Homemade Watchers Chronicles

[Gardner]

Good story Apollo1, some Immortals never let go of the past, do you Antonius Kalas ? lol
And since we already have Herbert Gris, aka Armand de Rochefort...



Gaultier of Armagnac

Known aliases: Alexandre Gris, Gaspard of
Gascony
Notable characteristics: Gascon patriot; obsessive
persona, blames Roman Alvarez for ruining his life
Weapon: Frankish broadsword
Inconclusive fight against Guichard of Tours, 1356,
1440; Baptiste Du Plat, 1399; Roman Alvarez,
1671, 1699

Status
Most recent base of operations: Constantinople,
Ottoman Empire
Occupation: Independent means
Prior occupations: Political agitator, nobleman
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 10 Sept 1722
Place: Constantinople
Victor: Roman Alvarez
Watcher: Habib Younis

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Gascon
Born: 1038, Armagnac, Duchy of Gascony
First death: 1071; Executed for plotting against
William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine
First teacher: Lothar the Frank
Known past associates: Lothar the Frank, Eufemio
Arispana
Known enemies: Roman Alvarez, Knights of
Charlemagne
First recorded sighting: 1071, Toulouse.
Found and mentored by Lothar

If ever there was an example of an obsessive Immortal, it would be Gaultier of Armagnac, a man so consumed by hatred for fellow Immortal Roman Alvarez, it eventually led to his inevitable demise. Instead of looking to his own inadequacies, he blamed his ill luck on the Spaniard, who had no idea why the Gascon Immortal hated him so much.
He left his student, Eufemio Arispana, in 1245, with the promise that he would one day come looking for him and together they would free Gascony from their occupiers. Gaultier would inevitably cross swords with the Knights of Charlemagne and did so while leading uprisings and civil disobedience in 1356, where he fought an inconclusive duel with Guichard of Tours in Bordeaux, and then plotting against Aquitaine again in 1399 in Toulouse, fleeing a losing battle against Baptiste Du Plat. A second clash with Guichard of Tours in Agen in 1440, where he nearly lost his head, saw Gaultier decide to seek the help of his former student. He spent twenty years looking for Eufemio, only to discover via local legend and stories that Eufemio had lost his head to a Spanish Immortal in 1452.

The already mentally unstable Gaultier raged in despair and blamed the Spaniard for ruining any chance he had of freeing Gascony from the French yoke. Driven by hatred, Gaultier of Armagnac set out on a centuries-long quest to hunt down and kill the man who had destroyed his dream of an independent Gascony. Gaultier would eventually learn the name of Arispana’s killer: Roman Alvarez and would follow his trail for nearly three centuries.

By the 17th century he had picked up Alvarez’s trail in North Africa where the Spaniard, since leaving Morocco, had taken up the life of an adventurer, drifting across the continent, seeking fortune and aiding those in need. In 1671, Gaultier caught up to Alvarez in Tripoli, but their confrontation was short when Gaultier fell off a rooftop and died in front of witnesses. In 1699, the two crossed swords again in Damascus, this time Gaultier lost his right eye to the Spaniard’s blade, but Alvarez spared his life out of pity. This would only enrage the Gascon Immortal further and when he caught up to the Spaniard again in Constantinople in 1722, their third duel would be the last. This time, Alvarez did not spare his pursuer and the Gascon’s obsession ended at the walls of Constantinople.

From the Chronicle of Gaultier of Armagnac



Adjustements

Lise Cammarata
Original cultural affiliation : Italian-Canadian
Born : 1842; Calary AL
First death : 1870, Cave-in exploring holy
spring in Manitoba
First teacher : Madeline La Touche
Known past associates : Madeline La Touche
First recorded sighting : 1870. Manitoba
Found and mentored by Madeline La Touche

Evrard Longrain
Original cultural affilation : French Canadian
Born : 1699; New France, present Quebec
First death : 1743; Gunpowder trader kiled by
disgruntled customers over damaged goods
First teacher : Grizzly Lapierre
Known past associates : Grizzly Lapierre
First recorded sighting : 1745. La Rochelle, France
Found and mentored by Lapierre

Jeremiah McPherson
Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Canadian
Born : Circa 1650, Nova Scotia Canadia
First death : 1688-1697, King William’s War, killed
by British soldiers while defending his homeland
First teacher : William Campbell
Known past associates : William Campbell
First recorded sighting : 1697. Nova Scotia
Student of William Campbell

William Campbell
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Independent means
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 23 September 1778
Place : London
Victor : Xanthia of Melitus
Watcher : John Blackthorne

Beepo the Doll Man
Original cultural affiliation : American
Born : US Midwest, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded

Pyro the Salamander
Original cultural affiliation : Croatian, naturalized
American
Born : 1955; Chicago Ill USA
First death : 1984, Killed by explosives during
pyrotechnic accident

Clifford Holden, becomes Immortal Neville Sutton
Known aliases : James Darling, John Glasmore,
Neville Sutton
Notable characteristics : British patriot; Immortality
triggered past his prime
Weapon : British cavalry saber
Recorded kills : Robert Gould, Sean Zale, Chief Watchful Fox, Iron Horse, L. Subramavan
Inconclusive fight against Little Robe, 1864; Sarah Owl-woman, 1871; Isadora Wynther, 1893;
Ambuj Gokaraku, 1910

Status
Most recent base of operations : Amritsar, Punjab
Occupation : Colonel, British India Army
Prior occupations : Colonel, British Army stationed
in Botany Bay Colony, Australia
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 13 April 1919, Amritsar Massacre
Place : Amritsar
Victor : Agathe Vierny, reporting Punjabi
protest of British rule in India, Gazette de Paris
Watcher : Research, Agathe Vierny Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English
Born : 1748; Punjab, British India
First death : 1805, Second Anglo-Maratha War
Conflict between British East India Company and
Maratha Empire
First teacher : Colonel Simon Killian
Known associates : Simon Killian, SIS
Known past associates : Neil Fletcher
Known ennemies : Sanjiv Gupta, Chandh Sisters
First recorded sighting : 1805. Punjab.
Found and mentored buy Simon Killian

The immortal Neville Sutton killed by Agathe Vierny in 1919 has been cross-identified as John Glasmore, a British officerstationed in Botany Bay, Australia, in 1893. Sutton/Glasmore was huntign down escapees from the Botany Bay, leadign to their unnecessary deaths and was confronted by Isadora Wynther, at this time married to a British colon in Botany Bay.
Sutton decided the woman needed to be taught a lesson, but Isadora is a superb sword, one of the best swords in Western Europe and she is he one who landed Sutton on his knees. Qshe couldn’t take his head because of interfering mortals, but atlast Sutton paied for his crimes when he ordered the deaths of Punjabi mortals protesting the presence of the British Empire in India.

Watcher Research, Great Britain


Michael Rojek's write-up

Rojek's last quarry was Derek Markham. I wonder what he has accomplished by taking his head. Did he enjoy his
Quickening ? I cannot help but notice that most players of the Game are either delusional, psychotic or self-righteous
champions of good vs evil (aren't you, Mister MacLeod), bent on challenging and killing immortals until only one remains; I know, it is the point of the Game, but look at it this way : of the five hundred plus immortals living on Earth presently, 88% are living AWAY from the Game : they don't take challenges, and avoid each others, or sometimes befriend each others, but the point is : they don't spend their time taking heads.

Mariam Goldfam, 2018

Changing the deaths dates for the following two...

