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  • Gardner
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    Anne of Cleves ? I could never have remembered her name. Can you please pull up her file ?
    I hope I wasn't too harsh with you in the matter of you printing the Watchers Chronicles, dear.

    Updating Bethany :

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : English
    Born : 1110; Ipswich England
    First death : 1148; Killed with husband and
    servants during Civil War of Empress Matilda
    First teacher : Carolyn Godfrey, cross-identified as Edwina of Mercia
    Known past associates : Clifford Holden,
    Judith & Nigel Cuthbert, Jack & Sadie Hawkins,
    Edwina of Mercia, Athalos of Thebes, Phillip
    Goodwin, Walter DeGrey
    First recorded sighting : 1139. Norwich
    Found and mentored by Edwina of Mercia

    Edwina of Mercia's first student, an edgy women who made scandals in the good society of London with her witty banter and sharp tongue, criticizing more often than not the current Victorian regime, complaining on how the once great English nation had turn into a nation of quarelling prudes who look like what they eat : overgrown steacks. 'No wonder the French call you all roastbeefs !' she used to say laughing. She was challenged by Horst and Hugo Hauser, sarcastically noting how men are courageous when they are two against a lonely woman. Those were her last words.

    From the Chronicle of Horst and Hugo Hauser



    Adjustment:


    Shibtu of Yambad

    Known aliases : None
    Notable characteristics : Teenaged immortal
    Weapon : Hittite broadsword
    Recorded kills : None. Inconclusive fight against
    Ankh-Psantek, 1274 BC
    Missing between 1274 BC and 626 AD

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Constantinople
    Occupation : Consort to the Emperor
    Prior occupations : Queen of Mari, Syrian city-
    State, warrior queen, leading Hittites in battle
    against the invading Egyptians
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 626, siege of Constantinople by Persians
    Place : Constantinople
    Victor : Xanthia of Miletus, under the spell of a
    Dark Quickening
    Watcher : Research, Xanthia Chronicle

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Semitic
    Born : 18th century BC; Kingdom of Yambad,
    present-day Syria
    First death : 1762 BC, Wife of King Zimri-lim killed
    during sack of Mari, Syria, by Hammurabi
    First teacher : Ishtar of Erech, history disclosed to
    Xanthia of Melitus during visit ot the Louvres
    Known past associates : Ishtar of Erech
    First recorded sighting : 1274 BC. Kingdom of the
    Levant. Nearly killed in battle by Ankh-Psantek

    The Siege of Constantinople in 626 saw the battle of Xanthia of Melitus (again under the influence of a Dark Quickening) against ‘Shibtu of Yambad’ as she introduced herself, a consort and favorite of the Emperor of Constantinople. The fight, long and harduous, ended with Xanthia’s victory, the Quickening was quite powerful and rich, alluding to an immortal of ancient age. Shibtu’s background remained undetermined until her name was found mentioned in a chronicle of Egyptian Ankh-Psantek in 1274 BC, she was a consort of his and had to defend herself against his jealous rage until she disappeared from Watcher scope. Ishtar of Erech is the immortal who disclosed her origin story to Xanthia of Melitus during a trip to the Museum of Louvres in Paris, as she was the subject of an exposed painting.

    Watcher Research, The Chronicle of Xanthia of Melitus


    Once deleted and forsaken, but not forgottern...

    Ramsay MacDonald
    wn aliases : None
    Notable characteristics : Hypnosis talent, ablle to
    tame any animal of Austrlian wildlife
    Weapon : British infantry saber, picked it from
    unidentified Immortal decapitated by a crocodile
    Recorded kills : None known

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Walkabout
    Creek, Northern Territory of Australia
    Occupation : Bushman, occasional tour guide,
    hunting poachers
    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
    Date :
    Place :
    Victor :
    Watcher : Research, Australia

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Australian
    Born : 18th century; New South Wales, Australia
    First death : Undetermined
    First teacher : Mandawuy
    Known associates : Mandawuy; Rikali Tapai,
    off/on lover
    Known past associates : Linda Flaherty
    Known ennemies : Samuel Ferguson
    First recorded sighting : 1984. Arnehm Land,
    Australia Guiding Linda Flaherty on a tour in the
    Outback, Linda inve’stigated tales of a crazed
    white savage wrestling crocodiles

    I suppose we needed Crocodile Dundee on the Immortal scene I nAustralia, yet another cliché of the Australian myth for the Europeans and Americans who come visit us. Ramsay MacDonald however is a very seriosu 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 sicne wehave bene following him many Immortals have come after his head and never came back from their safari trip. His sole friends in the Immortal community are Mandawuy the shaman and 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 andchildren. A neverending debate.

    Watcher Bureau, Australia
    July 2018


    Enobakhare
    Known aliases : None
    Notable characteristics : Fierce temperament,
    known to tear an Immortal’s head out with her
    bare hands and teeth
    Weapon : Spear, riffle; machete
    Inconclusive fight against Owusu Ojokolo, 1627;
    François Marchette, 1890; Xavier St. Cloud, 1894

    Status
    Most recent base of operations: Kingdom of
    Dahomey, Benin
    Occupation: Warrior, Amazons of Dahomey
    Possibly, Performer, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1894
    Place : Dahomey
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, Western Africa

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Beninese, Fon people
    Dahomey Amazons, or Nnonmiton in Fon laguage
    Born : 1626, Kingdom of Dahomey, present Benin
    First death : 1645; Part of the King of Dahomey’s
    elephant hunters, killed in warfare
    First teacher : Mossane Gasira Nkobe
    Known associates : Mossane, Ikuseghan
    Known ennemies : François Marchette
    First recorded sighting : 1685, Western Africa.
    In war against Kingdom of Savi with Mossane
    Gasira Nkobe, fighting Owusu Ojokolo


