Homemade Watchers Chronicles

[Gardner]

Apollo, here is a list of potential Pathfinders and Sentinels, Immortals likely to work in Pathfinder/Sentinel duos.
Cheers !


POTENTIAL PATHFINDERS

John the Apostle
Known aliases : John of Patmos, John the
Evangelist
Notable characteristics : Undetermined
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : No fixed location
Occupation : Missionnary, spreading the world of
Christ around the world; occasional martyr
Prior occupations : Disciple of Christ
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 650 Destruction of Timgad by Berbers
Place : Timgad, Algeria
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Unrecorded
Born : Unrecorded
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Undetermined
Known associates : Jesus of Nazareth, Lazarus,
the Three Nephites
First recorded sighting : 100 Ephesus, Anatolia
Martyrised by the Romans, encounter with
Dyonisius, confirmed to him the actual immortality
of Jesus of Nazareth

According to Middle Eastern Chronicles there were a fair number people who were attributed physical immortality by Jesus of Nazareth prior to his crucifixion and while most of those stories are apocryphal, i.e coming from too many different sources to be verifiable, the existence of Jesus of Nazareth has indeed be verified as well as the story of the Wandering Jew, aka Ahasuerus, already several centuries old and the story of Lazarus' resurrection cluing us on the origins of the Immortal Lucius Sharp claiming the identity of the original disciple of Christ.
The existence of Casca Longinus is unverifiable. In theory he may well have been Cassius Marius, aka Brother Paul, the only known Immortal centurion to have converted to Christianity, thus joining the origin story of the original Saint Longinus. Paul never spoke of his life around the time of Christ’s resurrection but if indeed he pierced the flank of Christ this could have created the conditions to his conversion to Christian religion.
The stories of John the Apostle and the Three Nephrites are to be taken with a grain of salt. All we know so far is that Jesus lives in Jerusalem and Lazarus was living in New Mexico prior to his disapperarance in 1978. The man claiming to be the Wandering Jew was killed by a disciple of his, a youngish immortal with the habit of murdering his teachers.
John the Apostle, or the man claiming to be him was met by Dyonisos the Aerropagite in Epesus circa 100 AD.
The Three Nephites met Cassandra in 33, the year of Jesus' crucifiction, they spread the word of Christ for three hundred years before their disappearance in 301 in Armenia

Watcher Research, Middle East




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

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

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

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

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017


Amestris of Khotan
Known aliases : Safiya bint Ho-Yay, Schahrazad
Notable characteristics : Persuasive, clever mind,
survived confrontations with Immortals by talling
tales of other Immortals
Weapon : Never seen carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Alamut fortress,
Ankara Turkey
Occupation : Slave/Storyteller
Prior occupations : Traveller, scholar, long-
suspected of having discovered Watcher’s
Chronicles in Medina
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1080 Captive in Hassa-i-Sabbah’s fortress
Place : Alamut
Victor : N.A Either killed or spared by Hassan
Watcher : Research, Hassan-i-Sabbah Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Khotan, half-Iranian
Born : 4th century; Kingdom of Khotan, Xinjian
Province, China
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Hassan-i-Sabah, Xanthia of
Melitus, Prisca Negra, Sunda Kastagir
Known past associates : Selim Ubadah
First recorded sighting : 654. Mecca, Arabia
Encounter with Selim Ubadah, told him stories of
long-gone Immortals from Mesopotamia

In 1900 Immortal Aurel Stein (the Immortal Indiana Jones) uncovered the city of Khotan,capital city of the Kingdom of Khotan, buried under centuries of sand. Stein had been inspired in his research by the writings of fellow immortal Hsien-Tsiang who had travelled through Central Asian and along the Silk Road where he was met by an ancient woman by name of Amestris.
Amestris hailed from the Kingdom of Khotan and had reinvented herself as a wife of Mahomet in the Mecca under the name of Safiya bint Ho-Yay where she met Immortal Selim Ubadah. Ubadah gave Amestris the incentive for telling fantasy stories of ancient Immortals, wizards, and adventurers, thus making her the Immortals’ immortal chronicler.
Intrigued by the stories of Hsien-Tsaiang, Stein decided to research the existence of the strange Amistris and of her city when he was sixteen years from achievign Immortality during an expedition to Central Asia.
The other source of inspiration to Stein was the work of the Swedish explorer and geographer, Sven Hedin, who had done extensive, detailed mapping of large parts of Central Asia, including the routes of the famous Silk Road. Central Asia was an area that theretofore had not been mapped in great detail.
Aurel Stein eventually found the city of Khotan through a combination of luck and observation of how the site was irrigated for centuries with water that had been redirected via canals from the nearby rivers, including the Kara-kash River. Stein's deduction was that the ruins of the city laid under the village of Hetian/ Yotkan.
During his diggings, he found tablets that described a woman of great beauty and wisdom, named Amestris, confirmign the existence of the woman and her origins as the fabled Scheherazade from the 1001 Nights, or more accurately, Schahrazad, a captive/consort of Immortal Hassan-ii-Sabah.

From the Chronicle of Aurel Stein




Mohsen Ibn Rida-Siraj
Known aliases : Mustafa Hakkad
Notable characteristics : Formerly a religious
fundamentalist, rejected the violence and hatred
of the Swords of Allah who branded him as traitor
Weapon : Moorish broadsword
Recorded kills : None known, retired from the
Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Mecca, Arabia
Occupation : Islamic scholar
Prior occupations : Warrior, Swords of Allah
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1803 During capture of Mecca by First
Saudi State, hunted down by Jamal Labdouini
Place : Mecca
Victor : N.A Possibly pone of the Swords of Allah
Watcher : Research, ESA Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Saudi Arabian
Born : 1543; Northern Arabia
First death : 1578, Soldier of the Sharifs of Mecca,
in punitive raid against raiding Najdi tribes
First teacher : Taher Ibn Hamed Al Jaber
Known past associates : Eternal Swords of Allah,
Darius, Hsien-Tsiang, Hamza el Kahir
First recorded sighting : 1578. Saudi Arabia
Disciple of Taher ibn Hamed and Jamal Laboudni

Mohsen Ibn Rida-Siraj deserted the Swords of Allah in 1643 but Jamal Labouni accepted no desertion and hunted down the Islamic scholar during the capture of Mecca by the Saudi state and though his final fate is unknown, it does not look good to the observant Watcher who studied the chronicles of Labdouni and his cohorts. Mohsen studied the Quran under Hamza el Kahir, the words of Christ under Darius, Buddhism under Hsien-Tsiang and the Talmud with Avram Mordecai to reach the conclusion that God exist udner diverse shapes and that there are thousands of ways to love Allah (or Christ, or Buddha) and that hatred isn’t the answer to the existence of Christians in MiddleEast. Only tolerance and acceptance of other people’s customs and religious beliefs. As far as the Game was concerned, Mohsen avoided it and found the strenght to forgive Xavier St. Cloud for the death of Hamza, taught forgiveness by Darius.
The man of war who wreaked havok with the Swords of Allah disappeared decades before the Watchers lost his trace and it is our hope that he still lives out there, or at least that he had a peaceful life in the last two hundred years.