Howard Lassiter
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Football player, Arsenal F.C.
Prior occupations : Laborer
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 6 September 2018
Place : London
Victor : Undetermined, body found beheaded with
evidences of a Quickening
Watcher : Michelle Henson

Badri Toppur
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Market trader
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 14 September 2018
Place : London
Victor : Undetermined, body found beheaded with
evidences of a Quickening
Watcher : Neal Shaara

From Watcher Bureau, London
Date : 14 September 2018
Reporting the deaths of Immortals Howard Lassiter and Badri Toppur by the sword of an unidentuified Immortal. Both men were found decapitated, their Watchers alerted by the usual manifestations signaling the passing of an Immortal, erupting from Lassiter’s house and from Toppur’s flat. The killer left the area in a hurry and remaisn undentified.

[Gardner]

John Kakumulani

Background
Original cultural affilation : Polynesian
Native Hawaian, Christian
Born : Hawai, unknown date, possibly hundreds of
years old
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Undetermined
Known associates : Kiri Asaro
Known past associates : Hokulani, Bevil Grenville,
Tiresa Toleafoa
Known ennemies : Thomas Morehead
First recorded sighting : 1795 Kaho-olawe, Hawai
Battle of Nu’uanu, King Kamehameha I’s wars to
unify Hawaian islands, encounter with Captain
William Brown, maritime fur trader and gun seller,
cross-id. as Bevil Grenville


Tiresa Toleafoa's chronicle

Tiresa Toleafoa was digusted by the violence of the Game, by the decapitation she was forced to witness and in awe before the power of the Quickening, the gigantic fireworks which followed the passing of the Samoan’s Quickening in the body of her Immortal friend Mondo. To her life should be more than senseless violence and killings and Immortal life more than just the Game and rules to live by. She si a free spirit and won’t have it any other way. But can she truly spend the coming 20th century alone on the Samoas and not expect another Immortal to come after her pretty head ? There will be others and the 20th century promises to become more and more violent. There are talks that the fabled Gatherign may take place one century from now. What will become of Tiresa then ? Assuming she lives to see the the final days of the Gathering.

Watcher Bureau, Oceania
1898


Felix Lester

Known aliases : Felix of Leicester, Alix Lesgrave,
Philip Lepercq, Lester Biddle
Notable characteristics : Sensed the presence of
Immortals at twice the usual range. Pedophile
Weapon : Never seen carrying any
Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game
Inconclusive fight against Elijah Denton, 1857

Status
Most recent base of operations : San Francisco,
CA
Occupation : Photographer
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 5 November 1872
Place : San Francisco
Victor : Linda Flaherty
Watcher : Bob Ford

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Colonial American
Born : 1630, British colony of South Carolina
First death : 1669, Painter murdered by jealous
sister of a woman who modelled for him
First teacher : Terence of Coventry
Known past associates : Terence of Coventry,
Gerard Kragen
First recorded sighting : 1670 South Carolina
Found and mentored by Terence of Coventry

Not one to play the Game, Felix didn't even own a sword and preferred to know death could come any time to give meaning to his immortal life. It is this fear of death that gave a sense, a purpose to his immortality, allowing him to live his passion for photography and his more unnatural taste for young girls and boys. The dirty old man certainly had a taste for prebubescent children; a taste he triggered in a former "student" of his, Gerard Kragen, who had been a shy boy when he first knew him and turned him into his lover when he was barely twelve. Gerard grew up to be a disturbed man until his First Death during a dinner held by Lester at his home in Washington.
The following century saw Felix as a photographer in San Francisco where he created a scandal by sleeping with several pensionnaries of Kristin Gilles' School for Wayward Children: Kristin's duty was to protect her young charges and this is why she came after Lester, knowing well she could never hope to enthrall a man who had a penchant for girls of early teenagehood; Lester left town in a hurry, like the coward he was, and was never seen again until Linda Flaherty took him out in San Francisco, at a time when she vas investigating a sex scandal involving young girls and a professional photographer who turned out to be Lester.

Watcher Research, US Southwest


Cassie Lothrop

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Australian Expatriate
Spent her childhood and teens in America
Born : Western Australia, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Rodelinda of Lombardy
Known past associates : Rodelinda of Lombardy
Roger Ludlow, Tyler King, Monique Cassard
Known ennemies : Damon Case
First recorded sighting : 1865. San Francizsco, CA
Inconclusive fight against Damon Case

[dubiousbystander]

Did Gaultier's eye grow back?

[Gardner]

I don't see why not.

[Apollo1]

Been a bit distracted this week owing to my mum's health issues, Gardner. Hope to complete the chronicle I've come up with for a female Immortal with an unhealthy romantic obsession with Roman Alvarez; a student of Swenja Baatz and Lootje De Groot, she is the only female Immortal Alvarez killed. And she is the reason Alvarez would fall to Swenja's blade in 2018.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Sorry to hear about your mum, Apollo, I hope she will be all right. Swenja and Lootje's student sound interesting, I am looking forward to read about her story and the reason why Alvarez was defeated by Swenja. I always felt a woman would be the death of Alvarez sooner or later. In a touch of irony it is one of your creations who was killed by another one of the characters you created.

Here is an adjustement to the Chronicle of Sunda Kastagir, historical research to the story of Sundiata Keita proves impossible for both men to have been the same person.

Gardner



Sunda Kastagir
Known aliases : Alansana Badjie, Burama Kargbo,
Tamuka Kumbula, Atasaone Keaboka,
Roger Kibanga Tewolde; Casper (Three Magi),
Teophilos the Indian

The Legendary Sunda Kastagir, once mistaken with Sundiata Keita, legendary founder of the Empire of Mali and a mortal hero, was not only legendary for his prowess with a sword, his ability to charm women of all ages, but for his parties. He learned his craft in the court of Cleopatra and Marc Anthony, he was one of the Nubian guards of Cleopatra. The Kushite Immortal went through drinking parties after the defeat at Antioch and kept at it until Marc Anthony and Cleopatra commited suicide. Not long after Sunda found himself in the party capital of the Ancient World -Rome. It was here that Chroniclers say that he began to work on a liquor he called Boom Boom. It was called Boom Boom because the next day that’s the only thing that you could hear was “boom boom” inside your head. But although he loved a great party, Sunda was a good and loyal friend. If you were in trouble he would drop what he was doing and rush to help.

Jerry Jackson, February 1985

DMvTrek, 2008


Traditions identify a variety of different names for the three wise Magi who presented Jesus Christ and his parents with presents at the time of his birth. In the Western Christian church they have been commonly known as:

Melchior, a Persian scholar, identified as the late Melchior of Babylon. Caspar, an Ethiopian scholar, identified as Sunda Kastagir
Balthazar, an Arabian scholar, identified as Alis Ag Emoctar. Encyclopædia Britannica states that "according to Western church tradition, Balthasar is often represented as a king of Arabia, Melchior as a king of Persia, and Gaspar as a king of India." These names apparently derive from a Greek manuscript probably composed in Alexandria around 500, and which has been translated into Latin with the title Excerpta Latina Barbari. Qataban was one of the ancient Yemeni kingdoms which thrived in the Beihan valley (4th century BCE – 3rd century CE). Like the other Southern Arabian kingdoms, it gained great wealth from the trade of frankincense and myrrh incense, which were burned at altars. The capital of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through the other kingdoms of Hadramaut, Saba and Ma'in; the immortal who became known as Balthazar was bon in the First Century before the birth of Christ and was mentored by Kellistra, at that time the wife of a merchant of frankincense. Nothing else is known of Kellistra's activites at that time, aside for her mentoring Balthazar who would later associate himself with Melchior of Babylon and Sunda Kastagir.