    Ikuseghan
    Known aliases : None
    Notable characteristics : Fierce temperament,
    known to tear an Immortal’s head out with her
    bare hands and teeth
    Weapon : Spear, riffle; machete

    Status
    Most recent base of operations: Kingdom of
    Dahomey, Benin
    Occupation: Warrior, Amazons of Dahomey
    Possibly, Performer, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 1894
    Place : Dahomey
    Victor : N.A
    Watcher : Research, Western Africa

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Beninese, Fon people
    Dahomey Amazons, or Nnonmiton in Fon laguage
    Born : 1709, Kingdom of Dahomey
    First death : 1729; Killed in warfare agaisnt Oto
    state as soldier in the Amazons of Dahomey corps
    First teacher : Enobakhare
    Known associates : N’Nonmiton Clan
    Known ennemies : François Marchette
    First recorded sighting : 1890. Kingdom of
    Dahomey. Following Enobakhare in warfare
    against troops led by François Marchette

    Enobakhare and Ikuseghan were soldiers in the corps of Dahomey Amazons, four thousand women molded into the most savage, ruthless and efficent cadre of female warriors of Africa, rivaling with the Spartans and the Kikuyus in savagery. After the dissolution of the corps in 1894, Xavier St. Cloud challenged Enobakhare and Ikuseghan to a fight and was litterally torn apart by the fierce women, losing a part of his stomatch and nearly one limb or two before Ikuseghan started tearing his throat apart with her own teeth. Xavier got lucky he could escape from the furies but he has never been the same since. During the Great War he was using mustard gaz in the Game and In the 1990’s ressorted to mercs armed with uzis. I think the amazon truly destroyed his self-confidence because she wasn’t even carrying her sword when he came after her. Enobakhare and Ikuseghan, who survived the slaughter of the Amazons elite troop durign the French-Dahomey war, are rumored to have joined Buffalo Bill Circus after their mentor took out Xavier and were never seen again, maybe they still live In America, under different identities

    Watcher Research, Western Africa


    Cheers !
    Last edited by Gardner; 08-02-2023, 02:13 AM.

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  • Apollo1
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    This is what i have for Bethany Clarke, my friend:

    Bethany Clarke

    Age: 896
    Known aliases: Bethany Cabe, Alison May,
    Abigail McCabe, Irene Adler
    Notable characteristics: Loudmouth, her tongue
    was sharper than her sword
    Weapon: British cavalry sabre

    Status
    Most recent base of operations: London, England
    Occupation: Socialite, independent means
    Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
    Date: 4 November 1997
    Place: Outskirts of London
    Victor: Hugo Hauser
    Watcher: Dennis Harcourt

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation: English
    Born: 1101, Ipswich, Kingdom of England
    First death: 1139; Killed with husband and servants
    during Civil War of Empress Matilda
    First teacher: Carolyn Godfrey
    Known associates: Carolyn Godfrey, Borin Forthwind,
    Walter DeGrey, Beatrix Kidd, Anne of Cleves, Athalos
    of Thebes
    Known past associates: Sherlock Holmes

    First recorded sighting: 1139, Norwich, England
    Found and mentored by Carolyn

    Carolyn’s first student, an edgy woman who created scandals in the good society of London with her witty banter and sharp tongue, criticising often the current Victorian regime, complaining of how the once great English nation had turned into a nation of quarrelling prudes looking exactly like what they ate: overgrown steaks. “No wonder the French call you all roast beefs!” she used to say laughing.

    She was challenged by Horst and Hugo Hauser, sarcastically noting how men are courageous when they are two against a lone woman. Those were her last words.

    From the Chronicle of Bethany Clarke

    Cheers
    Apollo1

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  • Gardner
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    There must be entire volumes of potential paperwork there. If you have missing files in case something happens again to your PC they are still available on my mainfraime.
    Personally, I wish the Watchers Chronicles would remain a virtual thing, if you know what I mean...
    Can you please look up Bethany Clarke's profile and give me the lsit of her students ? Still looking for the name of the Frenchwoman she once mentored lol

    Cheers.

    G.

    Update


    Glismoda
    Known aliases : Auina of Tuihanti, Petya of the
    Getae
    Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
    Weapon : Suevi custom broadsword
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Gallaecia,
    modern-day Northern Portugal
    Occupation : Sword-for-hire
    Prior occupations : Invader, pluderer
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 868, during Reconquista of Northern Iberia
    by Count Vimara Peres
    Place : Vila Real
    Victor : Ben Said al-Maghribi
    Watcher : Watcher Research, Iberian Peninsula

    Background
    Original cultural affilation : Tubantes
    Born : Eastern Netherlands, Rhine river, unknown
    date
    First death : 69-70 Killed durign Batavian revolt
    against Roman Empire
    First teacher : Veleda the Wise, priestess and
    prophet of the Bructeri tribe, cross-identified as
    Cassandra
    Known ennemies : Cristovao Bastos
    First recorded sighting : 468. Cinimbriga, Portugal
    Inconclusive fight against Cristovao Bastos during
    sack of the city by the Suebics, fatally stabbed
    through the chest by Cristovao

    The chronicles of Ben Said-al-Magribi report how in 868 he fought the forces of Count Vimara Peres during the first reconquista of Iberia by Spanish troops, the first attempt to repell Moorish occupation of the Iberian peninsula. Ben Said was in Northern Portugal, when in the middele of a heated battle he sensed the presence of one of his kind, a mercenary who introduced himself as Glismoda, a Suevi briefly listed on the roster of immortals in 468 when she fought Cristovao Bastos during the sack of Coimbra by the Suevi tribe. Glismoda was thought to have been killed by the Portuguese hero, but somehow lived four centuries before re-appearing as a soldier of Count Peres. The battle raged on, ending on a stalemate by the end of the day. The following evening, Ben Said and Glismoda faced each other as immortals are prone to do. Ben Said fought with the same vigor and passion he bestowed on the Portuguese army and won against the Suevi warrior, taking her raw power and battle instinct; the following day, Ben Said won another victory when his army successfully defeated the army Count Vimara Peres.

