Homemade Watchers Chronicles

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THE KORIAND EXPEDITION
A group of Immortals with a lot in common with the Sacred Order.
Inspired by the Sanders-Hardmuth Expedition from Tintin's Seven Criystal Balls.

- Carlo Baldoni, archaeologist who uncovered the tombs of ancient Egyptian kings
- Andrew Caspis, aka Andrew Korland, aka Cassivellaunus, ethnologist, specilized in ancient Asian and
South American civilisations
- Hsien-Tsiang, formerly of the Eight Taoist Immortals group
- Sir Aurel Stein, who explored and documented civilisations of Central Asia and directed the Darwin Museum of Brussels
- Baron Von Munschausen, who didn't quite go to the moon but went all through North and Latin America
- Maple White, who met her first death exploring a lost land of "dinosaurs" in South America
Professor of Archaeology, Marshall College, Connecticut USA
- Mustapha Zenmouri, aka Esteban the Moor, explorer and Spanish interpretator haling from Al Andalus
Professor and lecturer, University of Coimbra, specializing in ancient civilisations

The expedition led by Professor Koriand in 1965 sought the lost city of Z in the Matto Grosso and disappeared, never to be seen again. This pack of immortals was made of pacific souls, led by a passion for discovery and adventures:

Whatever happened to this group was unknown to us until we found they were actually recruited by the Sacred Order as adjunct Pathfinders and watched over the by Aposte during their stay within the confines of the Order's temple in Matto Grosso. Later on, the Order's HQ would move to Greece and then recently to the Levant while the adjunct Pathfinders went on with htier lives, sword to secrecy.

Special Projects, Order of Sacred Knowledge

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Ming Hua Kê

Known aliases : Cui Fan
Notable characteristics : Eyepatch on left eye,
wound suffered durign First Death circumstances
Gay Immortal
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Province of
Guangxi, China
Occupation : Disciple of Yau Chuan Chou, rivalling
with Mei-Li Choe for their teacher’s affection
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 360 BC Warring States Period
Place : Guangxu
Victor : Mei-Li Choe
Watcher : Research, Mei-Li Choe Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : 720 BC, China, Spring and Autumn Period
First death : 453 BC, Raped, tortured and killed by
soldiers in service to Zhou military leader
First teacher : Broken Blade
Known associates : Yau Chouan Chou
Known past associates : Broken Blade
Known ennemies : Mei-li Choe
First recorded sighting : 360 BC. Guangxi, China
Sought tutoring from Yau Chouan Chou

Watcher Research has proven conclusive for several Immortals once killed by Mei-Li Choe in the first ten centuries of her life, prior to her engagement in the Order of Sacred Knowlesge as bodyguard of Pathfinder Amestrtis of Khotan. The first Chronicle of such Immortals we uncovered is of Ming Hua Kë, a rival fo Mei-Li in the affectiosn and tutelage of their common teacher, Yau Chouan Chou, also famous for having turored the legendary May-Ling Shen.
A victim of slavery and rape, Ming swore to never be enslaved again and became a vengeful sabre across Mainland China until he sought private tutoring from Yau Choua Chou. Unfortuately for him, he had a dark side in his nature : he killed the men he seduced and bedded, driven by self-hatrerd, sparing the Immortal known as Broken Blade, a diminushed Immortal man who lost his virility long ago. A psychotic by modern standards, he threatened the life of Yau Choucan Chou and was dispatched by Mei-Li Choe after an infamous duel which went down in history as “the fiery battle of the Crane and the Tiger”.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia



San-yang

Known aliases : Sying Hsu, Dong Yüan
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Han war sword
Inconclusive fight agaisnt Mei-li Choe, 215 BC

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
Occupation : Xiongnu soldier, occasional
headunter
Prior occupations : Ditto
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 121 BC Battle of Hexi, Han-Xiongnu War
Place : Hexi corridor, China
Victor : Mei-Li Choe, warrior on the side of the
Han Dynasty
Watcher : Research, Mei-Li Choe Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : Ancient China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Mei-li Choe
First recorded sighting : 215 BC. Ordos Loop,
Central China. Warrior of the invading Xiongnu
tribe, fought Mei-li Choe during General Meng
Tiang’s pre-emptive strike agaisnt the Xiongnu

San-Yang has been found to be a one-time opponent of Mei-Li Choe with scores to settle with the Chinese warrior woman. He seemingly couldn’t abide having been defeated in combat by a woman and he clearly decided to put her to her place once and for all. Mei-Li Choe is the one who put him to his final resting place after the furious fight which took place at the Battle of Hexi.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia



Kabir the Giant

Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : 6’7’’ tall, hulking brute
Weapon : Chola dynasty sword
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Delhi, India
Occupation : Chief of the Royal Guard,
Chandragupta II, occasional headhunter
Prior occupations : Adventurer, mercenary sword
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 399 Reign of Chandragupta II
Place : Delhi
Victor : Mei-Li Choe, bodyguard of Buddhist monk
Faxian durign travels to South Asia
Watcher : Research, Mei-Li Choe Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Videhas
Born : 1rst century; Kingdom of the Videhas, India
First death : Mauled by a tiger during travel to
Bengali
First teacher : Kyra of Sparta
Known past associates : Kyra
First recorded sighting : 51 Kingdom of the
Videhas. Found and mentored by Kyra,
investigating tale of an unkillable warrior wearing a
tiger pelt as clothing

Mei-Li Choe was performing her duties as bodyguard of Faxian the Monk and she is the Immortalwoman who took out Kabir the Giant, a colossus of a man who was the royal guard of King Chandragupta II and occasionally played the Game, hoping to be the One and to be united forever with Buddha.
Kabir’s tribulatiosn on Earth stopped when he challenged to wrong person, underestimating the agile little bird from China with her magic sword and flying set of daggers.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia



Vithanage

Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : 4’4’’ tall; wore a mask
Weapon : Cixong sword
Recorded kills : None recorded

Status
Most recent base of operations : Mihintale, Sri
Lanka
Occupation : Physician, hospital of Mintale,
occasiona player fo the Game
Prior occupations : Professional dancer at court of
Emperor Caligula; cinnamon exportation business
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 412
Place : Putskirts of Uhana
Victor : Mei-Li Choe, bodyguard of Buddhist monk
Faxian durign travels to South Asia
Watcher : Research, Mei-Li Choe Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Sri Lankan
Born : 1rst century, Sri Lanka
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Cassius Polonius
Known past associates : Cassius Polonius
First recorded sighting : 41 AD Rome. Male
dancer for Caligula, witnessed his assassination
by Cassius Chaerea, aka Cassius Polonius, at this
time leading the Pretorian Guard

As fate will have it, Mei-Li Choe didn’t wait long before facing another Immortal in the decade she followed Monk Faxian as his bodyguard, this time facign another player of the Game in Sri Lanka, a medical doctor in Sri Lanka’s first known hospital, built in the 5th century. Vithanage was a disciple of Cassius Polonius and witnessed the murder of Emperor Caligula in 41 AD, only to be mentored by the Roman praetorian guard. Cassius taught the diminutive Asian to be cunning, to use any means at his disposal to survive in the Game and apparently Vithanage did very well in four hundred years, souring most of Southern Asia, playing the Game, learning new crafts and enjoying the Game immensely. When Mei-Li Choe took him out, he was already a powerful man but he did one mistake : underestimating an Immortal woman. His mistake proved fatal.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia




Sotatsu

Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Wa Dynasty sabre
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
Occupation : Bodyguard, Japan Embassy of the
Five Kings of Wa (Japan) to China, headhunter
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 425
Place : Jiangsu, China
Victor : Mei-li Choe
Watcher : Research, Mei-li Choe Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Japanese
Born : Kofun Period of Japan, 250-438
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Mei-li Choe, huntign foreign
Immortals
First recorded sighting : 425. Jiangsu, China
King San of Japan sent Sōtatsu as an envoy and
made Emperor Wen of Liu Song a present.
Sotatsu sought the Quickening of Mei-li Choe who
killed him in combat

No one knows who his First Teacher was or who trained him later on, we only know that he was one of the earlier recorded Immortals of Japan and that he played the Game. Scrolls for the 5th century in Japan report that an Immortal man called Sotatsu was an envoy to the Court of King of Wa and that while respectuous to everyone, he was on the lookout for any Immortal he could find, and that Immortal happened to be Mei-Li Choe at this time serving Emperor Wen of Liu Song as his concubine and bodyguard agaisnt any threat from Mailand China or from foreign countries. The Quickenign impressed the Emperor deeply, who saw in his lover a formauidable woman able to fitht like a man and to master thunder and lightnings like a goddess.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia




Konerak Sasorith

Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : 4’5’’ tall
Weapon : Custom sabre, trained swordsmith
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Tang China
Occupation : Trader, part of a trading mission in
China, occasional headhunter
Prior occupations : Metalsmith, swordsmith
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 717
Place : Tang Dynasty Court, China
Victor : Mei-li Choe
Watcher : Research, Mei-li Choe Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Laotian
Born : 2nd century; Kingdom of Funan, present
Laos
First death : Killed by Austronesian settlers
First teacher : Kanchiang Ch’ih
Known past associates : Kanchiang Ch’ih
First recorded sighting : 717. Tang Dynasty China
Challenged Mei-li Choe to a duel and lost, later
cross-identified as a student of Kanchiang Ch’ih

What was it about Mei-Li Choe that made her lure one headhunter after another, wherever she went ? Some Immortals truily seem doomed to play the Game time and time again, never to know peace but Mei-Li Choe acepted any challenge gracefully and fought with a passion and vigor that was paralleled by few women of her kind. She took any challenge, dutifully xserved and protected hte men she was in charge of watching over and this is why she may have been chosen as Sentinel by the Order of the Sacred Knowledge. In 717 Mei-Li Choe was known at the Tang Dynasty court as a diminutive guard/mercenary of undetermined gender who stood by the Emperor's side and never left him. Protecting his family day and night.No man was safe from her blade and there were few men or women who dared raise theri voice when adressing her. She had truly formidable weapons. When Konerak Sasorith raped one of the Emperor's concubines, Mei-Li Choe came after him like a panther trailing its prey and silently dispatched him, his custom broadsword offered as a gift to the offended Emperor whose mistress had been brutalized and dishionored.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia


The two Mamluke soldiers found to have been a husband and wife team for three hundred years, Maro Atef and Ehsan Ibn Fauzi, have been killed in 1387 in Sivas, a region of Anatolia taken over by the Mamluk Sultanate under the protection of Irene of Antioch, one of the Sentinels of the Sacred Order. It has been discovered that Irene was protecting Immortal Pathfinder Parthenia of Udyana who was doing research to find ancient scrolls describing the final days of the Trojan War, in which several Immortals were involved (ref. Achilles of Troy Chronicle). During Sivas takeover by the Ottomans, Ehsan and Maro threatened the life of Udyana, only to find themselves slaughtered by Irene and her superior sword skills.