Watcher Research, Western Asia


Soumaoro Kanté

Known aliases : Sumanguru Kanté
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kumbi Saleh
Mauritania, part of defunct Empire of Ghana
Occupation : Sorcerer-king of the Sosso poeple
Prior occupations : Warlock
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1235
Place : Kuklikoro, Western Mali
Victor : Sunda Kastagir, after his defeat by the
sword of Sundiata Keita, mortal hero
Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of Kastagir

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Western African
Born : 4th century, Western Africa
First death : Fell in a volcano
First teacher : Undetermined
Known ennemies : Sunda Kastagir
First recorded sighting : 13th century, Kingdom
of Mali. Lethal ennemy of Kastagir

King Soumaoro Kanté is the best-known ennemy of Sundiata Keita and an immortal who lived eight hundred years of immortality before challenging Sundiata Keita's power in Mali. Born in the 4th century in Western Africa, he already was a powerful warlock before his death when he fell in a volcano according to Kastagir's tale to Sekou Nkrumah. His madness grew with the years as well as his thirst for power, known in the 13th century as a warmonger who conquered several neighboring states of the defunct Ghana Empire, including the Mandinka people in what is now Mali. At this time, Kastagir formed a coallition of kingdom to oppose his power at the Battle of Kirina in 1235. After his defeat, he fled in the mountains of Koulikoro where Kastagir found him and killed him in combat, taking his power and his sacred balafon which he kept as a memento until his death in 1985.

From the Chronicle of Sunda Kastagir

[Apollo1]

Thanks, Gardner. I'm coping with help from family and friends and visiting this site in my downtime.

Here's that chronicle i promised:

Arabella Rider

Age: 251
Known aliases: Bella “Black Bella” Rogers,
Anabelle “Belle” Roper, Anna Roper, Anna
Ringer
Notable characteristics: Unhealthy romantic
obsession with Roman Alvarez, jealous of any
woman he associates with
Weapon: Genoese naval boarding sword, a gift
from Swenja Baatz
Inconclusive fight against Roman Alvarez, 1796, 1874,
1912, 1958; Amanda of Normandy, 1899, 1926

Status
Most recent base of operations: Vancouver, Canada
Occupation: Brothel madam & blackmailer
Prior occupations: Master thief, gunwoman, slaver,
pirate, noblewoman
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 10 Sept 1998
Place: Vancouver
Victor: Roman Alvarez
Watcher: Richard Williams

Background
Original cultural affiliation: English
Born: 1747, Port Royal, Colony of Jamaica,
British West Indies
First death: 1770; Daughter of British naval officer,
killed in captivity after being kidnapped by pirates
First teachers: Swenja Baatz & Lootje De Groot
Known associates: None
Known past associates: Talia Bauer, Swenja Baatz,
Lootje De Groot
Known enemies: Roman Alvarez, Amanda of Normandy

First recorded sighting: 1771, Tortuga Island, Hispaniola.
Found by Swenja and Lootje in the pirate stronghold, mentored
by them and became part of their crew

Swenja and Lootje’s favourite student, Arabella Rider was the daughter of a British naval officer and his wife stationed in Port Royal, who was abducted in a lightning raid by pirates and killed while trying to escape. Swenja Baatz and Lootje De Groot, themselves pirates at this time, found the spirited Englishwoman hiding out on Tortuga Island a year after she had been killed trying to escape her captors. They brought her into the fold, helped her murder the pirates responsible for her ordeal, and she joined them on their ship, scouring the high seas.
She was to cross paths with Roman Alvarez in 1796 on the Dutch Gold Coast in West Africa, as a captain of her own pirate ship and now known as Black Bella, where she was buying and selling slaves. Alvarez was there gold mining while secretly rescuing slaves and hiring them as freemen. Rider didn’t take kindly to another Immortal interfering in her business and confronted the Spaniard. Alvarez doesn’t fight female Immortals but was forced to defend himself from the furious attack of the Englishwoman. However, the fight quickly became a passionate encounter between the sheets and a six-month affair that saw Rider lose the loyalty of her crew, who abandoned her. And when Alvarez moved on a mere few weeks later, Rider was hurt and angry, swearing that the Spanish Immortal would pay for toying with her feelings.

They would meet again in 1874 in the Old West when Alvarez was a US Marshall and Rider, now known as Anabelle “Belle” Roper, had a reputation throughout New Mexico and Arizona as a fearsome gunslinger. She had even re-united with her teachers, Swenja and Lootje, joining them on several bank raids. Alvarez was involved with a female rancher who Rider murdered in a fit of jealousy, forcing Alvarez to fight her again. Alvarez won, but couldn’t bring himself to take the head of a woman he’d been intimate with.
Rider would next appear in the records as a master thief, clashing with Amanda of Normandy in Asia in 1899 and then again with Alvarez in Peking, China, in 1912, harassing a mortal woman the Spaniard was involved with. Defeating her again, the Spaniard still couldn’t bring himself to kill her. She fought Amanda for a second time in the US Midwest in 1926, before a penultimate fight with Alvarez in Paris in 1958 when the Spaniard was an Interpol agent hunting Rider.

Their final confrontation came in September 1998 in Vancouver. Alvarez was at this time a detective married to a mortal woman named Stephanie. Rider was running an underground brothel, blackmailing local dignitaries and police officers, Alvarez was investigating her activities. Rider took her revenge on the Spaniard, murdering his wife to goad him. Finally, she had crossed a line and Alvarez, mad with grief, tracked her down and took her head after a brief, but ferocious, duel.
When Swenja Baatz and Lootje De Groot discovered ten years later that their student was long dead, fallen to the blade of another Immortal, they would spare no expense trying to discover the identity of her killer, but it would take nearly a decade to learn the truth.

From the Chronicle of Arabella Rider

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

I am glad my stories and updates are helping.
Lovely chronicle, very well written and detailed. Great connectiosn to Swenja and Lootje and to Roman Alvarez. Poor guy...
In an effort to represent different ethnies from the Carribbeans in the chronicles and since we have enough British ladies as it is...

Arabella Rider

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Jamaican
Born: 1747, Port Royal, Colony of Jamaica
British East Indies
First death: 1770; Mistress of British naval officer,
killed in captivity after being kidnapped by pirates

Swenja and Lootje’s favourite student, Arabella Rider was the mistress of a British naval officer stationed in Port Royal, who was abducted in a lightning raid by pirates and killed while trying to escape. Swenja Baatz and Lootje De Groot, themselves pirates at this time, found the spirited Englishwoman hiding out on Tortuga Island a year after she had been killed trying to escape her captors. They brought her into the fold, helped her murder the pirates responsible for her ordeal, and she joined them on their ship, scouring the high seas.

Actress : the lovely Jamaican born, LA based actress Shauna Chin, most known for her role as Richard Blackburn's fiancée Claudine on 'The Blackburns of Royal Palm Estate' . Besides, I needed an Immortal woman born in Jamaica. If you don't like her I have in mind the lovely Olivia Pope from tv series Scandal.

Do you agree with this ? I hope my idea is to your liking...

G.

[Apollo1]

I have no problem at all with the adjustment, my friend. Appreciate the addition.

As an interlude to the Roman Alvarez chronicle i'm currently finalising the details of an addition to the records of the Sacred Order. Some secrets have been revealed in the Order's Black Vault, secrets that have been hidden from mankind for thousands of years; ancient scrolls detailing ancient advanced civilisations pre-dating the accepted evidence, Immortals living in communities, ruling mighty empires; a great cataclysm, the fabled First Immortals and the true origins of the Game (Memnet-Ra didn't start the Game, he hi-jacked the tradition for his own purposes) and the remains of a decapitated Immortal which the Order have kept hidden for decades who pre-dates the earliest chronicles.

Coming soon...

