Rising, Balthazar immediately give chase.
But suddenly, Morgana ambushed Balthazar and was going to kill him just as Veronica, acting fast, uses the Fusion Spell to imprisoned the evil sorceress' spirit into her own body and mind as its cage to save his life. Horrified with what she just did, Balthazar witnesses Morgana beginning to kill her from the inside and attempt to take full control over her body. Knowing that Veronica would eventually lose control over herself due to succumbing from evil sorceress' influence, which would, in turn, allow Morgana to use her body as her own to keep hurting people, Balthazar trapped them both in the Grimhold to both save Veronica and trap Morgana.
Inside the Grimhold, Veronica and Morgana's consciousness were trapped in a seemingly everlasting battle in one body, but in the end, Morgana's consciousness won, leaving Veronica helpless with her enemy's total control over her body in spite of them still being trapped within the doll. The reason why she opted to use the Human Fusion Spell on Morgana may or may not have been motivated by other motives beside saving her love; because Morgana was implied to be Merlin's former apprentice and that he still cared for her despite her betrayal, Veronica possibly held a similar sentiment where in her case, she used to look up to the witch as her senior and role model and still saw her as such.
Released from the Grimhold[]
1,000 years later, when Horvath freed Morgana le Fay (still trapped within Veronica Gorloisen's body) from the Grimhold, it is apparent that Morgana was still in total control over her host, as through her living vessel, Morgana asserted her authority over Horvath as she reminds him not to look so pathetic, especially over his former love interest. Given that she immediately began the ritual for The Rising instead of asking him what he has prepared to amplify and stabilize the required Morgana Star or asking him about the stolen pages of the Enchantus, Morgana presumably used knowledge about the spell itself from Veronica's memories about what she read in the Enchantus to access said information regarding the spell. Balthazar attempted to stop the ritual and come to her rescue, but is overpowered by Horvath, who revealed to have modified his cane with Drake Stone's ring, Abigail Williams' necklace, and Merlin's Dragon Ring to made it stronger. Fortunately, Dave Stutler and his childhood girlfriend Becky Barnes came to his rescue by disarming Horvath and sabotaging the ritual by moving one of the 5 satellite dishes, which resulted in the Morgana Star symbol imploding, knocking Morgana le Fay out.
With Veronica's body unconscious, Balthazar took the opportunity to absorb Morgana le Fay's spirit into himself. Once Morgana's spirit was purged from her body, Veronica finally regained control of herself and was horrified that Balthazar took the spirit of the evil sorceress into himself. Balthazar then implored Dave to trap him in the doll and stop Morgana, but Dave refused, as did Veronica. Suddenly, Morgana briefly possessed Balthazar before exiting his body and taking the form of a spectral entity composed of electron dust.
The Final Battle[]
Morgana then unleashed a powerful stream of fire against them, but to everyone's surprise, Dave jumped in the way and used a shield of pure flames to protect them, awakening his true power as the Prime Merlinean. Undeterred, Morgana unleashed more destructive plasma bolts on them, causing them to stagger to their knees in spite of them having raised a shield-like force field to protect themselves. Morgana then unleashed another plasma bolt on Veronica out of revenge for using the Fusion Spell that destroyed her original body, but Balthazar unexpectedly jumped in the way to protect her, resulting in him taking the blast himself and dying.
As Veronica tried her best to heal Balthazar, Dave combined his knowledge of science and his sorcery to create magitek-based makeshift tesla coils from nearby street lamps and a power box with use of a special enchantment he sent to said power box with a plasma bolt as a conduit. He managed to distract the evil sorceress long enough to complete the makeshift tesla coil, and with the help of an enchanted mop, activated them to force her body into a solid form before destroying her with a barrage of plasma bolts.
Once the evil sorceress was gone, Dave hurried to Balthazar, only for Veronica to silently indicate that the plasma bolt Morgana meant for her killed him. Unwilling to see Veronica saddened by her love's untimely demise and determined to ensure that both apprentices of Merlin have the happy ending they deserved, Dave exhausted his powers to revive Balthazar. To Veronica's joy, Balthazar miraculously returned to life, and in the end, the two are reunited, and Balthazar gives his girlfriend Veronica the necklace he'd been wanting to give her the night that she had been trapped in the Grimhold.
Personality and Traits[]
Veronica Gorloisen and Balthazar Blake.
Balthazar said that Veronica was much like Dave Stutler, wanting nothing more than to be a normal person with a normal life. In the movie, it shows Balthazar having a flashback of him with Veronica in a market, as she looks onto a lovely necklace for sale. She was a beautiful young woman, who was very brave and powerful. She was the first magician to ever successfully merge two souls into one body. She obviously loved Balthazar very much, willing to sacrifice herself for him.
Trivia[]
Balthazar noted to Dave in the film that, like him, Veronica was the only of Merlin's 3 apprentices who longed to be normal and have no magic.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is greatly inspired by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter book series. Veronica Gorlosein is the equivalent of Minerva McGonagall, though aside from them being the protagonist’s ally and a powerful sorceress, they had little to nothing in common.
Her surname contains the name "Gorlois", the name of Morgan le Fay's father and the original husband to Arthur's mother Igraine.
Veronica's name means 'She who brings victory'.
In the early script of Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Veronica's surname was originally Flood and not a centuries-old Merlinean as with her lover's early version. Another difference is she and Balthazar were once enemies prior to becoming lovers as shown in flashbacks, spending most of her screen time being possessed by Morgana, and was not responsible for Morgana's loss of physical form through the Human Fusion Spell.
Veronica Gorloisen's character made no appearance in the 2010 Nintendo DS videogame adaptation of Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