Watcher Research, Sacred Order


Maro Atef
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Dressed in slave-warrior
garbs
Weapon : Mameluke saber
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Sivas, Anatolia
Occupation : Posing as Mamluk Slave-Warrior
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1387 Mamluk Sultanate forcing city of
Sivas to become a Mamluk vassal state
Place : Sivas
Victor : Irene of Antioch
Watcher : Research, Sarah of Antioch Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Fatimid Egyptian
Born : c. 1050; Fatimid Egypt
First death : 1070; House servant raped and killed
by Fatimid soldiers
First teacher : Ehsan Ibn Fauzi
Known associates : Ehsan Ibn Fauzi
Known past associates : Ankhanaten Rey
Known ennemies : Mihrimah Pamuk
First recorded sighting : 1070. Valey of the Kings,
Egypt. Found by Ehsan Ibn Fauzi, praying for
Anubis to take her to the Kingdom of the Dead,
taught the Immortal Game and later married



Ehsan Ibn Fauzi
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Dressed in slave-warrior
garbs
Weapon : Mameluke saber
Recorded kills : None known
Inconclusive fight against Nader Salam, 868

Status
Most recent base of operations : Sivas ,Anatolia
Occupation : Posing as Mamluk Slave-Warrior
Prior occupations : In service to Abbasid Caliphate
and to the Fatimids
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1387 Mamluk Sultanate forcing city of
Sivas to become a Mamluk vassal state
Place : Sivas
Victor : Irene of Antioch
Watcher : Research, Sarah of Antioch Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Abbasid Egyptian
Born : 9th century, Abbasid Caiphate of Egypt
First death : 811–813/819 , Fourth Fina,
provincial turmoil lasting into the 830s
First teacher : Ankhanaten Rey
Known associates : Maro Atef
Known past associates : Ankhanaten Rey
Known ennemies : Mihrimah Pamuk
First recorded sighting : 820. Cairo, Egypt
Foudn and mentored by Ankhnaten Rey during
suppression of local revolt against Zaydi Alids







WESTERN AFRICA : Active and Inactive roster


Anansi the Spider
Known aliases : Kwake Nansi, Shola Inopsi
Notable characteristics : Trasngender Immortal
Weapon : Custom broadsword
Inconclusive fight against Sunda Kastagir, 1390;
Sr. Mary Bethel, 1960; Apolo Obote, 1958

Status
Most recent base of operations : Benin City,
Nigeria
Occupation : Independent means
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Sandaré Gumbo

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Senegalese
Born : 660; Eastern Senegal, Empire of Ghana
First death : 675, Stabbed to death by violent
husband
First teacher : Sekou Nkruma
Known past associates : Sekou Nkruma,
Aicha Guelleh
First recorded sighting : 1390. Western Ghana
Inconclusive fight against Sunda Kastagir

Anansi was an urban legend from way back on the African roster of Immortals, a player of the Game once mentored by healer Sekou Nkruma, who killed Immortals indiscriminately, playing the Game, like a spider weaving her web, faceless and rumored to be a freak of nature born with four arms; each arms carrying a different sword, saber or cutlass, picked from a fallen opponent. For centuries he was known as a trickster, a devilish creatures seducing men out of their wits before the final kill and who could get away from any perilous situation thanks to the power of her mind. No one knew exactly what Anansi looked like : a man, a woman, a child-like creature or an elderly woman.
He was described as a roving monster, a clever creature who outlived hundreds of powerful Immortals. For eight hundred years frightening tales were told about him when the Black Continent still was largely unknown and unexplored until finally it was Sunda Kastagir who confronted him in 1390 and discovered him for what she was : a male transvestite wielding a Homemade sword he must have forged himsself and who proved to be a skilled fighter as well as a remorseless killer who still won’t hunt and kill a sister since Immortal women are so few and far between

Sandaré Gumbo, 2016




Bolanile Dallo
Known aliases : Bolanile M’Barek
Notable characteristics : Immortal Child
Weapon : Custom sword with short blade, forged
for her by Sghair M’Barek

Status
Most recent base of operations : Bamako, Mali
Occupation : School child, occasional player of the
Game, luring Immortals to her foster father, Sghair
M’Barek
Prior occupations : Street child, war orphan
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Sasha Touré

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Nigerian Igbo
Born : 1962; Republic of Biafra, Nigeria
First death : 1970, Killed by government soldiers
with foster parents during Nigerian Civil War,
triggering persecutions of Igbo
First teacher : Sghair M’Barek
Known associates : Sghair M’Barek
Known ennemies : Any adult-sized Immortal
threatening her
First recorded sighting : 1970. Biafra, Nigeria
Found and mentored by Sghair M’Barek, forced
into street prostitution by local pimp

Isn't she a beautiful little girl ? Good with her feet, her fists, using agility and mobility too. The knife to the throat, the Immortal can't breathe and is paralysed. Then she whips out her wicked little sword and whoops ! "Dad, I took my breakfast, it was yummy ! I am full". She is a little wasp. Wth all the rapes and murder she suffered upon First Death she suffered, she still has nightmares about it. Recurring ones, even after years of therapy and healing. But her dad is here, he is going to protect her until the Gathering, and beyond.

Sasha Touré, April 2018


Orisa Kagame
Known aliases : Kaissa Bankole, took her
teacher’s name to honor his memory
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Akrafena Ashanti sword
Recorded kills : Dimeji Yar’adua, Omar al-Qadir,
Odukodiah
Inconclusive fight against Omar al-Qadir, 1800;
Simon Killian, 1880; Raymond d’Amboise, 1929

Status
Most recent base of operations : Abuja, Nigeria
Occupation : Operative, State Security of Nigeria
Prior occupations : Rebel fighter against British
colonization of Nigeria; led Aba Women’s Riots
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Mobaladjé Djamba

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Oyo people
Born : 1605; Oyo Kingdom, present-day Nigeria
First death : 1625, As captive of slave traders,
murdered by Dimeji Yar’adua
First teacher : Goodluck Bankole
Known past associates : Goodluck Bankole,
Mama Adorn, Ikechukwu
Known ennemies : Dimeji Yar’adua, Hob Gadling
First recorded sighting : 1767. Calabar River,
Nigeria. During massacre of her village by slavers,
fought and killed slave traders Ivor Loomis and
Orin Clerebold

As opposed to Alice Lenshina who will use her sexual power to defeat Immortal men in the Game, Orisa Kagame uses hunting skills and a keen swordarm in the Game, keeping in practice by playing regularly and training often. She keeps love and sexual matters to her mortal lovers and to the few Immortal men and women she truly loves, giving her body to those few she trusts with her intimacy. This is a shrinking violet hiding behing the wall of a tough super-woman fighting the forces of darkness in Nigeria. Few men and women in the Game have seen the real woman that she is and those who challenged her in the Game are now six feet under, their Quickenings part of Orisa.
This is a woman who will never let anyone enslave her again or threaten the lives of her clan, as she made the sad experience the day she was reborn, Immortal. When she finally took out Dimej Yar’adua, she breathed a sigh of relief, though her battle never ends. Slavers, child-traffickers, assassins, headhunters, are all part of the darkness in her heart, but she sees the light surrounded by her mortal family, her freidns and lovers, and for them, she would do everything to survive the Game and the final Gathering, so she could protect her tribe until the end of time.

Mobaladjé Djamba. August 2017



Sghair M’Barek
Known aliases : Sighair M’bali, Sghair Sangaré
Weapon(s) : Machete, spear
Recorded kills : Yaa Ofusu, Owusu Ojokolo, Alpha Addy
Inconclusive fight against Idriss Bahel al-Bliss,
1452; Gavriel Larca, 1665; Kasanje, 1670;
Rutger Verhoeven, 1885

Status
Most recent base of operations : Bamako, Mali
Occupation : Hunter, independant means, father
Prior occupations : Hunter, traveller
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Sasha Touré

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Malian
Born : 1320: Province of Kidal, Kingdom of Mali
First death : 1350, Killed hunting a lion
First teacher : Arakan
Known associates : Ari al-Muzaiyin, Aicha Guelleh,
Safiya Khan, Sid’Ahmed Taya, Afar Clan, Bolanile
Dallo
Known past associates : Bashir and Salim Ibn Khalid Al Kal
Known ennemies : Rutger Verhoeven, Ali Ubuak
First recorded sighting : 1356. Province of Kidal.
Found by travelling Arakan

Where his first teacher, Arakan, was a lion with the heart of a coward, Sghair is no coward; he plays the Game, hunts regularly those of his kind, does what has to be done. Aralkhan communicated to him his awe and fear of the Game, his belief that the strong must kill the weak so that the immortal world may be strong, so that himself may be strong.
Sghairt is no coward. He lives in fear and awe of the Game, of immortality, but that does not prevent him from challenging the best ones, the strongest of his kind, because all of them have weaknesses. From his experiences as a former lion-hunter, he knows how the sting of a wasp can weaken the defences of a mighty lion, so Sghair uses not only his strenght but also his mind, something he has been imparting on his protégé and adopted daughter Bolanile Dallo, child Immortal.

