Homemade Watchers Chronicles

[Apollo1]

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

[Gardner]

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.

[Apollo1]

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

[Gardner]

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.

[Apollo1]

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

[Gardner]

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

[Apollo1]

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

[Gardner]

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


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

[Gardner]

A few adjustements because I had too many Immortals born in the 20th century on the Active and Inactive rosters.
G.


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

[Gardner]

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

[Gardner]

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.

[Apollo1]

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

[Gardner]

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

[Apollo1]

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

UPDATE:

Hapuseneb

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

From the Chronicle of the Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Madog Ap Owain

Known aliases : Vassily Zaroff, Phillip Madoc, Charles Herne
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

[Gardner]

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!

[Apollo1]

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

Cheers
Apollo1

[Apollo1]

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

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

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

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

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 ?

[Apollo1]

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

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

Good job with the Immortal Hooligan btw...lol

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

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 !

[Gardner]

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.

[dubiousbystander]

Oooh. The Apostate background is interesting!

Gardner, you said Jin Ke's wife had children. Were they biologically his? How did she survive, if so?

[Apollo1]

Well done, my friend! Great work with the Sacred Order Masters, just as i was thinking they were. And i really love the pictures you chose; a great line-up there, looking as i pictured them in my head.
Also, really enjoyed your hint as to the past actions of The Apostate protecting the Order from those trying to uncover its secrets.

Speaking of him...

The Apostate

What can be said about this Immortal? Once an avid player of the Game, who skirted the grey areas of the Immortal community, his many identities hinting at his talent for the hunt and his skill with the sword. The former Kotys the Hunter at some point in the past, most likely in the pre-Christ era, crossed paths with Hapuseneb, the Immortal who would go on to found the world's most secretive cadre of Immortals to ever exist, an Order with access to the most hidden secrets of the mortal and Immortal world. What was it that drove the friendship between the bookish, scholarly Hapuseneb, who discarded his sword centuries ago, and the fierce warrior and player of the Game, Kotys? The same question must be asked of his Immortal disciples, an eclectic mix if ever there was one. But whatever it is, Kotys dropped out of sight in the 1st Century AD and was never heard from again until we discovered the existence of the Order and Kotys at its heart, now calling himself The Apostate and fiercely loyal to the Immortals within its ranks. A fierce and skilled warrior who kills without mercy in its name, but takes no joy in the killing. It is just a means to an end. Anybody who threatens its existence is hunted down and eliminated. How many Immortals has he killed in its name? The next few years should reveal some interesting secrets. An Immortal who kills not for the Game but for friendship. For family. And that is the most dangerous and formidable Immortal of all.

Special Projects, Chronicle of the Order of the Sacred Knowledge

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

THE TALE OF THE EIGHT DEVILS


In ancient China there existed Eight Devils. Eight Immortals bearing the names of the ghosts and demons of Chinese folklore living as assassins, hiring themselves to whom could pay best. And in their spare time they murdered, vandalized, burnt their way across mainland China, spreading tales of terror which survive as folktales to present times.

Meng Po, an unobtrusive old lady hiding a rotten soul beneath the manner of a sweet grandmother. Master hebalist who hired herself as cook in households and poisoned entire families. She was the Eight Devils ringleader and gathered them all under her firm rule.
Ba Jiaogui, malevolent ghost who staged murders as rabid dogs attacks, suicides, spontaneous combustions, wreaking havoc everywhere she went. Leged has it that she was molested by a cousin and killed herself in dishonor, her ghost doomed to walk the Earth forever.
Bai Gujing, a child Immortal, the innocent face of a little girl luring lone travellers to certain doom, appearing as a living squeletton (likely dressed in black with painted bones all over). She was as rabid as a dog, as ferocious as a gutter rat and as mean spirited and wicked as a demon from the deepest pits of Hell.
Daji the Fox-lady, the succubus who seduced any men and could turn a monk into a rabid sex-crazed lunatic. Hundreds of men fell to her seductive charms and were felled by her poisoned cosmetics; Immortal men shared the same kind of fate, falling asleep beside her, never to wake up.
E Gui, the hungry ghost, an obese and grotesque man known for his greed and gluttonnery who was the best wrestler of China, having mastered his sport for hundreds of years. Invicible, merciless, fearsome and known as an impotent man who sought favors from Daji but never obtained them because he truly disgusted her.
Jiangshi the vampire, the other child Immortal of the group, working in pair with Bai Gujing, two heartless children luring men and women with sad eyes and pleas for help. Good at running when they met Immortals who saw beyond their looks.
Pipa Jing, a pipe-smoking woman who put poisoned tobacco in her pipe; her quarries were dead before they even were aware they had been poisoned. Meng Po is the Immortal who recruited her and taught her to poisoned tobacco as means to commit murders.
Nü Gui, the hermaphrodite, once a carnivale freak who decided he should have his fun too and started murdering people who wanted to do more than pick a look at him (or her). If people want a piece of him, he once stated, they'd better be prepared to pay for the privilege. Murdered his quarries in creative, gruesome ways.