Apollo1

[Gardner]

You have definitely wetted my appetite, Apollo ! Meanwhile... with the first swords having been fabricated around 1600 BC in the Near East, I though best to rectify the death dates for the following Immortals :

Ashwatthama
Lord Rama
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1400 BC
Place : Hindus Valley
Victor : Either Methos or Kronos


Srivatsan Rhagavan
Background
Original cultural affiliation : Harappan
Born : 1400 BC, Indus Valley Civilisation
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Kronos and Methos, at this time
leading the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Known past associates : Kronos, Methos, Silas,
Caspian
First recorded sighting : 550. Valley of the Gange,
india. Challenged Xanthia of Melitus to a fight and
lost, infecting her with a Dark Quickening



Prometheus
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1600 BC, killed by Bellerophon in jealous
rage over Methos’ affections for him

Humbaba the Terrible
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1500 BC
Place : Uruk
Victor : Gilgamesh

Iamblichus the Akkadian
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Unrecorded
Place : Azurpiranu
Victor : Scarabeus

Japeth of Ur
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Unrecorded
Place : Mesopotamia
Victor : Gilgamesh

Kalumun of Sumer
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Unrecorded
Place : Lagash
Victor : Tizkar of Sumer

Kushtashpi
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1460 BC
Place : Assyria
Victor : Tizkar of Sumer

There was once an ancient immortal referenced in the chronicles of Magos of Ur for the 19th century BC today formally identified as a past student of Illi-Adda of Assyria and associate of the truly ancient Oromedon of Urkesh, oldest known immortal. His final fate has been found to be a quarry of Tizkar of Sumer in 1460 BC in Babylonia, thus putting a name on another unknown kill of the Sumerian headhunter.

John Mortimer III, Head Researcher
Fortress of Memnet-Ra Research Team

Lilu of Kullab
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1270 BC
Place : Kullab
Victor : Gilgamesh

Lugalbanga
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1220 BC
Place : Uruk
Victor : Gilgamesh

Menahem
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1350 BC
Place : Sumer
Victor : Tizkar of Sumer

Methos's earliest recorded appearance is placed in the Early Dynastic Period of Sumer when he met the malevolent immortal known as Tizkar of Sumer, around 2600 BC; two hundred years later he is recorded as having met an ancient immortal known as Menahem who told him that Methos, Tizkar and himself weren't exeptional beings : other existed across the world, even in lands that had yet tpo be discovered by mortals. Menahem's chronicles is nearly non-existent as is the case of most of the ancient immortals who disappeared centuries before the comign of Christ, but we do know he was killed by Tizkar in Sumer, around 1350 BC since Tizkar told Carnaban he had killed his teacher fifty years ago before he took he head.

Watcher Research, Western Asia


Ur-Nammu of Lagash
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Unrecorded
Place : Lagash
Victor : Tizkar of Sumer

Enlil-bashil
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Unrecorded
Place : Ur
Victor : Methos

Nimrod the Hunter
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Unrecorded
Place : Ur
Victor : Kronos


I also would like the secrets of the Black Vault to give us more insight into the African continent, especially Sub-Saharan countries.
There are a lot of stories to be found when studying the history of Kush, of the Empire of Mali or the Songhai Empire...

Cheers!

[Apollo1]

Okay, my friend, here's PART ONE of the Secrets of the Black Vault:

From the Records of the Sacred Order
24.10.18

We have known ever since the existence of the Order was confirmed by Joe Dawson that its Immortals have in their possession secrets and artefacts that, if revealed, could change history as we know it. Their Black Vault, overseen by the Master of the Black Books, is purported to contain the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, the Spear of Destiny, and even the Ark of the Covenant. But perhaps most valuable of all is the secrets contained in tablets, scrolls and papers the Order rescued from the Great Library of Alexandria and from other buried temples and sacred sites in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The Order has classified this information as too devastating to be revealed to mankind at this time.

The First Immortals

According to what is known to archaeologists and historians, the first civilisations emerged in around the 3rd millennium BC, although city states such as Ur were founded circa 3800 BC. The earliest Immortal in our chronicles is currently recorded as being born in Egypt in 4100 BC. The Order has since uncovered evidence that several great civilisations pre-date the current accepted historical evidence, indicating that humans have existed for much longer than previously believed, but that a Great Cataclysm occurred circa 5600 BC (possibly caused by a meteorite strike) that wiped out all evidence of these mighty empires, the source of the Great Flood myth in most world belief systems.

In the Black Vault are the skeletal remains of an Immortal the Order were unable to identify until recently. The body was recovered from an Antarctic glacier in 1981 after being discovered by a Russian research team. The team was led by a Russian military officer we identified as Immortal Konstantin Boklov, a sometime-ally of the BMR. Russia lost contact with their team and sent a rescue party which found them in late September 81, but the entire team was dead: 12 military officers, 22 civilians and Boklov, beheaded with evidence of a Quickening, and the remains they uncovered were missing. Unknown to us at the time but now confirmed, it was the work of the Order. Instead of sending a Pathfinder and Sentinel to recover the remains, they dispatched The Apostate, who slaughtered the Russians and recovered the body himself. It has taken until the present day for the Order to positively identify and date the skeleton. Found with the body was a sword made of iron and an identified metallic composition. Since the first swords were previously noted to have started being forged in 1600 BC, the Order concluded that knowledge of how to manufacture swords had been lost in the Cataclysm and had to be re-learned from scratch nearly 5,000 years later. The Order were able to estimate the time of death of the Immortal at circa 7000 BC and that he was about 2,000 years old when he died, which dated his birth as circa 9000 BC. The Order firmly believe, from the records in the Black Vault, that he was a guard at the Temple of Poseidon on the continent of Atlantis, at a time when Immortals and mortals lived peacefully side-by-side.

PART TWO to come...

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Good story there, Apollo! An Immortal from Atlantis;;; that's very good.That means Immortals were already in existence by the time of the Great Flood .
I wonder if Joe Dawson discloed his finds to the Watcher Tribune, now ran by Ravenwood and what was the reaction of Deoneces and Kyra when learning of the Sacred Order and the Immortal from Atlantis.

Here is the unlucky Konstantin Boklov. Plaed by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Red Heat. Not that it made any difference in the end, against the Apostate. The Russian terminator against the Order's own terminator.

Konstantin Boklov
Known aliases : Dimitri Ivanovitch Kaminski
Notable characteristics : 6’5’’ tall, muscular
Weapon : Imperial Russian sword
Recorded kills : None, not a pleyr fo the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Moscow, Russia
Operating on Russian Scientific station in
Antarctica
Occupation : Colonel, Army of Russia, occasional
ally of BMR; leading a Russian research team
Prior occupations : Soldier, Imperial Army of
Russia; officer, Russian Special Services
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 2 June 1981
Place : Russkaia Station, Antarctica
Victor : The Apostate, aka Kotys the Hunter
Watcher : Research, BMR Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Russian
Born : 1720, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
First death : 1763, Russian-Circassian War,
captured and tortured to death by Pieter
Kasparoff, aka Caspian
First teacher : Victor Markov
Known associates : Immortals of Mother Russia
Known past associates : Victor Markov
Known ennemies : Caspian
First recorded sighting : 1763 North Caucasus
Found and rescued by Victor Markov before
Caspian could decapitate Boklov


I did some research on Bronze Age swords, there existed copper-made daggers around 2800 BC, though I have a hard time imagining Methos, Tizkar of Sumer and Gilgamesh taking heads with this kind of weapons. Around 1700 BC swords started being manufactured, so who knows. Maybe I didn't need to write in those updates about the Bronze Age Immortals I posted.

Prometheaus 's death date is changed from 1600 BC to 1700 BC for conveneince sake as well as Carnaban killed by Tizkar around 1650 BC according to the chronicle of his teacher, Menahem, killed in 1600 BC.