    From the Chronicle of Ben Said al-Magribi
    Watcher Research, Iberia
    Last edited by Gardner; 07-25-2018, 01:18 AM.

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  • Apollo1
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    Originally posted by Gardner View Post
    Thank you Apollo. Unfortunately we already have Captain Richard Sharkey killed around that date during the Anglo-Spanish War.
    So I tweaked in a different background for Cartwright...

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation: English
    Born: 1636; Linconshire, England
    First death: 1666; Sailor killed during Four Days’
    Battle, Anglo-Dutch War
    First teacher: Robert Preston
    Known past associates: Robert Preston
    Known enemies: Jean-Marc Claret
    First recorded sighting: 1670. London, England
    Found and mentored by Robert Preston

    This time it should do. I noticed you embossed parts of Cartwright's stats, did you do this with all the characters I sent over the years ?
    That's a lot of efforts!

    Cheers !
    G.
    Just started doing it on the updated stats. It's a long job, but when i print them out they look great! Lol
    I'm eventually going to update all the Immortal stats like this and print them off. That way i'll have physical files in case anything happens to my PC again.
    It'll be a marathon, but i'll get there in the end...! lol

    Oh and i found that write-up for Jason Cartwright:

    A decent man who believed in the wisdom of keeping the colonies of England under watch and didn't share his teacher's "There Can Be Only One" vision of the Game. Colonel Cartwright met Jean-Marc Claret in 1690, felt being Immortals allowed them to go beyond patriotism but Claret decided only one of them would walk from the battlefield with his head on his shoulders.

    From the Chronicle of Jean-Marc Claret

    Cheers
    Apollo1
    Last edited by Apollo1; 07-23-2018, 01:32 PM.

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  • Gardner
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    Thank you Apollo. Unfortunately we already have Captain Richard Sharkey killed around that date during the Anglo-Spanish War.
    So I tweaked in a different background for Cartwright...

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation: English
    Born: 1636; Linconshire, England
    First death: 1666; Sailor killed during Four Days’
    Battle, Anglo-Dutch War
    First teacher: Robert Preston
    Known past associates: Robert Preston
    Known enemies: Jean-Marc Claret
    First recorded sighting: 1670. London, England
    Found and mentored by Robert Preston

    This time it should do. I noticed you embossed parts of Cartwright's stats, did you do this with all the characters I sent over the years ?
    That's a lot of efforts!

    Cheers !
    G.

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  • Apollo1
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    I have the stats for Cartwright, but can't find a write-up. It might be in with some of my other files, so i'll do a search. In the meantime, here's what i have:

    Jason Cartwright

    Age: 158
    Known aliases: Jason Carter, Carter Jackson,
    John Carter
    Notable characteristics: Missing two fingers on
    right hand; wound pre-dating First Death
    Weapon: English cavalry sabre with customised
    handle

    Status
    Most recent base of operations: Acadia, present-day
    Nova Scotia
    Occupation: Colonel, New England provincial
    militia
    Prior occupations: Officer of English Army, privateer
    Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
    Date: May 1690
    Place: Port Royal, Acadia
    Victor: Jean-Marc Claret
    Watcher: Robert Bauden

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation: English
    Born: 1532, Lincolnshire, Kingdom of England
    First death: War of 1585 – 1603 against Catholic
    Spain
    First teacher: Robert Preston
    Known associates: None
    Known past associates: Robert Preston
    Known enemies: Jean-Marc Claret

    First recorded sighting: 1590, shores of Spain
    Student of Robert Preston

    Hope this helps...

    Cheers
    Apollo1



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  • Gardner
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    The Onna-Bugeisha and Hideo Tanaka ? Most likely with Japan beign an insular archipelago. Yes they may have met.
    Can you post the profile for Immortal Jason Carthwright from your files, please ? He was once killed by Jean-Marc Claret, himself killed by Henry of Kent. I deleted Cartwright but I forgot what his story was...

    Thanks In advance
    G.
    Last edited by Gardner; 07-23-2018, 04:04 AM.

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  • Apollo1
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    Have to come here and say excellent research re: the Japanese sisters and their links to the female warrior nobility of that period. I wonder if they had any contact with the noble Hideo Tanaka in their long lives?

    Also, glad to see some updates on the missing Immortal list. It makes sense some of them would show up again and the Watchers would confirm some of the missing as officially dead.

    Nice work with Kedgick being killed by Serena Harper, emphasising the in-fighting in the ranks of the Hellfire Club as opposed to the SIS who are more organised and trusting of each other.

    Cheers
    Apollo1

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  • Gardner
    replied
    Glad you liked this, did you read all of my updates ?

    Adjustements :

    Nanlha of Bumthang
    Known aliases : Nanlha, Nanlha Kinga

    Nanlha of Bumthan has been cross-identified as a long-lost disciple of May-Ling Shen, born in Nepal during the 11th century. The recent Earthquake of 2015 allowed to find a grotto which seved as a shrine to Nanlha. A beheaded squeletton was buried there, a sword laying next to it. A mystery of Nanlha’s past which was disclosed as an Immortal woman Nanlha loved dearly and who was struck with the dreaded Dark Quickening, according to legend. In fear of hurting her lover, the woman jumped to her death from a cliff and was found beheaded by Nanlha who buried her friend in this prace of worship.

