Homemade Watchers Chronicles

[Apollo1]

Great stuff, Gardner! I really enjoyed reading these chronicles and the updates you've made. Especially loved the Piers Jacobs story.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Whhops ! Editing misshap lol

Parthos of Aram
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 732 BC
Place : Aram-Damascus
Victor : Methos
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

I love Karimala of the Blemmyes, a Nubian with links to mythological monsters. Thank you!

Question, regarding SIS (thy creation) : why give the role of Allegra Chambers to an Indian actress ?
She was born in Canterbury in 1650, she would have been of British blood, not of Indian ancestry imo.


And for the Ptolemaic Egyptian :



Updating Piers Jacobs...

Piers Jacobs
Known aliases : Jacob ‘Jake’ Pierce
Notable characteristics : Womanizing rogue,
ladies man; British patriot
Weapon : British infantry saber

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Major, parachute regiment; also
member, Immortals Secret Services/Scociety
Prior occupations : Agent, MI5; race car driver
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 30 January 1972 Bloody Sunday
Place : Belfast, Northern Ireland
Victor : Annie Devlin
Watcher : Gareth Hunter

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English Jew
Born : 1737; Brighton, England
First death : 1779; Infantryman in British regiment
killed during Anglo-Marathan War
First teacher : Richeard of Mercia
Known associates : Secret Immortal Society, also
in relationship with Alice Ming
First recorded sighting : 1779. Bangalore, India
Found and recruited in the SIS by Richeard of Mercia

Reporting the death of Piers Jacobs by the furious blade of Annie Devlin in Belfest the same day that will go down in history as Bloody Sunday as our troops tried to tame those Irish rebels. Helen Bondeville and Allegra Chambers will no doubt mourn the passing of their colleague of the SIS as well as a great friend and occasional lover. He was a serious man with an agenda but never forgot that to survive as an Immortal you need to live your life fully. He put as much care in his preparations for his missions as he put in forging alliances with other Immortals or bonds with the SIS group. And as far as the Game was concerned, he took it seriously and trained constantly, his fatal flaw being he expected the same fair-play from his opponents as he had when his sword was in his hand. Unfortunately, Annie Devlin isn’t fair-play : she used her trick of the sword to defeat Piers and took him out in mere minutes while Jabs’ men shot 28 innocent civlians, to our collective shame as British citizens.

Gareth Hunter, 30 January 1972
London, England


Correcting discrepancies between Lydia Melchior and Edwina of Mercia created by Dana in 2008. Edwina was meant to have been killed by Matsuhiro Kanagawa. I found a better background story for Lydia.

Edwina of Mercia
Known aliases : Carolyn of Mercia, Carolyn of
Wessex, Glorianna of Knavesmire, Mary of Guise,
Gloria Wallis, Edwina Solomon, Edwina Archer,
Carol-Ann Archer, Carol Jessup
Weapon : One-handed broadsword
Recorded kills : Leofric, Basilica Hands
Inconclusive fights against William Nichol, 1076;
Hansel Rau, 1317; Theresa Malloy, 1656; Polo
Metaxas, 1696

Status
Most recent base of operations : Philipines
Occupation : Chief Nurse, US Army, Korean War
Prior occupations : Seamstress, weaver, nurse,
teacher, traveller, lady-in-waiting, maiden
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 3 May 1942
Place : Philipines
Victor : Matsuhiro Kanagawa
Watcher : Andrea Vargas

Background
Original cultural affilation : English
Born : 648, Mercia Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy
(present-day English Midlands)
First death : 668, Jumped from castle tower
First teacher : Alex Raven
Known associates : Ceirdwyn, Robert & Gina de
Valicourt, Sean Burns, Hugh Fitzcairn
Known past associates : Bethany Clarke, Appius
Lepidus Baro
Known students : *See Addendum*
Known ennemies : William Nichol, Hansel Rau,
First recorded sighting : 668. Mercian Kingdom
Found and mentored by Alex Raven

It always amazes me that the female immortals not only survive but become extremely good players in the Game. Edwina surprises me more than most. Raised as a gentle lady the sharpest thing she ever carried was a needle. And she was quite proficient with it. The Mercian Tapestry that now hangs in the Paris Watchers Headquarters is one of the finest examples of earlier 7th century needle work. And if the chronicles are accurate also designed by Edwina herself. But after her First Death everything changed as it does with all immortals. Thrust into a new world where she would need to fend for herself Edwina took to the sword with the same tenacity that she brought to her other endeavors. She was also lucky enough to find and excellent teacher in Alex Raven who taught her not only to use the sword but about immortality and how to live in a world that was hostile to women.

In return for having been tutored so well by Alex Raven, Edwina of Mercer decided to dedicated her immortality to searching and mentoring young, impressionable immortals who had been killed and been reborn in the cruel world of the Game. She scoured most of Western Europe in search of new immortals or pre-immortals so that she could teach them how to be proper men and women in the world of immortals.
Her students have become intelligent and strong people, players of the Game only when confronted by challengers. Most of them still live to this day and are the proof of how a dedicated teacher can influence the world of immortality in a positive manner. Every year, they gathered around their teacher and celebrate her anniversary, remembering the old days when they were heroes.

In 1941, the war in Southeast Asia erupted, marking the involvement of Japan and of the USA in the Second World War. Dozens of immortals on both sides were involved - most notably the BMR, the SIS, Xanthia of Melitus, Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta, the MacLeods. Standing among them was Edwina, war nurse serving in the US army, stationed in the Philipines during the takeover of the archiplago by Japan.
Matsuhiro Kanagawa was in charge of the fightings this side of the war, and when his men threatened the wounded GI's in Manila, Lydia offered Kanagawa her life if he would withdraw his troops from the Philipines.
Matsuhiro Kanagawa agreed to the deal, he took Lydia's head after a brief fight, let General MacArthur's wounded men live and, the following year, kept his promise when Tokyo gave their independance to the Philipinos.

Watcher Research, Western Europe

Gardner & DMVTREK 2008

ADDENDUM : Students :
James Wallace, Pascal Chaussende, Crispin Cordwainer, Bethany Clarke, Heilewid of Flanders, William of Winchester, Sybil Dvorak, Athalos of Thebes, Calyute, Thembaletu, Lisa Madison, Lalita Kittasara





Lydia Melchior
Known aliases : Lydia Chkalov, Lydia Stahl
Notable characteristics : Scar on left hip predating
First Death; butterfly-shaped tattoo on shoulder
Weapon : Flamerge rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations : Houston, TX
Occupation : Photographer
Prior occupations : Secret agent, Soviet Military
Intelligence; war nurse, journalist, colonist
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Andrea Vargas

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Palestinian Jew
Born : 1443; Herat, Palestine
First death : 1471, Hit by lighting stroke during
storm
First teacher : Melchior of Babylon
Known associates : Susan Dieprecht, Salman Abu Sita
Known past associates : Luke Monroe, Melchior
of Babylon, Katherine of Samothrace, BMR
First recorded sighting : 1471. Herat, Palestine
Found and mentored by Melchior of Baylon, later married him

Notes from Wikipedia:
Lydia Stahl (1890-?) was a secret agent who worked for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) in New York and Paris. She was born Lydia Chkalov in Rostov, in the south of Russia, in 1890. Once the wife of a Tsarist officer, she later married Baron Stahl, a Baltic nobleman, and emigrated to the United States where she became a naturalized citizen. When her only son died in 1918, the lonely and grief-stricken Lydia returned to Europe. She befriended the Finnish writer Hella Wuolijoki and was a regular visitor to her estate Marleback in Southern Finland, which was a meeting place for leftist intellectuals and politicians. Through her relationship with Otto Kuusinen, she met the American radical John Reed, and maintained a correspondence with him until his death in 1920. She joined the Soviet secret service while a refugee in Finland in 1921.
During the 1920s, Lydia established a photography studio in Paris where she copied secret documents for Soviet Military Intelligence. In the spring of 1928 she was transferred to New York to help the GRU resident Alfred Tilton. She remained in New York until 1933, when she returned to Paris to work for the apparatus which included Robert Gordon Switz. Lydia's ami was the French professor Louis Pierre Martin, former attache of the Naval Ministry and member of the Legion of Honor.
In 1933 counterespionage uncovered an apparatus in Finland which included Tilton's wife Maria, Lydia's friend Ingrid Bostrom, and Arvid Jacobson. He provided information which led French counterintelligence to Lydia. She was arrested in December 1933 and other members of the apparatus, including Switz and his wife, were arrested shortly afterward. Lydia was convicted of espionage in April 1935 and served a four-year sentence. She disappeared after her release from French prison.