Lord Rama
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1700 BC
Place : Hindus Valley
Victor : Kronos, at this time leading the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Ashwatthama
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1700 BC
Place : Hindus Valley
Victor : Methos, at this time co-leader of the
Four Hosemen of the Apocalypse

Original cultural affiliation : Hindus
Born : 31st century BC, Hindus Valley Civilisation
Harappa, present-day Punjab, Pakistan


Srivatsan Rhagavan

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Harappan
Born : 1700 BC, Indus Valley Civilisation
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Kronos and Methos, at this time
leading the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Known past associates : Kronos, Methos, Silas,
Caspian
First recorded sighting : 550. Valley of the Gange,
india. Challenged Xanthia of Melitus to a fight and
lost, infecting her with a Dark Quickening

According to Wikipedia, Bronze Age swords appeared from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea region and the Aegean, as a further development of the dagger. They were replaced by iron swords during the early part of the 1st millennium BC.Methos told MacLeod that he remembers taking his first head 5000 years ago, around 3.000 BC. How did he do that, I wonder, with the first swords being manufactured around 1700 BC... Did he used a stone axe ? Or were swords in existence around 5.000 BC and the craft for building them got lost between that time and the 16th century BC ? Unless he told yet another half-truth to the Highlander...
A possibility he that he used a copper-made dagger around 2800 BC, it's not huge but it could do the work.

[Apollo1]

Thanks, Gardner. Glad you approved of the first instalment. There are many more secrets to be revealed, including Immortal enclaves around the world, Immortals ruling mighty city states, and the tragic story that led to the discovery of Quickenings, the origins of the Game (more accident than a design), and why post-Flood Immortals know nothing about their pre-Flood progenitors.
I've spent a lot of time while caring for my parents researching in my downtime all the myths and beliefs relating to the supposed pre-Flood world, the civilisations that were supposed to have existed and found a wealth of material for a world where Immortals once co-existed and lived openly side-by-side with mortals. Many cultural myths imply that the life-spans of humans before the Flood were extremely long, in the thousands, ripe material for someone constructing an AU world filled with Immortals! Lol

Oh and thanks for the Boklov chronicle. I was kinda hoping you couldn't resist tackling that one...! Lol

Re: Methos. Is it possible he got his hands on a pre-Flood sword? The art of making them was lost in the Cataclysm, but that doesn't mean some of them couldn't have survived the tsunami to be discovered later. Would the irony have been lost in Methos wielding a weapon once carried by his Immortal progenitors.

PART TWO coming soon!

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Ah ! The origins of the Game ! Hoping this is not Zeist (wink!) I like your new ideas but I believe the less Watchers and Ravenwood know about the origins of the Game and Immortals... the better.
Still waiting for the stories you find, Apollo.
Methos and a pre-Flood sword... interesting.

Cheers!

Update :

I haven't heard from you in a while, I hope everything's okay. Here is a little pruning:

Barnaby Quick, too similar to Jasper Abraham

[Apollo1]

Thanks for your concern, Gardner. Still here. Been very busy as my parents' carer, so i haven't had a chance to do an update yet. I hope to get another instalment up in the next week if i can.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Apollo1]

Greetings, Gardner.

It's been a long time since I've visited this site. Unfortunately, my mother passed away in January after a long and difficult illness. I had to care for her and my dad full time for months so this site became the last thing on my mind. Although still feeling my mum's loss, I've started getting back into a routine again as i know it's what she would have wanted. So i'm back tentatively at the moment and look forward to your postings again, my friend.

Apollo1

[dubiousbystander]

I am so sorry for your loss.

[Gardner]

Hello Apollo. I am truly sorry for your mother's passing, my deepest sympathy to you.
I posted several updates on the previous post, I hope you find them entertaining.

My best to you.

[Gardner]

2019 DEATH LIST : Victor Place

12 January Edelray Jones Kobayashi Japan
15 February Carl Robinson Grant Makim Cuba
16 March Dorothy DSeShields Chang US Northwest


Dorothy DeShields

Most recent base of operations : Seattle, WA
Occupation : Assistant to the District Attorney
Prior occupations: Attorney at law, Law school
student, social worker, war nurse, school teacher,
indentured servant
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 16 March 2019
Place : Seattle
Victor : Wayne Chang
Watcher : Dee-Dee McCall


Lydia Melchior
Most recent base of operations : Seattle, WA
Occupation : Photographer
Prior occupations : Secret agent, Soviet Military
Intelligence; war nurse, journalist, colonist
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 17 April 2019
Place : Seattle
Victor : Wayne Chang
Watcher : Andrea Vargas



From the Chronicles of Duncan MacLeod

Nguyen Tran
Known identities : None
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Customized saber

Status
Most recent base of operations : Seattle WA
Occupation : Crimelord
Prior occupations : Crimelord delving in
prostitution and opium trafficking during Vietnam
War era
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 5 May 1985
Place : Seattle WA
Victor : Duncan MacLeod
Watcher : Sarah Lao

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Vietnamese
Born : 1102, Dai Viet, Vietnam
First death : 1132, During invasion of Vietnam by
Song Chinese
First teacher : Ha Si Loc, master weaponsmith
Known past associates : Ha Si Loc, Kage
Known ennemies : Duncan MacLeod
First recorded sighting : 1132. Vietnam
Found and mentored by Ha Si Loc

In 1975, Duncan MacLeod was in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon after his nasty business with Kage and the Khmer Rouges and he met up with Nguyen Tran who was an opium and women trafficker during the Vietnam war. MacLeod tried to protect a teenaged girl who fell in the clutches of Tran but MacLeod lost him during the chaos of Saigon’s fall. He left for the United States with his Cambodian student Maya Sokhit and the Vietnamese girl to whom he paid a full scholarship in New York state and was reunited with Tran who emmigrated to the USA in 1985 as so many Southeast Asian Immortals are prone to do.
That time, Nguyen didn’t have the chaos of a city in ruins to help him escape from the blade of MacLeod

Sarah Lao, the Chronicle of Nguyen Tran

[Apollo1]

It's good to see more updates from you, Gardner. Really cheers me up. Unfortunately my recent bereavement has given me a bit of writers block and i don't feel ready to get back into my own files just yet, but i'm still enjoying your postings, my friend.

I think i just need a bit more time and distance to be able to put things behind me and get back into things again.

I''ll get there soon, i hope.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Take your time, Apollo, I understand you well. Fianl Gathering scheduled for no later than 2025 and maybe before.

[Gardner]

Fom the records of the Tribunal


CENTRAL AMERICA/MEXICO

Derek Worth

Status
Most recent base of operations : Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
Occupation : Catholic priest
Prior occupation : Choir singer, Catholic priest,
US Marine Corps

Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 22 June 2019
Place : Santo Domingo
Victor :Grant Makim
Watcher : Frank Jenner

Background
Original cultural affiliation : African-American
Born : 1972, Portland OR USA
First death : 2010 Killed by robbers
First teacher : Nick Delgado
Known associates : Nick Delgado
First recorded sighting : 2010, Portland OR.
Found by Delgado laying dead in his church,
called his resurrection a miracle from God
After his First Death, Derek Worth found his calling in life, to serve God on Earth and do his bidding until the time of the Gathering, when the last mmortal standing will receive the Prize. Fortunately this isn’t a Game-aggressive Immortal like Damon Case : Worth knows how to enjoy the imple joys in life and consider the idea of taking the head of a fellow Immortal to be a sin : why destroy the work of God ? Immortals are like any reature on Earth, made by God and killing each other is not only a great injustice, it is also the profanation of God’s work on Earth. He has an nteresting reasoning, he is a Christian at heart, but his views of Immortality aren’t truly realistic and I do hope his faith won’t be put to the test in too harsh fashion by the next Immortal prawning for prey. After all, Derek Worth could be the next Darius, assuming survives the final Gathering.

