Homemade Watchers Chronicles

[Gardner]

Possibly so. Moot point though since most of Endgme has been negated by Panzer/Davis. I don't believe in those numbers anywxay, Kell wasn't the Kurgan.

[dubiousbystander]

Kell was supposed to have taken over 600 heads. I always think a lot of those must have been inexperienced young Immortals.

[Gardner]

lol I always had way too many characters on my listings... to think I criticized Marvel Comics for their overabundant roster of mutant characters ! I now have a total of 3.300 Immortals on my lists.

A few adjustements ...

Pamela Cetu

Background
Original cultural affiliation : South African
Born : 1968; Hankey township, Eastern Cape,
Republic of South Africa
First death : 2000; Black lesbian woman raped
and murdered by male negro, ‘corrective rape’
First teacher : Sheila Meintjes

Inah Gaetswe

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Mapungubwe
Born : 1192; Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Greater
Zimbabwe
First death : 1220, During fall of the Kingdom
First teacher : Fire from the Sky
Known past associates : Fire from the Sky

Alice Lenshina

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Angoni people
Born : Present day Zambia, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded

Griffith Mxgange

Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 19 November 1981
Place : Umlazi, Kwazulu-Natal
Victor : Girk Coejemans


Restoring some interesting characters from my previous list. Sorry for playing with your nerves, Apollo... but I do believe some characters deserve another go in the Watcher's Chronicles. I also chose to remove the Hellfire Club's kills from my list because I already have way too many British Immortals and statistically it didn't feel right.

AFRICA

Hussein Khali, Mama Adorn, Tantini Kahindu, Asanku, Boimah, Mtyela Kasanda, Robert Castelli, Laurent Kaliganshe,
Andy Mulumba, Thomas Preston, Tangaki

Personal favotites because earliest creations :
Fanta Damba, Moon Mandele, Danielle Foccart, Zé Kalanga, William Sumaye

SOUTH AMERICA

Lucimar Botelho, Maritsa Bocanegra, Velia Fiz, Kotehoho, Gustavo Nicolich, Thelma Frixione, Marc Mariano, Arjendo of Castille, Adriano Pacheco, Miguel de Boaventura, Iriana Cabrera, Alexei Miguez, Xuoco Elcano
The Koriand Expedition Theophile Koriand
The Koriand Expedition Cypriano de Ghent
The Koriand Expedition Mark Falconer
The Koriand Expedition Harrison Goldberg
The Koriand Expedition Jack Hernandez
The Koriand Expedition Eleanor Holland

Asnaku

Most recent base of operations : Danakil
Depression, Afar Regfional State, Ethiopia
Occupation : Nomad
Prior occupations : Warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive

Laurent Kaliganshe
Most recent base of operations : Nairobi, Kenya
Occupation : Miner, Kenya mining industry
Prior occupations : Miner, Dakar Mining Industries,
DR of Congo gold mining
Roster of Immortals Status: Active

Danielle Foccart
Most recent base of operations : Abidjan,
Ivory Coast
Occupation : Government operative
Prior occupations : Graphical arts student, school
teacher
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive (since I deleted Myriam Kenya)
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Bamba Mamadou

First recorded appearance : 1895, Ivory Coast
Student and lover of Dennis Vachon


Fanta Damba
Most recent base of operations : Nairobi, Kenya
Occupation : Librarian
Prior occupations : Research work, writer
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Reearch, Eastern Africa

[Apollo1]

Well, there's quite a few there that aren't on my lists anyway....! Lol

Apollo1

[Apollo1]

Great new update, my friend.
I tend to agree that there are too many clans of Immortals. Realistically one or two may be the best way to go, since Immortals are a rare breed anyway, even in Africa.
Good to see the Missing list being reduced also.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Hello Apollo.

The Afar women and Himba people : fascinating and beautiful people, though I have no idea what to do with them.
'Kill your darlings" is a lesson learnt from Stephen King if you know what I mean... Too many clans anyway.
Some updates on a few MI.A Immortals :


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 : Deceased
Date : 460
Place : Punjab
Victor : Methos
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, Katherine 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 you, 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 make 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 peninsula 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.
For once I took responsibility for my actions and tracked down my Frankenstein monster to his lair and defeated his followers in combat before I took his head. The creepy man tried to pretend innocence but I knew who he was behind the façade of innocence.
Amanda told me about her wayward “son” Kenneth, the story of my apprentice truly mirrors hers.

From the journals of Adam Pierson, 2017


Asvattha of Kabul Shahi
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Dellusions of godhood
Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Never carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kashmir Valley
Pakistan
Occupation : Holy woman, shrine keeper
Prior occupations : Goddess
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1239
Place : Kashmir Valley
Victor : Lobon Naro-Boishung
Watcher : Research, Central Asia

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Kabul Shahi
Born : 10th century; Kabul Valley, Afghanistan
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Abu Ishaq al Istagkhri, geographer,
cross-identified as Ibn al-Talia of Yarkash
Known past associates : Ibn al-Talia of Yarkash
First recorded sighting : 921. Kabul Shahi, Eastern
Afghanistan. Found by Ibn al-Talia who failed at
explaining her the rules of Immortality

Ibn Al Talia of Yarkash is the Immortal who found the origins of Asvattha of Kabul Shahi, an Indian woman born in Afghanistan in the 10th century and was known as a holy woman living on Holy Grounds unaware of her own Immortality. She lived an a neveraging miracle worker, passing herself as a half-Goddess, healing the sick and infirm of mind, helping the poor and suffering and relying on strong men to protect her from agressive people, swords in hands. None of those people could challenge her directly and she could never fathom why they would. Then one day, in 1239, she was found by headhunter Lobon Naro Boshung who sought the enlightenment of the Quickening and felt Asvattha would be a good jumping-on point in his career as a takenr of heads. Lobon was clearly enlightened this day and kept on playing the Game. Legend has that Asvattha lived on in his head and kept him company for seven hundred years, driving him nearly insane with the cackling laughter resonating in his head.

Watcher Bureau, Southern Asia





Mina Hernandes
Known aliases : Maria Rosa
Notable characteristics : Teenaged immortal
Weapon : Basket-hilted saber
Recorded kills : Miguel Lucena de Boaventura,
army deserter and rapist, passing himself as a monk

Status
Most recent base of operations : Sao Paulo barrio,
Brazil
Occupation : Street urchin, occasional thief
Prior occupations : Prositute, village girl leading guerilleros during Contestado War, 1912-1916
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 5 May 1959
Place : Sao Paulo
Victor : Undetermined
Watcher : Research, South America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Portuguese
Born : 1812; Porto, Portugal
First death : Killed during Portuguese Civil War
of 1828-1834
First teacher : Vasco Balboa
Known associates : Viola Blanco
Known past associates : Vasco Balboa, Auggusto Sampaio as her second teacher
First recorded sighting : 1836. Colonial Brazil
Disciple of Vasco Balboa

Mina Hernandes was last seen in the barrio of Sao Paulo when her Watcher reported her missing. She had been hunted by Martin Hyde who sought the head of her teacher, Augusto Sampaio, but Mina is no cheese : she learnt to evade the attentions of the occasional hunter and quickly made her way to the nearest bus station while Hyde lost himself in the barrio. She was seen being decapitated in 1959 in Sao Paulo by an unidentified male Immortal who hunted her down and got more luck than Martin Hyde.
Mina Hernandes also has been cross-identified as elusive freedom fighter Manuela Simoes, a Portuguese Immortal about the same physical age and petite built as Mina though cross-referencing with the chronicle of Augusto Sampaio, Mina's alleged first teacher. As Mina, Manuiela seemingly discraded her sword nad the violence of the Game, preferring a more peazceful lifestyle.

Watcher Bureau, South America

7 May 1959

The elusive Maria Rosa who led the Contestado War of 1912-1916 in Brazil and has been missing for the past century has been conclusively identified as Manuela Simoes, a Portugal-faring lady in waiting who fled an abusive home in Braga where she was the clandestine “mistress” of her foster father. Once adopted at the eight of five, she was constantly abused since the age of six to sixteen until she finally stabbed her father to death and ran away from home to live on the streets as a whore before Immortal Vasco Balboa rescued her from a life of misery. Vasco sensed the pre-immortal in her diminutive frame and recuited her in the Portuguese Civil War of 1828 during which she met her First Death. Vasco and Manuela left Portugal for Colonial Brazil where they were last seen before disapearing in 1838 in the jungles, following an exploration party. Vasco re-appeared in Bogota, Colombia in 1864 where he was killed by Immortal Escobar Gallego, his companion wasn’t seen with him and was presumed dead. One never should presume an Immortal dead before seeing his or her body. Manuela was active, alive and well in Brazil where she killed a local sexual predator, Miguel de Boaventura before diseappearign again in 1916.

Watcher Bureau, Brazil



Myrine of Paeonia
Known aliases : Timocleia of Thebes,
Arachidamia of Sparta, cross-identified as Shote
Galica, Nora of Kelmandi
Notable characteristics : The Helen of Albania,
a woman of great beauty, triggering a war
Weapon : Albanian short sword
Missing between 272 BC and 1637

Status
Most recent base of operations : Pyrrhus, Sparta
Prior occupation : Leading Spartan warriors during
Siege of Pyrrhus with Kyra of Sparta, Resistance
fighter, leading 300 women in war against the
Ottomans alongside Lek Dukaghin
Date : 1927 Fighting Serbian opression
Place : Drenica, Albania
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Southern Europe

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Paeonian
Born : 6th century BC, Kingdom of Paeona,
Macedonia
First death : 521-486 BC, Durign subjugation of
Paeonians by armies of Darius the Great
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known past associates : Deoneces of Sparta,
Lek Dukaghin, Tatormir Andelac
First recorded sighting : 335 BC Thebes, Greece
During pillage of Thebes by Thracian army,
murdered the Thracian captain who raped her
Encounter with Deoneces of Sparta

According to Plutarch's biography of Alexander the Great, when his forces took Thebes during Alexander's Balkan campaign of 335 BC, Thracian forces pillaged the city, and a captain of the Thracian forces raped an Immortal woman named Timocleia, identified as such by Cleophon of Athens, at this time a commander in the Macedonian cavalry and serving on Alexander's command staff. After raping her, the captain asked if she knew of any hidden money. She told him that she did, and led him into her garden, and told him there was money hidden in her well. When the Thracian captain stooped to look into the well, Timoclea pushed him into the well, and then hurled heavy stones into the well until the captain was dead.
Timoclea was seized by the Thracian soldiers and brought before Alexander the Great. She comported herself with great dignity and told Alexander that her brother was Theagenes, last commander of the Theban Sacred Band, who died "for the liberty of Greece" at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC, defeated by Alexander's father Philip of Macedon. Alexander was so impressed with Timocleia that he ordered her and her children released and she was not punished for killing the Thracian captain.
Timoclea became Cleophon'slover from 335 to 326 BC and parted ways with him, nt seen by Watchers before 272 BC in Pyrrhus, Sparta, when she lad Spartan warriors alongside Deoneces (Cleophon's disciple) and Kyra of Sparta. The three Immortals fought side by side and also did a luscious menage à trois in the bed between two battles.