Sasha Touré, 2016



Mossane
Known aliases : Mossane Gasira Nkobe
HISS Codename : Copperhead
Notable characteristics : Expert in blow-guns and
poisons
Weapons : Scorpion sword
Recorded kills : Yosewi Nsibambi
Inconclusive fight against Eric Cannago, 1780;
Sigmund Holthaus, 1880

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dakar, Senegal
Occupation : Independent means, teacher, agent
of Ravenwood International; hunting down ISIL
terrorists
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Selim Rahman

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Senegalese
Date of birth : 1405, Senegal
First death : 1425, Young bride poisoned by chief
of village's First Spouse
First teacher : Sunda Kastagir
Known associates : Helen King & HISS, African
Water-Snakes
Known past associates : Sunda Kastagir, Kamaro
Mceli, Isadora Wynter, Siham Rabiyah, Seh-Dong-
Hong-Bey, Dumisani Maraire, Lali Naidoo, Mama Adorn
First recorded sighting : 1530 Kenya, student
of Sunda Kastagir

Watcher Bureau, Western Africa
From the Records of the Tribunal
The Chronicle of Mossane Nkobe

There is a legend in a tiny village of Senegal, about a bride who became the third wife of the village's chief, five
hundred years ago. The chief's first wife became jealous of the young girl and had her poisoned. It is also told the bride came back from the dead and scared the first wife so much that she died. This legend is based on the story of Mossane Gasira Nkobe who re-awakened, an immortal. Mossane was cast out from her village, but not put to death since her husband had really loved her.
She wandered for days until she could reach the village she originated from, unfortunately word had reach the place that her ghost was now haunting the area and she had to flee again. She was then pursued by the immortal Assane Ouadraogo who thought her an easy kill; Sunda Kastagir proved him wrong when he took his head and taught the ways of the Game to the young immortal girl.

Mossane became an angel of vengeance punishing mortals and immortals who hurt the innocent, making a name for herself though the centuries: by the end of the 17th century she had become one of the best assassins on the continent; by the end of the 19th century she had spread tales of terror in the western world about a mysterious black woman who had more lives than seven cats. And when the 20th century reached its end, she became one of the snake-named immortal members of the Headhunting Immortals Serpent Squad.

Watcher Research, Western Africa



Water Snakes Abeni Kadewale
Known aliases : Forest Cobra
Notable characteristics : Air of innocence belying a
ferocious intelligence and bloodlust. Teenaged
immortal
Weapon : Custom saber
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dakar, Senegal
Occupation : Assassin, Water Snakes , hunting
down ISIL terrorists
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Mossane Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Nigerian Yoruba
Born : 1836, Nigeria
First death : 1851; Bombing of Lagos by British
troops
First teacher : Mossane
Known associates : Mossane, African Water-
Snakes
First recorded sighting : 1920. Logos, Nigeria,
Student of Mossane.

Watcher Bureau, Western Africa
From : Watcher Bureau, North Africa
To the Tribunal. 02.09.2000

Report on the African Water Snakes

The so-called African Water-Snakes are four immortals of youthful appearance, all recruited by Mossane GasiraKnobe from Afrocentric origins, who specialize in political assassinationandare constantly on the move in the four corners of the African continents. Like the snakes they have named themselves after, those are slippery and very dangerous immortalswho had an habit overr the past century of killing their Watchers. They obviously know about us andare prone to leaving our agents in dark alley, or in hotel rooms with notes pinned to their bodies in the likeof "no more Watchers please!"

Enclosed in this report, find recent pictures of those "youngsters" with their vital stats and ethnic origins.

- Abeni Kadewale : whose name means "we asked for her, and, behold, we got her" hails from the Yoruba people, a culture set in Nigeria and colonized by the British in 1901. A victim of British soldiers, Abeni took brutal revenge on her tormentors after Gasira welcomed the young woman from the land of the dead and taught her of the Game and immortality. She is the oldest of the squad, the wisest and the most violent, mirroring her teacher in that matter. She calls herself "Forest Cobra".



Water Snakes Keturah Lamar
Known aliases : Green Mamba
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Custom saber
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dakar, Senegal
Occupation : Assassin, Water Snakes , hunting
down ISIL terrorists
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Mossane Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Ivorian
Born : 1970, Abidjan Ivory Coast
First death : 1990, Prostitute killed by disgruntled
customer
First teacher : Mossane
Known associates : Mossane, African Water-
Snakes
First recorded sighting : 1990. Abidjea, Ivory
Coast. Student of Mossane

Watcher Bureau, Western Africa
From : Watcher Bureau, North Africa
To the Tribunal. 02.09.2000

Report on the African Water Snakes

The so-called African Water-Snakes are four immortals of youthful appearance, all recruited by Mossane GasiraKnobe from Afrocentric origins, who specialize in political assassinationandare constantly on the move in the four corners of the African continents. Like the snakes they have named themselves after, those are slippery and very dangerous immortalswho had an habit overr the past century of killing their Watchers. They obviously know about us andare prone to leaving our agents in dark alley, or in hotel rooms with notes pinned to their bodies in the likeof "no more Watchers please!"

Enclosed in this report, find recent pictures of those "youngsters" with their vital stats and ethnic origins.

- Keturah Lamar : When Gasira met Keturah twenty years ago, she was living from her body in a vermin-infested bordello. Gasira violently showed the Bordello manager his own pancreas and liver before putting him to the sword and ridding Abidjan from one of its most sinster inhabitants. Then she freed the women living there and took Keturah in. Keturah doesn't care about people, other than the Water-Snakes and their mistress. Gasira gave Keturaha self-confidence and turned her into a skilled assassin. Among the Snakes, Keturah is "Green Mamba".



Water Snakes Sefu Uhura
Known aliases : Night Adder
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Custom saber
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dakar, Senegal
Occupation : Assassin, Water Snakes , hunting
down ISIL terrorists
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Mossane Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Swahili
Born : 1823, Kenyan village on the outskirts of
Nairobi
First death : 1843, Bitten by viper
First teacher : Mossane
Known associates : Mossane, African Water-
Snakes
First recorded sighting : 1843. Nairobi, Kenya
Student of Mossane


Watcher Bureau, Western Africa
From : Watcher Bureau, North Africa
To the Tribunal. 02.09.2000

Report on the African Water Snakes

The so-called African Water-Snakes are four immortals of youthful appearance, all recruited by Mossane GasiraKnobe from Afrocentric origins, who specialize in political assassinationandare constantly on the move in the four corners of the African continents. Like the snakes they have named themselves after, those are slippery and very dangerous immortalswho had an habit overr the past century of killing their Watchers. They obviously know about us andare prone to leaving our agents in dark alley, or in hotel rooms with notes pinned to their bodies in the likeof "no more Watchers please!"

Enclosed in this report, find recent pictures of those "youngsters" with their vital stats and ethnic origins.

- Sefu Uhura : born Bantu in the 1920's, his name means "sword" in Swahili. He chose the name "Night Adder" for himself and is a calmer snake than Gasira's other students. A night adder is the viper that brought immortality to him, in an unfortunate accident as he was visiting a girl from his hometown during the night. When he came back from the dead, he was cast out, only to be adopted by the village's healer, Gasira herself. A sweet child at fifteen, Sefu had to grow up quickly to survive




Idriss Bahel al-Bliss
Known aliases : Sefour al-Qadir, Aziz Ibn
Muhunnad, Bahel al-Kiffa
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Tribal spear
Inconclusive fight against Safiyah Khan, 1338;
Sghair M’Barek, 1452; Abd el-Said, 1991

Status
Most recent base of operations : Mauritania
Occupation : Abolitionnist, fighting slave trade in
Mauritania
Prior occupations : Student of Islam, slave trader
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Mohamed Abdol

Background
Original cultural affilation : Mauritanian, Muslim
Born : 1046; Ghana Empire, present-day
Mauritania
First death : 1076, During conquest of Ghana
Empire by the Almoravids
First teacher : Ekundayo
Known associates : Selim Ubadah
Known past associates : Ben Said al-Magribi,Hamza el-Kahir
Known ennemies : Safiyah Khan, Sghair M’Barek,
First recorded sighting : 1644; Mauritanian Thirty-
Years War, invasion of Yemeni Maqil Arabs;
Encounter with Selim Ubadah

Idriss Bahel al-Bliss got his first slave when he was 7, that was one thousand years ago. Today, he is one of Mauritania's leading abolitionists, trying to free men, women and children from indentured servitude in a country were slavery was abolished only recently, in 2007. Idriss had a change of heart when he saw a family of a teenaged mother and her seven children beign treated like cattle, and this my have been the straw that broke the camel's back as it happened to Kage in 1975 when he saw the pitiful remains of children slaughtered liek cattle by the Khmer Rouges.
Idriss freed all his slaves and has been working hard for the past seven years. His fight got him in prison, got him beaten, got hims threatened. But he won't give up. He wants to give children of Mauritius a future so he can atone for the terrible sins from his past.

Watcher Bureau, Western Africa


Kasanje
Known aliases : Goliwe Chiedebele
Notable characteristics : Amoral war profiteer
Weapon : Custom broadword, rumred to have it
forged by Wayland Smith, master forger
Inconclusive fight against Sghair M’Brek, 1670;
Orisa Kagame, 1767; Quuen Anna Nzanga, 1836

Status
Most recent base of operations : Accra, Ghana
Occupation : Businessman, weapons broker,
selling them to armed groups in Somalia, DMR of
Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan
Prior occupations : Mercenary/marauder,
Imbangala corps; founder, Kasanja Kingdom
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Munachiso Nebechi

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Angolan
Born : Highlands of Angola, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known past associates : Grayson, Callestina, Paul Karros, Colonel Melike,
Eternal Swords of Allah
Known ennemies : Queen Nzanga, Sunda Kastagir
First recorded sighting : 1670. South Angola
Leader of the Imbangala corps, in war against
Kingdom of Kongo, fought Sghair M’Barek

[Apollo1]

Thanks for posting the West African Immortals, my friend. Once again, much appreciated,

Great work fleshing out the chronicle of Mei-li Choe before she became a Sentinel, i really loved her story. And i adored your account of two kills by Irene Antioch while serving as a Sentinel in the Order.

Meanwhile, here's a little taster for the Sacred Order:

Following further research by Special Projects, we can now affirm that Pathfinder Parthenia of Udyana and her Sentinel protector Irene of Antioch were present at the Siege of Constantinople in 717-718 as Parthenia rescued hundreds of ancient scrolls before the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian had 300,000 books burned.

