Editing Emperor Norton

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| name=Emperor Norton
| image=Portrait Emperor Norton.png
| size=200px
| location=[[Frisco]]
}}

Emperor Norton is an insane old man in [[Frisco]]. You must either give him a crown or chase him on the roof of a train in order to stop his reign of madness.

== Quests/Interactions ==
* If you give him a crown of any kind, the Main Quest is ended there and then.  He seems happy enough with being allowed to keep up the pretence of being an Emperor.
** There are four crowns you can give him.
** One of the easiest is the [[turnip crown]]. You get the [[dusty turnip]] in Boring Springs, and plate it at [[The Silver Plater]]. The only requirements for this are Lockpickin' (to enter the Silversmith's House), 10 moxie (to unlock the Silver Plater) and 5000 meat to plate it (much more expensive in [[Hard Mode]], at 20000).
** You can make the [[gold tooth crown]] at Fort of Darkness. The difficulty here is finding enough [[gold tooth|gold teeth]], since there are not enough fixed ones in the game: you will need to farm the remaining ones from random skeleton encounters and random grave loot, or [[The Daveyard]]'s catacombs.
** You can obtain [[the Necromancer's crown]] by becoming the Necromancer. Simply defeating him is not sufficient, it destroys the crown: and it also cannot be obtained in [[Hard Mode]] either, even if the player chooses to become the Necromancer.
** Lastly, there is the [[El Vibrato crown]] obtained by completing the El Vibrato sidequest to contain Roberto. The difficulty here, of course, is actually finding it at all, or finding it in time: since the final section of El Vibrato is all in Region H, and unlocked only by wandering or travelling in the region - for which one must, of course, already have access to another Region H location: but the regular method of unlocking Region H is to read the [[comedy flier]] on the ground in Frisco to unlock [[Wasco's Comedy Shack]], which cannot be done without having already dealt with Norton and and opened up the rest of Frisco (though you can walk past Norton and pick up the flyer. Just hug the bottom of the screen and it won't trigger the dialogue.) The only other method to unlock Region H is via the bow-legged soldier in [[Fort Unnecessary]]: if you convince him to try riding a mule instead of a horse, this will unlock [[Alamo Rent-A-Mule]], the only other Region H location that can be unlocked from outside the region.
* If he is not given a crown, he infects the player character with [[ant-eye virus]]. He then runs off, leaving the character with impaired vision and a need for revenge, and takes over the train, and has to be dealt with in a complicated sequence of encounters on the train itself.
** Help [[Roy Bean]] with his quests in order to get a steep discount on the [[honey jelly bean]] to fix your eyesight.
** Apparently the Baimongoachi Golyyucticus potion from fort of darkness also clears vision, but this didn't work for me

== Combat ==
* For combat purposes '''Emperor Norton''' incarnates in 3 different forms on top of the train:
** [[Emperor Norton (1)|Initial version]]
** [[Emperor Norton (2)|Second version]]
** [[Emperor Norton (3)|Third version]]

== Location ==
* [[Frisco]]

== Trivia ==
*The character is based on a real person who was a citizen of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 declared himself "[[Wikipedia:Emperor_Norton|Norton I, Emperor of the United States]]".
*Ironically, in 1872, the real Norton wrote an edict making it a misdemeanor to call San Francisco "Frisco"