Watcher Research, Balkans

Nora of Kelmandi was last seen in 1927 with Tatomir Andelac in a heated argument with the disilusionned immortal who didn’t belive in the cause of Albania anymore and wanted to make a profit from the weapons he sold to the Albanian freedom fighters. The two immortals didn’t draw swords but parted on bad terms, Tatomir wasn’t conviced by Nora’spassion nor was he seduced by her good looks and charisma, I guess not even sexual prowesses are enough when you look upon your past idealism with contemps and disgust the way Tatomir did. The poor man disappeared in 1942 in the concentration camp of Branjica, maybe he reunited with Nora in that hellish place.

Watcher Research, Balkans


All deaths post Maxi-Gathering, same pace as in recent years.

G.


Adaese Ifeanaso
Known aliases : Nwakego Chidiebele
Notable characteristics : Never seen without the
other members of the Ifeanaso Family
Weapon : Ashanti sword
Missing since 1896, French-Dahomey War

Status
Most recent base of operations : Buenos Aires,
Argentine
Occupation : Operatic singer
Prior occupations : Indentured servant, Catholic
nun, teacher; warrior, Amazons of Dahomey
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 29 August 2016
Place : Buenos Aires
Victor : Gabriela de Savedra
Watcher : Research, Ifeanaso Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Nigerian, Igbo people
Born : Nigeria, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teachers : Chialuka & Chidimma Ifeanaso
Known associates : Ifeanaso Family, Olapede
Chukwu, Orisa Kagame , N’nonmiton Sisters
First recorded sighting : 14th century. Nri Kingdom,
Nigeria. Encounter with Olapede Chukwu during
collapse of Nri Kingdom subsequent to European
colonisation



Tsutsui no Jōmyō Meishū
Known aliases : Posing as his own descendant
Notable characteristics : Unkillable Warrior-Monk
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known. Inconclusive fight
against Tomeo Gozen, 1180
Missing since 1477, Orin War

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
Occupation : Warrior monk, righter of wrongs,
Muromachi Period
Prior occupations : Soldier, traveller in service to
Minamoto Clan, involved in the 12th century
Genpei Wr and 15hth century Onin War
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1689
Place : Kyoto
Victor : Kurusan Yasuke
Watcher : Research, Immortals of Japan

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Japanese
Born : Japan, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Master Nakano
Known past associates : Nakano, Junichiro Seiko
Known ennemies : Tomoe Gozen, Sukekuni
Sisters (reported to have seduced them later on)
First recorded sighting : 1180 Battle of Uji
Fighting the Tara Clan while withstanding extreme
injuries, encounter with Tome Gozen

And loosing off his twenty-four arrows like lightning flashes he slew twelve of the Heike soldiers and wounded eleven
more. One arrow yet remained in his quiver, but flinging away his bow he stripped off his quiver and threw that after it,
cast off his footwear and springing barefoot on to the beams of the bridge he strode across. [...] With his naginata he
mows down five of the enemy, but with the sixth the naginata snaps asunder in the midst, and flinging it away, he
draws his tachi, wielding it in the zig-zag style, the interlacing, cross, reversed dragonfly, waterwheel and eight-sides-
at-once styles of swordfighting, thus cutting down eight men; but as he brought down the ninth with an exceedingly
mighty blow on the helmet the blade snapped at the hilt and fell with a splash into the water beneath. Then, seizing
his tantō, which was the only weapon he had left, he plied it as one in a death fury.
It is said that Tsutsui counted 63 arrows sticking out of his armor at the end of his stand, which is not unlikely
considering the structure and material composition of samurai armor.

From the Tale of the Heike Monogatari
Watcher Research, Japan

[Apollo1]

Thanks for the latest updates, my friend. Good work.
Bautista was quite a prolific player of the Game...

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

No, there wouldn't be a lot of those clans, especially considering that up until the 1950's, Africa in its entirety was a demographical pigmie compared to Europe.
I have 420 Africa-born Immortals on my lists, considerably less than Asian and Middle Eastern Ones (990) and much, much less than Europeans now 1529 all told, so I think it is safe to assume 8 groups/clans/families of Immortals are enough, especially if you consider a total of 34 Immortals make up those clans. There were the Amazons of Dahomey cadre of Immortal women too, now disbanded, the Ifeanaso family. Let's say 51 Immortals with the new extinct Chagga/Maasai family, which take us to 11 percent. Maybe too much.

I am noit even counting the Brotherhood of Ra, not finding them truly plausible after all. However, do not forget African people live in collective fashion, survival through numbers. Hence maybe, the need for Immortal clans. The Afar and Himbas ... well, they should have gone extinct long ago, however they are too beautiful and fascinating not to exist on my lists (wink!)
IMO they survived so long by staying isolated from the rest of the world, few Immortals know about their existence.

The Ifeanaso got killed because they travelled far from home and met a lot of agressive Immortals, same story for the Dahomey amazons, the Fulani Clan, etc..

Cheers

G.


Updating M.I.A listings


Malek Ben Mansour
Known aliases : Hussein Abu Shakra
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Moorish broadsword
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Bourail,
New Caledonia
Occupation : Businessman
Prior occupations : Rebelling against French
colonial rule; part of Algerians deportees to New
Caledonia,
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1887
Place : Bourail
Victor : Leopold Kambaré
Watcher : Maro Atef

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Algerian
Born : 1833; Oran, Algeria
First death : 1870-1871 Algerian uprisign against
French colonial rule, killed by French soldier
First teacher : Hemmuc Ben Bella
Known past associates : Hemmuc Ben Bella
First recorded sighting : 1871. New Caledonia
encounter with Leopold Kambaré

With Leopold Kambaré having killed and eaten Ulysses Dyson in 1849 it is our opinion that Malek Ben Mansour did have a short lifespan on the Immortal scene after his encounter with Kambaré in 1871 and didn’t make much of his Immortality. Since he never re-appeared since that time, we may write him off as dead, killed and eaten by the Caledonian cannibal.

Watcher Bureau, Oceania


Rewi Te Huia
Known aliases : Beti Karatiana
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Maori tribal spear
Recorded kills : None known, but aware of the
existence of the Game and of foreign Immortals

Status
Most recent base of operations : Chatham Islands
New Zealand
Occupation : Tribal leader, Moriori people, reiried
from warfare having embraced pacifism with the
Morioris
Prior occupations : Ditto, warrior-woman
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1835 Fighting invading North Taranaki
Maori
Place : Chatham Islands
Victor : Maori leader, Quickenign lost
Watcher : Research, Oceania

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Polynesian
New-Zealand Maori
Born : circa 1460; Wellington region, New Zealand
First death : circa 1480, Killed in earhtquake
First teacher : Undetermined
Known past associates : Terence of Coventry
First recorded sighting : 1769. New Zealand
Found by Terence of Coventry who acompanied
Captain James Cook expedition, claimed to have
lived for three hundred years

In 1769 Terence of Coventry met Immortal Rewi Te Huia, a New Zealand native who, though living away from usual commercial routes, was aware of the existence of other Immortals and kept a strong arm, a sharp eye and an even sharper spear. Terence didn’t dare challenge the woman in the Game but challenge her in bed and was quite apt at convincing the little hellion that not all Western Immortals are bad fellows. In 1835 she had embraced pacifism, and may have longed for the return of the charming Englishman who stole her heart from her with her virginity.

From the Chronicle of Terence of Coventry



Princess Chiomara
Known aliases : Chiara of Galatia
Notable characteristics : Fiery temperament, no-
nonsensical and intelligent woman
Weapon : Celtic broadsword

Status
Most recent base of operations : Galatia, Roman
Province
Occupation : Warrior woman
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
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 : Marcus Constantine
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Unrecorded
Born : Unrecorded
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 husband, stating 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 killed her in lcombat and that her physical description didn’t match Cassandra’s. So who knows. My nemesis had scores to settle with rapists of all kind, 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



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 : Deceased
Date : 626 Siege of city by Sassanids and Avars
Field Watcher killed by Sassanids
Place : Constantinople
Victor : Ari al-Muzaiyin
Watcher : Research, Western Asia

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, Bozidara of Bohemia
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.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson



Yzebel of Arzawa
Known 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 :: Deceased
Date : 678 BC Mermnads Dynasty. Murdered by
Teushpa in a fit of jealouy, final fate unknown
Place : Kingdom of Lydia
Victor : Teushpa of Cimmeria
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
First recorded sighting : 1320 BC Durign an
alliance between Arzawan Kingdom and
Mycenean Greece against Hittite Empire, lover of
Aganesthos of Tiryns

Yzebel of Arzawawas 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 one 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 deciphered 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 laid beheaded, her Quickening forever his.

From the Journals of Adam Pierson




Ta Duy Quang
Known aliases : Võ Khắc Triệu
Notable characteristics : Criminally insane,
believed himself the incarnation of Sakra, ruler of
Heaven
Weapon : Customized sabre
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dai Viet,
present-day Hanoi, Vietnam
Occupation : Mandarin, leading the Ta Duy Quang
rebellion against Dai Viet government
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1516
Place : Hanoi
Victor : Xuan
Watcher : Research, Xuan Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Vietnamese
Born : Vietnam, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Xuan
First recorded sighting : 1070. Hanoi, Dai Viet
Architect in charge of building the Temple of
Littérature in Hanoir, used slave workforce, in
conflict against Xuan

Ta Duy Quang had a ring one each finger of his hands and a finger in each illegal dealings in Vietnam : gamblings, prostitution, opium, contract killing, you name it. A corrupt official who thought he descended from Godhood because of his Immortality. He believed he would reign over Vietnam until the end of time, and for five hundred years he did, creatign an age of darkness that din’t seem to end, leading an army of assassisn and mercenaries he called the One Hundred Monkeys Army, invicible warriors whose strenght was boosted with drugs, generations after generations of men and women corrupted to their very core. It took the strenght of several Southeastern Asian heroes led by Xuan, then married to Viet rebel Tran Cao, to finally put en end to Ta’s Empire during the legendary Tran Cao Rebellion of 1516 which saw the destruction of Ta’s army of invicible monkeys, expect for a chosen cadre of them and Ta himself, who disappeared before Xuan could took him out of the Game., though she did eventually get to him in the nick of time.