    Watcher Research, Eastern Asia


    Cressida Papanagou
    Known aliases : Daphne Demosthenes
    Notable characteristics : Ultra-nationalist
    Weapon : One-handed broadsword
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Mobile
    Occupation : Head, Northern Epirus Liberation
    Front
    Prior occupations : Freedom fighter
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 11 April 1994
    Place : Athens, Greece
    Victor : Thanos of Athens
    Watcher : Costas Ramos

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Greek
    Born : 1915; Northern Epirus, Greece
    First death : Communist partisan killed by British-
    backed Royalist troops, Civil War of 1944-1949
    First teacher : Everett Bellian
    Known associates : Everett Bellian
    Known ennemies : Thanos of Athens
    First recorded sighting : 1949. Arta, Epirus
    Found and mentored by Everett Bellian

    While not as driven by hate and the need for revenge like Annie Devlin or Cornelia Falcone, Cresida Papanagou was determined to be the voice of her people on the immortal scene, something Deoneces and Kyra of parta wouldn't disagree with. However, what they didn't agree with was the extreme means Cresida used to make her voice heard : political murders and bombs were tghings she wasn't afraid to delve in, anf for the past fifty years she became the terrorist she hated in 1944 when she fought Royalist troops to free her homeland. Her ideals as a communist where all material needs would be filled for everyone got perverted in time and she lost herself over time.
    Fifty decades isn't much for an immortal, but Kyra needed to stop her before she killed more people and when Cresida wouldn't listen to the voice of reason, Kyra was forced to take action : she hunted every member of Cresida's network of saboteurs and assassins, dispatched them in permanent manners - their bodies were never found - before coming after the head of the Epirus Liberation Front whom she found derad, decapitated by Athenns’ protector, Thanos of Athens.
    Had Talia Bauer been Cresida's teacher, she would have lasted ten minutes against the Spartan blade, but her teacher was Everett Bellian and against Thanos, she lasted two.

    Athens, 11 April 1994
    From the Chronicle of Kyra of Sparta




    Touktar of the Tatars
    Known aliases : Tatjana Borokovna, Chulpan
    Ordanova, Alina Kabaeva

    Kilina Borschak and Sona Basnyat are separate characters, for later stories.

    Important : Maya Samphan is now to be called Maya Sokhit : as a Khmer killing fields survivor she cannot bear the same name as Khmer Rouge dignitary Khieu Samphan who comitted genocide on the Cambodian people. It's tantamount to have a German herone named Eva Himmler. Please update accordingly on Mayas profile and on the profiles of the Immortals she killed.

    And now a few young Immortals... all recycled characters.

    Johnny Thunder
    Known aliases : John Tenderfoot (birth name)
    Notable characteristics : Addicted to crystal meth
    and to Quickenings
    Weapon : Union cavalry saber, allegedly picked
    from a Union soldier at Battle of Little Big Horn
    Recorded kills : Perceval Quinoz

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Carson, NE
    Occupation : Drifter, headhunter, occasional drug
    dealer
    Prior occupations : Crystal meth trafficker
    Roster of Immortals Status : Active
    Date :
    Place :
    Victor :
    Watcher : Terri Bad-Eye

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Native American
    Cherokee
    Born : 1984; Cherokee Indian Reservation, NC
    USA
    First death : 2013; Meth traffichers shoot-out
    First teacher : Hiawassee
    Known past associates : Hiawassee
    First recorded sighting : 2013. Cherokee, NC
    Found and mentored by Hiawassee, eager student

    My name may be Mary Bad Eye but there isn’t a single soul who dares mock my tracking abilities, I can follow my Immortal anywhere he goes even when he goes missing for months. This is one man who left his teacher angry and with a bad attitude but he can control his meth addiction and his yearning for more of the Quickening. His first one he enjoyed in 2013 and since then he has been wanting more/ Some will say he is an addictive personality but little by little he wins more victories and soon no one will laugh at him anymore. Bewere Immortals of America, your days are counted !

    Mary Bad Eye, July 2018



    A few Immortals, so far reported M.I.A, have re-appeared alive and well in recent years....


    Lidio Valora
    Known aliases : Bastien Grimaldi, Francois
    Querole, Clement Tibere, Vito Genovese
    Notable characteristics : Weight-of-the-world-on-
    his-shoulders countenance
    Weapon : Greek Hoplite sword
    Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Luanda, Angola
    Occupation : Businessman, Oil production
    Prior occupations : Money embezzlement
    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
    Date :
    Place :
    Victor :
    Watcher : Carmen Lacruz

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Portuguese
    Born : 1708; Coimbra Portugal
    First death : 1758; Executed with Tavora family
    and Duke of Aveiro after attempted murder on
    King Joseph I
    First teachers : Bartolomew of Wessex
    Known past associates : Bartholomew of Wessex,
    Spanish Cabal
    Known ennemies : SIS, Knights of Charlemagne
    First recorded sighting : 1758. Rio de Janeiro,
    Brazil. Student of Bartholomew

    Lidio Valora first appears on Watcher records being mentored by the infamous Bartholomew of Wessex. He was seen regularly seen operating on both the mortal and immortal scenes as an investment banker diverting funds from the British Army during the war against Spain, WWI and WWI. He was reported to have funded the Spanish Cabal and gone in conflict against the SIS and later against th Knights of Charlemagne. A shadowy figure, Lidio lived in Southern Europe, living off funds accumulated during those terrible years, his mind unencumbered by the moral dilemnas or profiting from the suffering of the 50 Millions people killed or missing during last war.
    Lidio Valora, who disappeared from Madrid at the beginnign of the war, reappeared in Angola as a businessman in oil production; the Portuguese ironically sought his fortunes in a land his people originally conquered and exploited.