[Apollo1]

Another great set of chronicles, my friend. More interesting tales of these ancient Immortals, although do you have the death date for Parthos of Aram. The stats say he went missing in 732 BC, but Methos states he took his head after a chariot race. Thanks.

And here's that name correction you wanted for the 1st century BC:

Karimala of the Blemmyes - female

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Anunit of Mazaca
Known aliases : « The giver of life and death »
Notable characteristics : Known for developping
feminine hygyene for abortions and childbirth
Weapon : Hittite cavalry saber
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kayseri,
Central Anatolia, Turkey
Occupation : Holy woman, medecine woman
Prior occupations : Traveller, scholar, shrine
Caretaker, occasional midweife/abortionist
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 36 BC Midwife catering to birth of Archelaus,
last king of Cappadocia
Place : Caesareae in Cappadoccia, Roman
Empire
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Cappadocean
Born : 19th century BC; Masaca, Cappadocia,
present-day Central Anatolia
First death : Killed in earthqake
First teacher : Methos
Known past associates : Xanthia of Melitus
First recorded sighting : 163 BC Kayzeri,
Cappadoccia. Put to death by King Ariarathes V
for aborting his favorite 14-years old concubine
Dug up from grave by Xanthia of Melitus

I remember Anunit of Mazaca, a woman I mentored upon her first death and whom I loved dearly until she left after two hundred years spent together. Her departure broke my heart, filling me with emptiness. Mortal women died quickly and if I couldn't spend my immortality with a fellow immortal then what was the point with living ? It is around that time that I met Kronos, Silas and Caspian who filled the vacuum in my life. We became blood-brothers and decided a combined power of four immortals had better chances of surviving life on Earth than one single Immortals. I must admit I admired
Kronos' raw power, his will, the strenght with which he ketp us united and how he needed le to plan his raids. I had a close relationship with Silas, but Caspian turned me off sometimes. Still, they filled me with a sense of belonging Ionly felt with my beautiful Anunit. Ah Anunit, why did you fear me so ? Did you fear my power, of the potential for evil you sensed in me ? Did you fear my darkness unless you didn't want to be infected my that darkness. You were right to fear me because me and my brothers became a force to be reckoned with and hell followed our wake.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Yzebel of Arzawa
aliases : None. Not to be confused with
Ayzebel of Berytus
Notable characteristics : The ony female Immortal
to seduce and love Aganesthos of Tiryns
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kingdom of
Lydia, Western Anatolia, present-Turkey
Occupation : Artesan, painter
Prior occupations : Traveller, scholar
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 678 BC Mermnads Dynasty. Murdered by
Teushpa in a fit of jealouy, final fate unknown
Place : Kingdom of Lydia
Victor : N.A
Watcher: Ancient Immortals Research Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Arzawan
Born : 17th century BC; Apasa, Kingdom of
Arzawa Western Anatolia
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Teushpa of Cimmeria
Known past associates : Aganesthos of Tiryns
Known ennemies :
First recorded sighting : 1320 BC Durign an
alliance between Arzawan Kingdom and
Mycenean Greece against Hittite Empire, lover of
Aganesthos of Tiryns

Ayzebel of Beritus was the only known Immortal woman who was capable of finding the innate goodness hidden in Aganesthos of Tyrins the harshest taskmaster of the Bronze Age and to be able to marry him, to love him unconditionally. They stayed two or three hundred years together before parting ways but the grumpy bear that was Aganesthos became a changed man : he became kinder, calmer.. in some fashion.
Not that he forsook his innate violence, after all he was one of the most temperamental and uncompromising teachers of his era, one who didn’t accept failures from his disciples. But still. Yzebel had toned that violence down. A true shame she thought she could do the same with another former student of mine, Teushpa of Cimmeria, Conan the Barbarian with a mix of the Kurgan. How can artesans, painters, such as Yzebel can grow attached to brutes such as him is an enigma that needs to be decyphered once and for all. It is not for today or tomorrow. He was vindictive,
possessive, jealous and when I visited the happy couple in Anatolia I found her gone, while my disciple pretended she had left for parts unknown. Under my stern gaze – my best Horseman of Death gaze – he admitted the truth : he killed her in a fit of jealousy and when he woke up from drunken stupor, she had gone like a puff of smoke. I hope he didn’t kill her permanently and that she lived for a few more centuries before an Immortal finally did her in.

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Na’Amah of Ramah
Known aliases : Channah of Palestine, Yskvet
Notable characteristics : Proponent of peace,
preaching rejection of the Game and the end of
violence between Immortals
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Constantinople
Byzantine Empire
Occupation : Holy woman, prophetess
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1347 Black Death sweeping through
Constantinople, Field Watcher died
Place : Jerusalem, Palestine
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Israelite
Born : 1070 BC; Mount Ephraim, Ramah in
Benjamin, Ancient Israel
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Cassandra
Known associates : Malthace of Palestine
Known past associates : Cassandra, Xanthia of
Melitus, Malthace of Palestine, Aretas of Nabatea,
Salome, Elishevah
First recorded sighting : 132, Palestine
During revolt of Simon Bar Kokhbah against
Rome, encounter with Gideon

I was in Constantinople when the Black Death struck and if you haven’t lived through it you cannot imagine what it was like or how it felt like. It felt like death on a horse. My brother Kronos (always him!) was in London at that time and I am one hundred percent convinced he brough the rats with him from the Orient, starting the entire catastrophe. Not that poor hygiene in those days didn’t help, in fact it was another one of his tool : ignorance of mortal kind. And rats.
He must have appreciated the dispute of Silas and Caspian over red wine or white wine in ‘96. Again talking about my brother when I am supposed to write around Na’amiah of Rabah, a disciple of Cassandra and afflicted with the same passions and demons as the ancient soothsayer.
Na’amah was one of the Seven Prophetesses of Israel, seven immortal women who were diviners, healers, tribe leaders and among them Xanthia and Cassandra. Cassandra infected her with the bitterness she felt toward Immortal men but Na’amiah fought those demons and tried to curb the violence of the Game, giving her message everywhere she went, suggesting to Immortals they lay down their swords, to live in peace. We have seen how well that worked with the Immortal posing as me. Na’amah wasn’t as delusionnal as “the other Methos” but she wanted to curb our inner violence so we could survive and thrive as a race. Naturally, in the 14th century we weren’t as numerous, and we
had more troubles finding each others. Now the world stands on a seaside cliff, ready to jump in the abyss and our race has but two decades to live. We are pitifully few. What would Na’amah do now, I wonder.
I remember the debate she had with me and how she found me unsettling. Did Cassandra tell her about me ? Did she gave her a good description of my face ? She couldn’t prove anything but she didn’t feel at ease with me around her.