Watcher Research, Southeast Asia


Rodolfo Bautista

Known aliases : Felipe de Andres, Eugenio Blue
Notable characteristics : Hides a ruthless
character behind a veneer of culture and
sophistication
Weapon : Spanish cavalry saber
Recorded kills : Aura Angeloz, Maritsa Bocanegra,
Cristobal Rojas, Tomàs Ametler, Leonardo Oristano,
Claudia Espejo, JulianaMethol, Lila Abu-Sitta, Olivia Rui,
imena Garbajosa,Gustavo Nicolich

Status
Most recent base of operations : Caracas,
Venezuela
Occupation : Independant means, mobster
Prior occupations : Soldier, Army of Spain;
mercenary; sailor
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 April 2017
Place : Lago de Valencia, Venezuela
Victor : Caras De Trevyn
Watcher : Susana Methol

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Venezuelan
Born : 1601; Caracas, Venezuela
First death : 1641, Killed in earthquake
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Mercedes the Gypsy
First recorded sighting : 1855. Asunçion, Colombia
Held Mercedes the Gypsy as captive in his
brothel, forced her to perform for him

In 1990, Rodolfo Bautista travelled all the way from Venezuela to Black Friars in Wales to cure some mild-anxiety symptoms he suffered from, having heard of Sean Burns’ reputation with immortal patients. Burns wasn’t impressed by the Latin immortal he had worse specimens to taker care off in his cells, seeing the lost little boy behind the façade of macho cynism, an immortal who had lost his courage centuries ago and was searching for himself. Batista confessed his teacher, a holy man from Mexico, had been killed by another immortals and he felt that if not even a holy man like Juan de Palos or Darius was safe, then how could he hope to survive more centuries ? Beside, he felt tired and depressed. Sean Burns reminded him of the violent nature of immortals : did Batista play the Game ? Batista answered he hadn’t for a long time. Burns retorted he suffered from the usual burnout and depression afflicting immortals after centuries of warfare, and that he didn’t get back on his feet, he would end up a washed-out coke addict like the unfortunate Brian Cullen. This saned Batista right up : when he came back to Latin America, he started hunting again and felt much better. I don’t suppose Burns had in mind to turn a depressed mobster into a player of the Game. Oups.

Susana Methol, May 2014


Maritsa Bocanegra
Known aliases : Lucilla Saleroza
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Caracas,
Venezuela
Occupation : House manager, in service to Simon
Bolivar, political leader
Prior occupations : Slave, indentured servant
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 25 June1863
Place : Caracas
Victor : Rodolfo Bautista
Watcher : Research, South America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Afro-Venezuelan
Born : 1620; Runaway slaves community of
Borlavento, Venezuela
First death : 1650, Undetermined
First teacher : Undetermined
Known associates : Gertrudis Bocanegra, Simon
Bolivar’s mistress, cross-identified as Maud de
Valerie; Aura Angeloz
Known past associates : Rupac Inca Huaco
First recorded sighting : 1727. Valencia,
Venezuela. Encounter with Rupac Inca Huaco

The immortal Maritsa Bocanegra has been identified as a past associate of Keren-Happuch in the 19th century in Venezuela; She went missing when the earthquake hit. She was a house manager of Simon Bolivar and his mistress, and we have an inikling she was his confident and advisor in the decisions he made.

Watcher Bureau, South America


Aura Angeloz
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Latacunga,
Ecuador
Occupation : Event planner/organizer,"La Fiesta
de la Mama Negra" traditional festival
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 May 1865
Place : Latacunga
Victor : Rodolfo Bautista
Watcher : Research, Latin America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Native Ecuadorian,
converted to Catholiscism by the Spanish
Born : 1722; Latacunga, Ecuador
First death : 1742, Eruption of the Cotopaxi
volcano
First teacher : Maritsa Bocanegra, nanny
Known past associates : Maritsa Bocanegra
First recorded sighting : 1742. Latacunga,
Eucador
Suffocated to death by volcano fumes, mentored
by Maritsa Bocanegra, her neveraging nanny
and « good fairy »

La Festa de la Mama Negra is a Christian celebration in honor of the Virgin Mary but in secret, Aura Angheloz honors each year the memory of her black nanny, Maritsa Bocanegra who raised her from infancy and became her teacher when she reached adulthood and her First Death. Aura has been careful about mixing with other Immortals, never takign a challege and seldom leaving Holy Grounds. This is not a woman fit for the Game and Maritsa Bocanegra who tried to mentor her found out soon how she was “allergic to swords” and hated the violence of the so-called Game. To play the Game you need passion, a need, a will to survive, you need to have been confronted by the violence of the Immortal world and Aura Angeloz has been living in seclusion for most of her life. Some will say this is not healthy but who are we to judge ? Better live one hundred years in peace and harmony with your environment than one single decade in fear of the sword with your name on it.

Watcher Bureau, South America


Cristobal Rojas
Known aliases : Padre Martin Tovar y Tovar
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Caracas,
Venezuela
Occupation : Dominican monk aiding Venezuelan
rebellion against Spain
Prior occupations : Monk, Dominican Order
Founder of the origianl Black Friars asylum in
Venezuela with Sean Burns
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1749 Venezuelan Rebellion against
Spanish Rule
Place : Caracas
Victor : Rodolfo Bautista
Watcher : Research, South America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Venezuelan
Born : 1555; Caracas, Venezuela
First death : 1595, During sack of Caracas by
British privateers, Preston-Sommers Expedition
First teacher : Sebastian Medina
Known associates : Sean Burns, Beturian Allende
Known past associates : Sebastian Medina
First recorded sighting : 1595. Caracas,
Venezuela. Found and mentored by Sebastian
Medina, senior priest at Venezuela church

Cristobal Rojas wanted to make a pilgrimage to Palestine, to follow the tracks of Jesus of Nazareth, rumored to be an actual Immortal as were the Three Nephytes and Saitn Longinus. But he ddin’t have the time because of his involvement with the Veneuzuelan revolution against the Spanish Empire; the night before his execution Sean Burns was with him in prayers, having confirmed the presence of Christ among men, 1700 years ago which astonished Fathe Rojas, a man of good faith. There is a difference between believing and knowing, and knowing that Christ existed gave hope for mankind to Cristobal : maybe humanity could change with Jesus among mortalkind. Sean Burns didn’t believe so but he wanted peace for his friend in his last moments on Earth.
Padre Cristobal was found dead in his cell on the following morning, and since that was his last wish, he body was carried away by Sean to a cemetery on the outskirts of Caracas. We lost the trace of the two men since, but we have an inkling Padre Rojas did travel to Palestine thereafter.

Watcher Research, South America



Modesto Anjos
Eulogio Guajira

Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Ruthless character,
viewed Hispanic Immortals as superior to Indians
Weapon : Portuguese navy saber
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Colonial Brazil
Occupation : Bandeirante, i.e Portuguese settler
and fortune hunter conducting raids to hunt gold &
silverr and to enslave local Indians
Prior occupations : Undetermined
RRoster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1798
Place : Minas Gerais
Victor : Andromeda Valdez (confirmed)
Watcher : Research, Latin America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Portuguese
Born : Kingdom of Portugal, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Eulogio Guajira
Known past associates : Joao Soares de Almeida
Known ennemies : Andromeda Valdez
First recorded sighting : 1748. Colonial Brazil
Hunting gold, capturing and enslaving
Indians, encounter with Joao Soares de Almeida

For fifty years it was never possible to separate the chronicle of Modesto Anjos with the chronicle of Eulogio Guajira, two Immortal scum made of the same flesh and blood who set foot Colonial Brazil by the middle of the 18th century and stayed there for five decades, making a name for themselves as slavers and fortune hunters. At some point they met conquistador Joao Soares de Almeida who didn’t bother taking their heads after he defeated them in single combat and instead hired them as bodyguards and slave-hunters.
Their association lasted two years, Soares disappeared in the jungles of Brazil in 1750, leaving his hirelings to their fate. Watcher Research theorized “Anjos” and Guajira” could have been Lymon Kurlow and Peter Matlin reinventing themselves as two Portuguese and with Immortals such as Tak Ne the Egyptian livign under the name of Juan Sanchez Villalobos Ramirez, well, who’s to say this isn’t true ? Of course it would mean they ran into trouble against Immortal "Andromeda Valdez" who may have killed then, and Kurlow & Matlin died against Duncan MacLeod in 1805 in England.

Watcher Bureau, South America



Pamela de Souza
Known aliases : Luzia Brito Lira, Michele Riviera
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : British navy saber, passing it as family
heirloom
Inconclusive fight against Narciso Lopes, 1625
(capture of Bahia from the Dutch by Portugal)

Status
Most recent base of operations : Rio de Janeiro
Occupation : Socialite, independent means
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1650
Place : Rio
Victor : Narciso Lopes
Watcher : Research, South America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Brazilian
Born : 1575; Recife, Brazil
First death : 1595; During capture of Recife by the
English, Anglo-Spanish War, comitted suicide to
avoid rape and dishonor
First teacher : Hugh Fitzcairn
Known associates : Abril Rodrigues, Hugh
Fitzcairn
First recorded sighting : 1595. Recife, Brazil
Found and mentored by Fitzcairn), involved in the
Anglo-Spanish war


Abril Rodrigues
Known aliases : Alma Lozano
Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Rio de Janeiro
Occupation : Socialite, independent means living
under the protection of Palema De Souza
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1650
Place : Rio
Victor : Narciso Lopes
Watcher : Research, South America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Brazilian
Born : 1601; Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
First death : 1616; Smallpox epidemic brought to
Salvador by slave ship from Kingdom of Kongo
First teacher : Pamela De Souza
Known associates : Pamela De Souza
First recorded sighting : 1624. Salvador, Bahia
Found and mentored by Pamela De Souza during
invasion of Bahia by the Dutch East India Company

Hugh Fitzcairn certainly had a way with ladies when it came to bring them to his bed, less so when it came to teach them the ways of Immortality, the swords, Immortal lore. He simply had no patience with a fierce Catholic Brazilian woman like Pamela and he failed as a tutor. Connor MacLeod he was not. Instead of turning the sexual assault victim into a competent player of the Game, he gave her the fear of God, so to speak and let her on her own once the English deserted colonial Brazil. Having been raped by Englishmen, Pamela wouldn’t have been in the mood of listening to an Englishman, anyway.