Watcher Research, Order of the Sacred Knowledge

During the razing of Carthage by the Romans, it is now our firm belief that Sacred Order founder and Grand Master of Books, Hapuseneb and his student and protector Keresher (who would become Master of the Black Books) preserved hundreds of valuable tablets pre-dating early Egyptian civilisation during the 17-day fire of 146 BC.

Hapuseneb and Keresher were also present in China in 213 BC during the book burning ordered by the emperor Tsun Shi Hwang-ti. It was during this period that Master of the Books of the East, Moy Chi-ju was mentored by Hapuseneb.

During the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria during the Roman civil war in 48 BC, we can confirm that Keresher and soon-to-be Master of the Books of Anatolia Balshazzar of Kish managed to rescue hundreds of precious scrolls and tablets.

In 133 BC the Library of Pergamon was destroyed when the kingdom fell to the Romans. But we now know that Hapuseneb and Keresher were able to escape with hundreds of precious scrolls days before the legions fell on the city.

Watcher Research, Order of the Sacred Knowledge.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Very nice!

Addendum:

Following further research by Special Projects, we can now affirm that Pathfinder Parthenia of Udyana and her Sentinel protector Irene of Antioch were present at the Siege of Constantinople in 717-718 as Parthenia rescued hundreds of ancient scrolls before the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian had 300,000 books burned. She encountered Lalica in 718, at the Battle of Constantinople during Arab invasion of Byzantine Empire, fresh from having killed Immmortal Antarah ibn Shaddah. Both women were too busy to challenge each other.

Watcher Research, Order of the Sacred Knowledge



And now for somethign different... the following Immortals were deleted from my files, I recreated them from scratch.

Jean-Jacques Beauvallet

Known aliases : Louis Valet, Ferdinand Verdier
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Charles III rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations : Rheims, France
Occupation : Comedian, part of Jean-François
Reignard acting company, occasional headhunter
Prior occupations : Comedian, playwright
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 19 December 1696
Place : Versailles, France
Victor : Carolyn Mortimer, comedian in the
Trebuchet Acting Company
Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of Carolyn
Mortimer

Background
Original cultural affiliation : French
Born : 1551; Bordeaux, France
First death : 1571; Failed playwright, commited
suicide upon poor ratings of last play
First teacher : Marcus Korolus
Known past associates : Marcus Korolus
First recorded sighting : 1573. Paris, France
Found and mentored by Marcus Kortlous

Jean-Jacques Beauvallet became Carolyn Mortimer’s first known kill at a time when a woman carrying a sword was simply unthinkable. Carolyn carried her broadsword with a short blade hidden in her robes and passed it as a prop when she was an actress in Paris’ successful Trebuchet Acting Company. Beauvallet was a failed comedian but a successful player of the Game with six known kills across Western and Southern Europe in the last one hundred years and wasn’t above killing a woman. Carolyn would have been his latest quarry but Sean Burns taught his protégé to be strong and resilient and to be prepared for the worst immortality had to offer. Her friend Rebecca of Mycenae taught her to stand her ground and to face what was to come. Beauvallet was aggressive and strong, while petite Carolyn was quikc and smart. In the end she prevailed, the Quickening setting fire to Reignard’s theater and ruining the premiere of the thespian’s lastest play, Orpheo.

From the Chronicle of Lady Carolyn



Candace Lea

Known aliases : Emily Mortimer, Cynthia Black
Notable characteristics : Homicidal psychopath
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Manchester,
England
Occupation : Nurse at Brennan’s’ Hospital, angel
of death murdering mental patients
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 19 November 1728
Place : Manchester
Victor : Carolyn Mortimer, senior nurse, Brennan’s
Hospital, once founded by Sean Burns
Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of Carolyn
Mortimer

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British
Born : 17th century, Suffolk, England
First death : Attacked by bandits on the road to
London; actually possibly hung for a string of
murders in Suffolk
First teacher : Callestina
Known past associates : Callestina
First recorded sighting : 1728. Manchester,
England. Encounter with Carolyn Mortimer who
offered her a position as nurse at Brennan’s Hospital

Doctor Sean Burns opened his own mental ward in London, not only to house the sick of the mind but also to shelter the occasional insane Immortal who needed a place to hide and stay anonymous. He offered a position as senior nurse to Lady Carolyn who agreed and kept her position with a firm hand and made one mistake : hirign an Immortal nurse named Candace Lea who she wasn’t are was a serial murderer who picked on any patients who had the misfortune of falling between her hands. Carolyn didn’t know that she just saw a kindred spirit in Candace and strick a friendship with her. In the following year, patiens started dying in dubious circumstances wherever Candace was on duty. Suspecting foul play, Lady Carolyn wised up and confronted her friend who admitted to the killings. To her, killing the insane was cleaning up mankind’s household from its vermin and she was doing it for the commong good. Afer all, Immortals didn little else when they took out “evil” Immortals out of the Game. This kind of self-justification didn’t agree with Lady Carolyn who proved how unladylike she could be in the Game when she drew her sword and dispatched Candace Lea, takign responsablmity for the deaths she caused when she hired a woman she should have distrusted in the beginning.

From the Chronicle of Lady Carolyn




Gonzague Campiche

Known aliases : Gerard St. Cyr
Notable characteristics : French patriot
Weapon : French infantry saber
Recorded kills : None recorded

Status
Most recent base of operations : Liverpool,
England
Occupation : Special Agent, Napoleon
secret services, hunting French aristocrats
Prior occupations : Special agent, French police
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 3 November 1806
Place : Liverpool
Victor : Carolyn Mortimer, sentenced to death in
France on Napoleon’s orders
Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of Carolyn
Mortimer

Background
Original cultural affiliation : French
Born : 1730; Paris, France
First death : 1750, Killed during riots triggered by
rumors of police abducting children
First teacher : Raymond Callemin
Known past associates : Raymond Callemin
First recorded sighting : 1750. Paris, France
Found and mentored by Raymond Callemin

In 1805 Lady Carolyn and her husband barely escaped the guillotine thanks to Darius and Seans Burns who got them out of the prison where they awaited certain death on order from Napoleon’s secret services. They lived in London, feeling safe; unfortunately, the world has a manner of showing you safety is an illusion, especially if you are an Immortal. Gonzague Campiche was an Immortal on the payroll of Napoleon’s secret services whose job was to track down and kill French aristocrat suspected of plotting against the Emperor4s life. To him it was obvious John and Carolyn Mortimer were lethal ennemies of the Empire and it was time to sanction those ennemies. He didn’t suspect Carolyn was an Immortal like himself but when he murdered John in cold blood after torturing him for information on suspects, he lured the wrath of a discipel of Sean Burns, Rebecca of Mycenae and Hugh Fitzcairn, three amiable Immortals who could prove to be tigers on the immortal scene.
Lady Carolyn was the one to hunted Gonzague down and she took her time, wanting the hunter to feel like a prey for once in his wretched life. She avenged the death of her husband Immortal-style and took the time to mourn before leaving London for the Americas, joining the French communities which settled there in the United States and in Latin American countries.

From the Chronicle of Lady Carolyn



Beturian Allende

Known aliases : Salvador Gonsalez
Notable characteristics : Womanizing rogue, self-
professed serial monogamist
Weapon : Basket-hilt Iberian rapier
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Chacao, East of
Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation : Plantation manager, courting Carolyn
Mortimer still mourning husband John
Prior occupations : Adventurer, traveller, musician
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 2 May 1809
Place : Caracas
Victor : Carolyn Mortimer, at this time teacher at
Chacao’s School of Music
Watcher : Research, Carolyn Mortimer Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Spanish
Born : 1715; Valencia, Kingdom of Spain
First death : 1746, Venezuelan settler, killed
during slave rebellion in cocoap lantation
First teacher : Cristobal Rojas
Known associates : Carolyn Mortimer
Known past associates : Cristobal Rojas
First recorded sighting : 1746. Caracas,
Venezuela. Found and mentored by Padre Rojas

Where most of 19th century French Immigrants settled in Costa Rica, Argentina and Chile, Carolyn Mortimer whose to avoid the company of her compantriots and settled in Venezuela, reinventing herself as a classica lmusic teacher at Chacao’s school of music where she diverted herself with the company of her students, trying to put away the emory of her husband John, murdered by Immortal Gonzague Campiche. Three years of living for young mortals helped her in her grief but time does heal wounds. She felt happy and free. Then she met another one of her kind, a dahsing rogue who courted her for three months, presenting her with lavish gifts, cosntantly interfering with her life in Chacao. Lady Carolyn wasn’t interesting in another romance but still.. she felt tempted and Rebecca of Mycenae taught her to use any opportunity to forget the heavy burder of Immortality.
Carolyn felt lonely and Beturian Allende was charming, if only a bit to obsessive. When one of her male student who had a crush on her was found beaten within an inch of his life and death threats were sent to another male teacher of the Chacao school Carolyn felt suspicious. It couldn’t be her charming scoundrel, could it ? Investigating the matter, she read the hate letters Arturo Nogueira received and spoke with young Chicao Parrado when he awoke from coma. Indeed, foul play came from her beau and she was forced to confront him. She was never the weak-spirited Immoral layd Beturian hoped her to be and showed the tigress beneeath her delicate features.
Carolyn odered Beturian out of Chacao, but Beturian wasn’t a man to take orders from a woman, and when Betirian tried to force himself on Carolyn, not even a favor from God could have helped the Spaniard agaisnt the strong blade of Sean Burns’ apt pupil.