    Carmen Lacruz, 2016




    Connor MacLeod
    Known aliases : Adrian Montague, Jacques
    Lefeburt, Alfred Nicholson, Major Dupont, Rupert
    Wellingford, David Carruthers, Russell Nash
    Notable characteristics : Rugged looks, staccato
    laugh, dressed in trench-coat, jeans and sneakers
    Weapon : Dragonhead Masamune katana
    Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Casablanca,
    Morocco
    Occupation : Antiques broker, Davis Import
    Prior occupations : Merchant ship captain; Major
    of Scottish Highlander, Napoleonic campaigns,
    traveller, sword-for-hire
    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
    Date :
    Place :
    Victor :
    Watcher : Dana Brook

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Scottish Highlanders
    Born : 1516, Glenfinnan Scotland
    First death : 1536, Killed by the Kurgan during
    battle against the Frazers
    First teacher : Tak-Ne of Alexandria
    Known associates : Duncan MacLeod, Amanda
    Known past associates : Tak Ne, Sunda
    Kastagir, Pierre Boucher, Nakano, Hugh Fitzcairn,
    Sean Burns, Robert Montague, Jacob Van
    Houten, Nicholas MacGill, Elijah Denton, Graham
    MacDonald, James François
    Known ennemies : The Kurgan, Iman Fasil
    First recorded sighting : 1541 Glencoe Scotland
    Found and mentored by Tak Ne

    I think the death of Brenda Wyatt was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. After the death of Brenda Wyatt, Sunda Kastagir, countless lovers and friends over the last four centuries, Connor MacLeod just couldn't take it anymore. The pain, the loneliness, the endless fighting, the pointless butchery caused by the Game. His cheerful attitude in when he fought Slan Quince in Seattle was faked : he pretended to be happy when he felt hollow inside. Ramirez was dead, Kastagir was dead, all the other heroes were too much in the shades of grey of the mortal world. Connor wanted respite from the Game and maybe he obtained it wherever he is hiding in present times.

    Marcia Brooks, 1994
    Addendum

    Recorded kills : Black Margaret, Knut Tjodolf, Nerissa, John Hawkwood, Robert Campbell, Lachlan Murdoch, The Persian Raider, Savely Zuev, Isaac Russell, Kasper Kozlowski, Pierre Mulet, Nicholas Ward, Nwebube Iheatu, Henry Rochia, Khordas, Felix Bischoff, Marlinje Koon, Hikoshiro Sadamune
    Inconclusive fight against Patrick Stanze, 1773; the Kurgan, 1804; Daemon ap Tudor, 1980


    Emomali Nabiyev
    Known aliases : Junaid Khan
    Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist,
    turned over to ISIL; trained falcon
    Weapon : Moorish boradsword
    Recorded kills : Vasily Dionisy

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Afghanistan
    Occupation : Terrorist, ISIL soldier
    Prior occupations : Officer, Police Unit, Interior
    Ministry of Tajikistan, fighting Islamists
    Tajik rebel fighter, leading uprising against Sovier
    rule in Central Asia
    Roster of Immortals Status : Active
    Date :
    Place :
    Victor :
    Watcher : Wang Lie

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Tajik Muslim
    Born : 1880; Kulob, Tajikistan
    First death : 1917, Leading Basmachi movement
    against the Bolcheviks, captured, tried and
    executed by firing squad
    First teacher : Amyr Beg
    Known past associates : Nargis Shahidi,
    Lyudmilla Beketova, Amyr Beg
    Known ennemies : Immortals of Mother Russia
    First recorded sighting : 1945. Tajikistan. Solder of
    he Red Army, fighting Nazi Germany, encounter
    with Nargis Shahidi and Lyudmilla Beketova

    Emomali Nabiyev was captured by ISIL in 2014 and instead of being decapitated by the Immortal leading the Khorasan Province branch of the terrorist organisation, was completely turned over by brainwashing. His public turnover to ISIL triggered a scandal in Tajikistan. On 26 April 2017, a joint raid operation committed by U.S. Army Rangers and Afghan Special Forces in the Nangarhar Province resulted in the death of Sheikh Abdul Hasib, the leader of the Islamic State in Afghanistan. Along with Hasib, a number of other Top Commanders of ISIL were killed, including Nabiyev, reported missing since then.

    Watcher Bureau, Central Asia


    Thos few M.IA Immortals have had theri deaths confirmed.



    Nicholas Kedgick

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : New-York, NY
    Occupation : Black Bishop, Hellfire Club; running a
    Manhattan-based pubs network
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 7 May 1890
    Place : Manhattan, NY
    Victor : Serena Harper
    Watcher : Research, Hellfire Club

    In 1743 the Hellfire Club triggered the London Riots against Gin Taxes and other legislation to control the Gin Craze, principally the Gin Act 1736; rioting was fuelled by consumption of the drink itself in clandestine pubs held by the Club. The Club's Black Bishop came after one of the SIS and ran when the fight turned to his disadvantage. He re-appeared in New-York with the other members of the Club, running a pub network. Kedgick got in conflict with the Club’s White Queen and disappeared, killed by Serena Harper who had a protective stance toward the Cvlub’s pre-Immortal proteges, the Hellions.

    Watcher Bureau, London

    By the 1220s, Aldrich Monk and Evangeline Black had grudgingly agreed to work together with Sampson Brass and his protégé Honoria Dedlock as the Brimstone Brotherhood to establish their own underground empire. At the time Monk mentored Emory, aka Nicholas Kedgick, into the Brotherhood, the organisation was already running a rigged gambling operation in many towns and cities in England, while Monk ran the Brotherhood from a hidden base in London under the alias of The Sparrow to avoid the attentions of Richeard of Mercia and his cohorts.