In seventy years of Immortal life, Pamela stayed on her own, moving from one convent to another one, occasionally working in a brothel to make a living and only once taking another Immortal woman under her wing, with whom she hared her fear of the Game, of Immortals. In 1539, both women met Giuseppa Polo, a socialite and player of the Game who nearly killed them before Antonio Pettisani took her head. In those moments of terrors they found Immortal women could be as distrutful as men and found out about the power of the Quickenig : its frightening beauty, its power, how it can change and shape an Immortal.
A talk with Pettisani convinced them that they would either have to train seriously or they wouldn't outlive the 17th century. The Field Watcher assigned to Pamela and Abril was killed in a mugging during the carnival of Rio in 1641 and so we lost their trace until they were found by Narciso Lopes who murdered them with contempt for the two women.

Watcher Bureau, South America

[Apollo1]

I never object to a little pruning! Lol

As for the Clans; i do think too many clans of Immortals is a little unrealistic. Immortals are a rare breed, would there really be so many of these clans, even in Africa?

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Apollo, do you agree with all the characters deletions I did ? Sometimes a little pruning is always good when you want to tend the garden that are the Watcher's Chronicles...
Still undecided about the Afar women and Himba Clan, any idea for those Immortals ?

G.

From the Records of the Tribunal :

Amidst all the recent carnage, sound research was done to find the guilty part behind the rash of kills of Immortals with unidentified perpetrators for the 2000's and 2010's. Cross-refernecing work is due to our apt Watcher historians and also Immortals itnerviewed by Kyra nad Deonaces of Sparta : Sanjiv Gupta, Bebe Kenyatta, Juanita Vasquez, all close associates of Ravenwood.

Jacob Ben Malik
Deena Yazdi
Terence of Coventry
Anne DeBrabant
Maria Escudero

Victor : Karolina Olin


Laurent Kaliganshe

Known aliases : “The Mole”
Notable characteristics : Knack at finding gold
mines in the most remotes of places
Weapon : Machete

Status
Most recent base of operations : Democratic
Republic of the Congo, mobile
Occupation : Miner, Gold Mining Industries of DRC
Prior occupations : Miner, Dakar Mining Industries
Roster of Immortals Status: Missing
Date : 12 May 2013
Place : DMR
Victor : Mineshaft accident
Watcher : Djibrine Touré, killed in the lien of duty

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Congolese
Born : 1923; Belgian Congo
First death : 1953; Killed by collapsing mine shaft
First teacher : Andy Mulumba
Known past associates : Andy Mulumba
First recorded sighting : 1953. DMR of the Congo
Found and mentored by Mulumlba

Laurent Kaliganshe has been running from the Game by hiding in some of the most dangerous places in the world as a mines worker. He hasn’t done anything else in sixty years of Immortality. An Immortal prone to hide behind many walls, he is an insecure mouse in fear of the wildcat prawning for prey, so his instincts just tell him to hide and cower in the only familiar environment he feels safe in. May 2013 saw his untimely disappearance after a mineshaft collapse, but we don’t believe him dead, his body wasn’t found among the victims. We expect him to resurface soon.

Watcher Bureau, Central Africa

Investigations on a series of brutal slayings in the past sixty years in countries of Africa known for theri mining industries point to the culprit being Laurent Kaliganshe, aka the Mole. It seems the “frightened mole” who hides in the hills is also very good at hiding his predatory nature, targeting Immortals living in vicinity of iron, diamond or gold mines all across the African subcontinent, who do not suspect him to be a killer and come after him, expecting an easy kill, only to become the hunted. In this, his methods parallel the M.O of Kenneth the Saxon boy or Aletha the bag lady from the streets of New-York, all three are Immortals who hide in plain sight and strike when lest expected to.

Watcher Research, Central Africa

[Apollo1]

Hmm….methinks Karolina Olin.
How long, though, until somebody figures it out? Or is everyone too distracted with everything else that's going on to put two and two together...?

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Jacob Ben Malik
Deena Yazdi
Terence of Coventry
Anne DeBrabant

Deceased
Victor : Undetermined, body found beheaded with evidences of a Quickening

I wonder who is that mysterious killer, bodies have been piling up on the four corners of hte world for the past two decades now.

[Apollo1]

Thanks, Gardner, my friend. I'm doing much better. Being a full-time carer for my dad has helped me move on somewhat and also the realisation that while my mum's passing was painful, i'm also relieved that she didn't suffer for years as some do with what my mum had. So, i'm now looking forward and not dwelling on what can't be changed.
Plus, i have so many good memories that i'm clinging to...

Good to see you posting again as well. Kinda wondering how you were getting on with this Gathering initiated by the plottings of the Sacred Order. Look forward to what's coming next.

Loved the Annie Devlin chronicle.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Hello Apollo, I hope you are doing well. The heatwave came and went, I am back to the drawing board so to speak.

STEVEN KEANE
Had a bit too many students to feel plausible.


Abdul Sallis
Original cultural affilation : Asante, converted to
Islam
Born : 1879; Southern Ghana
First death : 1901; Killed during rebellion against
British rule, War of the Golden Stool
First teacher : Ras Tschubai
Known past associates : Ras Tschubai
First recorded sighting : 1901, Accra Ghana.
Student of Tschubai

In December 1969, Xavier went to Cape Coast, Ghana, to attend a wrestling festival; he had the good surprise to find one of the contestants was an immortal, Abdul Salis. After killing the blind sculptor in July, Xavier got hungry for a Quickening again and came after Sallis; The wrestler put up a good fight, but his skills weren't enough against the old Moor.

December 1969
From the Chronicle of Xavier St. Cloud


Kwan Fengying
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese, of Christian religion
Born : 1824; British Strait Settlement of Singapore
First death : 1856, Killed during Malay rebellion
against the British, suspected of aiding and abetting
First teacher : Jin Ke
Known associates : Jason Shang
Known past associates : Jin Ke
First recorded sighting : 1856, Singapore.
Found and mentored by Jin Ke


Linley Osbourne
Original cultural affiliation : British African
Born : 1815, British East Indies
First death : 1845, Anglo-Sikh Wars
First teacher : Ranver Kapoor
Known associates : Konds Brothers, Sanjiv Gupta
Known past associates : Steven Keane
Known ennemies : Neville Sutton, Steven Keane,
Yalvatch
First recorded sighting : 1845. Madras District,
India. Killed by Ranveer Kapoor during Anglo-Sikh
Wars, converted to Buddhism by Ranver



THE CHRONICLE OF ANNIE DEVLIN

NICHOLAS HILLIARD
Known aliases: None
Notable characteristics: None
Weapon: El Cid Colada sword

Status
Most recent base of operations: New-York NY
Occupation: Weapons smuggler, selling guns to
Irish expatriates living in New-York
Prior occupations : Engineer
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 14 May 1887
Place: Manhattan NY
Victor: Annie Devlin, Irish expatriate, executed for
betraying the cause of Ireland
Watcher: Flora Baine

Background
Original cultural affiliation: English
Born: 1677, Norfolk, Kingdom of England
First death: 1699; Killed by highwaymen
First teacher: Richard Bancroft
Known associates: Richard Bancroft
First recorded sighting: 1699, Norfolk.
Found and mentored by Bancroft

Six years after her First Death, Annie Devlin was part of the Irish expatriates living in New-York with her teacher, Hugh
O'Neil, the man who taught her to hate the English who had been opressing the Irish people for centuries. Hugh became
her mentor, teaching her to use the infamous "Devlin Trick" which made her famous for outmaneuvering male opponents
during a fight. In 1887 Annie sought to purchase guns to send to Ireland, helping the cause of local Irish rebels, and met
Immortal Nicholas Hilliard, a cunning British weapons smuggler known for allying himself with Hiugh O'Neil in the past.
Hilliard was ready to talk business with the red head but he was asking too high a price for his contraband.
Hugh O'Neil posed as a bard and poet, gathering funds from the Irish Expatriate Society of Manhattan and Annie
couldn't condone the behavior of a man ready to sell the Irish rebels to the police : his contraband was found by a police
investigation, O'Neil was arrested, pending deportation, while Hilliard discreetly attempted to board ship, only to be
met by Annie's angry sword. "We execute traitors, in Ireland, don't you know" were the last words he heard before his
head fell on the ground.

From the Chronicle of Annie Devlin


AUBERT CAVALIER
Known aliases : Archibald Cavalier
Notable characteristics : British patriot
Weapon : British infantry saber
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
Inconclusive fight against Duncan MacLeod

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dublin, Ireland
Occupation : Commander , British troops fightign
Irish rebels durign Easter Rising, involved in
atrocities comitted against civilians
Prior occupations : Commander, British platoon,
War of Scottish Independance
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date April 1916, Easter Rising
Place : Dublin
Victor : Annie Devin, companion of Patrick
Pearse, leading the Irish Volunteers
Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of Annie Devlin

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British
Born : 1581; Canterbury, England
First death ; Killed by Irish rebels during Irish
Rebellion of 1641
First teacher : Steven Keane
Known associates : Steven Keane
Known ennemies : Duncan MacLeod, Annie Devlin
First recorded sighting : 1641, County Cork
Found and mentored by Steven Keane

In 1916, Annie Devlin promised Duncan MacLeod a beautiful war against the English, MacLeod denied his former lover
and left her to her war, wanting no part in it after Darius taught him the futility of warfare. Annie Devlinb took part in the
Eastern Rising, siding with leader Patrick Pearse, manipulating bold young Irishmen into rising against the British. All
they needed, she felt, was to be killed, so their death would inspire future generations into fighting the good fight against
the English oppressor. To quote WB Yeats, "a terrible beauty was born".
The Irish Republican Brotherhood wanted to proclaim the Irish Republic and make their voice heard. Pearse put a letter in
the newspaper saying the British were going to disarm the Irish Volunteers, naturally the Volunteers went to the fight and war
was on.
More Irish blood was shed. Volunteer leader Eoin MacNeill issued a countermand in a bid to halt the Rising, ultimately lowering
the numbers of dead. Annie felt no shame. In war, sacrifices must be made and she made the decision with a cold heart, her
companion being as determined as she was. Patrick Pearse may have been a great leader of men, but all leaders have a
woman beside them, whispering terrible things in their ears.
During the Rising, atrocities were committed on both sides, Irish civilians were murdered by a battalion led by Immortal
Aubert Cavalier, a man who led centuries of warfare against Irish rebels, finally facing the raging sword of Annie Devlin.
During the Easter Rising, Annie led an auxiliary paramilitary organisation named Cumann na mBan "The Irishwomen's
Council« , fighting the British alongside the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Annie herself carried out sniper attacks on
British troops, and was confronted by Cavalier.
Annie got her wish, the Easter Rising provoked a decades long war between the IRA and the British and another British
Immortal fell to her sword. After Pearse’s surrender to the British, followed by his trial and execution, her hate grew with
even more vigor.