Who else than the Eight Immortals of Chinese folklore could put an end to their rampage ? The Eight Immortals (all benevolent, with the exeption of the Immortal Maiden) had been antagonists of the Devils for centuries and when the Devils started impersonating them, damaging their reputation on the Immortal scenery, the group led by Houng-ho decided to take action and gathered at the court of Emperro Ming in 1368, posing as his hireligns and bodyguard, waiting for the Eight Devils who they heard plotted against the Emperor's life. They didn't wait for long and soon a battle royale occured between the Eight Immortals and the Eight Devils. The Immortals were experienced in sword-fighting, kung-fu, acrobatics while the Eight Devils cheated in the Game and weren't as competent fighters as their ennemies.
In the end, the Eight Devils were dead and when they were buried in a mass grave, legend as it that the land around the grave grew sterile and no men, no animal dared walk it.

From the Chronicles of the Eight Immortals
Watcher Research, China




The Eight Devils Ba Jiaogui
Known aliases : Banana Tree Ghost
Notable characteristics : Posing as a malevolent
ghost
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, staging
murders as suicides by hanging
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Houng-ho, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Hung herself after having been raped
by her male cousin
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 755-763. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Bai Gujing
Known aliases : The White Bones Demon
Notable characteristics : Immortal Child
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils group
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Chao Jingxiu, Eight Immortals, bodyguard
of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 755-763. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Daji the Fox-lady
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Intense sexual charisma
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin posing as fox divinity gifted
with regenerative abilities, Eight Devils group
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Immortal Maiden, Eight Immortals,
bodyguard of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of
the Ming Dynasty
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 755-763. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils E Gui, the hungry ghost
Known aliases : The Voracious E Gui
Notable characteristics : ¨Perpetually hungry and
glutonous, gargantuan physique
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, professional
wrestler killing quarries in chokehold
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Lu Dongbin, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan



The Eight Devils Meng Po
Known aliases : The Lady of Forgetfulness,
Old Lady Meng; Gui Po, the Old Witch
Notable characteristics : Elderly Immortal
Weapon : Undetermined
Inconclusive fight agaisnt Jin Ke, 265

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin herbalist preparing
poisoned herbal brews; leader, Eight Devils
Prior occupations : Witch
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Zhou Tong, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Jiangshi the vampire
Known aliases : Pale Demon Child (translated)
Notable characteristics : Posing as vampire, taste
for human flesh and fresh blood; Immortal child
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, drinking the
blood from hsi victims
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Iron Stick Li, Eight Immortals, bodyguard
of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan


The Eight Devils Pipa Jing
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Pipe-smoker
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, smoking a
jade pipa emitting an intoxicating cloud of smoke
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Nanjing
Victor : Hsien-Tsiang, Eight Immortals, bodyguard
of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan




The Eight Devils Nü Gui
Known aliases : Nan Gui
Notable characteristics : Posing as ghost;
transgender Immortal
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None

Status
Most recent base of operations : Eastern China
Occupation : Assassin, Eight Devils, seduces his
or her quarries before murdering them
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1368 Ming Dynasty
Place : Shangai
Victor : Lan Caihe, Eight Immortals, bodyguard of
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming
Watcher : Research, Eight Immortals Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
Born : China, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : The Eight Devils
Known ennemies : Lang Xiong, An Rokshan, the
Eight Immortals
First recorded sighting : 760. Tang Dynasty
During An Lushan Rebellion against Emperor
Tang. Posing as one of the Eight Immortals of
Chinese myth, fought Immortal Lang Xiong and
his disciple An Rokshan