From the Chronicle of Carolyn Mortimer



Irina Belinskaya

Known aliases : Elina Artemova, Julia Yegorova
Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
Seduced adult Immortals before taking their heads
Weapon : Cossack cavalry saber, once belonged
to Ivan Kristov, killed by Duncan MacLeod

Status
Most recent base of operations : Moscow,
Tsardom of Russia
Occupation : Ballet dancer, Boshoi Theatre
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 5 October 1853 Irina’s Quickening caused
the partial destruction of the Boshoi
Place : Moscow
Victor : Carolyn Mortimer
Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of Carolyn
Mortimer

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Russian
Born : 1740; Valdivostock, Russia
First death : 1754, Stabbed to death by stalker
enamoured with her
First teacher : Duncan MacLeod
Known past associates : Duncan MacLeod
First recorded sighting : 1754. Moscow, Tsardom
of Russia; Found and mentored by Duncan MacLeod

After two decades of adventuring in the Americas, including a hopeless romance with a fellow Immortal, Lady Carolyn came back to her toots in Paris, then travelled to Scandinavia for a dozen of years before settign foor in Moscow, Tsardom of Russia, where she became an admirer of ballet at the Theater of the Bolschoi. There she met a teenaged Immortal girl, a mere slip of an Immortal who practiced ballet and put a sum of work and passion in her fraft that fired up the jealousy of more than one dancer in the company. This was a young woman who san”t afraid of making ennemies and playing the Game.. In her own perverse, seductive way, luring men to her bed before takign their heads after a night of debauchery. How could they suscpted the killer behind those innocent eyes ? Lady Carolyn was an apt psychologist in a time when no one knew the word and she saw the predator behind those eyes.
Irina wasn’t above seducing Immortal women... at least those inclined to bi-sexuality and Lady Carolyn had been initiated by Rebecca and Amanda to sapphic games, which she enjoyed a lot. The Game now, that was something else. She didn’t like mixing both and when Irina finally showed her true face, Carolyn was ready. Because she had been hunting Irina all along on behalf of Duncan MacLeod who couldn’t bring himself to kill a woman he once mentored and loved. Lady Carolyn was born way past the age of chivalry.

From the Chronciel of Lady Carolyn

[Apollo1]

Thanks for the little tweaks to the Siege of Constantinople/Irene of Antioch report. Much better!
And great work on the reworked Chronicles, nice to see Carolyn Mortimer getting some attention! Lol

Meanwhile some updates on a Chronicle and a new ancient Immortal, thanks to the Special Projects team:

The latest field research from our Sacred Order team has allowed us to add information we didn't previously have to an old chronicle and has given us insight on a previously unidentified Immortal in our records whom we can now positively give a name and background to. All the information was acquired from our imbedded agent in the Order's mortal ranks who has access to their extensive archive of personal journals and observations from dozens of Immortals the Order came into contact with over the centuries. See the addendum to today's report.

William Forrester, Supervisor, 19 Jun. 2018
Special Projects, Chronicle of the Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Addendum:

Inyotef

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Egyptian
Born: 2947 BC, First Dynasty Egypt
First death: 2910 BC; At the end of the reign
of Qa' a, last king of the First Dynasty, most
likely during the dynastic war that followed
First teacher: Akunosh, at this time High Priest
of Ptah for Qa' a.

Akunosh

Known aliases: Unknown
Notable characteristics: Unrecorded
Weapon: Unrecorded

Status
Most recent base of operations: Thebes,
Nineteenth Dynasty Egypt
Occupation: Captain of the Guard for Ramesses I
Prior occupations: Unrecorded
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 1292 BC
Place: Thebes
Victor: Memnet-Ra
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Amratian
Born: c 4100 BC, El-Amra, Amratian culture,
Upper Egypt
First death: Unrecorded
First teacher: Unrecorded
Known associates: Unrecorded
Known past associates: Inyotef

First recorded sighting: 1292 BC. Thebes.
In battle with Memnet-Ra, who was at this time High
Priest of Seth for Ramesses I

According to the records of the Sacred Order, Akunosh is the earliest Egyptian Immortal in the Chronicles, although his birth pre-dates the ancient Egyptian kingdom itself. Not much else is known about this ancient Immortal, other than his approximate date of birth, that he was the teacher of Inyotef, and that he was the previously unidentified Egyptian Immortal slain by Memnet-Ra in 1292 BC. That he was Inyotef's teacher was probably no coincidence.

From the Chronicle of the Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Good work. An Immortal even older than Oromedon of Urkesh, whoa.
Have you done stats for the members of the Sacred Order yet ? According to the names you gave me, I have a pretty good idea of where and when they were active in pre-Christ days. (WINK!)

[Apollo1]

I have a chronicle for the Grand Master of Books all ready to post. As for the others, you're more than welcome to give it a shot, my friend!

Keresher, Hapuseneb's oldest student is Egyptian, he is Master of the Black Books and his Sacred Name is Zenodotus.

Moy Chi-ju is Master of the Books of the East (China, Japan & Southeast Asia) and his Sacred Name is Callimachus.

Balshazzar of Kish is Babylonian, he is Master of the Books of Anatolia (inc the Middle East & Central Asia) and his Sacred Name is Eratosthenes.

Arizus of Asaak is Parthian, he is Master of the Books of Egypt (and all of Africa) and his Sacred Name is Aristophanes.

I'm still working on the Master of the Books of Rome and the Master of the Books of the Americas.

Here are the stats for the Grand Master:

Hapuseneb

Known aliases: Demetrius (Sacred Name)
Notable characteristics: Extensive historical
knowledge of mortals and Immortals; never
leaves Holy Ground
Weapon: Never carries one

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge, island of Aegina, Saronic
Islands of Greece
Occupation: Grand Master of the Books, leader
and founder of the Sacred Order
Prior occupations: High Keeper of the Tablets,
Sacred Order, scholar and philosopher
Roster of Immortals Status: Inactive
Date:
Place:
Victor:
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Egyptian
Born: 1996 BC, Eleventh Dynasty Egypt
First death: 1962 BC, during assassination of
Amenemhat I by his own guards, court scholar
murdered with his king.
First teacher: Inyotef, at this time called Meketre,
High Steward to Amenemhat I
Known associates: Masters of the Sacred Order,
Pathfinders and Sentinels of the Sacred Order, The
Apostate
Known past associates: Inyotef

First recorded sighting: 1962 BC, Memphis, Egypt.
Escaping from the Royal Palace with Inyotef. Evaded
their pursuers along the banks of the Nile.

Note: Disappeared from Watcher records during an expedition to the land of Punt in 1504 BC during the reign of Thutmose I, Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt.

Write-up to follow....

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Okay Apollo, here is what I found. I hope you like those four Immortals because I like them very much ! LOL


Order of Knowledge Balshazzar of Kish
Known aliases : Eratosthenes (Sacred Name)
Notable characteristics: Extensive historical
knowledge of mortals and Immortals
Warrior turned man of peace
Weapon: Never carries one
Missing since 616 BC

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge, island of Aegina, Greece
Occupation : Master of the Books of Anatolia
(Middle East & Central Asia) , Sacred Order
Prior occupations : Warrior, librarian
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred
Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Babylonian
Born : 10th century BC; Kish, Greater Iran,
Babylonian Kingdom
First death : During war against Assyrian Empire
First teacher : Devius, Zodiac Brotherhood
Known associates : Order of Sacred Knowledge
Known past associates : Devius
Known past ennemies : Cleophon of Athens
First recorded sighting : 616 BC. Assyrian Empire
Took the head of a librarian during civil war,
suffered a Light Quickening, encounter with
Hapuseneb who recruited him in the Sacred Order

It speaks volumes of Hapuseneb, an Immortal able to recruit a broken warrior like Belshazzar so destroyed by an aleged Light Quickening that he couldn't hold his own anymore, able to convince him to dedicate his life to preserving ancient knowledge and to forever renounce the arts of war, to forever forsake the Game. Belshazzar was a warlord and plunderer for three hundred of years and was a terror walking on two legs who had but contempt for books until he killed he wise and ancient librarian whose power was so great that it took a definite hold on Belshazzar's psyche.
He has been a changed man for 2.600 years and has dedicated his life to being mankind's Watcher, living in shadows in the company of the Immortals who shaped the Order of the Sacred Knowledge.
He is the Persian Darius, doomed to never be known among Immortals as the Gothic Darius, living in anonimity and having accepted it as an act of love to his teacher and to the order he founded.

Watcher Research, Order of the Sacred Knowledge.




Order of Knowledge Keresher
Known aliases : Zenodotus (Sacred Name)
Notable characteristics: Extensive historical
knowledge of mortals and Immortals
Weapon: Never carries one
Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge, island of Aegina, Greece
Occupation : Master of the Black Books, Sacred
Order
Prior occupations : Chief archivist, Library of
Alexandria; Keeper of the Black Tablets, Sacred Order
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred
Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Egyptian
Born : 1786 BC; Nile Delta, Thirteenth Dynasty of
Egypt
First death : 1750 BC; During Hyksos occupation
of Northern Egypt, tried to prevent occult lore from
falling into Hyksos hands
First teacher : Hapuseneb
Known associates : Order of Sacred Knowledge
Known past associates : Tak-Ne of Alexandria
First recorded sighting : 1750 BC Northern Nile,
Egypt Disciple of Hapuseneb

During the razing of Carthage by the Romans, it is now our firm belief that Sacred Order founder and Grand Master of Books, Hapuseneb and his student and protector Keresher (who would become Master of the Black Books) preserved hundreds of valuable tablets pre-dating early Egyptian civilisation during the 17-day fire of 146 BC.
Hapuseneb and Keresher were also present in China in 213 BC during the book burning ordered by the emperor Tsun Shi Hwang-ti. It was during this period that Master of the Books of the East, Moy Chi-ju, already a long-lived Immortal, was mentored by Hapuseneb.
During the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria during the Roman civil war in 48 BC, we can confirm that Keresher and soon-to-be Master of the Books of Anatolia Balshazzar of Kish managed to rescue hundreds of precious scrolls and tablets with no small help of Sunda Kastagir, at this time lording over the Great Librart.
In 133 BC the Library of Pergamon was destroyed when the kingdom fell to the Romans. But we now know that Hapuseneb and Keresher were able to escape with hundreds of precious scrolls days before the legions fell on the city.

Watcher Research, Order of the Sacred Knowledge.