From the Chronicle of Annie Devlin


ORIN CLEREBOLD
Known aliases : Sean O’Donovan, Padraigh Melloncamp
Notable characteristics : Irish patriot
Weapon : Custom broadsword, formged for him by
Damian Thackaray
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Belfast, Northern
Ireland
Occupation : Protestant preacher, fighting the IRA
with the Ulster Protestant Volunteers
Prior occupations : Protestant minister; policial
lobbyist opposing Catholic civil rights
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 6 June 1966
Place : Belfast
Victor : Annie Devin, fighting the UPV
Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of Annie Devlin

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish
Born : 15th century Northern Ireland
First death : During Irish war of resistance against
British colonialism
First teacher : Damian Thackaray
Known associates : Damian Thackaray:
Known ennemies : Annie Devlin, IRA fighter
First recorded sighting : 1603. Northern Ireland
Trained by Damian Thackaray

The Ulster Protestant Volunteers was a loyalist and fundamentalist Christian paramilitary group in Northern Ireland led by a
Protestant Immortal and were involved in acts of wanton terrorism against Catholics of Northern Ireland.
The UPV's leader was himself killed by Devlin and from then the organisation has been at war against the Irish Republican Army
for thirty years, a war that ended with the death of Annie Devlin and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

Watcdher Research, Northern Ireland


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 : Belfast, Ireland
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
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 bond 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. 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


HUGH O'NEILL
Known aliases : Black Hugh, Owen Roe O’Neill,,
Charles Hughes, Patrick O'Neil, John Sheridan, Bill Delaney
Notable characteristics : Pacifist
Weapon : Single-ring rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations : Belfast,
Northern Ireland
Occupation : Proponent of peace
Prior occupations : Founder/leader, Immortals Republican Army
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 4 May 1993
Place : Dublin, Ireland
Victor : Chang
Watcher : Sheila Finton

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish
Born : 979, Munster Ireland
First death : 1014, Died at the Battle of Clontarf
First teacher : Alex Raven
Known past associates : Alex Raven, Annie Devlin,
Liam O'Rourke, Roger Quinn, Morgan Noonan,
Rory Calhoun, Liam Riley, Seamus Finnegan,
O’Brien of Cork, Jean-Marc Claret, Jared O’Hare
First recorded sighting : 1014. Ireland. Student of Alex Raven

Before his first death defending Limerick against the forces of Guillaume II, king of England, Hugh O'Neil had been a
firm defender of Ireland's independence. Which he remained during three hundred years, shedding English blood and
killing many innocent people in the cross-fire. Its because of Hugh O'Neil that Ireland was plagued with immortals such
as Annie Devlin and Liam O'Rourke.
After nearly two hundred and fifty years of fighting for such "the cause", Hugh O'Neil grew tired of the endless
bloodshed and began making up for his actions, becoming more and more a defender of peace, trying to build a bridge
between Ireland and England, and most notably, between the Catholics and Protestants of Ireland. I suspect the horrors
of two world wars played a part in this sudden change of heart. Everyone change, look at Kage.
Today, Hugh O'Neil lost his head to Chang who wanted his head just for the sake of the Game. I am grieving for Hugh
and hope that he now found the peace he had been seeking for the past fifty years, as he had been relentlessly pursued
by the ghosts of his victims.

Sheila Finton, 1993


ANDREW GALLAGHER
Known aliases : Jack Gallagher, John Grisham,
Jonathan Grisholm, Andrew Jones, Andrew
Galway, Andrew Kenneth, Kenneth Jones,
Ken Gallagher
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : St. Maurice sword
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Utica, NY
Occupation : Director, Central Bank of Utica
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 2 May 1997
Place : Utica
Victor : Annie Devlin
Watchers : Jordan Jorgensen-Russell

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish-American
Born : 1836, New-York NY USA
First death : 1874, Restaurant proprietor killed by
Shamrocks gang for not paying protection money
First teacher : Morgan Noonan
Known past associates : Morgan Noonan,
Brad Silver
First recorded sighting : 1878 Brookly NY. Student of Morgan Noonan

Drew Gallagher didn't want to pay his weekly fee to the Shamrocks in the gang-infested New-York of 1874, and that's
what got him killed by the Shamrocks. When he woke up in Noonan's house, he discovered a harsher life was waiting for
him and that he would need more than accountant and verbal skills to fend for himself in the Game. Drew took Noonan's
lessons at heart and trained for the day he would have to face another one of his kind with his sword. Meanwhile, he
stayed out of the Game and lived quiet, unassuming lives in backwater cities of the American Midwest, changing
identities every two decades. When Annie Devlin asked for his help in her war against the British Empire, Gallagher
denied her a bank loan and went so far as to meddling in her business by disclosing her current whereabouts to the FBI.
He paid the ultimate price for his bravery.

Justin Russel
Maureen Jorgensen-Russel, 1997


ANNIE DEVLIN
Known aliases : Ann Elisabeth Deane, Kate Madigan, Anny O’Dare
Notable characteristics : Redhead, Irish patriot
Weapon : Duc d'Alba sword
Recorded kills: Nicholas Hilliard, Aubert Cavalier,
Orin Clerebold, Piers Jacobs, Andrew Gallagher

Status
Most recent base of operations : Belfast,
Northern Ireland
Occupation : Charter member, Iimmortals
Republican Army
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 13 May 1998
Place : Dublin, Ireland
Victor : Steven Keane
Watcher : Mary Margareth O'Connell

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish
Born : 1855, Dublin Ireland
First death : 1881, Murdered by English forces at
pro-Irish rally
First teacher : Hugh O'Neil
Known past associates : Hugh O'Neil, Liam
O'Rourke, Duncan MacLeod, Anton Kimserg,
Immortals Republican Army, Swords of Allah, Kieran Doherty
First recorded sighting : 1881 Ulster, student of O'Neil

Annie Devlin's life was joined the Cause of Ireland's freedom from the oppression of the English. Right or wrong, she
fought like a devil to free her homeland, but did it at the cost of innocent lives. Hundreds of mortals died because of her
schemes, and last week was one time too many : a bomb in Belfast caused the death of twelve innocent people, among
them immortal Steven Keane and his mortal wife Bernadette who were visiting the Ulster. Bernadette's life was
destroyed, leaving a ravaged Keane searching for the guilty part. He found the murderer in the person of Annie Devlin, a
woman out of time, to whom he reminded that war had been over for a long time, a lesson imparted to him in 1996 by a
Scot, Duncan MacLeod. Revenge resolves nothing, Keane knew, but he also couldn't let Annie kill more innocent, destroy
more lives. Keane didn't kill Annie for the sake of revenge, he killed her to prevent more harm from her.

Maggie O'Connell, 1998

[Apollo1]

I like the idea of the MacLeod family working with the Ravenwood group on a mission. I'd love to a fly on the wall to see the dynamic between Duncan MacLeod and Deoneces; the romantic idealistic Scotsman and the ancient, pragmatic short-tempered Spartan. Not to mention the fact that the Highlander had a brief fling with Kyra! Lol
Also, Amanda and the Crimson Butterfly? Oh yes!

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

From the Records of the Tribunal

With help from Duncan and Connor MacLeod's Immortal family and cross-referencing, Ravenwood investigated the activities of the brutal group of assassins collectively known as The Slaughterous Swords who targeted and murdered major players of the Game in the last twenty four months, in effect triggering a "Gathering" crisis which impacted the Immortal community.
The event it seems is the work of a mysterious group of Immortals naming themselves Order of the Sacred Knowledge who wish to control the Immortal community and get rid of the Gathering threat by eliminating the most dangerous players of the Game. While their intentions may have been good - create order out of chaos so they could guide benevolent Immortals to their vision of what Immortality ought to be - it still triggered a catastrophe.
The Slauighterous Swords have been gathered by an Immortal assassin named The Apostate (real idenity unknown); a several thousand years old man who blindly obeys the Sacred Order, targeting and killing Immortals who threaten the existence of the Order.
Ravenwood (i.e Immortals Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta, Clemont Haynes, Frances Drummoind, Alex Raven, Sanjiv Gupta, Henry of Kent) had extended interviews with the MacLeod family members (Duncan, Connor, Amanda, Richie Ryan, Rebecca Horne, Joe Dawson himself) and could piece together the sequence of events that led to the present situation.
The Sacred Order forgot that Ravenwood is allied with the Watchers and never figured out Duncan MacLeod wasn't dead. MacLeod and Methos did their best ot save the lives of their friends in the clan : Richie, et al but couldn't save the lives of Warren Cochrane who was a loose cannon, crazy as a bedbug, and of Robert of Valicourt who was a living dead since the passing of his wife Gina. Duncan reunited with Connor, Methos and Joe are In hiding, planning their next move, Richie Ryan matured and is waiting orders from Duncan. Xanthia of Melitus was ready to take on the women who murdered the SIS ladies. The SIS and Hellfire Club also were on the Order's kills list.
There remains a handful of truly agressive Immortals who still pose a threat to the survivotrs, as well as the existence of the Order and its Apostate who endanger both Immortal and Watcher Communities. The SIS survivors, Ravenwood andf the MacLeod family are now united in the hope of halting the massacre and neutralizing the Order

Ravenwood's investigations of the Slaughterous Swords presents the combo of Immortals as follows, numbered in chronological order :

Kharma Fayzal D : Sanjiv Gupta
Lootje De Groot
Swenja Baatz
Sid'Ahmed Taleb
Typhoid Mary D : Sheena Harvelock
Chang D : Henry of Kent
Sigrid Solvig
Elise Yeow D : Mei-Li Choe

There are other possible "Swords", long-missing ennemies of Connor and Duncan MacLeod, we identified Messalina and Kallisto of Nicopolis who murdered two of Deoneces' sirens so the Order could break the morale of the seemingly invicible Spartan. The Order has lost most of their first batch of Swords to the MacLeod Clan and Ravenwood. Also, Swenja and Lootje were going to killed of by Henry of Kent who intended to take action against the two ladies, Amanda simply took them out before he did.