Watcher Research, Middle East


Tiresias the Blind
Known aliases : Lady Tiresias, in his youth,
Aristaeus
Notable characteristics : Blind, elderly immortal
Clairvoyance powers, hermaphrodite
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Caralis, Sardinia
Occupation : Healer and prophet
Prior occupations : Prophet of Sun God Apollo,
prostitute (in pre-immortality)
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 750 BC
Place : Sardinia
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Greece

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Greek
Ancient Greece, unknown date
Born : 12th century BC, Thebes, Greece
First death : Drank water from poisoned Tylphussa
spring
First teacher : Cassandra
Known past associates : Cassandra; Odysseus,
taught him how to get past Scylla and Charybdis;
First recorded sighting : 12th Century BC, Boeotia,
Greece. Disciple of Casandra, according to
Ancient Greece chronicles

Truly an odd character that one, a once-hermaphrodite who grew old with time and only reached his immortality nearlty the end of his mortal life on Earth. Mentored by Cassandra who taught the use of the voice to help and elederly infirm to survive in the Game, which he did for at least five hundred years before disapearing in the 8th century BC. He had seldom contazcts with Immortals, first with Cassandra, later with the fabled Odysseus, then with Methos and his student Ekaterini; he was rumored to have fooled the Kurgan himself, using the giant’s boorishness against himself and to have bedded Kellistra herself – however unlikely that is. The Lady of Lesbos once mentoned him as a charming companion and a perfect match to her ageing physique.

Watcher Rearch, Ancient Immortals





POTENTIAL SENTINELS

Nader Salam
Known aliases : Labib Ghali, Ali Marsal
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Egyptian Infantry saber

Status
Most recent base of operations : Fatimid Egypt
Islamic Golden Age
Occupation : Leading sedition of Berber peasants,
protesting Fatimid rule
Prior occupations : Rebel fighter
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 909 during expedition to Tahert
Place : Tahert, Central Algeria
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Northern Africa

Background
Original cultural affilation : Egyptian, Copt
Born : circa 705, Meknes, Egypt
First death : 725; Killed during rebellion of Copts
against opressive taxation by Arab rulers, on the
wrong end of Selim Ubadah’s saber
First teacher : Paul Karros
Known past associates : Paul Karros
Known ennemies : Selim Ubadah
First recorded sighting : 725. Upper Egypt
In conflict against battalion led by Selim Ubadah,
later mentored by Paul Karros

Finally extensive search in the chronicles of Paul Karros have allowed to identify him at the teacher of Immortal Nader Salam in 725 as well as the unidentified Immortal who got in a fight with Selim Ubadah in 725 in Egypt. Paul Karros was leading a revolution as he always did, this time leading rebellion of Copts (Christian Egyptians) against opressive taxation by Arab rulers. Nader Salam became his disciple and went missing two hundred years later when he was leading a peasant rebellion against the Fatimids who ruled Egypt I nthe 10th century. Where Karros led revolutions for the sake of warrign against opressors, Nader was more idealistic, wantign the happiness of his people and dreamng for the day all opression would cease in Egypt. A hopeless dream, but still he fought on bravely : against the Arabs, the Fatimids but also against aggressive players of the Game coming after his head. If he is still active to this day, there is no doubt he is a fervent militant for the right of opressed Copts in Egypt and that he participated in the 2011 Arab Spring.

Watcher Research, Northern Africa





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

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

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

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

From the Journals of Adam Pierson, 2017





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

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

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

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

From the Journals of Adam Pierson




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

Status
Most recent base of operations : Middle East
Occupation : Rebel fighter
Prior occupation : Commander, ‘The Immortals’
elite troops under King Cyrus the Great; 553 BC
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 783 Rebelling against Rashidun Caliphate
In conflict agaisnt Selim Ubadah and Hamza el-
Kahir
Place : Hamadan
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Persian
Born : 7th century BC; Persia, Iranian Plateau
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known past associates : Melania of Traxiane,
Artermissia of Helicarnassos, Barsine of Asaak
Known ennemies : Cleophon of Athens
First recorded sighting : 559 BC. Babylonia,
Achaemenid Empire. Encounter with Cleophon of
Athens

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

From the journals of Adam Pierson, 2017





Melania of Traxiane
Known aliases : Azar of Parthia, Firuzeh of Daylam
Notable characteristics : Willful personality, superb
archer and dagger thrower; wearing tattooo above
left breast where a Scyth arrow penetrated her
Weapon : Persian shamsir, set of twelve daggers
Recorded kills : Diaexis of Elymais
Inconclusive fight against Selim Ubadah, 651

Status
Most recent base of operations : Daylam, Northern
Iran
Occupation : Daylamite warrior
Prior occupations : Bactrian warrior, repelling
Scythian invasion
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 651 Leading Daylamite army, resisting
Muslim conquest of Persia
Place : Daylam
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Greco-Bactrian
Born : 2nd century BC; Traxiane, Khorasan
Province of Persia, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
First death : 140 BC; During invasion of Bactria by
the Scythian, killed by Scyth arrow through heart
First teacher : Pantea Arteshbod
Known past associates : Pantea,Clymene of Thespia
Known ennemies : Selim Ubadah, Diaexis of Elymais
First recorded sighting : 140 BC Bactria. Disciple of
Pantea Arteshbod, also her soul-siser

Unlike Barsine of Asaak, Pantea Arteshbod’s other disciple, Melania of Traxiane ever hid her feminity, she never had to. She was self-conscious, aware of her mesmerizing beauty and the effect it could have on men. She knew the way to a man’s heart (or head) can be though his sexuality and she used every advantage she had to win in male affairs, in mortality or in Immortality. She won a lot of battles and stayed as beautiful and proud as she was upon her First Death when an arrow pierced her heart in 140 BC. She met defeat agaisnt one man, Immortal, in 651, when Selim Ubadah proved smarter and more in control than most Immortal men and won her heart, taking her to his bed. He was the one she respected and who learnt to respect her as a woman and fellow warrior. A virgin with the oath of only giving herself to an Immortal man able to conquer her, Melania willingly gave herself to Selim that night and when daw came… Selim was alone, a peace of his heart gone with Melania.