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Irene of Antioch
Known aliases : Kymaera of Antioch
Notable characteristics : Ferocious fighter, raised
entire crops of children who became warriors
using Spartan techniques in combat
Weapon : Selucid infantry saber
Recorded kills : None known
Inconclusive fight against Arishat of Carthage, 197
BC; Ari al-Muzaiyin, 145 BC, Battle of Antioch

Status
Most recent base of operations : Antioch on the
Orontes, near present Ankara, Turkey
Occupation : Chariot racer, Circus of Antioch
Prior occupations : Seleucid warrior, commander
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 115 Antioch Earthquake
Place : Antioch
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Seleucid
Born : 325 BC,Seleucia, Seleucid Empire
First death : 301 BC; Commander of Seleucid
Army, killed fighting Antagonids, Battle of Ipsus
First teacher : Kyra of Sparta
Known associates : Marcus Constantine
Known past associates : Kyra of Sparta
Known ennemies : Ari al-Muzaiyin
First recorded sighting : 301 BC. Seleucid Empire
Taught Spartan combat techniques by Kyra, they
saved her head when she faced Ari al-Muzaiyin

I remember racing against Irene at the time of the earthquake, I bet her fifty gold coins that I would win on the fourth and she agreed o it because she liked placing bets. To her, playing the Game already was placing a bet so she didn’t mind the gold coins. It’s not like a Quickening was going to be lost.
The crowd cheered as we ran around the colyseum and then the ground started moving, thousands of people screamed and I don’t remember quite clearly what happed, I know we ran for safety while everything started crumbling.
We must have been trampled in the stampede. I was dug up from a pile of rubbles, called miraculous because I survived unscathed. I looked after Irene but could find no trace of her. I am sure she survived the earthquake, at least I belive so because if she had lost her head, I would have received her Quickening and I would feel her presence in me. I she is out there somwhere, I hope we can resume our race. I wonder how many gold coins she would ask this time.

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Princess Chiomara
Known aliases : Chiara of Galatia
Notable characteristics : Fiery temperament, no-
nonsensical and intelligent woman
Weapon : Celtic broadsword
Inconclusive fight against Marcus Constantine, 25
BC

Status
Most recent base of operations : Galatia, Roman
Province
Occupation : Warrior woman
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 25 BC Warring against Marcus Constantine’s
Legions, didn’t accept the incorporation of
Galaltia in the Roman Empire
Place : Near present Ankara
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Galatian Tectosagi
Born : Galatia, present Anatolia
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Marcus Constantine
First recorded sighting : 186 BC Galatia, present
Anakara. Leading Galatians in battle against
Roman legion led by Marcus Constantine raped
by a centurion; fought and beheaded him later on

I once looked into the chronicle of Princess Chiomara of Galatia, suspecting she may have been a past identity of Cassandra because this was a formidable woman who didn’t accept to pose as a victim after that centurion raped her in 186 BC. Instead she decapitated him and gave his head to her mortal hsband, statign that only her husband would only lay with her. She disappeared in 25 BC, for the second time confronting my old friend Marcus and when I asked Marcus about Chiomara, he wrote back that he didn’t kill her and that her physical description didn’t match Cassandra’s. So who knows. My nemesis had scores to settle with rapists of allkind, all though fault of mine but I enslaved and raped thousands like her. Should I look behind my back each time I am in a crows for fear a former

victim might turn to be Immortal like Cassandra did ?

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Parthos of Aram
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known. Inconclusive fight
against Aganesthos of Tyrins, 1800 BC; Ahaziah
of Ramoth-Gilead, 732 BC

Status
Most recent base of operations : Aram-Damascus
Northern Syria
Occupation : Chariot racer
Prior occupations : Chariot-driver, Assyrian
Empire
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 732 BC
Place : Aram-Damascus
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Aramite
Born : 19th century BC; Aram-Rehob,
Aramean Kingdom, Old Assyrian Empire
First death : Trampled by horses
First teacher : Kushtashpi the Lawgiver
Known past associates : Kushtashpi
Known ennemies : Aganesthos of Tiryns, Ahaziah
of Ramoth-Gilead
First recorded sighting : 1800 BC Assyrian
Kingdom. Inconclusive fight against Aganesthos of
Tiryns war between Assyria and Babylon

I won against Parthos of Aram fair and square, he owned sixty gold coins but he wouldn’t pay up. No one likes a sore loser. He even accused me of cheating, pretending I gave drugged water to his horses, riight ! When he challenged me to a fight, he found how a Horseman can deal sore losers and tried to recoil from the fight, but I wasn’t in the mood to let this slide and I went for he kill. I don’t regret not having spared his head, this was an Immortal with a solid reputation as a player of the Game who knew what he risked when he challenged others of his kind, and if I hadn’t taken his head, it would have been some other Immortal to be sure.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017

[dubiousbystander]

Darwinian. These folks aren't ever going to be able to play The Secret Game.

[Gardner]

Beautiful names Apollo, thanks! Although I already have an Egyptian, can I have a Sub-Saharan one instead ? I am still keeping the Hentempet name for future purposes (wink!) Glad you appreciate those stories too, Bystander.

[Apollo1]

Apollo, I removed Amestrin of Ugarit from yesterday's post, I got a better idea for her.

No worries, Gardner. Another great set of chronicles with interesting tales to tell.

And here are those two names you wanted:

2nd century BC

Melanie of Traxiane - Greco-Bactrian female

1st century BC

Hentempet - Ptolemaic female

Cheers
Apollo1

[dubiousbystander]

Cool! Love this world-building!

[Gardner]

Apollo, I removed Amestrin of Ugarit from yesterday's post, I got a better idea for her.

[Gardner]

Issam of Awsan
Known aliases : None. Not to be confused with
Immortal Issam Boumedienne
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Haram Kingdom
Present Yemen
Occupation : Concubine to the King
Prior occupations : Courtesan, storyteller
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 200 Invasion of Haram Kingdom by Arab tribes
Place : Haram Kingdom
Victor : Ari al-Muzaiyin
Watcher : Research, Ancietn Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Yemenite
Born : 6th century BC; Hagar Yahirr, Kingdom of
Awsan, Modern Yemen
First death : Killed during attack from Western
Yemen raiders
First teacher : Xanthia of Miletus
Known past associates : Xanthia of Miletus,
Dasmapia of Ammon
First recorded sighting : 500 BC Southern Yemen
Durign war against neighboring Kingdom of Qataban

Issam of Awsam wasn’t just the King of Haram’s favorite she also protected the Harem’s other women and cared about the women’s children as if their were her own. When they were cold, she sew them cloth, when they were hungry she fed them, when they were unclean she cleaned them up; when the girls grew up she taught them to be proper women, when the boys grew up she taught them to behave with women. She had a fierce independent streak eher enamoured King came to respect. Oh, she had many rivals and she knew she could never truly be free but she felt it was her duty to stand watch, to observe and record the lives of her companion. A true Watcher in spirit. She was even invited to choose the eunuchs who stood guard before the harem’s doors.
A woman who could behave like that ! She must have had sexual charisma to burn ! A shame her charisma didn’t work on Ari al-Muzaiyin who was a general fo the arab armies that invaded the Kingdom of Haram, raped and looted their way across the king’s castle and had they way of the victors with the King’s woman. The women were raped and merclessly killed, the children and eunuchs put to the sword, and the nightly sky lit with the passing Quickening of one of the bravest women the Immortal scene was ever graced with.