Author notes :

The inspiration for the group comes for a combo of assassins, the Gun Ho Guns from anime Trigun, a pack of colourful killers who try to hurt and kill Vash the Stampede, Trigun's main protagonist. The Gun Ho guns gave me that idea.
https://trigun.fandom.com/wiki/Gung-Ho-Guns
Also the negative reactions from the Imagine Facebook gang who didn't like my killing off Amanda and MacLeod. They were right and their reaction gave me the incentive for the plot that now explains all the deaths in recent months.

Cheers

G.


UPDATE

Ambrose Bierce
Status
Most recent base of operations : Manilla, Philippines
Occupation : Writer, biographer
Prior ocupoations : Travel books writer, noivelist,
Mexical revolution supporter
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Pandra Arrakis

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English
Born : 1871; London, England
First death : 1913; Supporting Mexican revolution,
killed by soldiers of Federal army
First teacher : Kay Murdstone, cross-identified as
Kellistra
Known past associates : Kellistra, Gabriela de
Sevedra
First recorded sighting : 1914 Guatemala City
Meeting Gabriela de Sevedra who helped him to
find a safe place where to hide

Ambrose Bierce wanted to investigate the life of Alyssa Bautista and looked forward to speak to her. The biographer of Immortals knew how to be careful before approaching those of his kind knowing few of them would take well discussing their past lives with a possible opponents in the Game. In the last one hundred years, Ambrose interviewed quite famous names : Grayson, Amanda, Connor MacLeod, Katherine of Samothrace, the impostor posing as Methos, Victor Hesse and his underage lover Ingrid Baran, the SIS group, Kyra of Sparta. The biographies he wrote were disguises as fairy tales and published as works of fiction with the permission of the interviewees. Because some Immortals crave recognition and leaving a trace of their existence on Earth and some of them could be quite egotistical people. Even so, Ambrose was careful when approaching of them, one never knows, swords are quickly drawn in the Game.
Harry Houdini was one of his most famous stories, and when he heard Houdini killed Alyssa Bautista, he sought to investigate the matter. Why would the master escapist kill a player of the Game who took out child molesters ? To our surprise, Alyssa was found to be alive and well, Harry didn’t kill her after all. Alyssa’s Field Watcher must have thought her killed by the magician, the Quickening belonged to another Immortal who hunted down both Immortals at that time.
Azmbrose Bierce is now spending his time with Alyssa, writing on the stories of the aging Immortal woman living in the body of a young teenaged girl.

Watcher Bureau, Southeast Asia

From the Tribunal :

Ambrose Bierce befriended immortal named Kay Murdstone who informed him of his immortality. We do not know why she chose to do so or when Bierce became an immortal. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, the elderly writer disappeared without a trace. Another immortal, Gabriela de Sevedra helped him going underground, she had been one of his proteges in litterary circles. A funny fact about him is one of the aliases taken by "B. Traven" : Ret Maru. Et Maru is an alias used by Methos according to the Chronicle written by "Adam Pierson". Was Pierson yanking our chains or was there a connection between the ROG and Bierce ?

In one of his last letters, Bierce wrote the following to his niece, Lora:
"Good-bye if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico ah, that is euthanasia!"

Perfect last word from a newbie immortal



Alyssa Bautista
Status
Most recent base of operations : Manila,
Philippines
Occupation : Independant prostitute, occasional
headhunter
Prior occupations : Traveller, house worker,
indentured servant
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Maria Belquis


Kobayashi

Status
Most recent base of operations : Tokyo, Japan
Occupation : Detective, Tokyo Police Department
Division of Violent Crimes
Prior occipations : Soldier, Yakuza organisation
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Ishy Matsu

Because there were no valid reasons for Agathe Vierny to get into conflict with Kobayashi...
And also since I some Immortals still alive in Japan :


Awiti Lerato Traoré
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive

When Saifiyah Khan challenged Awiti, Awiti asked Safiyah were it was written in the Quran that "there can be only one".Safiyah answered that Allah had been guiding her sword through the centuries and that playing the Game was the only thing that gave sense to their Immortal lives. Awiti felt that this was a sad manner to live one's life, immortal or mortal where there are so many things to live by, but Safiyah remained unfazed and attacked the Immortal poet. She had been killing Immortals for nearly eight hundred years and always did the will of her chosen God who gave her one purpose in life : to hunt Immortals and take their power so one day she may join the Prophet in the paradise of Allah. "My success is only by Allah the merciful" she often says "he who guides me thought the straiight path". Curiously Safiyah chose to spare Awiti’s life after this debate. Did Awiti touch Safiya’s heart in some way ?


From the Chronicle of Safiyah Khan


Victor Hesse
Most recent base of operations : Honolulu, Hawai
Occupation : International arms dealer
Prior occupations : Weapons smuggler, close ties
to Baader-Meinhoff gang
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive

Ingrid Baran
Most recent base of operations : Honolulu, Hawai
Occupation : College student, U. of Honolulu,
posing as a gifted child, occasional headhunter
Prior occupations : College student
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive

I didn't like the plot where Bridget kills Victor and then Ingrid doesn't have her revenge against the woman, getting killed too.
I thought best to let them live "happily ever after" since the Final Gathering isn't likely to happen.

[Apollo1]

Okay, my friend, you changed the fates of Amanda and Duncan MacLeod? Methinks you have something up your sleeve....! Lol
Could the Slaughterous Swords and the Sacred Order be linked somehow? Why else would you suddenly resurrect the thought-dead Duncan, change the fate of Amanda, re-unite Duncan with Connor and hint that the Immortal family, including Joe Dawson, is investigating the recent massacre of Immortal players of the Game.

On a side note, not sad to see Wolfe stay dead. Sad about Swenja and Lootje though...

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Thank you Dubiousbystander. Though I changed things a little.

[Apollo1]

Yes, i did notice you'd filled those to slots! Lol
Thanks for reminding me. I had intended to mention it but forgot because i was engrossed in the SIS/Hellfire Club conflict you resolved.
Good choices for those two places.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

You also may have noticed the missing two positions in the Sacred Order have been filled.

[Apollo1]

Wow, good job with the latest updates, my friend.
So, the cold war between the SIS and the Hellfire Club ended in December 2018. With casualties on both sides, as was inevitable. And wasn't it just like Monk to hire others to do his dirty work?
Nice to see the normally serene Xanthia still has a vicious bite....
Richeard finally settles a very old score with his once-blood brother and most likely lays some things to rest.

Apollo1

[Gardner]

Yes, poor Amy Ross. I am postponing the Brazil Gathering for July, there are too many death notices for that month


Chiquito Quiroz
Most recent base of operations : Andes, Peru
Occupation : Professional mountains guide
Prior occupations : Mountain guide, Quechua
warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1964
Place : Andes
Victor : The Apostate, in retaliation for guiding five European Immortals to Sacred Order’s place of hiding
Watcher : Research, South America



Bertric

Most recent base of operations : St. Christopher
Monastery , Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
Occupation : Benedictine monk, botanist
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 30 March 1992
Place : Paris, France
Victor : Carlo Sendaro
Watcher : Brother Antoine, St. Christopher Monastery

From the Records of the Tribunal
5 July 1990

Botany has always been a great hobby of Bertric’s. He learned about plants and herbs from Brother Aloyisus the Abbey’s herbalist, when he would stayed after the Crusades. Aloysisus was a great teacher and friend to him and the chronicles of that time tell of the friendship and adventures that they had. He put much of use of herbs and healing on the battlefield. Much of his life was spent as a soldier, guide, or a mercenary. But no matter where he was, when he gets back home he has seeds or cuttings from some plant he has come across.
Lately he has been putting his knowledge to use in the lab. Grace Chandel has been pestering him to join her in the lab to help synthesize new medicines from various plants. The work seems to be going well and they seem to be getting on rather well too.

DMvTrek 2008

Update, April 1992

Bertric's death by the sword of Carlo Sendaro is the incentive that fueled Grace Chandel's decision to take action against her estrangedf husband and to finally rid the world from him. A divorce immortal-style.

Watcher Bureau, Western Europe


Carlo Sendaro
Most recent base of operations : Manaus, Brazil
Occupation : Plantation proprietor
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 3 April 1992
Place : Paris, France
Victor : Grace Chandel




Ramsay Munro

I suppose we needed Crocodile Dundee on the Immortal scene in Australia, yet another cliché of the Australian myth for the Europeans and Americans who come visit us. Ramsay Munro however is a very serious player of the Game and an apt survivor who protect the wildlife and its endangered species from ‘roos hunters and croc hunters coming for their pelts. In the past two hundred years since we have been following him many Immortals have come after his head and never came back from their safari trip. His sole friend in the Immortal community is the vigilante Rokali Tapai who also hunts predators, of the sexual kind. They once debated on who are the worst : those who kill to eat or those who maim and rape women and children. A never-ending debate.

Watcher Bureau, Australia

July 2007


Frau Totenkinder

Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
Occupation : Delicatessen proprietor, headhunter
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 September 2017
Place : Koln
Victor : Benedict Von Arlon
Watcher : Inga Modrow

The old witch wanted to get rid of the Immortal pests but they are the ones who ended her Immortal life.
She nearly killed the lot of them circa 1360 when they lived i nGermany and weren't the seasoned wolf pack they are i npresent days. As in the odl Grimm tales they got lost in the Black Forest and foudn the gentle lady with food and warm beds ready for them, not knowing she was killing Immortal children to perform sacrifical rituals for an ancient God she was serving. The Frau Totenkinder wasn't even listed in our records at that time, she first apears in 1360 as an ennemy of Terence of Coventry and Hannah Baran who were hunting her for past crimes committed againt children and arrived in the proverbial nick of time to prevent hte Von Arlon kids from beign slaughtered.
The old crone managed to escape and wasn't seen again until she re-appeared in Victorian England, leading an underground cult that was uncovered by the Secret Immortals Services. Again she evaded Immortal justice.
As the Gathering finally comes here she was, cornered by her former would-be victims. And that one time, she was the one to end in the oven, burnt to a crisp, her Quickenign received by Benedict.

