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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 Criytal Balls


    Theophile Koriand
    Known aliases : Professor Hercules Tarragon
    Notable characteristics : Immortality triggered past
    his prime
    Weapon : Not carrying one
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Matto Grosso,
    Brazil
    Occupation : Ethnologist, specilized in ancient
    South American civilisations, University of
    Brussels, Belgium
    Prior occupations : Ethnologist, traveller,
    adventurer
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1965 Searching for the Lost City of Z
    Place : Matto Grosso
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, South America

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : French-Argentinian
    Born : 1718; Buenos Aires, Argentina
    First death : 1766; Killed in landslide during
    expedition in Norte Chico, Chile
    First teacher : Carmen Morales
    Known associates : Koriand Expedition
    Known past associates : Carmen Morales
    First recorded sighting : 1766. Norte Chic, Chile
    Dug up from pile of rubbles by Carmen, only
    survivor of his expedition



    Cypriano de Ghent
    Known aliases : Jacob Van Hamme, Piers Horner
    Notable characteristics : None
    Weapon : Not carrying one
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Matto Grosso,
    Brazil
    Occupation : Director, Darwin Museum of
    Brussels, Belgium, explorer
    Prior occupations : Historian, writer, diplomat at
    the Court of Burgundy and France, 15th Century
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1965 Searching for the Lost City of Z
    Place : Matto Grosso
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, South America

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Belgian
    Born : 1447; Ghent, Belgium
    First death : Implicated in Oreanist Rebellionof
    1485-88, killed by ennemies of regent Anne of
    Beaujeu
    First teacher : Almerik Boykens
    Known associates : Koriand Expedition
    Known past associates : Almerik Boykens,
    SIS, the Knights of Charlemagne
    First recorded sighting : 1488. Paris, France
    Encounter with the Knights of Charlemagne,
    mentored by lifelong companion Almerik Boykens




    Mark Falconer
    Known aliases : Marcus Ford, Jack Hides,
    Marc Charlet
    Notable characteristics : None
    Weapon : Whip, a pair of pistols
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Matto Grosso,
    Brazil
    Occupation : Professor of Archaeology, Marshall
    College, Connecticut USA
    Prior occupations : Archaeologist, working on
    ancient civilisations of Africa and India
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1965 Searching for the Lost City of Z
    Place : Matto Grosso
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, South America

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Colonial American
    Born : 1758; Indiannapolis, IN USA
    First death : 1794; Battle of Fallen Timbers, part of
    the Northwest Indian Wars
    First teacher : Opachisko
    Known associates : Koriand Expedition
    Known past associates : Yaneska, Elewechi
    First recorded sighting : 1794. Indiana, at this time
    part of Northwestern Territory. Found and
    mentored by Opachisko, at this time warring on
    the side of Choctaw indians



    Harrison Goldberg
    Known aliases : Jerrold Magee, Tyrell Guevara
    Notable characteristics : Wily fox, taste for
    Adventures, thirst for knowledge
    Weapon : Portuguese basket-hilt rapier
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Matto Grosso,
    Brazil
    Occupation : Professor and lecturer, University of
    Coimbra, specializing in ancient civilisations
    Prior occupations : Traveller, explorer
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1965 Searching for the Lost City of Z
    Place : Matto Grosso
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, South America

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Australian Jews
    Born : 1880; Fremantle Western Australia
    First death : 1918; During exploration of the
    Amazonian basin, choked to death by anaconda
    First teacher : Maple White
    Known associates : Bergamotrte Expedition
    Known past associates : Maple White
    First recorded sighting : 1918. Amazonian basin
    Rescued by Maple White before the anaconda
    could swallow him whole



    Jack Hernandez
    Known aliases : Jaime Quinonez
    Notable characteristics : None
    Weapon : Spanish cavalry saber
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Matto Grosso,
    Brazil
    Occupation : Film-maker, producer
    Prior occupations : Soldier, Army of the United
    States, traveller, explorer, treasure hunter
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1965 Searching for the Lost City of Z
    Place : Matto Grosso
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, South America