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Mei-li Choe
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Mistress of kung-fu
Weapon : Yan broadsword
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location,
training peasant guerillas, An Lushan Rebellion
Occupation : Rebel fighter
Prior occupations : Student
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 755 Battle of Yangqiu, An Lushan Rebellion
Place : Yongqiu, China
Victor : N.A Last seen overwhelmed by Tang
soldiers, possibly decapitated or later executed
Watcher : Research, Eastern Asia, China

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : Late 5th century BC, China
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Yuenü, foster mother
Known associates : Lan Xiong
Known past associates : Yuenü, Yau Chouan
Chou
First recorded sighting : 360 BC Southern China
With foster mother Yuenü, sought tutoring from
Yau Chouan Chou, later seduced the ancient
Immortal, or was seduced by him (the Watchers
aren’t sure)

I would like to make matters clear where the chronicle of Yau Chouan Chou is concerned: he wasn’t the mysoginist oen would pretend him to be, rather a man from his time who had a hard time beliving women could be the equals of women on the field of battle. And yet, he was always proven wrong with the likes of Mei-Li Choe or May-Ling She, his last known student. Mei-li was the mistress of kung-fu of the 5th century BC in China and she is the one who taught her art to Master Yau who later passed those skills on May-Ling Shen who herself gave a lesson in humility to the boorish Highlander called Duncan MacLeod.I knew Mei-li and believe me this woman was a kicker ! I even saw her best techniques used in combat by Golden Swallow in the Shaw Brothers productions. And oddly enough, the Godlen Swallow was herself azn Immortal. Life has

an odd way of moving in circles.

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Parthenia of Udyana
Known aliases : Iphigenia, Sappho
Notable characteristics : Lesbian Immortal, in
relationship with Samira Hamid, occasional triolet
with Xanthia of Melitus
Weapon : Malysian kriss
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Punjab, India
Occupation : Undetermined
Prior occupations : Kingmaker
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 10 AD Fall of the Indo-Greek Kingdom
Place : Pashawar
Victor : Unrecorded
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Indo-Greek
Born : 180 BC; Indo-Greek Kingdom, region of
Peshawar, India
First death : 160 BC Smothered by boa snake
First teacher : Xanthia of Melitus
Known associates : Samira Hamid, Xanthia of
Melitus
First recorded sighting : 160 BC. Indo-Greek
Kingdom. Found and mentored by Xanthia and her
other disciple, Samira Hamid

Xanthia once told me about her lover Parthenia of Udyana during our reunion in Normandy in 950. There was her student, Amanda, a wild little hellion who was jealous of my relationship with her mistress. When I asked Xanthia if she and Amanda had an intimate relationship she answered they didn’t.That was a student/teacher relationship, akin to an older aunt and her niece. To which I retorted that “funny aunts” had existed since the dawn of mankind. Xanthia had a light laugh but swore she hadn’t been involved in any serious lesbian relationship since her days in the Punjab
by the 2nd century BC. At this time she reuntied with Samira, a former disciple, and she did the mistake of accepting her as lover. When she took a new student from the Indo-Grek kingdom, the three women became involved in a risqué ménage à trois which led slowly to jealousy from the insecure Parthenia. The relationship ended badly and Xanthia took an oath to never mix romance with her work as a teacher again. The last time she heard of Parhenia she was in the Punjab when the Indo-Greek kingdom dissolved itself.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017

[Gardner]

Koh Mingyu
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Undetermined
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Ancient China
Occupation : Warlord, renagade disciple of Sun
Tzu, sought to kill him
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 850 BC
Place : Ancient China
Victor : Methos
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : 21st century BC; Xia Dynasty, China
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Sun Tzu
Known past associates : Sun Tzu, Ts’ong Hu
Known ennemies : Methos
First recorded sighting : 860 BC Eastern China
Blood brother of Ts’ong Hu, got the ennemity of
Methos who was a scholar and friend of Sun Tzu,
While Koh Mingya wanted The Art of War book to
help him conquer China mainland

I stayed with Sun Tzu for twelve years, being taught by the ancient Chinese monk and helping him write the Art of
War, the book every chief of state in the world ought to read and which ought to be required reading for every man in the world in charge of leading an army corps. I fought and killed the Iommortal Koh Mingyu whowanted to obtain the book and keep it to himself, to use the teachings of Sun Tzu so he could conquer mainland China with his armies. Sun Tzu didn’t agree and since he couldn’t fight, I was the one in charge of ridding the world from this menace. Not that it would do the world any good thereafter, since the book’s publication it has been used countless of times in warfare and Sun Tzu may well be responsible for for the armies marching on countries, having followed the teachings
of the former Horseman of War, me.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Ajatashatra
Known aliases : The Chaos-Bringer, Mother Kali
Notable characteristics : Rumored to be a four-
armed death goddess, illusion-casting abilities
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Tamealipti, India
Occupation : Queen of local cult held by Kamir
Prior occupations : Goddess of death and chaos
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1356 In conflict against Sanjiv Gupta who
disrupted a ceremony held by Kamir, founder of
the Thugee cult
Place : Tamealipti
Victor : N.A
Watcher: Ancient Immortals Research Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Hindus
Born : 20th century BC Indus Valley, Late
Harappan
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Four Horsemen
Known past associates : Kamir
Known ennemies : Sanjiv Gupta
First recorded sighting : 1700 BC. Hindus Valley
Encounter with Kronos and Methos


Lord Rama
Known aliases : Ramavijaya, Ramar, Phrea Ream,
Phra Ram, Mega Serit Rama, Raja Bantugan
Notable characteristics : The eighth avatar of Indu
God Vishnu
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Hindus Valley
Occupation : Traveller, adventurer
Prior occupations : King
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1700 BC
Place : Hindus Valley
Victor : Kronos, at this time leading the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Watcher : Research, Four Horsemen Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Indian
Born : 21st Century BC, present-day Uttar Pradesh,
India
First death : In war against Ravana, Rhakshasa
king of Sri Lanka
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : The Four Horsemen
First recorded sighting : N.A Mentioned as one of
Kronos earlier kills by Methos to Xanthia of Miletus

Well, that was bound to happen. Here is a moment of my past as co-leader of the Four Horsemen fo the Apocalypse.We rode for hundreds of years together, all it took was a woman to take us apart (looking at you Cassandra!) In 1700 BC India was known as the Hindus Valley and was ruled by Lord Rama the Immortal and his wife Sita, a mortal woman of great beauty. Kronos challenged Lord Rama and took his head, spreading a legend among the Hindus about a demon who killed their king, raped their queen and magically created a demonic woman Ajatashatra, a four armed killer with ugly features who became the chaos-bringer, the giver of death, Mother Kali. There is a lot to be found about
us, in the Bible, in Hindu myth but what is true is Kronos killed Rama, I raped Sita and Kronos and I became the teachers of the woman better known as Mother Kali. We were the Four Horsemen, we were death, war, pestilence and famine and our legacy was carried out by our disciples, all Immortals.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017




Yi Young-yi
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : South Korea
Occupation : Commander, Gojoseon Kingdom
army
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 108 BC Han Conqest of Gojoseon
Place : South Korea
Victor : Yau Chouan Chou, Commander in the
army of Han China
Watcher: Ancient Immortals Research Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Korean
Born : 18th century BC, Gojoseon Dynasty, Korea
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Lee An-Kor
Known past associates : Lee An-Kor
Known ennemies : Yau Chouan Chou
First recorded sighting : 380 BC. Joseon Kingdom
During war agaisnt Feudal State of Yan, observed
final battle of Lee An-Kor agaisnt an Egyptian
Immortal identified as Memnet-Ra