    From the Chronicle of the Hellfire Club


    Hannah Witneg
    Known aliases : Miss Jenny, Alicia Conroy,
    Sarah Borginnes, Laura J. Williams aka Lieutnant
    Henry Benford
    Weapon : Scottish basket-hilt claymore
    Recorded kills : Inconclusive fight against Sarah
    d’Abbeville, 1817; Thomas Morehead, 1862

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Southeast USA
    Occupation : Soldier, Confederate Texans
    Prior occupations : Freedom fighter, soldier,
    innskeeper
    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
    Date : 7 April 1862 Battle of Shilofh
    Place : Hardin, Tennesee
    Victor : Thomas Morehead
    Watcher : Lily Rusch

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Black Irish
    Born : 1728; County Branagh
    First death : 1762; Fighting Colonial Americans
    with British Royal Marines
    First teacher : Ceirdwyn
    Known associates : Lord Byron, Methos, Gabriela
    de Savedra, Carmen Morales
    Known past associates : Ceirdwyn, Alex Raven,
    Maja Obasanjo
    Known ennemies : Thomas Morehead
    First recorded sighting : 1762. Maine, USA
    Found and mentored by Ceirdwyn

    Research allowed to find the link between Irishwoman Hannah Witneg, student of Ceirdwyn and the elusive Laura J. Williamas both women were found to be one and the same; we could also provide information on several immortal women who were active in war times for the past three hundred years, all without recorded First death and who had incomplete chronicles on Watcher Records.
    Hannah Witneg, was an Irish woman who served in the Royal Marines for six years in the 1760s. She fought, disguised as a man, and was said to have served with ‘fortitude and valor’. She met her First death in 1762 and was mentored by Ceirdwyn who turned an already strong-willed woman into a powerful player of the Game who defeated more than one immortal who came after her head, thinking her easy picking.
    In 1781 she posed as a French-Canadian woman called "Miss Jenny", serving as a spy for the British during the American Revolutionary War. In 1817 she was located in Savannah, Georgia, where she was reported fighting a duel against another immortal woman; the duel was Inconclusive, Sarah McLaughlin let Hannah live to fight another day, not wanting to take her head with mortals prying around.
    In 1846, Hannah reinvented herself as Sarah Borginnes and was hailed as "Heroine of Fort Brown" following her actions during the Siege of Fort Texas. She went on to operate a series of inns providing food, lodging, liquor, and women to Zachary Taylor's troops.
    In 1862, as Laura J. Williams, she participates in the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War with a company that she raised and led, all while disguised as a man. She meets immortal Thomas Morehead, parts in bad terms with the zealot immortal who hunts her down and kills her.

    The Chronicle of Hannah Witpeg
    Watcher Research, North America




    Daniel Buckland
    Known aliases : Daniel Westlake
    Notable characteristics : Gay immortal
    Weapon : Courtille sword
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Lancaster,
    England
    Occupation : Traveller
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : Fall of 1831
    Place : Lancaster
    Victor : Harry Hogan
    Watcher : Timothy Delaney

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Canadian
    Born : 1743, Winnipeg Manitoba
    First death : 1782, Knifed in prison by fellow
    inmate, originally sent to jail for homosexual
    practices
    First teacher : Sunda Kastagir
    Known past associates : Sunda Kastagir
    First recorded sighting : 1783 New-York NY USA
    Found and mentored by Sunda Kastagir

    Daniel Buckland has been relentlessly hunted like a fox by Hyde the Hunter who followed his usual Modus Operandi of tracking a young immortal to his teacher's lair after murdering his friends, his lover Patrick and all the mortals Buckland had the misfortune of meeting during the hunt.
    Buckland heard the tales of Martin Hyde by his teacher, Sunda Kastagir, who warned him of the headhunters he might encounter in Europe. But Buckland didn't want Hyde to kill his mentor, the man who had given a future and a life full of passion and adventures to him, so he lured Hyde out of Boston in the hope of losing him. I do not know what happened of him, since I lost both immortals and Hyde's Watcher had been killed two nights ago by his assignments. I fervently hope we will see Daniel again someday, his head firmly attached on his shouders with Hyde's beheaded body lying six feet under good English soil.

    Timothy Delaney, Autumn 1831
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  • Apollo1
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    Love your latest updates, my friend! Once again, some great background work.

    And i loved how you resolved the Abigail Crane story. Your link to Rhiannon Teague and her shared history with Crane has inspired me and i'm going to delve a bit into their shared history through some Watcher reports, detailing the torment Crane heaped on Teague and the reason why she hunted her former friend down with the help of Allegra Chambers.

    Cheers
    Apollo1

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    Nick Wolfe

    "What place is there for love when there can be only one", asked Nick Wolfe to Amanda after she shot him to death so he wouldn't die from slow-acting poison. Nick Wolfe didn't want to become immortal and resented Amanda for taking the decision in his place, thinking Evan Peyton's poison could have given him a permanent death. However, he isn't aware that immortality isn't necessarily triggered by a violent death. Aging, slow-acting poison, spoiled food do the trick too. But Nick rejected Amanda's love and support. Nick hates himself because he is in a world he cannot control : he cannot control the Game, he cannot control his Presence, warning immortals he is there. Nick cannot control his life anymore, and he tortures himself. Last time Amanda visited Nick in Vegas, the young immortal reconciled his differences with Amanda and accepted the presence of the Game in his life, startign to train seriously with mortal teachers and occasionally with the thousand-ears old thief.

    Joyce Pinon, Paradise Casino
    2014



    Florica Marga
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 12 May 1842
    Place : Prague
    Victor : Milos Arczynski
    Watcher : Alexandra Nechita

    Just a locale immortal innskeeper trying to keep out of trouble; unable to lift as word, lost Zoltan Laszlo in the woods and bashed Michael Rojek on the head with a frozen ox limb before escaping him. She finally decided to play the Game for good and discovered she had quite a talent with swords, cutlasses and kitchen knives. Took out six immortals, including three who came after her. She looks like a mere slip of a girl, but is a wicked lady when things get pushy. However, she cannot resist mature men and good-looking Immortals which may prove to be her downfall after all.

