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By the age of thirteen, our subject, Artemis Fowl, was showing signs of an intellect greater than that of any human sińce Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Artemis had beaten European chess champion Evan Kashoggi in an Online tournament, patented morę than twenty-seven inventions, and won the archi-tectural competition to design Dublin's new opera house. He had also written a Computer program that secretly diverted millions of dollars from Swiss bank accounts to his own, forged over a dozen Impressionist paintings, and cheated the Fairy People out of a substantial amount of gold.

The ąuestion is, why? what drove Artemis to get involved in criminal enterprises? The answer lies with his father.

Artemis Fowl Senior was the head of a criminal empire that stretched from Dublin's docklands to the backstreets of Tokyo, but he had ambitions to establish himself as a legitimate businessman. He bought a cargo ship, stocked it with 250,000 cans of cola, and set course for Murmańsk, in northern Russia, where he had set up a business deal that could have proved profitable for decades to come.

Unfortunately, the Russian Mafiya decided they did not want an Irish tycoon cutting himself a slice of their market, and sank the Fowl Star in the Bay of Kola. Artemis Fowl the First was declared missing, presumed dead.

The loss of her husband had a profound effect on Angelinę Fowl.

She took refuge in her mind, preferring dreams of the past to real life. It is doubtful whether she would have recovered had not our subject, Artemis Fowl the Second, madę a deal with the elf Holly Short: his mother's sanity in return for half the ransom gold he had stolen from the fairy police.

With his father missing, Artemis Junior was now the head of an empire with limited funds. In order to restore the family fortunę, he embarked on a criminal career that would earn him over fifteen million pounds in two short years.

This vast fortunę was mainly spent financing rescue expeditions to Russia. Artemis refused to believe that his father was dead, even though every passing day madę it seem morę likely.

Artemis avoided other teenagers and resented being sent to school at all, preferring to spend his time plotting his next crime.

So even though his involvement with the goblin uprising during his fourteenth year was to be traumatic, terrifying, and dangerous, it was probably the best thing that could have happened. At least he spent some time outdoors and got to meet some new people.

It's a pity most of them were trying to kill him.

Report compiled by: Dr. J. Argon, B. Psych, for the LEP Academy files.

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