Watcher Research, Middle East




Kallisto of Nicopolis
Known aliases : Kallistrate of Thrace
Notable characteristics : Woman-at-arms
Weapon : Byzantine war awe

Status
Most recent base of operations : Thrace,
Byzantine Empire
Occupation : Captain, Byzantine army
Prior occupations : Byzantine warrior; also training
Byzantine soldiers in Spartan combat techniques
she learnt from Deoneces & Kyra of Sparta
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1355 Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357
Place : Thrace
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Southern Europe

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Greek
Born : 1165; Nicopolis Theme, Greece, Byzantine
Empire
First death : 1186; Sack of Nicopolis by the
Normans, Third Normand Invasion of the Balkans
First teachers : Seraphina
Known associates : Deoneces & Kyra of Sparta,
Seraphina, Katherine of Samothrace
Known past associates : Thanos of Athens
First recorded sighting : 1186. Nicopolis Theme
Stabbed to death by Normand soldier, rescued
from beheading by Seraphina, at this time
repelling Norman invasion with Deoneces & Kyra

She was called the bear woman by her men, because of her switching moods and the way she ferociously defended her cubs, a tribe of foster children born in the 14th century who followed her everywhere and whom she trained as spies, saboteurs and assassins infiltrating ennemies lines in warfare. She was even thought to have been a past identity of legendary Kellistra because of her former alias of Kallistrate and the fact Kellistra once called herself Ursual Katz, seemingly a dead giveaway. However, Kallisto was found to have been born in the Nicopolis Theme of the 12th century and was identified as a past disciple of Seraphina of Rome. So much for the Kellistra/Kallisto theory. Kallisto disappeared during the Byzantine civil war of 1357 with her children and was never heard from again.

Watcher Research, Southern Europe

[Apollo1]

Another great group of chronicles. my friend. I really enjoyed the update on Rhiannon Teague and Frances Drummond reflecting on their time in the SOE. Especially poignant since i just recently watched a program on the wartime activities of the SOE! Lol

As for the Sacred Order; all the Masters, the Archivist and the Overseer of the Scriptorium will be new Immortals. However, I've been considering that the Pathfinders and Sentinels could be missing Immortals recruited into the Order and converted to their noble cause.

Could you help by suggesting six Immortals from the missing roster?

The Pathfinders will be peace-loving Immortals whose job would be to seek out ancient scrolls, manuscripts and artefacts, recovering them from archaeological sites, from thieves or old ruins.

The Sentinels will be Immortal warriors given a new purpose; protecting their assigned Pathfinder. They will avoid contact with other Immortals where possible, fighting only in defence of themselves or their Pathfinder.

These Immortals would have been recruited before or during the Middle Ages.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Whoa! I wait with bated breath, Apollo. Lot of good ideas to be found there, and to be developed.
I count fifteen Immortals in total. Are all of them brand new Immortals or missing Immortals pre-existing in the chronicles ?



Culberth of Winchester
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Homosexual, in
relationship with Hadley of Newcastle
Weapon : English medieval broadsword

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kent, England
Occupation : Knight
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1315 Great Famine of England
Place : County of Kent
Victor : Sir Korvin of England, cross-identified as
Kronos
Watcher : Research, United Kingdom

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English
Born : 1121; Winchester, Hampshire, England
First death : 1141 during Rout of Winchester, war
of Queen Matilda against Empress Matilda
First teacher : Hadley of Newcastle
Known associates : Hadley of Newcastle
First recorded sighting : 1172. Renovation of
Newcastle under reign of King Henry II, encounter
with Henry Fitzmartin



Hadley of Newcastle
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Homosexual, in
relationship with Culberth of Winchester
Weapon : English medieval broadsword

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kent, England
Occupation : Knight
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1315 Great Famine of England
Place : County of Kent
Victor : Sir Korvin of England, cross-identified as
Kronos
Watcher : Research, United Kingdom

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English
Born : 1068; Newcastle upn Tyne, England
First death : 1088 Rebellion against the Normans,
felled by a Norman sword
First teacher : Henry Fitzmartin
Known associates : Culberth of Winchester
Known past associates : Henry Fitzmartin
First recorded sighting : 1172. Renovation of
Newcastle under reign of King Henry II, reuniting
with Henry Fitzmartin

The love that daren’t say its name, i.e homosexuality, was frowned upon in the Midle Ages, viewed as a social deviancy, but not yet punished with death and torture as it would be in later centuries. Culberth of Winchester and Hadley of Newcastle posed as to knights and companions, hiding their relationship in plain sight and played the Game with the same vigor they had when demonstrating their love to each other. The Great Famine of England struck between 1315 and 1318, killing thousands, chaos reigned everywhere and amidst the chaos, Culberth and Hadley survived as their could and they were hungry for food, sustenance and especially sustenance of the Immortal kind. Sir Korvin of England was their chosen quarry, an easy picking they thought, one whose Quickening they could share. Unfortunately, the short-sized knight in black armor, with a scar bisecting his face, proved too strong for them and both men fell to the ground in minutes.
They foolishly challenged a thousands years ofl Immortal once calling himself Kronos, leader of the Four Hosemen of the Apocalypse, a man fit for medieval times when death, persilence, war and famine reigned. Culberh and Hadley are barely remembered by their own kind and are now a footnote in the Watcher Chronicles for Medieval England.

Watcher Research, the Chronicle of Kronos


Rhiannon Teague
UPDATE

Each year at the same date,Rhiannon Teague commemorated the anniversary of the Special Operations Executive organisation which fought Nazis durign WWII, reuniting with her teacher Frances Drummond and the survivors of the organisation, agein men and women, well aware of Frances and Rhiannon Immortality. Themselves professionals prone to bear secrets, “the Baker Street Irregulars” never betrayed their two friends’ secret to anyone and congregated in London, drinking to past friends such as Noor Inyat Khan who died in Dachau in 1944 and was the first WWII Muslim heroine or Violette Szabo who died in Ravensbrück in 1945, remembering the time when they were heroes.
While not a player of the Game like Frances, Rhinannon has been doing very well on the Immortal scene and keeps her sword sharp and her eyes on the lookout for any Immortal threatening the British kingdom. Or is it the survivor’s complex and the nightmares plaguing her which keep her going ? Because she cannot forget her mortal friends who died in the service of freedom and because she swore on the deathbed of former SOE operative Odette Hallowes in 1995 to keep on fighting tyranny in all its shapes.