    Alex Nechita, 1842


    Cecily Reynolds
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 8 December 2014
    Place : Melbourne
    Victor : Nestor Poole

    This is a young woman of some international reputation and speculation. Much has been written about her various marriages and affairs, travelling across the global and gaining the reputation of an interantional business shark. The woman certainly got around. Good with a sword too. A shark in business and in the Game.

    Dwight Winston, 2014



    Arturo Barba
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 23 May 2014
    Place : Santiago
    Victor : Jimena Garbajosa
    Watcher : Research, South America

    In 1973, a military junta, led by General Augusto Pinochet, took control of Chile. The first years of the regime were marked by human rights violations. On October 1973, at least 72 people were murdered by the Caravan of Death, the Chilean army death squad led by Immortal Arturo Barba, Dominican-born and former lieutnant in the army of General Franco durign the Spanish Civil War.
    Nuela Montavez protested the rise to power of General Pinochet and paid a heavy price for it when Arturo Barba came after her and had her arrested for interrogation. Two weeks after her disappearance, her decapitated body was found near the slums of Santiago. Her student, Jimena Garbajosa, was safe, however, having fled to Cuba where she was reunited with Mexican revolutionnary and fellow Immortal Juanita Vasquez with whom she joined the Nicaraguan Sandinista army and learnt to use the arts of warfare agaisnt such ennemies of freedom and democracy as Pinochet.
    Forty years later, Jimena not only tries to find the whereabouts of Pinochet's victims so she can bring peace to their surviving relatives but she also hunts the perpeptrators of atrocities comitted agaisnt the Chilean people. She knows Arturo Barba is still out there, somewhere, living safe in Chile and not even a favor from God will help he Dominican Immortal when Jimena finds him.

    Watcher Research, South America

    Update

    Watcher Research allow to find the original teacher of Arturo Barba, an unobtrusive nun by name of Felicidad Dealcruz who had enough temperament to hide an protect negro salves hunted by Barba. She warned Barba against others of his kind but it was Kage seemingly who properly trained him at some point of history : the two men reunited in 1937 durign the Spanish Civil War and Kage recognized in Barba his former disciple.



    Keenainak
    Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
    Occupation : Murder-for-hire, headhunter
    Prior occupations : Bear hunter
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 20 October 2017
    Place : Calgary
    Victor : Carter Wellan
    Watcher : Helen Maksagak

    Finally Keenainak has left the wastelands of Alaska to play the Game, in his own fashion : shoot his quarries from diastance with a harpoon (an expert at it) and then take the head with a stroke of his cutlass. Very easy. I hate immortals who cheat in the Game, no class. He has been hiring himself as murder-for-hire and hunts immortals in his spare time, must be change from killing polar bears. Then he tried his M.O on Carter Wellan and Hazeem al Bachrim who had been forewarned by Ravenwood that the Inuit was in Calgary, so the two Immortals were prepared. Keenainak didn’t have the time to use his spear, Carter and Haresh faced him both. “Shoot one of us, the other will take you head”. Keenainak whipped out his sword and faced Carter Wellan who made short work of the marauding Immortal.

    Helen Maksagak, October 2017


    Anansi the Spider
    Most recent base of operations : Niamey, Niger

    Rodolfo Bautista
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 12 April 2017
    Place : Lago de Valencia, Venezuela
    Victor : Caras De Trevyn

    Author notes :
    San José Abbey, Güigüe, Venezuela, is a Benedictine abbey of the Congregation of Missionary Benedictines of Saint Ottilien. Currently located to the south of Lago de Valencia, the monastic community was originally established as a mission procure in Caracas following World War I. The community's superior is Fr Abbot José María Martínez Barrera. The abbot hired Caras De Trevyn for renovation work in the Abbey and turned the blind eye when Caras took out David Bautista out of the Game in April 2017.


    Macatangay, aka Akasaganga
    Known aliases : Carlotta Salazar
    Notable characteristics : None
    Weapon : Custom broadsword
    Recorded kills : None known

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Butuan,
    Phillipines
    Occupation : Posing as noblewoman, slave trader
    Prior occupations : Tea merchant, brothel madam
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 12 March 1943 Battle of Butuan
    Sold city of Butuan to the Japanese
    Place : Butuan
    Victor : King-ngoh Tay
    Watcher : Research, Southeast Asia

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Filipino
    Born : Phillipines, unnown date
    First death : Unrecorde
    First teacher : Unrecorded
    Known past associates : Cassivellaunus, under
    his identity of Andswaru; Hsien-Tsiang
    Known ennemies : King-Ngoh Tay
    First recorded sighting : 1001. Butuan, Phillipines
    In relationship with Hsien-Tsiang during contact of
    Butuan Rjahnate with Song Empire of CHina

    During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II, more than half of Butuan, if not all of it, was burned when local guerrilla forces attacked the enemy garrison on 12 March 1943 in the Battle of Butuan. King-ngoh Tay settled a few old scores with Akasaganga, a traitorous witch of a woman who sold herself to the Japanese the same way the accursed Malinche sold herself to the Spanish during the 15th century conquest of Mexico.

    Watcher Research, Southeast Asia
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  • Gardner
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    A few adjustements because I had too many Immortals born in the 20th century on the Active and Inactive rosters.
    G.


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


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

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

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



    Ender Gezmen
    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Stuttgart,
    Gerrmany
    Occupation : Professional racer
    Prior occupations : Motorcar racer
    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
    Date :
    Place :
    Victor :
    Watcher : Alper Al-Taftazarni

    Like other motorcycle racers in the Game - Richie Ryan, Alex Raven, Lalica, Gregor Czardas - Ender Gezmen keeps a mobile target, always ahead of immortals with agressive behavior, seemingly lured to racing contests like flies to neon light. Ender was mentored by Nasredding Hoca, one of the wisest immortal in the world who kept his head for centuries by being paranoid about immortals and stayed relatively sane even during the Immortals War. Ender is overcautious in his life as his is when racing : he doesn't't want his secret exposed by a miraculous recovery after a fatal accident and rides his motorbike like an overachieving pro. After the war ended and the dust settled, Ender was unsurprisingly among the survivors, ready to face the 21st century with his two best friends : his bike and his Turkish cavalry saber.