Order of Knowledge Moy Chi-ju
Known aliases : Calimachus (Sacred Name)
Cross-identified as Ang Chwun-hwa; lived under
male identities
Notable characteristics: Extensive historical
knowledge of mortals and Immortals
Weapon: Never carries one
Missing since 106 BC, Han Dynasty

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge, island of Aegina, Greece
Occupation : Master of the Books of the East
(China, Japan & Korea), Sacred Order
Prior occupations : Zhou Emperor concubine,
Scholar, studyed the words of Shennon the
Herbalist, aka the Emperor of the Five Grains
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred
Knowledge

Background
Born : 1046 BC; Zhou Dynasty, China
First death : 1030 BC; Emperor’s concubine giving
birth to Emperor’s son, according to legend
First teacher : Methos
Known associates : Order of Sacred Knowledge
Known past associates :Xanthia of Melitus, Jin Ke
First recorded sighting : 978 BC. Yangtze River,
China. Midwife and healer, encounter with Xanthia
of Melitus, found her to be an herbal genius

Of course the tall tale of a pre-immortal woman dying in childbirth is apocryphal but this story is the one of Ang Chwun-hwa who was the concubine of Emperor Zhou in 1030 BC and had promised him an heir. She faked her pregnancy and presented him with a foundling she and I (as her physician) passed as legitimate heir. Ang had been poisoned by a jealous rival and was dying from slow poisoning, so we cooked a tale in which she died after giving birth to her child and once she was “buried” (an empty coffin) we both exited China for India where we lived for a few years. She decided she xould help women go through labor so she would never see the horror of bothced childbirths and dedicated her immortality preparign herbal remedies for pregnant women, wether to ease the pains of pregnancy and childbirth or to terminate one. Ang’s teachings have reached medieval times when herbalist Grace Chandel discovered her teachings in a monastery of eastern China; the manuscript was hidden in an ancient monastery.
In 106 BC she became acqauinted to Immortal Jin Ke who was ready to take her head, but laid his sword down when this amazing woman helped Jin’s mortal wife through labor and saved the woman’s life. Jin Ke was so elated with the birth of his two sons that he spared Ang’s life.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017

[Gardner]

And I do hope you find those two ladies to your taste, my good sir...


Order of Knowledge Lucretia Garibaldi
Known aliases : Lucretia of Rome, Livia Aquilonia,
Guerina of Benevento, Nezetta of San Marino
Apollonius (Sacred Order)
Weapon : XV° century Italian rapier
Inconclusive fiight vs Veranius Basso, 166 BC;
Friario of Ravenna, 1240; Jean-François de
Margelasse, 1797. Missing since 1797

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge, island of Aegina, Greece
Occupation : Master of the Books of Rome (inc all
of Europe), Sacred Order
Prior occupations : Charity works, Venetian Jewish
ghetto; Catholic nun, convent of San Marino
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred
Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Roman
Born : 529 BC, Rome
First death : 509 BC, Suicide
First teacher : Cloelia of Rome, aka Cassandra
Known associates : Cassandra, Xanthia of Melitus
Order of the Sacred Knowledge
Known past associates : *SeeAddendum*
First recorded sighting : 1000 Rome; dinner
with Rebecca, Achilles of Troy and Ramirez

According to numerous historians, as well as Roman notables such as Cicero, the spark which ignited the Republican Revolution of Rome in 509 BC was the indignation incited when Sextus Tarquin, the son of the reigning Etruscan monarch Tarquinius Superbus, raped the virtuous Lucretia, who Romans idolized as the perfect wife and ideal woman. Two thousand years after she was raped by by Sextus Tarquin and comitted suicide, Lucretia of Rome at last found a modicum of hapiness in her life, a glimmer of hope for her future. Today, she married Baron Luciano Garibaldi, one of the richest, most generous men in Italy who certainly will give a world of love to Lucretia. Lucretia reciprocates by being a faithful spouse to Luciano and a wonderful mother to the Baron's children. During two thousand years, Lucretia lived only by her teacher's motto ("all men are predators to women") and by the shame of her rape, spending her immortality on holy grounds, either as churches'handmaiden or convent nun.

Watcher Research, Southern Europe

Update

The Immortal women Nezetta of San Marino and Guerina of Benevento have been conclusively cross-identified as past identities of immortal Lucretia Garibladi (B: 529 BC). In 1503 Lucretia was living as a catholic nun in the convent of San Marino during the city’s occupation by Cesare Borgia where she evaded the attention of Pascal Chaussende, always on the lookout for an Immortal woman to use as pawn in the Game, in 1797 she lived as a Jewish woman married to a rabbi of the Venetian Jewish ghetto and went missing when the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the city, belived killed by French soldier De Margelasse.
Hot-blooded Lucretia once had a tumultuous afffair with Hugh Fitzcairn in 1503 in Milan and with Sunda Kastagir twenty years later in Venice when the Ethiopian was known as "the Moor of Venice".

Watcher Research, Southern Europe

Addendum
Known past associates : Achilles of Troy, Tak Ne, Enrico Belzoni, Remigio da Varagine, Immaculata
Della Mea, Umberto Drago, Verus Bassus, Daena, Madelena Padovano, Giuliana Argento, Messalina
of Rome, Paul, Hugh Fitzcairn, Sunda Kastagir, Etheria of Spoletto



Order of Knowledge Xmucane
Known aliases : Aristarchus (Sacred Order)
Notable characteristics : The oldest known
Immortal of Mesoamerica
Weapon : Undetermined
Missing since 1650

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge, island of Aegina, Greece
Occupation : Master of the Books of the Americas
(North, Central & South America), Sacred Order
Prior occupation : Preparing cacao beverages,
domesticated cacao after it was imported from
Amazon basin
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1650 Posing as Mayan village woman
Place : Valley of Mexico
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Mesoamerican Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Amerindian
Mokaya, pre-Olmec culture
Born : 19th Century BC, present Chiapas, Mexico
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Order of Sacred Knowledge
Known past associates : Yarhuata Pachaco
First recorded sighting : 1590. Valley of Mexico.
Encounter with Yarhuata Pachaco, entrusted him
with her favorite cacao recipes

Recently I was asked by the Watcher community in the department of research to be less sarcastic and more humble in my reports. Hence this : I humbly think of Xmucane each time I savor a cup of hot cocoa because this is the woman to whom we owe this modest pleasure since she started cultivating cocal in the 19th century before common era, a woman of major importance in the history of mankind who dwarfs modern preparations of cocoa because of the love and passion she put in it. Where some of you guy call me 'granddad' behind my back, I can tell you this was a 'granma' who could single-handedly beat every Immortal coming after her and have time for a cup of hot chocolate while she was processing the Quickening she took. And believe me, there is more than one Immortal who regretted not havign accepted a cup of her brew instead of foolishly challenging her.

Fomr the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



A Quechua actress playing Xmucane, an Italian actress playing Lucretia.

[Gardner]

THE TALE OF THE EIGHT DEVILS


In ancient China there existed Eight Devils. Eight Immortals bearing the names of the ghosts and demons of Chinese folklore living as assassins, hiring themselves to whom could pay best. And in their spare time they murdered, vandalized, burnt their way across mainland China, spreading tales of terror which survive as folktales to present times.

Meng Po, an unobtrusive old lady hiding a rotten soul beneath the manner of a sweet grandmother. Master hebalist who hired herself as cook in households and poisoned entire families. She was the Eight Devils ringleader and gathered them all under her firm rule.
Ba Jiaogui, malevolent ghost who staged murders as rabid dogs attacks, suicides, spontaneous combustions, wreaking havoc everywhere she went. Leged has it that she was molested by a cousin and killed herself in dishonor, her ghost doomed to walk the Earth forever.
Bai Gujing, a child Immortal, the innocent face of a little girl luring lone travellers to certain doom, appearing as a living squeletton (likely dressed in black with painted bones all over). She was as rabid as a dog, as ferocious as a gutter rat and as mean spirited and wicked as a demon from the deepest pits of Hell.
Daji the Fox-lady, the succubus who seduced any men and could turn a monk into a rabid sex-crazed lunatic. Hundreds of men fell to her seductive charms and were felled by her poisoned cosmetics; Immortal men shared the same kind of fate, falling asleep beside her, never to wake up.
E Gui, the hungry ghost, an obese and grotesque man known for his greed and gluttonnery who was the best wrestler of China, having mastered his sport for hundreds of years. Invicible, merciless, fearsome and known as an impotent man who sought favors from Daji but never obtained them because he truly disgusted her.
Jiangshi the vampire, the other child Immortal of the group, working in pair with Bai Gujing, two heartless children luring men and women with sad eyes and pleas for help. Good at running when they met Immortals who saw beyond their looks.
Pipa Jing, a pipe-smoking woman who put poisoned tobacco in her pipe; her quarries were dead before they even were aware they had been poisoned. Meng Po is the Immortal who recruited her and taught her to poisoned tobacco as means to commit murders.
Nü Gui, the hermaphrodite, once a carnivale freak who decided he should have his fun too and started murdering people who wanted to do more than pick a look at him (or her). If people want a piece of him, he once stated, they'd better be prepared to pay for the privilege. Murdered his quarries in creative, gruesome ways.

Who else than the Eight Immortals of Chinese folklore could put an end to their rampage ? The Eight Immortals (all benevolent, with the exeption of the Immortal Maiden) had been antagonists of the Devils for centuries and when the Devils started impersonating them, damaging their reputation on the Immortal scenery, the group led by Houng-ho decided to take action and gathered at the court of Emperro Ming in 1368, posing as his hireligns and bodyguard, waiting for the Eight Devils who they heard plotted against the Emperor's life. They didn't wait for long and soon a battle royale occured between the Eight Immortals and the Eight Devils. The Immortals were experienced in sword-fighting, kung-fu, acrobatics while the Eight Devils cheated in the Game and weren't as competent fighters as their ennemies.
In the end, the Eight Devils were dead and when they were buried in a mass grave, legend as it that the land around the grave grew sterile and no men, no animal dared walk it.