Watcher Bureau, United Kingdom



Zamphyra of Lazica
Known aliases : Zora of Senji
Notable characteristics : Red hair, teenaged
Immortal, 19-years old in appearances
Weapon : Medieval broadsword
Inconclusive fight against Samson Bilecik, 1527

Status
Most recent base of operations : Senji, Croatia
Occupation : Warrior-woman
Prior occupations : Leading Lazmen in battle
against the Persians
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1527 Fighting Ottoman soldiers, during
Croatian-Ottoman 100-years War
Place : Senji
Victor : Kismet Necdet
Watcher : Research, Immortals of the Balkans

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Byzantine
Born : 530; Lazica, Byzantine Colchis
Present-day Georgia
First death : 546, Lazic (or Colchidian) War
Fighting the Sassanid Persian Empire
First teacher : Seraphina
Known past associates : Seraphina
Known ennemies : Samson Bilecik
First recorded sighting : 546. Byzantine Colchis
Found and mentored by Seraphina

Before killing Selma Kojic in 1571, a woman who yearned pemanent death, Kismet Necdet fought and killed Zamphyra of Lazica in 1527, a woman who was the opposite of Selma : she had a positive outlook on Immortality, she was a woman freed from the horros of botched childbirth, indentured servitude in the bonds of marriage, didn’t have to anwer anybody but herself and was free to go where she pleased for however log she kept her head on her shoulders. For one thousand years she thrived in the Game, killed when forced to but enjoying the fight and the power of the Quickening. Seraphina taught her to be strong and to face whatever challenge she would meet and God knows she faced many. As a matter of fact, she faced more rough seas than calm ones in a manner of speaking, but she accepted it as part of Immortal life, a better fate than most mortal women who died before reaching twenty of age. Speaking of fate, Kismet whose name means fate, came to her during the Croatian-Ottoman 100-year war and she enthusiastically accepted his challenge.Kismet knew he was facing oen of the bravest, fiercest warrior women fo the Balkans and to him, it was an honor to kill or be killed by her. He gave her the fight she deserved, full of honor, bravado and righteousness. In the ned, Kismet prevailed and took her head. Her body was left on the battlefield, to be buried with due honors by her comrades in arms who saluted the passing of their own Gothic half-goddess who protected them from the Ottomans.

Watcher Research, Immortals of the Balkans




Selma Kojic
Known aliases : Selma Marjanovic
Notable characteristics : Self-inflicted scars on
forearms, predating First Death
Weapon : Ottoman cavalry saber, discarded

Status
Most recent base of operations : Sarajevo, Bosnia
Prior occupations : Warrior woman, Austro-
Russian–Turkish War (1735–39)
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1739
Place : Sarajevo
Victor : Kismet Necdet
Watcher : Malika Suvic

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Bosnian Muslim
Born : 1443; Kingdom of Bosnia
First death : 1463, During conquest of Bosnia by
Ottoman Empire
First teacher : Ahmet Dede, Saint-Fool of Islam
Known associates : Evliya Celebi
Known past associates : Ahmet Dede
First recorded sighting : 1463. Kingdom of Bosnia
Found and mentored by Ahmet Dede who taught
her the Quran and converted her to Islam

Selma Kojic inflicted those scars on herself, to feel something after all the years of rape and incest she suffered at the hands of her father and three brothers, her own mother silencing her and keeping the secret within their family in the Kingdom of Bosnia.
Then the Ottomans conquered Bosnia and put Selma’s village to the sword after raping the girls and women, including Selma. Selma didn’t care about being raped and the Ottoman sword that sliced her throat seemed like a merciful release from years of pain.
When she woke up, surrounded by death, she felt apalled that death didn’t take her so she left her village, now charred ruins, in search for death, killing herself time and time again until she met up with Ahmet Dede, an Ottoman Immortal who taught her the secret of her new existence. For once, here was a man who didn’t try to molest her, but it took time for her to trust him. She accepted his lessons and when she felt she had learnt enough, left her teacher, in search for Immortal men (especially molesters) to kill. The Game gave a meaning to her life and soon her reputation as a neveraging killer of Ottoman soldiers crossed the borders of Bosnia and reached the ears of Immortal Kismet Necdet, a hunter of powerful Immortal women.
Necdet hunted her down and found her. War and the Game were what gave meaning to Selma’s immortality, hunting Immortals was what gave meaning to Necdet’s life. Selma coveted the sword with its name on it and Necdet was the one who, finally after nearly three hundred years of challenges, gave her oblivion and eternal peace.

Watcher Research, Immortals of the Balkans.


Mihrimah Pamuk

Known aliases : Hakima Assahudi
Notable characteristics : Willful personality,
disguised her feminity under male clothing
Weapon : 15th century Mamluk war saber as well
as an assortiment of Mamluk weaponry
Recorded kills : Kismet Necdet, Madior Diouf,
Walter DeGrey
Inconclusive fight against Izzat Qazai, Battle of
Chaldiran, 1514; Seraphina, 1798

Status
Most recent base of operations : Cairo, Egypt
Occupation : Mamluk (warrior-slave), in service to
the Sultanate of Egypt
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1798 Battle of the Pyramids, part of the
Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt
Place : Embabeh, outskirts of Cairo
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Northern Africa

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Mamluk, Oghuz Turk
Born : 1405; Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, Egypt
First death : 1425; Warrior-slave, in mission
purging pirate ships infesting Egyptian coastline
First teacher : Ishaq Ibn Jhanda
Know associates : Ankhanaten Rey, Farah Ibn Said
Known past associates : Ishaq Ibn Jhanda, Din Ali
First recorded sighting : 1425. Thebes, Egypt
Trained by Ishaq ibn Jhanda, twice harder on
account of her being ‘but a woman’

At the Battle of the Pyramids during Napoleon Egypt campaign, the Corsican Ogre exhorted his troops, saying, "Forward! Remember that from those monuments yonder 40 centuries look down upon you." Seraphina, nearly 2.000 years old and a former gladiatrix in Rome, heard him well as did her protegé, pre-Immortal François Marchette who wouldn't reach his Immortality before the Campaign of Russia in 1812. Seraphina fought well at the Pyramids and faced an Immortal enlisted among the Mamelukes of the Ottoman Empires, warrior-woman Mihrimah Pamuk whom Seraphina felt she awas a kindred spirit, a soul sister she was forced to face as her ennemy. The Roman's gladiatorial skills prevailed but she chose to spare her opponent, and not just because there were mortals nearby : she hoped for a more friendly reunion someday, one where they wouldn't face the world as ennemies but as comrades... friends or maybe more.
It doesn't read as very professional or Game-like from Seraphina's part, but this is a woman driven as much by sexual needs and wish for companionship than she is driven by Immortals' motto, There Can Be Only One.


