The Peggle Institute

The Peggle Institute is a mysterious organisation formed by Bjorn Unicorn. It started off as just a normal institute to educate people in the ways of pegging, but later became focused on research and questionable experiments using stolen technology from another world.

Early Activity
Before any further unethical activity by the Institute, the then-student known only as the New Master joined up. Through the New Master's extreme natural talent for Pegging, Bjorn realises things could be taken further and sends a letter asking the New Master visit one night. Bjorn allows the New Master to of what was, at the time, the Institute's greatest secret: the machine used to invade dreams. Bjorn and the New Master use it to squeeze in some slightly unethical pegging practice within the minds of the Peggle Masters and one new student.

Combine Invasion and Technology Acquisition
Shortly after these events, the Combine invade Peggleland. The Peggle Institute are the closest thing Peggleland has to a defence force. The New Master, with the use of Bjorn's Super Guide, fights off the Combine and finds their method of transportation to Peggleland. In an attempt to attack the Combine's home universe, the New Master accidentally travels to the wrong universe and the Peggle Institute are attacked by mass-cloned mercenaries. Jimmy Lightning suffers horrible injury, but the Peggle Institute escapes and finds its way to the Combine's universe.

Upon arriving in the Aperture Science facility, the New Master (now the only Peggle Master on-site as the rest remain in Peggleland) attempts to escape to bring the fight directly to the Combine. Before they can do so, however, they receive word from Bjorn that the Combine's attack on Peggleland is intensifying. Knowing that not return to fight them off could mean the end of Peggle forever, the New Master steals some nearby Aperture equipment and uses the Combine technology acquired earlier to return to Peggleland.

Returning, the New Master uses their Extreme Pegging to destroy all the creatures sent by the Combine. While most of the Peggle Masters of the Peggle Institute are busy waiting for Jimmy Lightning's recovery, the New Master and Bjorn meet to discuss the recovered technology. It is agreed that these two, the Founder of the Peggle Institute and the Strongest of the Peggle Masters, will use the combination of Aperture and Combine technology to travel to different universes and further their pegging abilities in landscapes never before seen in Peggle boards.

Multiverse Creation
The Peggle Institute, now the owners of technology they shouldn't be able to comprehend, decide to create a new universe as an experiment. The Peggle Masters, including newly-graduated Marina, vote to see who shouldn't exist in the new universe after Bjorn claims creating a new timeline without someone else is "the best test of our world's stability" (whatever that means). Marina loses the vote as the newest Peggle Master, and a new timeline is created.

The new timeline (as seen in Peggle Dual Shot) seems similar, though it obviously lacks Marina and certain constants of the universe are slightly different. On top of this, some areas of space are corrupted and deemed unsafe for pegging by Bjorn. The New Master ignores the warnings and ventures into the "Q-zones" alone.

Shortly after exiting the new universe, the New Master is met with a police raid. Information about the experiments got out, and the government of Peggleland is shutting down the Institute for good.

New Institute of Peggle
A few years later Bjorn, now a severe alcoholic, meets the New Master again by chance. Though the New Master has seemingly forgotten their pegging life, Bjorn thinks there is profit to be found in their natural talent and forms a new Peggle Institute. After many failed attempts to contact the former Peggle Masters of the Old Institute, only Jimmy Lightning decided to return to Bjorn's side.

Original Institute

 * Bjorn (founder)
 * Jimmy Lightning
 * Kat Tut
 * Splork Sporkan
 * Claude Lobster
 * Renfield Pumpkin
 * Tula Sunflower
 * Warren "Magic Hat" Rabbit
 * Lord Cinderbottom
 * Master Hu
 * The New Master
 * Marina Squid

New Institute

 * Bjorn (founder)
 * Jeff
 * Berg
 * Gnorman
 * Luna
 * Jimmy Lightning
 * The New Master

Trivia

 * Bjorn has single-handedly committed 1751 war crimes.
 * Between the events of Peggle Deluxe and Peggle 2, Bjorn developed a crippling drug addiction