Frank Jenner, July 2019

Grant Makim

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
Occupation : International carrier, occasional
mercenary and player of the Game
Prior occupations : GI, US army

Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 24 June 2019
Place : Kingston
Victor : Alexandra Racine
Watcher : Anita Blake

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Afro-American
Born : 1951; Montgomery AL, USA
First death : 1975; Battle of Buon Ma Thuot,
Vietnam War
First teacher : Andrew Cord
Known past associates : Andrew Cord, Silk Fever
First recorded sighting : 1975, Vietnam. Student of Andrew Cord
Dark Quickening-crazed Grant Makim whent from the Dimonical Republic to Kingston Japaica, looking for the fabled Alexandra Racine, voodoo witch and foudn his match in the person of a very skilled fighter who had enough power in her to master the demons festering in Grant's pyche, negating the forces of the DQ and giving final pezace to the cursed Makim. Even since the death of his lover, Silk Fever, Grant has been a curse to the Immortals community, killing indiscrimnately. His rampage had to be stopped. May he rest i npeace.

Anita Blake, June 2019

Lord George Byron

Status
Most recent base of operations : Chihuahua,
Mexico
Occupation : Musician, singer
Prior occcupations : Writer, poet; helping the
Greek’s insurrection against Ottoman rule
As Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors

Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 25 June 2019
Place : Mexico City, Mexico
Victor : Niko Tsaganis
Watcher : Guy Barbey

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English
Born : 1788, London England
First death : 1816, Hit by lightnings during storm
First teacher : Methos, as Dr. Benjamin Adams
Known associates : Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta,
Hannah Witneg
Known past associates : Methos
First recorded sighting : 1816, Geneva Switzerland
Found and mentored by Benjamin Adams, cross-

identified as Doctor Polidori, close friend of Byron,
Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
The battle between Tsaganis the blind Immortal and Lord Byron ended with the Immortal poet's death. Byron spent his Immortality either drunk r stoned on drugs and this kind of abuse took a toll on his sanity as well as his ability to outmaneuver Immortals in the Game. It is a wonder he ived this long.

Watcher Bureau, Mexico

The final battle of slaver Morgan Walker against Methos, aka Adam Pierson, allowed to cross-identify the elusive immortal as Doctor Benjamin Adams of New Orleans, an immortal who travelled from North America to Western Europe - France and Switzerland - where he took the name of Doctor Polidori.

In Switzerland, Adams befriended a trio of English poets, Lord Gordon Byron, Percy Bysse Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley who became the author of the infamous novel 'Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus', thus eclipsing her husband's poetry with her prose. The inspiration for the novel came from two incidents in her life : the first being the death of her infant daughter, the second the death of her friend Byron accidentally hit by lightnings during a freak storm during the quatuor's stay in Geneva where Mary wrote her novel.

Percy, Mary and 'Polidori' brought their friend's body in their home but were warned by Polidorito not call a doctor; 'our friend shall awake soon', he said. Disbeliving, the Shelleys were amazed to see Byron's body move convulsively with him screaming in pain as he awoke from his First Death. The fascinated friends listened in awe to Polidori's tales of immortals walking the eartth for centuries, fighting until only one remains, coming back from the dead time and time again. Polidori confessed her was Benjamin Adams from New Orleans and that he originally fled one of his kind, he also confessed he was thousands of years old and that indeed, the Wandering Jew and the fabled Saint-Germain existed as immortals and that many of folk tales and stories of dead people reviving were true.

Mary became so inspired by Byron's resurrection that she found in her the story of Frankenstein : a man seeking the secrets of life, who would bring immortality to the living,; a creature born from lightnings and ceaselessly tormented by his unique condition. Polidori / Adams made her swear she would disguise herstory as a work of fiction, which she did.

But we know the truth : the Modern Promotheus is Lord Byron; and iindeed he became so during the Grek War of Independance when he swore he would bring freedom to the peopleof the Balkans and participated in the Greek's rebellion against the Ottoman Empire. It is likely Polidori / Methos may have introduced Byron to Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta who accepted any help they could get, and graciously invited the poet in their covenant.

June 1825 saw the siege of Messolonghi with Deoneces, Kyra and Byron defending the city against the Ottomans; Byron disappeared during those terrible days, but is believed to be still living somewhere, bringing the fire of knowledge to mortals as he always yearned to do.

Watcher Research, Western Europe


Niko Tsaganis

Status
Most recent base of operations : Mexico City,
Mexico
Occupation : Geologist
Prior occupations : Archaeologist

Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 30 June 2019
Place : Mexico City
Victor : Quani Colotl
Watcher : Elias Koteas

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Greek
Born : 1552; Pyrgos, Greece
First death : 1570, Buried in crumbling cave while
digging ancient site near Pyrgos
First teacher : Xanthia of Melitus
Known associates : Zhang-Shi master of kung-fu,
Koji and Kokuten Tadokoro
Known past associates : Xanthia of Melitus,
Cecilia Holtzman
First recorded sighting : 1886 Thebes Egypt
Meeting immortal Zai Jie at Excavation site

Few immortals were like Tsaganis, surviving though the centuries, playing the Game, moving silently though the centuries. An handicap is already a difficult thing to live with for a mortal : blindness, deafness, missing a limb are things that tamper with your life, that mess with you and can break you easily if you aren't a strong person. And it is all the more difficult - if not impossible - to live with when you are an immortal with strangers coming after your head. There are not a lot of them. Kenny, the Von Arlon children, Maria Vaccaro, Joe Muhamad. A few others whose immortality was triggered past their prime. Tsaganis trained with oriental teachers and found the ability to deflect physical attacks using the manner his Quickening interacts with other immortals' Qs. Easy to doge a sword, to blind an opponent with pepper spray and to quickly take a head with his sword hidden in his cane. Clean, quick and swift Quani Colotl didn't deserve Niko Tsaganis : he had his men bring him to him, bound and gagged and sacrificed him in his place of worship to Quetzalcoatl, Feathered-Snake God.

Elias Koteas.

[Apollo1]

Thankyou for these latest updates, my friend. I'm enjoying the latest intrigues within the various Immortal skirmishes occurring around the world at the moment and can picture the personal tragedies, acts of revenge, savagery, strategy and vigilante justice within the clashes.

Your stories are cheering me up until i can get my mojo back.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Glad you like the stories I am posting.

Here is more...
Be well.

G.


Roberta Hitchins
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 19 May 2003
Place : Baltimore
Victor : Chang
Watcher : Paul Morrisette

Madeline La Touche
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date:7 May 2018
Place :Hamilton Harbor
Victor: Lauren Drake
Watcher: Graham McKenna

Angelique Hudson
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 18 September 2018
Place : Putskirts of Sing-Sig Prison
Victor : Lauren Drake
Watcher : Claire Howell

The long-missing and presumed dead Lauren Drake re-appeared on the Immortal scene in a spectacular fashion when she took out two powerful players of the Game who we assumed would be mong the contestants of the Final Gathering. Immortals can be a surprising lot. Research is in motion to find Immortals killed by unidenfied opponents between 1897 and 2018 who may have been killed by the red-head pirate.

Watcher Bureau, US Northeast



Sigmund Holthaus

Most recent base of operations : No fixed adress
Homebased in Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
Occupation : Profiler, hunting serial killers
Prior occupations : Law enforcement, mercenary
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 June 2018
Place : Pretoria
Victor : Callestina Oyini
Watcher : Gaspar Andries

Holthaus was investigating the crimes of a local serial killer in Pretoria, suspecting foul play from an Immortal, the three vicims having been found butchered and decapitated. He was wrong in the sense it was a mortal one who did the deed, however he did meet an Immortal looking for a good kill, in the person of Callestina Oyini, former disciple of Callestina of Rome, lover of Grayson and General Dariius in ancient times. Sigmund Holthaus is no more.