From the Chronicle of Seraphina




Zananzash of Sam’al

Known aliases : Zebediah of Jerash
Notable characteristics : Scar bisecting right side
of face; sold psychoactive drugs to Immortals as
help to face the Game & Immortal life
Weapon : Two-handed broadsword

Status
Most recent base of operations : Sam’al, present
day Southern Turkey
Occupation : Cannabis plantation proprietor/
cultivator; also grew magic mushrooms & opium
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 717 BC Occupation of the country by the
Assyrians under Sargon II
Place : Sam’al
Victor : Unidentified, body found beheadd with
evidences of a Quickening
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals of the
Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Neo-Hittite
Born : 1200 BC; Kingdom of Sam’al, Hittite Empire
First death : 1180 BC; Killed during collapse of
the Hitttte Empire
First teacher : Esarhaddon of Hattusa
Known past associates : Esarhaddon of Hattusa
Known ennemies : Shamsi-Adad, Xanthia of
Melitus, Achilles of Troy
First recorded sighting : N.A. Mentioned in the
12th Century BC Chronicles as a disciple of
Esarhaddon, possibly killed by the Four Hosemen

Zananzash body was found beheaded by his Watcher, evidences of a Quickening all around with his cannabis fields burnt to the grounds by the powerful Quickening signalling his passing. Several suspects come to mind like Silas and Shamsi-Adad of Assyria, but we have no concluqsive proof they ever challenged Zanazash. The neo-Hittite Immortal was the first drug-dealer/pusher of the Immortal world, prescibing recreative drugs to Immortals in need of means to sustain the courage and passion they needed in the Game. Even virtous Aganesthos of Tiryns wasn’t above asking “special medication” from him. Zananzash made several ennemies, like Rebecca and Achilles of Troy who hated seeing past friends and allies poison themselves with magic mushrooms and opium sold by the Hittite Immortal, so it is likely a benevolent Immortal decided to dish out justice to bring equilibrium to the Game.
The Quickening which destroyed Zananzash’s fields was a favor to the Immortals community. Unfortunately, Immortals and mortals learnt from him over the centuries and his legacy spread over the world, poisoning today’s youth.

Watcher Research, Bronze Age Immortals

[Apollo1]

Thanks, Gardner. Glad you liked it. We now have backgrounds for all the Hellfire Club members to match that of the SIS.

I now have a new project i'm working on about a secret group of Immortals who have shunned the Game for thousands of years. They live on Holy Ground and avoid the company of other Immortals. They are led by an ancient Egyptian Immortal, a former student of Inyotef, a scholar and philosopher who founded the Immortal Order of the Sacred Knowledge. The Sacred Order for short.

They are dedicated to collecting and preserving the Lost Knowledge of Mankind, holding it until they deem mankind is ready and worthy enough for its secrets to be made known. A select group of mortals are chosen each generation to live and work within the walls of the Sacred Temple of Knowledge. Scrolls and manuscripts believed lost for thousands of years were actually rescued and preserved by the Order.

The Watchers have suspected its existence for centuries but until now have never been able to prove it exists or to infiltrate its ranks. Until now.

Twenty years ago, Joe Dawson tasked two young, dedicated Watchers to scour the world in search of clues to the Order's location and to discover all they could about the Immortals within its ranks. He lost contact with them after a year and never heard from them again.

Twenty years later, one of the Watchers returns to Dawson with an astonishing story of an Order with knowledge and power enough to send shockwaves around the world, but with a code of honour and a dedication to preserving the secrets of the ancients that outstrips all other Immortals in the Chronicles.

Here is a breakdown of the Order's ranks, i'm working on the chronicles of the Immortals that hold these positions:

- Grand Master of the Books (formerly High Keeper of the Tablets): one of Inyotef's students, the Order's founder.

- Master of the Black Books (formerly Keeper of the Black Tablets; the secret knowledge of dead civilisations, witchcraft and sorcery)

- Master of the Books of Egypt (inc all of Africa)

- Master of the Books of Anatolia (inc the Middle East & Central Asia)

- Master of the Books of the East (inc China, Japan and Asia)

- Master of the Books of Rome (inc all of Europe)

- Master of the Books of the Americas (inc North, Central & South America)

These seven Immortals have given up their birth names and adopted the names of seven famous mortal librarians:

Demetrius, Zenodotus, Eratosthenes, Apollonius, Aristophanes, Aristarchus and Callimachus.

Additionally there are several other positions in the Immortal ranks of the Order:

- Overseer of the Scriptorium

- Chief Archivist

- Pathfinder: rescuing or locating ancient books and scrolls (there are three Immortal Pathfinders in the Order)

- Sentinels: they protect the Pathfinders, the only Immortals in the Order to wield swords. They only fight to defend themselves or the Pathfinder they are assigned to (like the Pathfinders there are only three Sentinels)

That's it for now. I hope this whets your appetite. I'll post the first chronicles soon and begin this new project.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Very good conclusion, and I like the Dominic Piper story with his teacher.

[Apollo1]

Thanks for these latest chronicles and updates, my friend. Still loving your work!

Here's the conclusion to the HELLFIRE CLUB saga with the final update to Dominic Piper's stats and the chronicle of another deceased member of the Club:

Dominic Piper

Recorded kills: Seth Parker

Born: 1809, Bristol, England
First death: 1831; Queen Square riots in Bristol,
died in the cavalry charge led by Lt Colonel Thomas
Brereton, while protesting House of Lords rejection of
the Reform Bill
First teacher: Seth Parker

First recorded sighting: 1861, Tooley St, London.
Beheaded his teacher, Seth Parker, in a warehouse at
Cotton's Wharf. The Quickening caused the Tooley Street
Fire which raged for two days, destroying many buildings

Seth Parker

Known aliases: Simon Pepper
Notable characteristics: Expert with sword, knives and
musket
Weapon (s): Knives and 18th century basket-hilt rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations: London, England
Occupation: Black Knight, Hellfire Club
Prior occupations: Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 22 June 1861
Place: London
Victor: Dominic Piper
Watcher: Hellfire Club Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: English
Born: 1754, Reading, England
First death: 1788; Highwayman shot trying to
rob stagecoach Evangeline Black was travelling in
First teacher: Evangeline Black
Known associates: Hellfire Club's Inner Circle
Known past associates: Court of Beauties, Knights
of Charlemagne
Known enemies: Secret Immortals Society

First recorded sighting: 1788, Finchley Common,
outskirts of London. Shot by Evangeline Black,
mentored by her and recruited into the Hellfire Club

Recruited into the Hellfire Club in 1788 by Evangeline Black after he tried to rob her and was then killed to activate his immortality, Seth Parker was the Club's original Black Knight until he mentored Dominic Piper following the Bristol Riots of 1831. The ambitious Piper soon grew tired of being the Club's assassin and enforcer, coveting a more prominent position in its ranks. So at a warehouse at Cotton's Wharf on Tooley Street, London, 1861, Piper seized his moment, catching his mentor unawares and decapitating him. Fleeing the fire caused by the Quickening, Piper claimed the position of Black Knight from Aldrich Monk who, grudgingly, acquiesced, although Black Queen Evangeline Black, Parker's former teacher, remains to this day wary of the devious Dominic Piper.

From the Chronicle of the Hellfire Club

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Good updates on those two characters, Apollo, thanks !