In a moment of lucidity Yau Chouan Chou once told me how he defeated a Gojoseon Immortal in single combat in 108 BC and the Quickening of Yi was so powerful, the immortal so ancient and so cruel that it drove him insane. He asked me how I would feel if I was driven over the edge : would I kill a friend ? Kill a lover ? I didn’t want to kill my friend and to have to deal with a Dark Quickening, so I took him to Shaman Thai Anh Tam of Vietnam whom I already wrote about, in an early chronicle. She was rumored to be so powerful and wise that she could rid an Immortal from his demons and she just did with Yi, locking him in a cave, on a sacred place near present Khe Sanh. Yi fought himself for one night
and one day, while I had conversation with Tahi. Thai guessed what I was in an instant, but she agreed to help me because she felt even an avil, curle, merciless man like I was could be redeemed. She never met Kronos then. Yi got out of his cave, cured, a sane man. And I got myself a litle better from my encounter with the Shaman.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Ashur-dan
Known aliases: Unknown
Notable characteristics: Unknown
Weapon: Unknown
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations: Harran,
Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian Empire
Occupation: Soldier
Prior occupations : Soldier, Middle Assyrian
Empire (14th century to 10th century BC)
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 609 BC Fall of Harran, Median and
Babylonian capture of the city
Location: Harran
Victor: Unidentified Median mercenary, tentatively
cross-identified as the Kurgan
Watcher: Ancient Immortals Research Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Babylonian Amorite
Born : 17th century BC, Southern Mesopotamia,
present-day Syria
First death : 1595 BC, Hittite sack of Babylon
First teacher : Muwatilis the Hittite
Known ennemies : Muwatilis the Hittite
First recorded sighting : 1500 BC. Cilicia
Hunting Muwatilis the Hittite, witnessed his final
battle against Tizkar of Sumer

Ashur-dan the Assyrian, the aptly named, since he believed he was a God and a supersticious Immortal, collecting the heads of his ennemies he kept in bags he carried everywhere with him. He was called the collector by his friends and the giver of head by his ennemies, because he offered some of them as presents.Ah, I knew him well, he got me captured and tortured because he thought I was coming after him, fortunately for me I bribed his corruptible headman (pun intended) and vamoosed. That was two or three hundred years before he fell to the sword with his name on it. It may have been the Kurgan who got to him, or Kronos, I don’t really know.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Inanna of Kish
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Disguised herself as male
bodyguard to King Astyages of Medea
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations: Median Kindom
Present-day Iran
Ocupation : Mercenary archer, Median Empire
Prior occupation: Part of a cadre of female archers
Prior occupations : Master archer
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 580 BC Conqest of Median Kingdom by
Cyrus the Great
Place : Median Kingdom
Victor : Araxis the Mede
Watcher : Researcvh, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Kassite
Born : 1350 BC, Middle-Assyrian Empire
First death : 1330 BC, Protecting the life of King
Ashur-Ubalit of Assyria
First teacher : Ashur-Dan
Known past associates : Ashur-Dan
First recorded sighting : 1330 BC Assyrian Empire
Officer in Assyrian company of female archers,
dug up from grave by Ashur-Dan, mistaking him
for a Kassite war god, Marutta

Innana of Kish escaped the madness of Ashur-dan, her husband, in the same fashion Cassandra escaped Horsemen camp circa 1400 BC. Both women were taken as slaves, killed, then reborn Immortals to fall in the clutches of evil Immortals in the 14th century BC. Ashur-dan was evil, a cruel husband who became mad over the centuries and when finally he was killed by the Kurgan in 609 BC (unless it was Kronos in a twist of irony), she didn’t need to run from him anymore, freed at last. But that wasn’t for long as Araxis the Med challenged her to a fight and took herhead by the time of the conquest of the Median kingdom by Cyrus the Great, my student.
I remember the fight and how Innana begged for her life, having enjoyed her freedom only too briefly by mortals standards. But Araxis despised the woman who hid under male cloth, even though they were on the same side.Retrospectively, I could have chosen to interfere, saving her life, but my duties to King Cyrus took precedence. Another regret out of thousands.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Ang Chwun-hwa
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : The only recorded female
Immortal who died in childbirth, apocryphal tale
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
Occupation : Midwife, created herbal remedies to
help women though childbirth
Prior occupations : Zhou Emperor concubine,
Scholar, studyed the words of Shennon the
Herbalist, aka the Emperor of the Five Grains
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 106 BC Han Dynasty Last seen helping
mortal wife of Jin Ke though childbirth
Place : Eastern China
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Researcvh, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Zhou Chinese
Born : 1046 BC; Zhou Dynasty, China
First death : 1030 BC; Emperor’s concubine giving
birth to Emperor’s son, according to legend
First teacher : Undetermined
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
though a bit delusional about Immortal
motherhood

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


Shekinah of Hebron
Known aliases : Shekina of Jerash
Notable characteristics : 5’6’’ tall
Weapon : Custom broadsword
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Babylon, living
among its Jewish community
Occupation : Artesan, married to Immortal Gideon
Prior occupations : Freedom fighter, guerillas
against Canaanites, Romans and any invader of Judea
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 637
Place : Babylon
Victor : Lucius Oranius Capito
Watcher : Researcvh, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Israelite
Born : 9th century BC; Hebron, Judean Kingdom,
present-day West Bank
First death : Destruction of Hebron by Canaanites
First teacher : Gideon
Known past associates : Gideon, Xanthia of Miletus
Known ennemies : Lucius oranius Captio
First recorded sighting : 598 BC. Jerusalem,
Judea. During invasion of Judea and conquest of
Jerusalem by King Nabuchnedezzer II, identified
as past disciple of Gideon

Shekinah of Hebron was formally identified as an Immortal by Watchers one yer before Judith of Bethulia took out the Quickening that made her famous. Since both women were ennemies of King Nabuchodonezzer there is a valid possibility that Shekinah is the woman who helped Judith kill General Holofernes, and not Elishevah as I previously wrote in my journals. Anwyway, Shekinah had formidable weapons and by that I do not mean her sword, but also the sexual power which she held over men, making them obey her every whem and when she married ancient Hebrew Gideon, it wasn’t out of love, rather an arrangement to face common ennemies and life in the Game as a deadly force
to be reckoned with. She would never acknowledge it to my face, but this is a woman who did love her Gideon and Gideon loved her. When Lucius Oranius Capito killed Shekinah, his world fell apart and he was never the same man over the centuries.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017

[Apollo1]

Glad you liked those stories, they were fun to write. Btw in the midst of the whole matter, I asked for two more names :
2nd century BC
1rst century BC
Any part of the world you like, both females. please

Cheers !

No worries, my friend, i'll post them tomorrow.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Glad you liked those stories, they were fun to write. Btw in the midst of the whole matter, I asked for two more names :
2nd century BC
1rst century BC
Any part of the world you like, both females. please

Cheers !

[Apollo1]

Really great job, my friend! Loved reading these chronicles, especially as written by Methos himself. Lots of snide comments, witticisms and insights into the activities of the ancient Immortals through the eyes of someone who knew them.

I supply the names and origins, you come up with these wonderful stories!

Love it.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Appius Lepidus Baro's chronicles, Last Part

Mei Mian
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Cambodia nationalist,
deep hatred of Westerners, especially the French
Weapon : Malaysian kriss
Recorded kills : Thai warrior, durign Thais
destruction of Phom Pen, 1772

Status
Most recent base of operations : Phnom Pen,
French Protectorate of Cambodia
Occupation : Leading rebel cell against French
imperial ruile in Cambodia; posing as tour guide
Prior occupations : Cambodian rebel fighter, led
rebellion of 1840 against Vietnamese influence
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 21 May 1932
Place : Phnom Pen
Victor : Appius Lepidus Baro
Watcher : Research, Baro Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Cambodian
Born : 1408; Angkor, Cambodia
First death : 1431; Durign capture of Cambodian
capital city by Thais, raped and murdered
First teacher : Xuan, posing as a Cambodian
consort to the King
Known past associates : Xuan
Known ennemies : Appius Lepidus Baro, Xuan
First recorded sighting : 1550. Cambodia.
Led King of Cambodia to jungle-covered ruins of
Angkor with explorer Zai Jie

From now on I shall stop questionning why I always in the middle of stories of women who have been aped, abused or enslaved and accept it as penance for the crimes I comitted against womenfolk during the Bronze Age.Xuan was Mei Mian's mentor in 1431 but I was Xuan's consort in those days and I personally trained the Cambodian girl in efficientways to defend herself against men's agressivity and my lessons bore good fruits : she lived until the days of Cambodia's occupation by the French when she turned into a bitter nationalist.
Appius Baro was hopelessly trying to find some respite from the Game as a lietnant of the French colonial army and thought he had found a nice consort with my former student but she only sought informations about the French army from him. She sold whatever things she could get from him to her mortals friends and soon a string of murders occured in the ranks of the French military in Phnom Pen. Appius wouldn't allow that and though he had simpathies to Mei's cause, he had to take action agaisnt her actions. I was charitable enough not to tell Appius who exactly he had to kill.