    Alper Al-Taftazarni, Stuttgart 2014


    Victor Hesse
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 13 May 2016
    Place : Honolulu
    Victor : Bridget Ingvarsen
    Watcher : Peter Berg


    Hilaria Quintero
    Most recent base of operations: Madrid, Spain
    Occupation: Independent contractor, specialising in
    assassination, theft, extortion & kidnapping
    Prior occupations: Assassin, spy, master thief
    Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
    Date: 12 June 2016
    Location: Madrid
    Victor: Frances Drummond
    Watcher: Alex Kavos

    For nearly five centuries, Hilaria Quintero, known as The Harlequin, made her reputation among those Immortals who exist in the grey area that straddles light and dark, although Quintero was considered more dark than light; her bouts of psychosis often leading to murder or mayhem, satisfying a craving nurtured by her mentor and lover, Coronus of Persia, who exploited her trauma after her painful First Death to mould her into a dark image of himself. She made use of the skills she learned over the centuries to carve out a career as a "fixer" and clashed often with those Immortals, mostly female, in a similar line of work.Away from her career, Hilaria relaxed by satisfying her sexual need to "break-in" young teenage boys. If she couldn't seduce them, she would pay those who offered such services to provide her with one of "her boys.“ Her first encounter with one of the students of Cleophon of Athens almost saw her lose her head, when she clashed with Frankie Drummond in San Francisco in 1934 while on an assignment to kill a friend of the Crimson Butterfly. The Harlequin barely escaped alive only to reunite with the Butterfly in 2016 when she targeted the elder teenaged son of a family Frances Drummond is bodyguarding. Frances managed to free Lorenzo before Hilaria could do permanent damage to him and took the Harlequin out in a fury of thunder and lightnings. Lorenzo has never been the same again after this light show...

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

    Cheers !
    Gardner

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

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

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


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

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

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

    Sylvia Krause,
    Senior Supervisor, Black Friar Asylum
    11 March 2012
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  • Gardner
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    Well , ancient Immortals, i.e born before Chris era or In the first centuries following the birth of Christ aren't that numerous, so I guess the Sacred Order Immortals ' continued existence isn't much of a stretch. Look at Darius : 2.000 years living on Earth before Horton got to him, but he was constantly on the move, mentoring Immortals from the four corners of the world. The Sacred Order must have had headquarters everywhere along the centuries, its latest one in Greece.

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

    G.

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  • Apollo1
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    Some really great updates, my friend. Interesting stories and backgrounds on a lot of complex Immortals. I also enjoy how you are incorporating the activities of the Apostate into the past history of the Immortals now we know the background to the Sacred Order and his role in its protection.

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

    Cheers
    Apollo1

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

    Update :

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

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


    Koschei the Deathless

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

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

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

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

    Watcher Research, Eastern Europe


    Kyala

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

    Watcher Research, Japan


    Keiko Watanabe

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


    Ijiro Tomonaga

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


    Artur Drakov

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

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

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

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

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

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

    From the Chronicle of Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta
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  • Apollo1
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    Great work fleshing out the activities of the Apostate, my friend. Lots of interesting tales to be told. And i love all the pictures. You can have all the artistic license you want! Lol

    UPDATE:

    Hapuseneb

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

    From the Chronicle of the Order of the Sacred Knowledge

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    Apollo1

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  • Gardner
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    Charles Herne

    Known aliases : Vassily Zaroff, Major Paul Hackett,
    Craig Spencer
    Notable characteristics : Hallmarks of ancient
    origins; wears an eyepatch over left eye, wound
    suffered during fight against Cassius Polonius

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

    Watcher Research
    Order of Sacred Knowledge Chronicles

    Author note : interestingly enough, Major Paul Hackett is a villain played by Michael Ironside i nthe Extreme Prejudice movie, where he leads a team of American soldiers all presumed dead.
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  • Gardner
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    Good point on the Apostate wiping out the evil coutnerparts to the Sacred Order, forging his reputation.
    The incident in the Forbidden City happens in 2013 ..

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

    Date of death : 2013

    Cheers!
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  • Apollo1
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    Hmm, you may have a point, my friend, about a rival group of Immortals taken out centuries ago who opposed the Order. It may also involve several missing Immortals on the roster, since such a conflict would be a secret one, out of sight of the Watchers and the Immortal community at large. It could also be where The Apostate forged his reputation as a remorseless killer, hunting down the Order's enemies and dispatching them.

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    Apollo1

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  • Apollo1
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    Well, I've got some vague ideas, but i need to flesh them out a bit first. I will say that James Horton and the Hunters were not the first renegade Watchers. In fact, Watcher archives record that around the time of the Roman civil war and the scouring of the Library of Alexandria, a splinter group of Watchers attempted to stop the Sacred Order from acquiring the ancient manuscripts. They believed the secrets should be for mortal man and that Immortals had no right to keep the books from them. There were 23 Watchers the Council recorded as having betrayed their vows and joined the splinter group. 7 of them were killed by the early Sentinels in the next decade, 7 others were hunted down by the Watchers and executed. The other 9 went underground. All knowledge of the activities of the unidentified Immortals in Alexandria was expunged and the names of the fugitive Watchers stricken from the records.

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

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

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    Apollo1

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

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  • Apollo1
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    Yeah, i loved the Eight Devils, particularly the gorgeous artwork of the pictures. As an artist myself, i suppose i would appreciate them! Lol

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

    Good job with the Immortal Hooligan btw...lol

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    Apollo1

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

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

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