Radu Cozma

Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date : 15 May 2018
Place : Molokai
Victor : Bridget Ingvarsen

Amidst the chaos caused by the eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawai since the 3rd of May, the death of Radu Cozma went unnoticed, barely a notice in recent updates for the region of Oceania. Mad Bridget Ingvarsen got to him and took his head before he could take hers and there is no doubt she is coming for Victor Hesse now, unless Hesse and his pre-teen girlfriend decide ro evacuate Hawai. Ever since the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, volcanic eruptions always felt like bad omens to Immortals across the world.

Watcher Bureau, Hawai.



Haideh of Hadramout
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Never carrying any
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Mocha, Yemen
Occupation : Shrine keeper
Prior occupations : Holy Woman, Hymiarite,
considered as miraculous because she never
aged
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 521
Place : Mocha
Victor : Darek Alak
Watcher : Research, Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Yemenite Christian
Born : 255; Governorate of Hadramout, Yemen
Yemen
First death : 275 Killed durign conquest of
Hadramout by Himyarite king Shammar Yahri'sh
First teacher : Sunda Kastagir
Known past associates : Sunda Kastagir, Badr al
Din, Awad Farraj, Alhasan Ya’qub, Fikri Tarif Harb
First recorded sighting : 354 Southern Yemen
Encounter with Teophilos the Indian, ambassador
of Roman Emperor Constantius II, cross-identified
as Sunda Kastagir

521 saw the March on Mocha by Warlord Yousef Asar Yathar who killed 14,000 christians, retaliating systematic persecutions of Yemen Jews. Serving him was mercenary Darek Alak who raped and killed his way across Mocha and took the head of shrine keeper Haideh of Hadramout, bit not before having his men pull out of Holy Grounds and have their way with her. The once mentor of the fearsome Iberian Brothers (and sister) perished humiliated and raped, a disgraceful way of ending her Immortality. The woman deserved better than Darek Alak.

Watcher Research, Middle East



The two Middle Eastern Immortals killed by Gallen of Constantinople and Hekate of Antioch in 2014 have been identified as Ava Najafi and Hussein Abu Shakra, two peace-minded Immortal who sought to help migrant children during hte Migrant Crisis and were ambushed by Gallen and Hekate's child pack.Ava was a journalist investigating missing children during migrant crisis, Hussein was the manager of Baghdad's Migrant children recovery centre, bringing relief to Migrant Crisis fugitives. Both good people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time when Gallen and Hekate used the crisis to hunt those of their kind, using children as bait.

Watcher Bureau, Middle East


Ava Najafi
Known aliases : Taslima Shatterian
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Tehran, Iran
Occupation : Journalist, writer
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 13 October 2014
Place : Tehran
Victor : Hekate of Antioch
Watcher : Research, Immortal Migrant Children
chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Persian
Born : 19th century, Dagestan, Persia
First death : During occupation of Dagestan by
Ottoman Empire, killed by Ottoman soldier duing
foiled rape
First teacher : Assadollah Javadi
Known past associates : Assadollah Javadi
First recorded sighting :1917. Republic of
Dagestan. Found by Assadolah Javadi


Hussein Abu Shakra
Known aliases : Rashid Nasreen
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Tulwar sword
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
Inconclusive fight against Iman Fasil, 1432

Status
Most recent base of operations : Bagdad, Iraq
Occupation : Maanger, Migrant children recovery
center
Prior occupations : Warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 May 2014
Place : Bagdad
Victor : Galen of Constantinople
Watcher : Research, Immortal Migrant Children
chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Iraqi
Born : 14th century; Jalayirid Sultanate, Iraq
First death : Killed defending Mosul during
conquest of Iraq by Tamerlane
First teacher : Alim Ibn Al-Nasr
Known past associates : Alim Ibn Al-Nasr
Known ennemies : Iman Fasil
First recorded sighting : 1432. Mosul Province Iraq
During defeat of Jalayirids by Black Sheep
Turkomans, fought Iman Fasil



Violet Song
Known identities : Violet Sung, Soshanna, Nguyen
Xi
Notable characteristics : Master of disguise
Weapon(s) : Manchu broadsword
Inconclusive fight against Matsuhiro Kanagawa,
1885

Status
Most recent base of operations : Homebased in Seoul,
South korea
Occupation : Assassin, South Korea Military special
Unit ‘Korean Tigers’, specializing in murders
and espionnage missions;
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : April 1932 targeting and killing Japanese
government and army officials
Place : Shangai
Victor : Matsuhiro Kanagawa
Watcher : Research, Eastern Asia

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Korean
Born : 1651; Pyongyang, North Korea
First death : 1671, Prostitute murdered by
customer
First teacher : Kan-chiang Ch’ih
Known associates : Korean Initiative cross-
identified as Korean Tigers, Kanchiang Ch’ih, Yim Wing-
Chun
Known past associates : Abbess Ng Mui, Wail Lin,
Known ennemies : Matsuhiro Kanagawa
First recorded sighting : 1671. North Korea.
Pyongyang bordello, found by Kanchiang




Sang Yum

Sang Yum whose name means “Secret Mother” has been rumored to have founded a secret lamassery crammed with Immortal women, a place of worship she called Shangri-La, hiddne within the mountaisn of Tibet. Shangri-La was never found but it is a tenacious urban legend of the Immortal world, akin to the legend of Methos before he was proven living and hiding among us Watchers. Methos has been conclusively proven as a past acquaintence/lover or mentor of Sang Yum in the 19th century under his persona of Dr. Benjamin Adams and there is a strong possibility they first met in the 5th century BC when Methos was a disciple of Sun Tzu in ancient China. In 1996, San Yum moved out of Tibet to the Tibetan community of New-York in America and stayed there for ten years before returning to her homeland. She is busy with the monastery of Khor-Biyong , a place were several Immortal women sojourned, away from the perils of the Game. She built her own safe haven from the Game in her small corner of the world until the Gathering comes.

Watcher Bureau, China



Sobel Har-Zahav

Known aliases : Sobel Abouab
Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal,
passing herself as a 20-years old woman
Weapon : Israeli military saber
Inconclusive fight against Atef Hayreddin, 1985

Status
Most recent base of operations : Palestine
Occupation : Fighter, Jewish underground militias
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1832
Place : Jerusalem
Victor : Najia El Khalef, ESA
Watcher : Amit Markheva

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Palestinian
Born : 1171; Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
First death : 1187; Killed by Arabs during conquest
of Palestien by Saladin
First teacher : Ruth Bat-Seraph
Known associates : Ruth Bat-Seraph
Known past associates : Sumayahh Bishara
Known ennemies : Sameh Hadad, ISIL, ESA
First recorded sighting : 1486. Jerusalem,
Palestine. During hostilities between Mameluks
and Ottomans; fought, the Swords of Allah

1832 in Palestine saw the conquest of Palestine by Ottoman commander Muhammad Ali of Egypt, and serving him in his armies were Jamal Labouni and his cohorts, the Eternal Swords of Allah. Najia El Khalej faced a fierce Jewish fighter named Sobel Har-Zahav who organised a well-armed resistance against the Ottomans within the walls of Jerusalem. Had she stayed wihin these walls, she would have been safe from the sword of Najia who lured her outside end challenged her to a fight; Sobel was a good sword in the Game but Najia never played fair and took her out with the assistance of her own mentor Melik Tanju.
Egyptian rule was challenged in 1834 by a countrywide popular uprising against conscription, the legacy left by Sobel who inspired her people's will to free themwelves from Ottoman Egypt's rule.