Watcher Bureau ,Western Europe


ORDER OF SACRED KNOWLEDGE

Ishtar of Erech
Known identities : Astarte, Aphrodite, Phyllis,
Anne-Marie Almenta, Farrouz Faraj Mathhar
Notable characteristics : Pheromones-based
hypnotic powers
Weapon : Single-ring sword
Recorded kills Andrew the Apostle, George of
Lydda

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge
Occupation : Overseer of the Scriptorium,Sacred Order
Prior occupations : Goddess, shrine keeper, warrior
Woman (retired from warfare)
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Kristin Embers

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Mesopotamian
Born : c. 1000 BC, Eridu Mesopotamia
First death : c. 975 BC Undetermined
First teacher : Methos
Known associates : Methos, Pharamond, Hob
Gadling, Katherine of Samothrace, Etain of the
Second Look, Seamus of Athlone, Tamara
Kahraman
Known past associates : Feri Cansel, Pacho
O’Donnel, Arishat of Carthage, Shote of Galica
First recorded sighting : 1990. Chicago Ill.
Discussing whereabouts of Methos with Katherine
of Samothrace

Yoon Hwa-soo
Known identities : Bong Hwa-soo, Koo Che-I
Notable characteristics :
Weapon : Korean cavalry saber
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
Inconclusive fight against Pak Jin-wao, 1650
Missing between 1749 and 2004

Status
Most recent base of operations : Busan ,South
Korea
Occupation : Manhwa scenarist and artist,
The Knights of Busan series
Sentinel, Sacred Order, asigned to Oppa Eunkyheun
Prior occupations : Sword-for-hire, righter of
wrongs, also hunting Kane and the Khan brothers
Prior occupations : Soldier, sailor
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Kim I-wan

Background
Original cultural affilation : Korean
Born : 1184, South Korea
First death : 1231, Killed repellng Mongol invasion
of South Korea
First teacher : Uh Shi-won
Known past associates : Uh Shi-won
Known ennemies : Kane, Khabul and Senghi Khan
First recorded sighting : 1231, South Korea. Found
and mentored by Uh Shi-won

In 1231, as Princess Itagaki, Maude took part in the defense of South Korea against Mongol invasion led by Kane per request from Kellistra. She mentored a new immortal, Yoon Hwa-Soo. In 1749, after five centuries of adventures, warfare and playing the Game, Yoon Hwa-Soo thought about retiring in his homeland of Korea, but vanished near the shores of his homeland when a typhoon sunk his ship with all hands. He was seen again in 2004 when he was met by a frail, diminutive Immortal child who pretended to be lost and scared when she was a scorpion in disguise., Huan Mulan Immortal child and ruthless killer. Yoon didn’t suspect anything from her and neartly lost his head to the woman with the face of a child. Since sher threatened the security of the Immortal Pathfinder he is guarding, his priority as a Sentinel was to his charge and so he reluctantly gave up hunting Huan Mulan.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia



Oppa Eunkyhung
Known identities : Elder Brother Eui-Tae,
Elder Brother Heung-Soo
Notable characteristics : Inspired poet and writer,
womanizing rogue
Weapon : Homemade sword, discarded
Missing since 675, Silla-Qtang War

Status
Most recent base of operations: Mobile
throughout South Korea, homebased in Seoul,
South Korea
Occupation : Adjunct Pathfinder, South and
North Korea
Prior occupations : Swordsmith,soldier, poet,
writer
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred
Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Wiman Koseon
Born : 140 BC; Gojoseon Kingdom, Korea
First death : 108 BC; Killed during Gojoseon-Han
War
First teacher : Jin Ke, General in Han Imperial
army during invasion of Gojoseon
Known past associates : Jin Ke, Chan-sook
Known ennemies : Any male immortal crossing
him or challenging him
First recorded sighting : 108 BC. Gojoseon
Kingdom. Student of Jin Ke

The following text is a poem written by Oppa (Elder Nrother) Eunkyhung of Korea, an ancient immortal who wrote peotry and made a living as a singer and scribe. He showed a great sense of humor and intelligence as well as a certain taste for young immortal women : rather than fighting them, he seduced them and brought them to his bed. The song reached the mortal world and was used by Psy, south-Korean artist whose song became a worldwide success.

Watcher Research, Eastern Asia, Korea

A hot and human immortal during the day
A nice immortal girl who enjoys a drink
A young girl whose blood runs faster at night
My kind of immortal girl

I am an immortal
A hot-blooded immortal during the day
Drinking a Quickening before the body is cold
Whose heart explodes when the night comes
This kind of immortal

A calm immortal girl, who takes her sword when she plays
An immortal girl with long hair when she plays the Game
A girl with sense

I am an immortal man
Seemingly at peace, but who plays when the time come
Who goes crazy when he plays the Game
An immortal who uses his mind, rather than his muscles

Beautiful and friendly
You who play the Game, yes you
Now we shall play until the end
Until we reach for the stars

Oppa Eunkyhung has the immortal style
Yes the immortal style
This is Oppa Eunkyhung' Game
This is Oppa Eunkyhung' style

Aside from taking heads, drinking Quickenings
I am a man who knows one thing or two
About fighting and dancing and singing
Yes I know one thing or two

You know what I mean
I am Oppa Eunkyhung


Matanbael of Bit-Istar
Actor :Ghassan Massoud, aka Saladin in the movie Kingdom of Heaven

Known aliases : Fayrul ibn al Din
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Assyrian cavalry saber
Missing since 642, Dark Xanthia Chronicle

Status
Most recent base of operations: Temple of the
Sacred Knowledge, island of Aegina, Greece
Occupation : Master archivist, Sacred Order
Prior occupations : Assyrian warrior, plunderer;
shrine keeper outskirts of Ravansar Spring,
Tripolitania, known for curing Dark Quickenings
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: Special Projects, Order of the Sacred
Knowledge

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Assyrian, converted to
Muslim religion
Born : 9h century BC; Kingdom of Bit-Istar,
Western Zagros, present- Ravansar County, Iran
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Methos
Known associates : Methos
Known past associates : Unknown Arab who gave
him his turning point and changed an Assyrian
warrior into a muslim man of peace
First recorded sighting : 642. Ravansar County,
Iran. Refernced as a shrine keeper by Methos
when he took Xanthia of Melitus to Ravansar
Spring to cure her of a Dark Quickening

After 92 years of hunting his old friend, Metopholus finally caught up to Xanthia in Alexandria the year the city was besieged by the Muslims who ordered the burning of Alexandria’s library. A tragedy for the wise Prisca Negra, a Nubian woman once disciple of Sunda Kastagir, and who sought to preserve the world knowledge, only to see it burnt down. But nothing could save her from pillaging Arabs and from the demented Xanthai who took her out after a brief battle. Did Prisca Negra’s Quickening sane her up ? Or was it Prisca’s innate goodness and widsom which washed away Xanthia’s anger and hate ? When Metopholus found Xanthia, it was as if she was reverting to her old self, but the ancient immortal knew better and took her to Tripolitania, to an ancient shrine located in a cave, where he left her on her own for seven days and nights, until Xanthia finally rid herself from her demons. The shrine was kept by a Muslim friend of his, Fayrul ibn al-Din who made sure Xanthia was kept safe.
In the end, Xanthia’s goodness prevailed and she was back to her senses, but befallen with the memories of the good immortals she murdered and of the mortals lives she destroyed during her rampaging years.

Adam Pierson, Paris 1994
Methos Chronicle




SIS Helen Bondeville
Most recent base of operations : Birmingham,
Occupation: Children's entertainer; Operative,
Secret Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date: 2 December 2018
Location: Birmingham
Victor: Scathag of Skye

SIS Allegra Chambers
Most recent base of operations: Manchester
Occupations: Office manager; Operative, Secret
Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date: 2 December 2019
Place: Manchester
Victor: Aoife of Alba

Helen Bondeville and Allegra Chambers died in simultaneous attacks from the long lost Aoife of Alba and Scathag of Skye
who put aside their mutual hatred to strike at the core of the SIS. The SIS belles were good with swords and lasted for
centuries in the Game by training hard while the hateful sisterly pair lasted by using manipulations and illusion tricks
taught from the witch Cassandra.
Helen and Allegra were known for their British sense of fair-play and believed in training and mastery of the sword, one
one's emotions to survive against Immortal opponents. A true shame that their last fights confronted them against women
known for mind-manipulating their quarries. Allegra and Helen both thought old, dead enemies from the Spanish Cabal
and Knights of Charlemagne had come back from the dead to torment them and when they discovered the illusions were
created by Immortals, it was too late.

SIS Chronicle
Watcher Bureau, Western Europe


SIS Alice Ming
Most recent base of operations: Liverpool
Occupations: IT Analyst; Operative, Secret
Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date:7 December 2019
Location: Liverpool
Victor: Sobani Samata (Chand Sisters)

Alice Ming's killing by the long lost Sobani Samata was thought unrelated to the deaths of her colleagues from the SIS, but
after the later Mini-Gathering in London it is our opinion that the Hellfire Club did recruit the Hindu woman as well as Aoife
and Scathag to kill off members of the SIS. The Club's purpose was to break the morale of their surviving friends in the SIS.
This was a huge mistake.
We didn’t expect Alice Ming to last very long, but she confronted the Chand woman with courage and a will to survive that
made the admiration of her male counterparts in the SIS. While not as skilled as Lang Quing or May-Ling Shen, she used
scare tactics against Sobani Samata but in the end Samata proved more determined and won.