From the Chronicles of the Eight Immortals
Watcher Research, China




The Eight Devils Ba Jiaogui
Known aliases : Banana Tree Ghost
Notable characteristics : Posing as a malevolent
ghost
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, staging
murders as suicides by hanging
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Houng-ho, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Hung herself after having been raped
by her male cousin
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 755-763. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Bai Gujing
Known aliases : The White Bones Demon
Notable characteristics : Immortal Child
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils group
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Chao Jingxiu, Eight Immortals, bodyguard
of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 755-763. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Daji the Fox-lady
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Intense sexual charisma
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin posing as fox divinity gifted
with regenerative abilities, Eight Devils group
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Immortal Maiden, Eight Immortals,
bodyguard of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of
the Ming Dynasty
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 755-763. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils E Gui, the hungry ghost
Known aliases : The Voracious E Gui
Notable characteristics : ¨Perpetually hungry and
glutonous, gargantuan physique
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, professional
wrestler killing quarries in chokehold
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Lu Dongbin, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan



The Eight Devils Meng Po
Known aliases : The Lady of Forgetfulness,
Old Lady Meng; Gui Po, the Old Witch
Notable characteristics : Elderly Immortal
Weapon : Undetermined
Inconclusive fight agaisnt Jin Ke, 265

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin herbalist preparing
poisoned herbal brews; leader, Eight Devils
Prior occupations : Witch
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Zhou Tong, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Jiangshi the vampire
Known aliases : Pale Demon Child (translated)
Notable characteristics : Posing as vampire, taste
for human flesh and fresh blood; Immortal child
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, drinking the
blood from hsi victims
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Iron Stick Li, Eight Immortals, bodyguard
of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Pipa Jing
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Pipe-smoker
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, smoking a
jade pipa emitting an intoxicating cloud of smoke
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Hsien-Tsiang, Eight Immortals, bodyguard
of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan




The Eight Devils Nü Gui
Known aliases : Nan Gui
Notable characteristics : Posing as ghost;
transgender Immortal
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, seduces his
or her quarries before murdering them
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Shangai
Victor : Lan Caihe, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan

[Apollo1]

Well done, my friend! Great work with the Sacred Order Masters, just as i was thinking they were. And i really love the pictures you chose; a great line-up there, looking as i pictured them in my head.
Also, really enjoyed your hint as to the past actions of The Apostate protecting the Order from those trying to uncover its secrets.

Speaking of him...

The Apostate

What can be said about this Immortal? Once an avid player of the Game, who skirted the grey areas of the Immortal community, his many identities hinting at his talent for the hunt and his skill with the sword. The former Kotys the Hunter at some point in the past, most likely in the pre-Christ era, crossed paths with Hapuseneb, the Immortal who would go on to found the world's most secretive cadre of Immortals to ever exist, an Order with access to the most hidden secrets of the mortal and Immortal world. What was it that drove the friendship between the bookish, scholarly Hapuseneb, who discarded his sword centuries ago, and the fierce warrior and player of the Game, Kotys? The same question must be asked of his Immortal disciples, an eclectic mix if ever there was one. But whatever it is, Kotys dropped out of sight in the 1st Century AD and was never heard from again until we discovered the existence of the Order and Kotys at its heart, now calling himself The Apostate and fiercely loyal to the Immortals within its ranks. A fierce and skilled warrior who kills without mercy in its name, but takes no joy in the killing. It is just a means to an end. Anybody who threatens its existence is hunted down and eliminated. How many Immortals has he killed in its name? The next few years should reveal some interesting secrets. An Immortal who kills not for the Game but for friendship. For family. And that is the most dangerous and formidable Immortal of all.

Special Projects, Chronicle of the Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Cheers
Apollo1

[dubiousbystander]

Oooh. The Apostate background is interesting!

Gardner, you said Jin Ke's wife had children. Were they biologically his? How did she survive, if so?

[Gardner]

All adopted, Dubiousbystander. A mortal woman cannot survive giving birth to pre-immortal children: she wither and dies in days. Explaining the matter of all Immortals being foundlings : their mothers died wihin hours or days of their births. Jin Ke loved his wife, he didn't want her to die carrying his children.

[Gardner]

Apollo, did you like the Eight Devils ?
Did you think of something for the Order's master archivist and the Master of the Scriptorium ?

Cheers !

[Apollo1]

Yeah, i loved the Eight Devils, particularly the gorgeous artwork of the pictures. As an artist myself, i suppose i would appreciate them! Lol

Still working on the Chief Archivist and the Overseer of the Scriptorium (unless you have any ideas!!), and i'll be posting the write-up for Hapuseneb over the weekend...

Good job with the Immortal Hooligan btw...lol

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Donald Hoyt was from my own sense of humor. Trash in need to be taken out of the Game. No ideas for the Chief Archivist and Master of Scriptorium, I am waiting for your stories lol Do you have future stories I mind for the Sacred Order ?

[Apollo1]

Well, I've got some vague ideas, but i need to flesh them out a bit first. I will say that James Horton and the Hunters were not the first renegade Watchers. In fact, Watcher archives record that around the time of the Roman civil war and the scouring of the Library of Alexandria, a splinter group of Watchers attempted to stop the Sacred Order from acquiring the ancient manuscripts. They believed the secrets should be for mortal man and that Immortals had no right to keep the books from them. There were 23 Watchers the Council recorded as having betrayed their vows and joined the splinter group. 7 of them were killed by the early Sentinels in the next decade, 7 others were hunted down by the Watchers and executed. The other 9 went underground. All knowledge of the activities of the unidentified Immortals in Alexandria was expunged and the names of the fugitive Watchers stricken from the records.

But those 9 renegade Watchers never gave up their opposition to the Sacred Order. They formed a secret society of their own (haven't come up with a good name yet) and its mission was taken up by the families of those Watchers, handed down from generation to generation. Those nine families are the leadership of the group, which employs mercenaries as foot soldiers and ex-Intelligence agents as its spies. This is why the Sentinels carry guns in their arsenal, to protect the Pathfinders from these ex-Watchers.

A secret war has been raging for centuries between the Order and the rival group of mortals, below the radar of the Immortal community and the Watchers Council.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Apollo1]

Hmm, you may have a point, my friend, about a rival group of Immortals taken out centuries ago who opposed the Order. It may also involve several missing Immortals on the roster, since such a conflict would be a secret one, out of sight of the Watchers and the Immortal community at large. It could also be where The Apostate forged his reputation as a remorseless killer, hunting down the Order's enemies and dispatching them.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Good point on the Apostate wiping out the evil coutnerparts to the Sacred Order, forging his reputation.
The incident in the Forbidden City happens in 2013 ..

People Protectorate Huang Xianshi
People Protectorate Maya Lin
People Protectorate Shi Lang
People Protectorate Thaksin Shinawathra

Date of death : 2013

Cheers!

[Gardner]

Madog Ap Owain

Known aliases : Vassily Zaroff, Phillip Madoc, Charles Herne
Notable characteristics : Hallmarks of ancient
origins; wears an eyepatch over left eye, wound
suffered during fight against Cassius Polonius

So much for the theory that Charles Herne was a past identity of Koty the Hunter as those are two different men who still have a lot of things in common : merciless players of the Game who are decent people at the same time, moral to mortals a,d play the Game only when forced to. Kotys does it driven by his duty to protect the Order of Knowledge while Charles Herne, who once called himself Emil Zaroff, hunted Immortals because he was paid to do so by the Immortals of Mother Russia in Afghanistan and in USSR-controlled countries, and later by the Combined Immortals of America before he discovered their true nature as corrupted champions of the American people. Disgusted as much by the CIA as he was by the BMR, Herne renounced head-hunting and went for a healthier way of using his Immortal gift by gathering strong-willed women of South Africa to protect the truly endangered species of the world : namely the wildlife. The Canadian wilderness, the Austrian outback, and now the Limpopo region of South Africa. To him, the Gathering can wait and the Immortal ciommunity can go to hell.

Watcher Research
Order of Sacred Knowledge Chronicles

[Apollo1]

Great work fleshing out the activities of the Apostate, my friend. Lots of interesting tales to be told. And i love all the pictures. You can have all the artistic license you want! Lol

UPDATE:

Hapuseneb

Who would have believed that an Immortal who barely appeared in our records; a bookish type, a scholar, who avoided the Game, would be the second oldest Immortal still alive. Second only to the legendary Methos. Who would have believed Hapuseneb would become the founder and leader of the most secretive and, probably, most powerful gathering of Immortals today. He has surrounded himself with like-minded Immortals who share his dream of gathering and protecting the greatest secrets of the world. Secrets which would bring down nations and likely threaten the pillars of organised religion. The Order has in its possession more knowledge than can be conceived of and riches beyond imagining. The treasure hoarded by the Templars was never in their possession when the knights were brought down. The Sacred Order had acquired it years before. They have safe houses scattered around the globe, hidden bunkers, and a group of fiercely loyal warrior Immortals in the form of the Pathfinders and their unofficial leader, the Apostate, an ancient Immortal who couldn't be more different to Hapuseneb and yet is his fiercest ally and most loyal friend. What could have happened to garner such loyalty from Kotys the Hunter to Hapuseneb? Whatever it is, Hapuseneb nonetheless commands an organisation that for centuries remained in the shadows, and it's only now that we are truly appreciating the scope and power of the Sacred Order and its Immortals.

From the Chronicle of the Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Good write-up for that ancient Egyptian! Though we find ourselves with a lot of still breathing ancient Immortals now ! lol
Speaking of which...

Update :

Elise Yeoh, huntress of ancient Immortals.
Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese Australian
Born : 1840; Burrangong, New South Wales
First death : 1860-61, Lambing Flat Riots, killed by
white men during violent anti-Chinese protests
First teacher : Lucius Oranius Capito
Known past associates : Swena Baatz & Lootje
De Groot, Immortal Maiden
First recorded sighting : 1864Brisbane, colony
of Queensland. . Disciple of Lucius Capito,
witnessed him killing Quintus Orisilla Cita

Found out to be a former disciple of Lucius Oranius Capito, rather than Swenja Baatz and Lootje De Groot. It fits the huntress better.