From the Chronicles of the Swords of Allah


Iriana Cabrera
Known aliases : Corazon Negro (wresting name)
Notable characteristics : Competitive
mind;dresses in traditional Aymara clothing
Weapon : Two-handed broadsword
Recorded kills : None known, suspected of having
killed several Immortals of South America
between 1939 and 2002

Status
Most recent base of operations : El Alto, Bolivia
Occupation : Professional wrestler, part of the
Fighting Cholitas of Bolivia
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 2 May 2005
Place : El Alto
Victor : Olivia Ruiz
Watcher : Research, South America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : South American native
Aymara people
Born : 1805; Aymara homeland, Bolivia
First death : 1825; Killed by Chilean troops durign
War in the Pacific between Chile, Bolivia and Peru
First teacher : Olivia Ruiz
Known ennemies : Olivia Ruiz
First recorded sighting : 2005. Santa Criz, Bolivia
Challenged Olivia Ruiz to a fight, Oliva recognized
her as a former student she mentored during the
War in the Pacific

Olivia Ruiz taught Iriana Cabrera too well and Iriana became a walking killing machina finding as much thrills on the rign as she did in the Game, challenging and killing Immortals indiscriminately. When Olivia reunited with her former disciple, she found a rabid dog in need to be put down quick and in spite of Iriana’s best training on the ring, she was no match for her once teacher and friend. Research is in motion to cross-reference her whereabouts with the deaths of Latin American Immortals killed by unidentified Immortals.

Watcher Bureau, South America



Xuoco Elcano
Known aliases : Elixio Hoero
Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Machete, blowgun with which he killed
Immortals from range before taking their heads

Status
Most recent base of operations : Amazon
rainforest, Venezuela
Occupation : Hunting white gold-diggers
plundering his homeland and enslaving his people
Prior occupations : Amazon warrior, tribal leader
fighting conquistadores and slave-raders
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : September 1990
Place : Venezuelan border
Victor : Decapitated by Amazon tribesmen in
boder dispute, Quickening lost
Watcher : Research, Latin America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Native Venezuelan
Yanonami
Born : Amazon rainforest, Venezuelan border,
unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Andromeda Valdez
Known associates : Identified asValdez’ student
Known ennemies : Martin of Tours, Ramon
Suarez Llorca, Simon de Miranda
First recorded sighting : 1759. Venezuelan border
Encounter with Martin of Tours, acompanying
Spanish expedition, identified as an Immortal

Xuoco Elcano was wary of others of his kind and playing the Game in his ownfashion : a blow gun with paralysing darts to weaken his opponents and then a strike of his machete, collecting heads for the past hree hundred years. God knows how many Immortals he killed before Amazons from a rival tribe killed him for trespassing on their territory, giving him an ignominous death, his Quickening forever lost. All Xuoco wanted was to protect his homeland from the whites, his reward was being killed by the people he swore to protect and serve. A fatal bit of irony in his case.

Watcher Bureau, South America


Ricardo Lozada
Known aliases : Salvadore Astiz
Notable characteristics : Master sadist
Immortality triggered past his prime
Weapon : Flamerge rapier
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
Inconclsuive fight against Carmen Morales, 1983

Status
Most recent base of operations : Cordoba,
Argentina
Occupation : Businessman
Prior occupations : Military officer, Argentine
dictatorship
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 2 May 2015
Place : Cordoba
Victor : Gabriela de Savedra
Watcher : Research, South America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Argentinian
Born : Argentinia, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Carmen Morales, Gabriela de
Savedra
First recorded sighting : 1983, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Military officer torturing political
Opposants, tortured and raped Gabriela de
Savedra

Finally Gabriela de Savedra found the man who raped and tortured her in 1983 during the years of dictatorship in Argentinia, the fear paralysing her, it took a lot of courage for her to dare face her former tormentor, now a retired businessman living in Cordoba. Amidst the political agitation following the trials of several ranking officials for their crimes against humanity, the fight between Gabriela and Ricardo went unnoticed and ended with justice being served by Carmen Morales’ companion.

Watcher Bureau, South America



Alexei Miguez
Known aliases : Alejandro Hernandez,
Mario Brazo Nieves
Notable characteristics : Agressive personality,
damaged by the Game, killed any Immortal he met
Weapon : Customized sabre
Recorded kills : Prejun Casamayor

Status
Most recent base of operations : Llano, Western
Venezuela
Occupation : Llanero, cattle herder
Prior occupations : Llanero, soldier in the 19th
century Latin American wars of independance
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 May 1985
Place : Llano
Victor : Unidentified, body found beheadedwith
evidences of a Quickening
Watcher : Research, Latin America

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Venezuelan
Born : Western Venezuela, outlaw state were
fugitive slaves dwelt
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Prejun Casamayor
First recorded sighting : 1812. Maracaibo,
Venezuela. Llanero rebellion,;fought and killed
Immortal Prejun Casamayor

Alexei Miguez liked the peace and quiet from the Llano, an Immortal damaged by the Game, constantly on the run from Federales, from white men, from headhunters; the once champion of Latin American wars of independence relied on contraband alcohol to find courage in the Game and assaulted any Immortal crossing him, good or bad. There wasn’t much of a hero left in that shell of a man who finally was found beheaded one morning, burnt grass and cattle killed by lightnings all around him. Obviously an Immortal had proven stronger than he was, unless this was a friend or relative of one the people Miguez killed in a fit of uncontrolled rage. Alcohol, lack of self-control and loneliness are the tree factors which provoked the llanero’s downfall.