Adam Pierson, 2017
From the Chronicle of Appius Lepidus Baro



Aurea Figo
Known aliases : Aurea Miruelo, Ayleena Methol,
Susana Torres, Flor Castillo
Notable characteristics : Used a pack of
rottweilers in the Game to hunt and kill her quarries
Weapon : Salamnca Toledo rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations : Bogota,
Colombia
Occupation : Companion/bodyguard of Immortal
drug lord Escobar Gallego
Prior occupations : Socialite, huntress
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 September 1989
Place : Bogota
Victor : Appius Lepidus Baro
Watcher : Research, Baro Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Colombian
Born : 1533; Cartagena, Colombia
First death : 1553; Killed by runaway negro slave
First teacher : Diego Miruelo
Known associates : Escobar Gallego
Known past associates : Diego Miruelo
Known ennemies : Appius Lepidus Baro
First recorded sighting : 1553. Asuncion, Colombia.
Mentored by her husband, conquistador Diego
Miruelo, who married the pre-Immortal and taught
her to hunt Immortals with a pack of dogs

The chronicle of "Flor Castillo" and "Cecilia Barraza" was apparently a mix-up written by Watcher historians who mistook those women for two other Immortal women hailing from middle eastern countries. Barraza is really Policarpa Salavarrieta, a former sharphooter for Colombia's FARC and Flor was really Aurea Figo, the consort and bodyguard of Colombian drug lord Escobar Gallego. Those two women were never close and didn't even know each other. Policarpa deosn't even play the Game, while Aurea did, using the same hunting techniques as Peter Kanis as Appius Lepidus Baro found out when he came after Gallego, seeking to purge Bogota from one of its most nocive elements. It wasn't enough that he burnt down Gallego's pavot field, that he slaughtered his bodyguards and put an end o theactivities of the corrupt officials supporting him. He had to finish the job by taking his head. However, he faced Aurea and Gallego fled the scene while the woman he used for companionship faced my student on her own.
Appius never had the opportunity to "finish" Gallego, Maude de Valerie else did the job for him two decades later.

Well, that was professional updating. No witty banter that time.

Adam Pierson, 2017
From the Chronicle of Appius Lepidus Baro

[Gardner]

General Holofernes
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Warlike commander,
weakness for teenaged girls
Weapon : Assyrian saber
Inconclusive fight against Magos of Ur, 605 BC

Status
Most recent base of operations : Jerusalem
Occupation : General, army of Nebuchadnezzar II,
King of Nineveh and Assyria
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 587 BC
Place : Jerusalem
Victor : Judith of Bithulia
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Assyrian
Born : 9th century BC, Assyrian Empire
First death : Under Ashurmasipal II, leading
campaign against Balyon, annexing central
Mesopotamia
First teacher : Kronos
Known past associates : The Kurgan, Kronos
Known ennemies : Judith of Bethulia
First recorded sighting : 612-605 BC Under shur-
Ubalit II, leading resistance against a coallition of
Medes, Persians, Scythians durign downfall of
Assyrian Empire



Judith of Bethulia
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : General Holophernes

Status
Most recent base of operations : Jerusalem
Occupation : Bodyguard/lover of Zedekiah, King of
Judah, tributary to Babylon, in revolt agaisnt
Babylon
Prior occupations : Rebel fighter
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 587 BC Siege of Jerusalem, destruction of
Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II
Place : Jerusalem
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Israelite
Born : 7th century BC Kingdom of Judah,
Southern Israel
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Elishevah of Samaria
Known past associates : The Seven Prophetesses
of Ancient Israel, Elishevah of Samaria
Known ennemies : General Holophernes
First recorded sighting : 597 BC. Kingdom of Israel
Challenged and beheaded General Holophernes
during siege of Bethulia, the ensuing Quikcening
frightened Holophernes troops

A notable "villain" of the Bronze Age, Holofernes has made his mark on history as the victim of the fabled Judith who decapitated him with help from er handsmaiden, a scene depcted in paintings countless of times, includign a famous one by Artemissia Gentileschi, aka Immortal Artemissia of Helicarnassos.. Holofernes knew the true sense of terror and made a point of terrorizing and enslaving the populations of the countries and kingdoms he conquered, thus making his teacher very proud. His teacher was Kronos, my brother, thus making of Holofernes my nephew by association.
Well, Holofernes, Kronos and I shared one trait of character : a definite weakness for women. This weakness allowed Cassandra to "kill" Kronos and escape from him (I remember she nearly castrated him with her own teeth) and Judith of Bethulia to reach him with her handsmaiden (who may have been Elishevah of Samaria, her teacher) and decapitated him with a knife. His muffled screams for help were mistaken for orgastic screams and when his body was found, it was too late : Judith and her friend had vanished like a puff of smoke.

I really get a kick at writing those entries for the Watcher's chronicles because it allows me to disclose the fates of lesser-known Immortals of the Bronze Age and also to make my presence known as the sole contemporary Immortal Watcher. I said contemporary, guys... Get it ? Yes, it may be childsih, but at my age one can afford to be childish sometimes.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Xmucane
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : The oldest known Immortal of Mesoamerica
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Pacific coast of
present day Chiapas, Mexico
Occupation : Preparing cacao beverages,
domesticated cacao after it was imported from Amazon basin
Prior occupations : Undetermined
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 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 wasprocessin 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

[Gardner]

Dasmapia of Ammon
Known aliases : Dasmapia of Gedara
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Gedara, Jordania
Occupation : Holy Woman
Prior occupations : Traveller, vigilante, settled in
places where fathers comitted incest with their
daughters and murdered them
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 63 BC
Place : Gedara
Victor : Darek Alak
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Ammonite
Born : 4th century BC; Kingdom of Ammon,
present-day Jordania, Achaemenid Empire
First death : Incestuous relationship with her
father who killed her for not producing children
First teacher : Issam of Awsan
Known past associates : Issam of Awsan
First recorded sighting : 339 BC Ammon Kingdom
Found and mentored by Issam of Awsan

I am Methos the rapist according to Cassandra, but I never enslaved or raped any of the little girls I adopted as foundlings and saw growing to womanhood. There are worse evils. Dasmapia's foster father was a violent brute and a sex pervert who killed his own child in drunken state. Issam of Awsan is the woman who mentored her and sent after any men enslaving and raping their own daughters, like the Eurynides of Greek myth. I even went though the chronicle of Issam to check is she was a student of Cassandra, but no : Xanthia mentored her. Even so, Xanthia had a bite that could be even more ferocious than Cassandra's. That joke about the difference between a social worker and a pitbull ?
Xanthia made it up. Good one. Well, Dasmapia was as enraged a pitbull as one can be and she avenged many girls and women in her three hundred year sof immortality until she lost her head against Darek Alak, losing her concentration in the fury she felt toward all men. I am glad I never enslaved her, or she would have castrated me on the spot !