SIS Chronicle
Watcher Bureau, Western Europe


Aoife of Alba
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Solstice of 21 December 2018
Place : Salisbury
Victor : Xanthia of Melitus

Scathag of Skye
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : Solstice of 21 December 2018
Place : Salisbury
Victor : Xanthia of Melitus

One week after the wanton murders of Helen Bondeville and Allegra Chambers who we are going to sorely miss, Aoife and
Scathag went to Salibury where Xanthia of Mleitus spends three months in the year, from the Solstice of September to
Christmas' Eve.. The ancient keeper of the Stone of Methuselah is in touch with her ancient Druidic customs and enjoys the
peace and quiet of the Stonehenge Monument. A peace that was disturbed by the arrival of her old friends who long ago
surrendered them selves to the practice of black magic and became malevolent witches under the tutelage of Cassandra,
another ancient rival of Xanthia. Aoife and Scathag chose to set aside their differences during the times of the Gathering
and felt the shared power of the ancient "Rebecca of Mycenae" would give them the strength they needed. But what they
truly wanted was the power of the Stone of Methuselah and this was another thing Xanthia wouldn't surrender to the two
witches.
Gentle Xanthia is well known for her sword skills and when it comes to fighting ancient Immortals such as herself, she is
utterly diabolical, showing a dark side of herself paralleling Kellistra's in power and fierceness. Aoife used the power of
the "voice", Scathag the power of illusion-casting. That wasn't enough. An ancient Immortal like her can resist such tricks.
Both women fell by her sword on the outskirts of Stonehenge and it seemed the place itself augmented Xanthia's power
and will.

From the Chronicle of Xanthia of Melitus
Watcher Bureau, Western Europe


Chand Sisters Sobani Samata
Most recent base of operations : Liverpool,
England
Occupation : Headhunter, independent means
Prior occupations : Freedom fighter, sword-for hire
British invaders; rebel, Sepy Mutiny of 1858
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 December 2018
Place : Liverpool
Victor : Nuha Kalash

By a fortunate occurence, Nuha Kalash was living in Liverpool when she was challenged by Sobani Samata, decidedly
determined to see the fina ldays of the Gathering. However, Nuha is as skilled a swordfighter as Sobani demonstrated and
the woman who was hired by the Hellfire Club to take out at least one member of the SIS soon was sent to join her
departed soulmates of the Chand sisterhood. In later days, Nuha was going to be contacted by the SIS for informations
regarding the fate of the Chand and for help against the Hellfire Club. Nuha who had once confronted hte SIS about hte
occupation of her homeland by hte British Empire chose to let go of their past differences and help as she could.
From the Chronicle of Nuha Kalash

Evangeline Black was good at picking on defenceless Immortals but she amounted to nothing in front of Xanthia of Melitus'
superior skills. When she saw how Aldrich Monk'sz master plan backfired she tried to take the reins of the Club'zs Inner
Cirlce and have enryone get out of London, but that was too late. Master tactician Richeard of Mercia mounted a co-joined
attack against the Cardinal Lords and after centuries of mutual hatred, it was the end for the Hellfire Club.
Theobald Cleaver and Dominic Piper were confronted by Eadwulf and Raymond d'Amboise while Nuha Kalsh confronted
Sernea whom she once knew British India era as a snubbish, remorseless killer who viewed the locals with disdain and
contempt. And finally the once blood-brothers went at it like roaring lions, each hungry for hte other's Quickening.
Richeard of Mercia prevailed as he always did, especially with his quarry only choosing to pick of weaker Immortals.

SIS Chronicle

Hellfire Club Evangeline Black
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Black Queen, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 28 December 2018
Place : London
Victor : Xanthia of Melitus

Hellfire Club Theobald Cleaver
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : White Bishop, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 28 December 2018
Place : London
Victor : Raymond d’Amboise, SIS

Hellfire Club Serena Harper
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : White Rook, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava,Brimstone Society
Socialite & black widow, pickpocket, street urchin
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 28 December 2018
Place : London
Victor : Nuha Kalash

Hellfire Club Aldrich Monk
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : White King, Brimstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Brimstone
Brotherhood, Friars Club, Hellfire Club, Infernus
Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 28 December 2018
Place : London
Victor : Richeard of Mercia, SIS

Hellfire Club Dominic Piper
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Black Knight, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 28 December 2018
Place : London
Victor : Eadwulf, SIS

[Apollo1]

Poor Amy Ross! I really had a sofft spot for the school teacher. A formidable swordswoman for a relatively young Immortal, but in the end probably not quite focused enough to match Chang. Maybe if she'd been a couple of centuries older and with a few more heads under her belt, she might have taken Chang.

Still, at least Henry of Kent didn't let Chang gloat for long. Once he had the Chinese Immortal's scent there was really only going to be one winner.

Apollo1

[Apollo1]

The best villains in any medium, TV, film, literature, are always the ones who see themselves as the heroes of their own story. In my view the best villains are the ones often doing terrible things for what they see as the right reasons. It makes them more interesting as antagonists. Conflicted heroes who become villains through grief, villains who believe their way is the only way to save the world, anti-heroes manipulated into doing bad things by a greater intellect using them for their own ends....all these i much prefer to moustache-twirling villains who do what they do because they're "evil" (a great example of this is the old and new Battlestar Galactica; in the old series Baltar betrayed the human race because, well, he was evil basically; in the new series, Baltar was a bit of an egotist who was seduced by a Cylon agent and unwittingly became responsible for humanity's downfall. He spent the rest of the series flipping from one side to the other purely for selfish reasons; his own self-preservation, and in the end redeemed himself by saving what was left of humanity. As you can tell, a bit of a favourite of mine! Lol)
So i can see where you're going with the Sacred Order and why they would believe eliminating the more dangerous Immortals is the right thing to do...

However, what the Sacred Order don't know (actually they haven't discovered yet, because it's in those scrolls that Utnapishtim saved from the Flood), is the real reason Enki wanted Utnapishtim to survive: to warn the next generation of Immortals not to make the same mistakes they made. The Great Immortal Kingdoms fell because of Immortal hubris; they believed they knew best, that they were better than mortals. They believed it was their divine right to guide humanity by ruling them, but Enki came to discover that Immortals were meant only to be teachers and guides, to build a better world by benevolently aiding mankind from the shadows, not by manipulating them , but by helping them through their vast experiences of life and history.

The pre-Flood Immortals instead built Kingdoms and became rulers and warmongers. They turned on each other and, in the end, an asteroid (was it divine intervention? I'll let you decide!) brought the pre-Flood civilisations to an end. Enki believed the Immortals were responsible for their own destruction because of their arrogance.

The Sacred Order, it would seem, are not heeding the lessons of Enki. Arrogance and hubris destroyed the First Immortals. Is history about to repeat itself?

Amanda and Nick Wolfe dead? Shock, horror! Lol
Admittedly, I'm not too displeased about Wolfe biting the big one. But Amanda? Still, even in the TV series (both Highlander and Raven) she was average with a blade, definitely not on the same level as Duncan MacLeod. But she still outlasted him (and could Duncan's death have held some sway over her willpower in the fight with Swenja?).
Mixed feelings here, lol, since i have a soft spot for those bad girls Swenja and Lootje.
With Amanda dead, i believe only Joe Dawson, Richie Ryan and Methos are left from the main cast now.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

So that means Deoneces, Kyra, Drummond, Henry of Kent and Clemont of Haynes know about the Order. Possibly the SIS too, since they are close associates of Ravenwood. I am making the Gathering happen because the Sacred Order is pulling strings : they are preserving mankind's knowledge and want to clear out any Immortal interference, thus an artifically triggered Gathering. The Apostate is designed in advance to become The One, i.e the only one who will serve the order for all eternity.
The Sacred Order may be benevolent, but they hijacked the Game and are killing Immortals for their own cause. So this make them the enemy.
The Apostate, in likelihood, executed the survivors of the Zodiac Brotherhood before the ZB could rise again : Bernie Crimmins, Johann Faust and Pharamond are dead, though the Watchers cannot prove it. As a matter of fact, I see the Sacred Order as benevolent, righteous VILLAINS.


G.

Arquelao Chavarria
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 21 July 2019
Place : Miami
Victor : Hiawassee

Arquelao Chavarria is the only known Immortal to have survived a one-night stand with the child prostitute Mayra
Alejandra. He was seduced by the petite immortal and the girl liked his sense of humor and the fact they shared the same
physical and mental scars from tragic pasts. Nonetheless, Chavarria is a dangerous gangster who is causing serious gang-
related problems in Tampa, as well as being a proficient player of the Game. This year, after killing the remants of the
Combined Immortals of America, he had to face Hiwawassee who attended an exhibition of Indian arts in Miami;
Hiawassee left Miami with one hell of a souvenir.

Ines Guzmàn, July 2019


Joe Muhamad
Status
Most recent base of operations : Seattle, WA
Occupation : Metal worker, skilled craftman also
creating customized swords on behalf of disabled
Immortals
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Dwight McFee

Joe Muhamad was originally born in Algeria, his parents moved in America in 1899 for a better life in Lousiana when he was in his teens. His father was a metalsmith, making beautiful works decorating inns and hostels and making good money for his wife and four children. When WWI erupted, Joe was drafted with millions of other Americans in 1917 and sent to Europe where he was hit by mortal shells on the trenches, losing both of his legs. Unhappy with his life, Joe followed in his father's footsteps, hoping to find achievement in metalworking. He spent the nex twenty years honing his skills until one night in 1939 when young robbers came into his shop looking for a stash of money had with no doubt hidden in his shop. When trying to stop the robbers, Joe was fatally shot and died. That was the end of Joe Muhamad and the beginning of one of rarest immortals to enter the Watchers'Chronicles : an handicapped man, mentored by a lengendary immortal - Marie Laveau - and taught to use a shotgun to parry off Immortals coming after him. And he has been quite apt at using his gun to fend for himself in the Game, waiting for any heahdunter foolish enough to come after an "easy target" like him.
After he shot and killed Chrystle Lightning in April – even as unlikely as it sounds – we expected old Joe to be possessed with the same evil that festered in the Indian’s mind, the dreaded Dark Quickening. However that didn’t seem to be the case, Joe seemingly has his own private demons and the DQ’s malevolence didn’t change his character. The same old angry Immortal who unexpectedly met up Richie Ryan on the outsklirts of Seattle. Richie was surprised to meet an Immortal who reminded him of his old friend Joe Dawson.
But this wasn’t Joe Dawson and the old Algerian tends to shoot first and ask questions later. His powerful shotgun nearly lopped Richie’s head off who chose to exit the premise. No need to loose one’s head over a temperamental Immortal who doesn’t follow the rules of the Game.

Dwight McFee, July 2019