June 2018
Watcher Bureau, Southern Africa

[Gardner]

Ataui the Huntress
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 8 March 2014
Place : Bahr El Gazal
Victor : Apolo Obote

Ataui had a revenge to take in the Game, against men, against the brutality of Immortals, if only so to rid herself from the shame she suffered when she was being raped by Apolo Obote and his men in 1994. So she played the Game, she hunted those of her kind, pickign the best ones and acquiring the power she needed to face the man who still tormented her in her nightmares. She killed six that we know of but that wasn’t enough to face Apolo Obote.

Watcher Bureau, Eastern Africa




Stanislav Karloff

Status
Most recent base of operations : Snow Valley,
Berkhire Mountains, MA USA
Occupation : Private school headmaster
Prior occupations : Puppet ruler, Bulgaria,
Ottoman Empire; kingmaker, soldier

Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1 July 2019
Place : Staten Island
Victor : Vitalya Lobanova
Watcher : Julian Rath

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Bulgarian
Born : Bulgaria, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known past associates : Andre Korda, Artur
Drakov, Grayson, Callestina, Bernard Crimmins
(aka Bukarev the Ogre)
Known ennemies : Oleg Karparov, Hans Kerschner

First recorded sighting : 811. Pliska, Bulgaria
Battle of Pliska fought between Byzantines and
Bulgaria, betrayed the Bulgarians to Byzantium

Stanislav Karloff hides behind many walls as many Immortals are prone to do, usually trying to avoid the Game, a tragic opast, former lovers or old ennemies. The bespectacled, stern headmaster is rumored to be an ogre among the studenrt body here at the school; little do the students know this is a 1200-years old Immortal with his own fear of death, of the Final Gathering and that his own end may come in a time when his students turn into middle-aged men and women. He envies their mortality and the mark they can live on the world because though he has helped build the Ottoman Empire in his youth, he has seen the Ottomans Empire crumble like dust and he remembers the old saying “I will show you fear in a handful of dust”.
The ogre of Snow Valley is an empty shell, his dreams of conquest vanished in a puff of smoke, waiting for a player of the Game to come after him and finally deliver him from his torments.
Julian Rath, Snow Valley MA

November 2018

Stanislav Karloff was in Staten Island waiting for the ferry to take him to Manhattan when he sensed the presence of one of his kind, who turned out to be teenaged Vitalya Lobanova, an woman hiding in the frame of a young girl, specialized in Immortals preying on women and children. She debunked countless sex-rings in the past seventy years and now that the Gathering is on she well intends to survive.

She also had a score to settle with Karloff who, in 1954, slaughtered scores of innocent Bulgarian civilians while serving the Communist regimen. Vitalya's foster family was among hte dead and she swore to make Karloff pay someday. The day came, she went like a fury against the old man : Imagine a diminutive blode girl going like a cyclone against the weathered old man. It was impossible but Vitalya didn't care if this was possible or not and she won in the end.

Watcher Bureau, US Northeast



Vitalya Lobanova

Status
Most recent base of operations : Boston MA
Occupation : Posing as underage prostitute,
debuking prostitution rings held by Immortals
Prior occupations : Operative, BMR, Baltic
Irregular fighting with the resistance during
Soviet War in Afghanistan (1985-1989);
ex-slave, 14th century Russia;

Roster of Immortals Status : Active

Background
Original cultural affilation : Russian
Born : 1340, Grand Duchy of Moscow
First death : 1355, Black Plague outbreak
First teacher : Andre Korda, the Siberian Tiger



Aletha Brown

Status
Most recent base of operations : New-York NY
Southern Harlem
Occupation : Bag lady
Prior occupatiuons : Ditto

Roster of Immortals Status : Active

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Afro-American
Date of birth : 1860, New-York NY USA
First death : 1890, Stabbed on the streets by
vagrant during foiled rape
First teacher : Ursula Katz, cross-identified as Kellistra
Stay tuned for more!

[Gardner]

The legend of the Seven Knights of Christendom truly commences by 650 , when shadowy immortal Metopholus, since then cross-identified as Methos, gathered six immortal heroes from all parts of Western Europe as help to hunt the legendary Xanthia of Melitus (aka Rebecca of Mycenae) at this time a thrall of the dreaded Dark Quickening. Xanthia received it from an old and evil immortal in India and for one century, roared and ramapaged across two continents, with Methos hot on her trails, trying to prevent her from causing more deaths. She put thousands of mortals to the sword, killed at least six immortals we know of and damaged her reputation to the extant her former disciples went in hiding, dreading the days she would come after them.
Finally, Xanthia was captured by the Knights of Christendom, who combined their strenghts against the forces of darkness. They fought many evil immortals, but it was the first time they had to face one of the most benevolents of their kind, the legendary Rebecca,keeper of the Stone of Methuselah and former lover of King Agamemnon. It is Methos who guided his allies to a holy spring where Xanthia was forced to confront her inner demons, her good side eventually prevailing. The six holy knights were the one she had to thank and truly, this was their most acomplished feat : bringing Xanthia back from the darkness ot the light.
The seventh Knight, known as Saitn Denis couldn't be present at that time since he had met his Final Deaht by the sword of General Darius in Paris, circa 451. However, for centuries he stodd as one of Europe's greatest forces of good on hte Immortal scene.

Watcher Research, Western Europe



Ellwyl ap Carnedyr
Known aliases : Llewellyn of Carnavon,
Alexander Plath, John Carnedyr, Elisha Cairn
Cross-identified as David of Wales
Weapon : Basillard sword
Inconclusive fight against Martin Hyde, 1093 &
1687; Robert Preston, 1471; Damon Case, 1495;
Theodo of Lombardy, 1547

Status
Most recent base of operations : Cardiff, Wales
Occupation : Archaeologist
Prior occupations : Aristocrat, warrior, tutor to
sons of nobility, duelling instructor, adventurer
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 10 May 1998
Place : Cardiff
Victor : Lucius Oranius Capito
Watcher : Owen ab Glyndyr

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Welsh
Born : 568 ; Dyfed, Pembrokeshire Wales
First death : 616; Battle of Chester, Commander of
Welsh forces defeated by Northumbrians
First teacher : Caradoc ap Bran
Known past associates : Katherine, Deirdre ap Rhys, John Stoppard, Gustav Erlander,
Charles of Strasbourg, Gareth of Gwynned, Fionnula of Dumbarton, Brownen Hughes,
Aeronwen of Caerwent, Caradog ap Bran, Peter Hale, Rhys Ifans, Champions of Christendom
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra with the
Champions of Christendom


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Andrew the Apostle
Known aliases : Saint Andrew of Scotland
Notable characteristics : « Holy Immortal »
Weapon : Persian shamsir

Status
Most Most recent base of operations : Castle of
Soure, Coimbra, Portugal
Occupation : Templar knight, helping fellow
Knights escape persecutions from King Philip IV
Prior occupation : Errant knight, righter of wrongs
As part of the Champions of Christendom
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1307 Hunt for the Templar Knights order
by King Phiilip IV of France
Place : Coimbra, Portugal
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Immortals of Myth

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Levantine Christian
Born : 5 BC; Galilea, Roman Empire
First death : 45 AD; Christian martyr, crucified
First teacher : Dyonisios the Aeropagite
Known associates : Champions of Christendom
Known past associates : Dyonisios, Methos,
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra with the
Champions of Christendom


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Dyonisius the Aeropagite
Known aliases : Emrys, Eleazar Ben Dodai,
Genonn Gruadsolus, Lycurgus of Sparta,
Vohuman, Lycurgus of Athens, Dyonisios of
Ephesus, Saint Denis of Paris
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Ground
Weapon : French medieval broadsword, discarded

Status
Most recent base of operations : Paris
Occupation : Priest
Prior occupations : Druid, philosopher, politician,
righter of wrongs with the Knights
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 451
Place : Paris
Victor : Darius
Watcher : Research, Immoirtals of Myth