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Vincent Jacobson

Known aliases : None, posing as Methos
Notable characteristics : Proponent of peace
Preaching peace and the rejection of the Game
Weapon : Bronze Charles V sword
Recorded kils : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
Occupation : Independent means, proponent of
peace, posing as the oldest living immortal
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 20 September 1996
Place : Seattle WA
Victor : Heinrich Klein
Watcher : Lucy Wang

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Unrecorded
Born : Unrecorded
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known past associates : A number of immortals
killed shortly after listening to his message of
peaceful coexistence between Immortals
First recorded sighting : 1975. Memphis TE
Convinced Goodman Fletcher to lay down his
sword and to spread his message of everlasting
peace, Fletcher was killed shortly therafter

Ah Vincent ! Lost somewhere on a road, looking for an unattainable goal he never could reach. Born in a time predating the Game, seeing the folly of it but never realising the Game was such a part of Immortality that both could be never be parted. I long suspected Vincent was older than I am, possibly 10,000 years old but who can prove it ?
For all I know he could be the first cro-magnon Immortal and his first head was the last Neanderthal, killed with a stone axe. Though I wonder how he could have lived for 40,000 years without his memory crumbling under the weight of time. Even I with my 5,000 years of existence cannot remember how I first died, at least offically. Some idiot wrote my head was crushed by a camel during a stampede, that's wrong ! I died in battle like a mighty warrior, a giant among men. "When the fiction looks better than the truth, print the fiction", my old friend Mark Twain used to say.
Getting back to Vincent, not even the oldest of us know how old he was so he may well have been a cro-magnon, he looks like one after all. When I spoke to him the first time, he never realised who I was and I seriously believed his mind had crumbled when Iistened to his idiotic antics about fear beign the source of all evil on earrth. The source of evil is us, of course. Just us. What I find truly shameful is how his "teachings" led other Immortals to their death, which is a perversion of his message of peace : lay down your sdword so we alllive together like a big happy family. Well, all families are dysfunctional and have their nasty elements. Like my dearly departed family.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017

[Gardner]

Pantea Arteshbod
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Lead a battalion of
warriors, all allegedly’immortals’ under King Cyrus
Followed the teachings of Prophet Zarathustra
Weapon : Persian shamsir
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Western Asia
No fixed location
Occupation : Commander, Sassanid infantry
Prior occupation : Commander, ‘The Immortals’
elite troops under King Cyrus the Great; 553 BC
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 602 Sasanian-Byzantine War of 602-628
Place : Persepolis
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Persian
Born : 7th century BC; Persia, Iranian Plateau
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Cleophon of Athens
First recorded sighting : 559 BC. Babylonia,
Achaemenid Empire. Encounter with Cleophon of
Athens, relatively impressed by Pantea’s
immortals troops

I am the fly on the wall who gave the incentive to King Cyrus to constitute his army of immortal warriors, a cadre ofpowerful combattants instantly replaced after one falls on the field of battle, naming them immortals was a joke frommy part. Interestingly enough, history kept my joke for historians to record as a fact of life. Oh I knew King Cyrus well, I knew many kings and emperors and always reminded them they were all naked udner their clothing and needed good protection. The actual immortal who led the battalion was another disciple of mine, Pantea Artheshbod and she also put her mark on the history of mankind. I even wrote a page on the net dedicated to her (not on wiki, though, too amateurish to my tastes). Pantea taught to King Cyrus to respect the customs and religions of the lands he
conquered which taught him to better centralize the power he held on the countries he he had a hold on, and also to respect women ! Well recognized for his achievements in human rights, politics, and military strategy, as well as his influence on both Eastern and Western civilizations accordign to the wiki pega, ha ! He has to thank Cleophon of Athens and myself for that, we taught him well.
A hot-blooded woman Pantea, a woman who flexes her brain as much as her muscles. Gone missing in the 7th century and I hope still active. I miss hour traning sessions and the perfume on her body on morning.

From the journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Maesa of Moab
Known aliases : Ruth, daughter of Nehemiah
Naomi Bat-Seraph, Rachel Naomi King
Notable characteristics : Lives on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Moab, Utah
Occupation : Teacher, Mormon community,
viewed with pity since she cannot carry children
Prior occupations : Moabite woman; founder of
Mormon community in Utah with Hiram Scudder
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Moabite
Born : 5th century BC; Kingdom of Moab, Jordan
Neo-Assyrian Empire
First death : Killed in earthquake
First teacher : Undetermined
Known past associates : Hiram Scudder
Known ennemies : Ahaziah of Ramoth-Gilead
First recorded sighting : 220. Kingdom of Jordania
Raped by Ahaziah of Ramoth-Gilead, fought him
off, interrupted by mortal witnesses

Another one of my disciples is Moesa, and I am rightly proud of how she turned out to be, a survivor of the Kingdom of Moab who now lives on the fringes of the immortal scene in Utah among the Mormons community,caring little about the looks of pity or scorn she gets because she cannot bear any children. God knows she has enough in her classes !
She escaped the blade of my brother Kronos at a time he was looking for me, avoiding torture, rape and death (did he know anything else ?) and the blades of several other hunters. Once a rape victim herself by Ahaziah of Ramoth-Gilerad, she spent centuries hunting him before Anatellon got to him first in Lutetia in 421. I am the one who sent a pigeon after her with a message, writing to her she could stop hunting and start healing. And healing she did,not like Cassandra (writing a mea culpa, old man?) who never stopped hunting me. My brother, my slave, hunting me for thousands of years. Now both are dead. Why do I surround my self with suchintense women, I don't know. Maybe I
want to heal those women, make penance. Had I been less cruel in my young days, I wouldn't make penance so much, but then... Maesa wouldn't be here, active and healthy. Was Cassandra somehow giving me the incentive to be a healer after having been a Horseman ? Better ask Sean Burns next time I visit him.

From the journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Natrajan of Panchala

Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Immortal child, to all
appearances 12-years old
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Punjab
Occupation : Posing as miraculous neveraging
child, leading cult dedicated to Yama, Lord of Death
Prior occupations : Disciple of sage Dhaumaya,
cross-identified as Methos
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 460
Place : Punjab
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Brahmin
Born : 407 BC; Panchala Kingdom, India
First death : 395 BC Following his master
Dhaumaya in forest, attacked and killed by bandits
First teacher : Methos
Known past associates : Methos, Katherien of
Samothrace
First recorded sighting : 460 Punjab. Enocunter
with Katherine of Samothrace, searching for his
teacher, the legendary Methos, « god of death »

After my nemesis, after my blood-brother, a third Immortal has been hunting me ceaselessly : my greatest fan.Originally a young boy from the Panchala kingdom of India, Natrajan was dedicated to the cult of Yama the Lord ofDeath and followed the teachings of a "wise old man" named Dhaumaya (guess who ?) who taught him a mix of oriental philosophies so complicated that not even Wikipedia can precisely give a clear definition of it (I challenge yout, go look for it!). Poor kid had a terrible shock when he resurrected and thought Yama had left him on Earth to do his work, so he started preaching and preaching and it isn't what I taught him that could meke things clear from him. I royally
messed up that time again and Natrajan became a vicious player of the Game, offering the paradise of Yama to those of our kind. Obviously the Watchers don't know much about him, but the Indian pennsula is crammed with stories of missing Immortals or killed by an unknown quantity who is in truth Natrajan. I was death and I created a follower of death.