Koschei the Deathless

Known aliases : Grigori Rasputin, the Mad Monk
Notable characteristics : Boots of superhuman
strenght from exlixir; great fornicator and master
alchemist
Weapon : One-handed broadsword
Recorded kills : Dimitri Bharkov, BMR

Status
Most recent base of operations : Nuremberg,
Germany
Occupation : Alchemist, trying to duplicate the
power of the Methuselah’s Stone; revenge-plotter
Prior occupations : Wizard and alchemist, at court
of Tzar Nicholas II of Russia; warlock
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Research, Western Europe

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Unrecorded
Born : Unrecorded
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known past associates : Zoryn Morozov, Baba
Yaga
Known ennemies : The Bogatyris, BMR
First recorded sighting : 860. Constantinople,
Byzantine Empire. Seen with Lazarus durign Rus’
attack on Constantinople

Grigori Rasputin, the "Mad Monk" who was chief adviser to the last Tsar of Russia, was assassinated by the Immortals of Mother Russia in December 1916. Because of his devil-derived magic powers (or superhuman strength, or protective insanity, or immunity to poisons) he refused to die, despite being fed a gigantic dose of cyanide, being shot at point-blank range in the back (or chest), further shot in the head and shoulders, and beaten seemingly to death by several men. He was tied up and thrown into a frozen river, in which he finally drowned - or else escaped from, subsequently freezing to death on the bank. This version persists in history books today, albeit usually stripped of its mystical aspects.
Modern writers, using newly available Bolshevik and Soviet-era official documents, claim that the post-mortem found no trace of poison, and that Rasputin died simply of gunshot wounds. He was no harder to kill than any other mortal, and stories of him repeatedly rising from the dead that night originate solely with his killers-who were merely trying to turn a squalid murder into an act of demon-slaying heroism.
The Watchers know the truth, since Rasputin was identified as an Immortal during two separate encounters with immortals : Vlad Dobrinski at Rovanova court in 1912 and with Boris Ulov in 1917 near Petrograd. Since his encounter with Boris Ulov, Rasputin has been living in Antwerp as an alchemist, staying on holy grounds and keeping as far away from the Game as possible.

Watcher Research, Eastern Europe


Kyala

Dubbed ‘Deathmask’, little Flower of Carnage aka Kyala was a brillant and crafty assassin who murdered her way across the armies of Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war and also killed Russian officers and soldiers, spreading tales of terror of an unkillable ghost who wreaked havoc wherever she went. Her motives for killing aren’t known to us but we suspect her to simply be a psychopathic immortal manipulated by Matsuhiro Kanagawa, using her thrillseeking personality to create chaos in this beginnig of the 20th century. Kyala disappeared in 1905, but for four hundred years she was the nemesis of the ennemies of Japan until her re-appearance in the 1960’s when she stastrted playign the Game in earnest. Her latest kill was the frenzied Keiko Watanabe, a once heroine turned killer while under the influence of a Dark Quickening. It seems Kyala’s madness negated the erffets fo the DQ and she remains the same Immortal as before : a remorseless killer.

Watcher Research, Japan


Keiko Watanabe

Most recent base of operations : Tokyo, Japan
Occupation : Rock/folk singer, troubeshooter
Prior occupations : Kickboxing, mah-jong player,
bodyguard, chaperone, ronin, onna-bugeisha
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 July 2018
Place : Tokyo
Victor : Kyala
Watcher : Taki Yukimura


Ijiro Tomonaga

Most recent base of operations : Tokyo, Kanto
Occupation : Martial arts instructor, Hama Dojo
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 3 June 2004
Place : Tokyo
Victor : Kyala
Watcher : Hiro Sakaki


Artur Drakov

Known aliases : Artur Dracnovsky, Arturo Diaz,
Arthru Drake, Zoryn Boujinski
Notable characteristics :
Immortality triggered past his prime
Weapon : Flamerge rapier
Recorded kills : Llona Zhuganova

Status
Most recent base of operations : Athens, Greece
Occupation : Kingmaker, Greek Colonels crisis
Prior occupations : Kingmaker; Director, Soviet
Intelligence, hunting ‘traitors’ to Stalinism and
Communism
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 13 June 1974
Place : Athens
Victor : Deoneces of Sparta
Watcher : Sava Vukovich

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Belarus
Born : 1702, Minsk Bielorussia
First death : 1749, Executed for robbing a church
First teacher : Anatoly Kazansky
Known past associates : Anatoly Kazansky
Vladimir Rankov, Grayson, Stenka Bulavin,
Mark Kraniqi, Fernando Chamarro Alfaro
First recorded sighting : 1749 Petrograd; student
of Kazansky

The Greek Military Junta (1967 - 1974) was a misguided attempt from Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta to bring democracry to their homeland and prevent it from falling in the clutches of the Communisits. Cleophon of Athens advised against if, feeling that the best ideas spawn disasters. Deoneces didn't listen and would bear the responsabilities of his actions for the rest of his life.

On 21 April 1967, just weeks before scheduled elections, a group of right-wing army officers led by Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos and Colonels George Papadopoulos and Nikolaos Makarezos, gathered by Deoneces and Kyra, seized power in a coup d'etat. The colonels were able to seize power quickly by using elements of surprise and confusion. Pattakos was the commander of the Armour Training Centre and a disciple of Deoneces.
The colonels preferred to call the coup a "revolution to save the nation". Their official justification was that a "communist conspiracy" had infiltrated Greece's bureaucracy, academia, press, and military, to such an extent that drastic action was needed to protect the country from communist takeover. Thus, the defining characteristic of the Junta was its staunch anti-communism. The immediate consequences of the coup were establishment of military courts, suppression of civil liberties and dissolution of political parties. Everything Deoneces and Kyra hated. It is the first time that Deoneces and Kyra actually separated, in dispute over how to handle the whole matter, now that's it was going sour before their eyes.

Greece was internationally accused of violating human rights, with 6,188 suspected communists and political opponents imprisoned or exiled to remote Greek islands. Among them, Artur Drakov, master manipulator whom Deoneces felt he was the man responsible for manipulating the men he had been mentoring.
Eventually, the Junta collapsed and democracy was restored. Shaken, Deoneces retired from mortal affairs and didn't speak with the angry Kyrauntil they reconciled during their hut for the Eternal Swords of Allah in 1990.

From the Chronicle of Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta

[Apollo1]

Some really great updates, my friend. Interesting stories and backgrounds on a lot of complex Immortals. I also enjoy how you are incorporating the activities of the Apostate into the past history of the Immortals now we know the background to the Sacred Order and his role in its protection.

Re: the still breathing spate of ancient Immortals. Yes, there are a lot more now, although i would argue those who are members of the Order don't count since they never leave the sanctuary of the Temple and play no part in the Game. The Pathfinders and Sentinels out in the world avoid contact with others of their kind where possible, only defending themselves as necessary. And the Apostate only acts to protect the Order and never announces his presence, except to those he sanctions on behalf of the Order.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Well , ancient Immortals, i.e born before Chris era or In the first centuries following the birth of Christ aren't that numerous, so I guess the Sacred Order Immortals ' continued existence isn't much of a stretch. Look at Darius : 2.000 years living on Earth before Horton got to him, but he was constantly on the move, mentoring Immortals from the four corners of the world. The Sacred Order must have had headquarters everywhere along the centuries, its latest one in Greece.

As for the final days of the Gathering... the Sentinels will die protecting the Pathfinders, the surviving Pathfinders will be killed or find safe haven on Holy Grounds before being lured out of holy grounds to their final deaths. The Apostate will die in combat, protecting the Sacred Order. As for the Order itself, they won't resist the final calling very long and will be forced to face what's to come. IMO. But that's not for today : around 2035... or sooner.

G.

[Gardner]

I had way too many Immortals born in the 20th century who were on the active or inactive rosters, so I made a few adjustements and also brought the Abigail Crane story to an end (wink!).

Cheers !
Gardner

Abigail Crane
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 12 May 2008
Place: Washington DC
Victor: Allegra Chambers, SIS
Watcher: Cindy Williams, FBI

Finally Allegra Chambers didn't take long before taking out Abigail Crane, in a search and kill party she headed with Rhiannon
Teague who hads the same exact background as Abigail : both women served as SOE agents durign WWII and were first
killed durign those terrible years. Aigail was like a sister to Rhiannon but soon became her dark reflection in the mirror,
terrorozing her for decades. It was to exorcize this particular demon that Rhiannon volunteered for the mission, a mission
which met both women's expectations : Allegra got her revenge and Rhianon finally laid old nightmares to sleep.

Cindy Williams, FBI, 12 May 2008
Chronicle of Abigail Crane, aka The Sin Eater VIII


Samuel Ferguson
Background
Original cultural affiliation : Australian
Born : 1838, Perth Australia
First death : 1872, Trampled by horses
First teacher : Martin Hyde
Known past associates : Martin Hyde,
Andre Korda
Known ennemies : Dorsey Comegna
First recorded sighting : 1872, Perth. Found and
mentored by Hyde, at this time hunting Aborigene
immortals and kangaroos

Daffyd Huws
Background
Original cultural affiliation : Welsh
Born : 1837; Carnathen, Wales
First death : 1869, Taken in quicksands while
trekking in the forest
First teacher : N.A
Known associates : Black Friar mental patients
First recorded sighting : 1899, outskirts of
Carnathen. Mentored by Rhiannon Teague after his
body was recovered during swamps cleaning
Operation sponsored by government

When the intact body of Dafydd Huws was recovered near Carnathen, the scientific world was puzzled at seening an delirious
man who somehow survived drowning in quicksands and talked like a man born in the 1930’s. Rhiannon Teague got wind of the
affair and investigfated the matter, finding a new immortal; she took he matter in her own hands after warning the SIS which put
pressures on Wales agencies to release Huws to the competent hands of Teague. Dafydd Huws became a permanent guest at
Sean Burns’ Black Friar Asylum after it became obvious the man would never recover his sanity : drowning again and again for
thirty years, sliding from half-consciousness to coma, with watery sand in your lungs is bound to destroy your psyche. Dafydd
Huws thinks himself back in the Carnathen of the 1850’s; oblivious to the outside world, his mind forever gone.
When the Immortals War erupted and the other immortals patients of Burns rioted, Dafydd was away with the fairies, so to
speak, and was never aware of it.

Sylvia Krause,
Senior Supervisor, Black Friar Asylum
11 March 2012