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Unrecorded
Born : Pre-Christ era, undetermined date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Undetermined
Known associates : Methos, Cassandra, The
Sleepers of Ephesus, the Champions of
Christendom, Xanthia of Miletus, the Knights of Christendom
Known past associates : Codrus of Athens,
Aganesthos of Athens, Karmanshar, Tomyris,
Deoneces of Sparta, Cleophon of Athens,
King David’s Mighty Warriors
First recorded sighting : 326 BC. Athens, Greece
Encounter witj Karmanshar and Tomyris



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George of Lydda
Known aliases : Saint George of England
Notable characteristics : « Holy Immortal »
Weapon : Ascalon sword, according to legend

Status
Most Most recent base of operations : Castle of
Soure, Coimbra, Portugal
Occupation : Templar knight, helping fellow
Knights escape persecutions from King Philip IV
Prior occupation : Errant knight, righter of wrongs
As part of the Champions of Christendom
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1307 Hunt for the Templar Knights order
by King Phiilip IV of France
Place : Coimbra, Portugal
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Immortals of Myth

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Levantine Christian
Born : 280; Lydda, Syria Palaestina, Roman Empire
First death : 303, Christian martyr, executed for
not making offerings to the Roman gods
First teacher : Andrew the Apostle
Known associates : Champions of Christendom
Known past associates : Dyonisios, Methos
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra with the
Champions of Christendom


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John the Apostle
Known aliases : John of Patmos, John the
Evangelist, Fray Juan de Palos, Jacob Cohen
Cross-identified as James, son of Zebedee
Notable characteristics : Undetermined
Weapon : Temmplar sword, discarded
Missing since 650, Destruction of Timgad

Status
Most recent base of operations: Mobile throughout
Middle East and the Orient; homebased in Sacred
Order safehouse, Jerusalem, Israel
Occupation: Pathfinder, Sacred Order
Prior occupation : Missionnary, martyr, disciple of
Christ, adventurer, Templar knight
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Special Projects, Order of the Sacred
Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Levantien Christian
Born : c. 6 AD; Galille, Roman Empire
First death : c. 30, Killed by Roman soldiers
First teacher : Prophet Elijah
Known past associates : Lazarus, the Three
Nephites, the Twelve Apostles of Mexico, the
Champions of Christendom
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, ESA
First recorded sighting : 100 Ephesus, Anatolia
Martyrised by the Romans, encounter with Dyonisius


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Malcus of Ephesus

Known aliases : Melos of Sparta, Martin Castro
Lacroze, Dominguo De Jesus, Toussaint Gerthory,
Frater Corrado, cross-identified as Anthony of
Antioch, Antony of Padua, Fernando Martin de
Bulhoes
Notable characteristics : Lives on Holy Ground
Weapon : Never seen carrying any
Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Canton of Zurich,
Switzerland
Occupation : Benedictine monk
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Brother Antoine

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Anatolian
Born : 230, Ephesus Anatolia (present-day Turkey)
First death : 250, Entombed in cave, suffocated to
death
First teacher : Dyonisios the Aeropagite
Known past associates : the Sleepers of Ephesus,
Darius, Xanthia of Melitus, Hermine of Kars, the
Chamions of Christendom
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 490 Paris, meeting Darius,
identified as one of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus


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Seamus of Athlone
Known aliases : Seamus O'Del, James Hanigan,
Seamus Finnigan; cross-identified as Finn Eces
and as Saint Patricik of Ireland
Notable characteristics : ‘Holy Immortal’
Weapon : Celtic broadsword
Recorded kils : Abel Attwood, usualy not a player of
the Game
Inconclusive fight against Corin McGeary, 1167;
Conan MacCartaigh, 1270; Devlin Halloran, 1712

Status
Most recent base of operations : Limerick, Ireland
Occupation : Bard
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Sean Cohan

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Hibernian
Born : 413, Athlone Hibernia (present-day Ireland)
First death : 433, Killed by freak lighting bolt during
a storm
First teacher : Orin Clerebold
Known associates : Etain of the Second Look,
Pharamond, Hob Gadling, Ishtar of Erech, Methos,
Katherine of Samothrace, Xanthia of Melitus
Known past associates : Damian Thackaray,
Richard Sharkey, Gerald O’Flynn, Beatha of
Clontarf, Sean Burns, Shawn Lowery, Loreena
McKennit, Morven of Strathclyde, Siobhan of Cork,
Damaen of Wexford, the Knights of Christendom

Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra

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From the records of the Tribunal

Echijole Jimah

Most recent base of operations : Pointe-Noire,
Republic of the Congo
Occupation : Manager/CEO, Anziku Copper Minings Production
Prior occupations : Anziku warrior-woman;

Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 8 July 2019
Place : Pointe-Noire
Victor : Anansi the Spider
Watcher : Zebedia Kimbé

Echijole Jimah lived by the sword, a weapon to which she had a mystical connection, feeling her sword was alive and telling her which battle to choose and which to walk away from. As is common in Africa, animism is a prevalent belief in which people do believe inanimate objects have a soul. We often wondered wether Kastagir’s sword mourned its master after the Kurgan killed him. There are tales of ancient weapons which received the souls of their departed masters and when picked by a new master, somehow the Immortal was connected to the Immortals who once possessed those swords. When the Final Gathering finally comes, all of those beautiful swords will be orphaned and will mourn.

Watcher Research, African myths.



Apollo, I did some changes to the Black Friars breakout catastrophe...


From Watcher Bureau, Great Britain

To Ravenwood

Date : 17.09.2013


Breakout at Black Friar ! Under the command of tAlfgar of Winchester, extremely dangerous Immortals have escaped from their confinement, The attached files describe who those Immortals are to be approached with extreme caution : Alfgar of Winchester, Jennifer De Chaillot, Jacob Kell , Loretta Lynn, Kieson MacDougall, Karolina Olin.

Carolyn Mortimer and Emilie Valentin have been confirmed dead, killed by Kell and Alfgard.


Carolyn Mortimer
Most recent base of operations : Swansea, Wales
Occupation : Director/ chief psychiatrist, Black
Friar Asylum
Prior occupations : Psychiatrist, medical student,
aristocrat, music teacher
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 17 November 2013
Place :Black Friars
Victor : Jacob Kell
Watcher : Sylvia Krause, Black Friar Chronicle

Emilie Valentin
Most recent base of operations : Swansea, Wales
Occupation : Medical nurse, Black Friar Asylum
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 17 November 2013
Place :Black Friars
Victor : Alfgar of Winchester
Watcher : Tom Cullen

Robert Henderson
Most recent base of operations : Dundee, Scotland
Occupation : SIS agent, serial killer
Prior occupation: Accident & Emergency doctor,
Royal Edinburgh Hospital; Operative, SIS
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date :30 November 2013
Place Dundee, Scotland
Victor : Eadwilf SIS, Quickenign lost
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team


From Watcher Bureau, Great Britain

To Ravenwood

Date : 30.09.2013


The SIS warned Meghan MacKay against Robert Henderson, urging her to stay clear of him : this was a Dark Quickening alert. But Meghan listed to her own heart, not to her head and looked for her past teacher. She didn't need to look for him, he alrerady was hunting her.
When they faced each other, Meghan tried to takl him out of his madness, unfortunately she was adressing the MacTaggert bits that festered in Hendrson's psyche. You do not reason a raving psychopaht like Kevin MacTaggert.
And when Henderson drew his sword, Bang ! He was shot from range by Raymond d'Amboise, the SIS' own master sniper who fled in a hurry before he could be impancted by Henderson’s dissolving energies.

Naturally the deaths of Immortals killed by the Black Friar escapees as well as the deaths of the escapees themselves happen in 2013. As a matter of fact, the Immortal War was the massive eartthquake which triggered the tsunami of the Gathering the Immortals are currently living through.