Cobblepot and Gordon's side of the story was more complicated. Cobblepot was actually a descendant of the Four Great Families. By this era, the Cobblepot family had declined, leaving little Penguin with only a somewhat dilapidated ancestral home, where he and his mother lived.
The Cobblepot family's inheritance had almost entirely been lost. Cobblepot knew nothing of what his father had arranged back then, but perhaps by chance, he heard a few mad ramblings from his mother. He had assumed they were merely the nonsense she spouted during an episode, but he really did find a staircase leading to the attic behind the bookcase.
In the attic of his ancestral home, Cobblepot found his father's diary. By the time he found it, abnormalities had already appeared throughout Gotham City. Cobblepot immediately connected the two and learned of the plan the Four Great Families had plotted twenty years ago.
It was basically too late to begin now, but fortunately, his father had done quite a lot back then, and his family's task was relatively simple: guard the last Court of Owls base and watch over the equipment used to refine Batmetal.
The Four Great Families of Gotham each had their own duties. The Kain Family and the Wayne Family were responsible for searching for metals outside, while the Eliot family and the Cobblepot family were responsible for collecting and refining metals within Gotham City. This pool of Amber Gold had been collected by the Eliot family, while the Cobblepot family only needed to gather Batmetal.
Through the memories Martha had obtained from the cultists, they had raided the laboratory refining Batmetal. But because they had little occult knowledge and could not operate the machinery, they could only seal off the laboratory, have members of the Cobblepot family guard it, and take