From the journals of Adam Pierson, 2017



Thai Anh Tam
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Lived on holy grounds
Weapon : Vietnamese cutlass
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : South Vietnam
Occupation : Holy Woman, shaman, rumored to
cure Immortals afflicted with Dark Quickenings
Prior occupations : Shaman
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1890
Place : Khe Sanh
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Van Lang
Born : 4th century BC; Vietnam
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Nguyen Thi Hai
Known past associates : Xuan, Jin Ke, Hsien-
Tsiang, Darius, Kan-chiang Ch’ih, Sang Yum,
Alexandre de Rhodes
Known ennemies : Nguyen Du and Trai
First recorded sighting : 220. Southern Vietnam
Encounter with Jin Ke and his disciple, Xuan

Thai Anh Tam had a way of looking at me, she didn't need words to tell me "I am on to you, don't try your tricks with me !" She knew the darkness in a man's heart and how to cure someone from his demons, she had a penetrating gaze which I found unsettling and she is rumored in Watcher's circles to have tamed the Kurgan and Lobon Naro-Boshing, two of the most vicious killers on the immortal scene. With me she had nothing to fear, but she knew the darkness in my heart and when she asked me who I was... I couldn't help but speak the truth. I was Methos,bringer of death, master of slaves, prince of chaos. She retorted I was a raping bastard who had a huge ego and that was all. I had a good laugh, because that was true enough : whe were four killers on horse my brothers and I, and that's about it. We met during the Third Ly Dynasty, circa 600 AD and briefly met again in several occasions when Ineeded to ehlp someone go though the throes of the dreaded Dark Quickening. As I did with Xanthia.
She was successful each time, a precious ally in that mad world. She was last seen in 1890 in Khe Sanh but she is doing quite well, careful as I was to erase her from current records o nthe Watcher's databases.

From the journals of Adam Pierson, 2017

[Gardner]

You seem to be quite fond of Italian women :-) A lot of them on your lists. I need two more :

2nd century BC
1rst century BC
Any part of the world you like, both females. please

Cheers
G.

[Apollo1]

Mea Cascio - Caspaia female. Apollo, did you mean she was born on the shores of the Caspian sea ?

Yeah sorry about that, Gardner, it should be Cospaia. I typed in the "a" instead of "o". She's from the Republic of Cospaia in northern Umbria.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Mea Cascio - Caspaia female. Apollo, did you mean she was born on the shores of the Caspian sea ?

[Gardner]

Izdihar Hijaz ibnat Raia
Once listed as “the Maiden of Baghdad”
Notable characteristics : Mid-twenties, bearing the
hallmarks of ancient origins
Weapon : Damascus steel rapier
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Lyon
Occupation : Social worker, Shelter for abused
women and children
Prior occupations : Merchant’s wife, raising her
husband’s natural children; traveler, poetess
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Research, Western Asia

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Muslim
Born : 940; Chandax, Emirate of Cretes
First death : 961, Killed by Byzantine soldiers
during Byzantine reconquest of Cretes
First teacher : Selim Udadah
Known associates : Fatou Bassolo M’Bo
Known past associates : Selim Ubadah
First recorded sighting : 961. Emirate of Cretes
Slave-girl in service to Selim Ubadah, mentored
by him upon First Death after Siege of Chandax


Carmen Santiago

Known aliases : Carmella LaMorte (naming herself
after the original LaMorte); Bixenta of Soule
Notable characteristics : Acrobatic skills, thrilseeker
Weapon : Single-ring rapier
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game,
Inconclusive fight against Martin Hyde, 1848;
Theresa Malloy, 1891; Kevin Draper, 1913

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dallas, TX
Occupation : Socialite, independent means
Prior occupations : Thief, international spy
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Bill Elder

Background
Original cultural affilation : Basque
Born : 10th century; Soule, Basque Country
First death : Daughter of the Viscount of Soule,
victim of bride kidnapping, jumped from cliff to
avoidrape and dishonor
First teacher : Carmella LaMorte, aka Kellistra
Known past associates : Roman Alvarez,
Perceval Romero Quinoz, Amanda, Kellistra
Known ennemies : Martin Hyde, Theresa Malloy
First recorded sighting : 1727. Vienna, Austria
Interrupting the affair between Amanda and
Mozart after seducing the composer out of his wits

A shadowy figure of unknown origins who made quite an appearance on the immortal scene when she caused a scandal in Vienna by uncovering the affair of Mozart with Amanda the international thief. Became a spy with an international background, proved her competence with a sword and was finally challenged by John Henry Archibald in Dallas where she was predicted she would meet her death by an old gypsy witch.
In 1727, Carmen sought to emulate Amanda by being a scandal in the court of Vienna, going so far as stealing one of her sexual conquests : the great Mozart himself.The irritated Amanda suggested to Carmen she finds herself a new game.
In 1897, she named herself Carmela La Morte in San Francisco, an adventuress who sought out gold-diggers to marry; she was confronted by Cybelle McWyrter who forcefully asked her to stop robbing her past selves - which is how we could connect Cybelle to Carmella.

Watcher Research, US Southeast

It has been long suspected that Carmen Santiago was a past disciple of the elusive Kellistra who bore the name of Carmella LaMorte during the 17th century in Tuscany and that Carmen chose that name as a mean of honoring her teacher’s memory. It is an encounter between Ursula Katz in 1910 and Carmen that gave us a clue on her origins as the shady Buxente of Soule who first became immortal in the 10th century and amrried the Duke of Gascony in 1023, becoming a political she-devil as well as a skilled player of the Game, wearing a black hood to hide her feminity. In 1152 she was the best friend and confidente of Eleanor of Aquitaine who married Henry II of England, thus securing the joining of the region of Soule (part of Aquitaine) with the Crown of England, political scheme that came to the ears of Richeard of Mercia, not yet founder of the British SIS. Carmen and Richeard had a heated romance and created more than one scandal in the court of England.
By the 16th century, Soule became ensnared in the political, religious and military manoeuvres derived from its shaky position, with the French Wars of Religion affecting the province tremendously. Carmen went in conflict agaisnt the Knights fo Charlemagne and this is where the Watchers lost her trace until her re-apparance as lover of musical composer Mozart, rivaling with Amanda for the favors of the musician. Amandaand Carmen must have found funny to compete for the love of a mortal whose music was made of such beauty and greatness it touched their souls more deeply than anything they could have experienced I ncenturies of Immortality. After Mozart’s untimely death, they attended his funeral and parted company, not quite friends, but not ennemies either.

Watcher Research, Western Europe

[Apollo1]

As a fan of history, I enjoy exploring these little-known cultures and states. And I enjoy reading your write-ups for the Immortals that hail from them! Lol

Here's those 12 names you wanted for the 16th century:

Soewarsih Muljana - Aceh female
Rashea bint Ishaq - Brunei female
Michaela Monaldi - Florentine female
Eike Koubek - Austrian female
Ulfah Kawilarang - Bali female
Ambuj Gokaraju - Mysore female
Dietlinde Draeger - Prussian female
Julia Cojocaru - Wallachian female
Echijole Jimoh - Anziku female
Manuela Hechevaria - Portuguese female
Kilina Borschak - Crimean female
Tiresa Toleafoa - Samoan female

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Good reasoning from your part Apollo. More chronicles will come this week. After consulting my lists, I find myself with need for more women : 12 for the 16th century please. You really seem to enjoy your research as much I as enjoy writing around those Immortals ! Btw, did Apollo2 finish writing his immortals epic ?

[Apollo1]

Thank you Apollo. Good new list of names. How do you decide on which name you are going to pick for the new lists ? Do you have a master plan in mind or are they at random. The woman from Volga Bulgaria has a very interesting to tell, in relation to the Kurgan and Darius. The chronicles I posted are updated bios of women with previously undetermined background. Some of the names you gave me are brand new characters, others I linked them to those previously created characters.

Not a specific master plan in general, but for each era I like a good mix of Immortals across as many cultures as possible, although sometimes the dominant cultures will have more representatives. As will the denser population centres such as empires and larger kingdoms.

Cheers
Apollo1