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Hispano-American
    Born : 1848; Albukerque, NM USA
    First death : During Hispano-American War of
    1898 between Spain and United States
    First teacher : Wade Contreras
    Known associates : Koriand Expedition
    Known past associates : Wade Contreras
    First recorded sighting : 1900. Havana, Cuba
    Found and mentored by Wade Contreras



    Eleanor Holland
    Known aliases : Gayle DeSoto, Michelle Thornton,
    Gwendolyn Lopez
    Notable characteristics : Shy demeanor, hiding
    true passion for ancient civilisations
    Weapon : Basket-hilt rapier
    Recorded kills : None known

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Matto Grosso,
    Brazil
    Occupation : Journalist
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1965 Searching for the Lost City of Z
    Place : Andes
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, South America

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : American
    Born : 1765; San Francisco CA, USA
    First death : 1779, Trampled by horses
    First teacher : Undetermined
    Known associates : Koriand Expedition
    Known past associates : Catherine Beckett
    First recorded sighting : 1879. San Francisco, CA
    Encounter with Catherine Beckett

    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:
    Teophile Koriand was mentored by Carmen Morales, a Mayan immortal who changed forever his outlook on the Precolumbian world, proving to him that Europeans and set foot on Latin America centuries before Colombus came to the Americas.
    Cypriano of Ghent was challenging the rules of the mortal world before the taste of adventure took him beyond the seas, already involved in a revolution in pre-immortal life, involved in countless revolutions and having gained the ennemity of Paul Karros - Cypriano was a true beliver and idealist, while Karros is an opportunist.
    Mark Falconer was as gifted in digging up old ruins as he was in decyphering old texts, wether in India or on the African continent, and in the Game smartly used a whip to disarm his opponents before killing them - although not permanently.
    Harrison Goldberg is known for having suffered one of the most unique and unpleasant First Deaths in immortals history, but his teacher was a hot-blooded woman who turned his imperialist, mysogynist views of the world around, forever altering his perception of the negros race. He was never the same after Maple left him, and sought her out as much as he sought to dig up buried old cities.
    Jack Hermandez, the film-maker of the group, cynic, opportunist, treasure hunter seeking to line his pockets so his film production empire could grow. He sought to become richer than any of the 1960's Hollywood films moguls.
    Eleanor Holland, the only woman of the group, serving as assistant secretary to Koriand, playing the shy mouse, who astonished her male counterparts when she faced a a tribe of Amazonian headhunters by single-handedly freeing her captive collagues before dispatching the Amazonians on her own. A resourceful woman who was once mentored by a black woman, discovering of negro people could be as clever as white people, setting her on a course to promote equality of races during the civil rights movement of the 1960's in America.
    Whatever happened to this group is unknown to us.

    Watcher Bureau, Western Europe

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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
      Last edited by Gardner; 10-08-2023, 10:30 PM.

      Comment


      • 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

        Comment


        • 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
          Last edited by Gardner; 06-19-2018, 03:19 AM.

          Comment


          • 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

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            • 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!)

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              • 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

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                • 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
                  Last edited by Gardner; 09-15-2023, 04:03 AM.

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                  • 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.
                    Last edited by Gardner; 06-10-2022, 01:59 AM.

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                    • 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
                      Last edited by Gardner; 07-05-2018, 01:20 AM.

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                      • 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.

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                        Cheers
                        Apollo1

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                        • 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?

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                          • 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.

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                            • 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 !
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                              • 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

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                                • 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 ?

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                                  • 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

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                                    • 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

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                                      • 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!
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                                        • Charles Herne

                                          Known aliases : Vassily Zaroff, Major Paul Hackett,
                                          Craig Spencer
                                          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

                                          Author note : interestingly enough, Major Paul Hackett is a villain played by Michael Ironside i nthe Extreme Prejudice movie, where he leads a team of American soldiers all presumed dead.
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                                          • 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

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                                            • 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
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                                              • 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

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                                                • 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.

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                                                  • 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
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