Watcher Bureau, South America


Manuela Simoes

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

Status
Most recent base of operations : Southern Brazil
Occupation : Leading guerilleros during
Contestado War, 1912-1916
Prior occupations : Lady-in-waiting
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : August 1916
Place : Santa Catarina, Brazil
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, South America immortals

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

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

Watcher Bureau, Brazil



Carolyn Mortimer

In 1805, Carolyn Mortimer and her husband where arrested by Napoleon’s secret police and sentenced to death by the guillotine for aiding and abbetting the escape of aristocrats from France and for conspiring against the Emperor, the latter charge was false. It took the combined ruse of Darius and Sean Burns to free the couple from their prison and to send them to safety to London where they lived until Carolyn’s husband natural death. In 1904, Carolyn worked for Sean Burns as his secretary, assistant and dsiciple in the study of psychology and of Sigmund Freud theories on how mankind’s behavior is pre-determined by his emerging sexuality.
One century later, upon Sean Burns’s death by the blade of Duncan MacLeod, Carolyn took the reigns of the Black Friars asylum and is trying her best to ease the sufferings of mental patients under her care, mortals or of the Immortal kind. To her, healing the sick of mind isn’t just about giving pills and locking them away from society: it is also about reaching out to them, listening to them and talking with them She has done wonders so far. But can she truly help the more unstable Immortals locked in Black Friars, I sincerely doubt it. She better beware : she survived one breakout in 2014, next time she may not be so lucky.

Sylvia Krause, May 2016

[Apollo1]

Thanks for the latest updates, my friend. Once again, great work, especially the two Scottish sisters.

Meanwhile, the next two updates to the Hellfire Club Immortals:

Theobald Cleaver

Known aliases: Thomas Folville (birth name)

Born: 1299, Charnwood, Leicestershire,
England
First death: 1341; With the Folville Gang, led by his
adopted brother, Richard, cornered and executed in
Teigh, Rutland, by Sir Robert Coalville.
First teacher: Aldrich Monk

First recorded sighting: 1341, Teigh, East Midlands, England.
Rescued from the executioner's block by Aldrich Monk and
inducted into the Brimstone Brotherhood.

The adopted brother of the Rev. Richard Folville, and Eustace, Robert, and Walter Folville, he was one of the fifty mercenaries of the Folville Gang who had ambushed and killed the corrupt Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Roger de Belar, who had made threats of violence to Eustace Folville, his family and neighbours, in January 1326. An arrest warrant was issued to apprehend those involved in the murder. Although the warrants were later withdrawn, the Folvilles were years later the victims of retribution in 1341 from Sir Robert Coalville and his men, and Thomas was the only one to walk away, joining the Immortal Brimstone Brotherhood led by Aldrich Monk, eventually changing his name to Theobald Cleaver and becoming its White Bishop.

From the Chronicle of the Hellfire Club

Serena Harper

Known aliases: Sadie Cropper (birth name), Lady Eleanor
Creacy

Prior occupations: Socialite & black widow, pickpocket,
street urchin

Born: 1705, Maidstone, Kent, England
First death: 1731; Stabbed by master thief defending a
young boy pickpocket he was beating for failing to steal
enough valuables
First teacher: Aldrich Monk

First recorded sighting: 1736, London, England.
While posing as the Lady Eleanor Creacy, attempts to
seduce Aldrich Monk. Amused, he reveals her true nature
and recruits her into the Hellfire Club

Recruited off the streets of Maidstone by a master thief to join his band of child pickpockets, Sadie Cropper demonstrated a talent for sleight-of-hand and quickly rose through the ranks to become his right-hand-woman. She grew an affinity for the youngsters in the gang and when one young boy returned with a less than usual take, he faced the wrath of their master who began beating him with a cane. She stepped in and was stabbed in a fit of rage, dying her First Death, and was dumped in an alley.
She recovered, unaware of her immortality, returned to the ramshackle hideout and beat her former master to death with his own cane.
Over the next five years she nurtured her gift for mimicry and carved out a living exploiting her femininity to seduce her way into high society, marrying rich landowners and then arranging "accidents" before moving on to her next rich husband. In 1736, she crossed paths with Aldrich Monk and met her match. He soon apprised her of her true nature and recruited her into the Hellfire Club, from where she changed her name to Serena Harper and became its White Rook.

From the Chronicle of the Hellfire Club

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Good update on Nicholas Kedgick, thanks.


Bouchra Ouaziz

The Fantasia events celebrate North African tradition of a close relationship with masculinity, horses and warfare, they are headed by Immortal Bouchra Ouaziz, a centuries old woman who was taught the ways of the Game by an European Immortal named Anne DeBrabant. Bouchra earned the respect of Kassim ibn Sallis and dozens of male Immortals who didn’t believe she would outlive the 16ht cvnetury, yet she did.
A lot of Immortals underestimated her,believing her an easy mark, even Hazeem al Bachrim admired her prowesses with the sword and spared her pretty head where cold-hearted killer Xavier St. Cloud defeated her, raped her before contemptuously sparing her head. The problem with rape is it cannot be healed like so much flesh wound and for centuries Bouchra sought to redeem her hono,r until 1994 when Duncan MacLeod killed her ennemy, allowing her to lay her ghosts to rest.

Watcher Bureau, Northern Africa



Typhoid Mary

Black Annie of Strathclyde, aka Typhoid Mary, has been conclusively identified as a former disciple of Kronos as Sir Korvin of England was identified as a past identity of the Four Horsemen leader. It was an interesting theory to imagine Mary the typhoid carrier as a student of Kronos, alleged bringer of the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.
Typhoid Mary has been using her particular gift as a professional killer, using her single touch to murder her quarries and in the Game she has been using poisoned throwing daggers to umbalance her opponents before the final kill. A most dangerous woman living in a dangerous world and who has been forced to adapt herself to circumstances like Felicia Martins or Kistin Gilles before her.

Watcher Bureau, Northern Europe


Mea Cascio
Known aliases : Cassiopeia Sonza
Notable characteristics : Devout Christian, viewed
the Game as unholy and refused any part in it
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Occupation : Married to local sugar plantation
manager, fostering a tribe of adopted children
Prior occupations : Warrior-woman
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1756
Place : Buenos Aires
Victor : Esteves de Aristia
Watcher : Research, Southern Europe

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Italian
Born : 1157; Aosta Valley, Northern Italy
First death : 1176; Battle of Legnano between
Lombard League and Holy Roman Empire,
following husband in batle under male disguise
First teacher : Gostanza
Known past associates : Gostanza, Fausta De
Rosa
First recorded sighting : 1176. Legnano battlefield
Found and mentored by Gostanza, unaware of her
Immortality

Mea Cascio lived for too long and she wanted to be reunited with her Lord in Heaven. Though she loved her husband and her children very much, she felt ready for the gentleman from Spain who introduced himself as Esteves de Aristia. Mea begged Esteves to spare the lives of her loved ones, in return for surrendering her head willingly. Estever happily obliged, for once not having to fight for his miserable prize : the Quickening of a good woman who had spent too many centuries in the valley of the shadows.
Argentina felt safe heaven for her, for a time, but six hundred years took their toll on her and her children where almost men and women by now, ready to live their own lives, to get married and make families of their own. They didn't need her anymore.
Mea kneeled gracefuilly and didn't wait long to be sent to the afterlife. Her husband mourned and re-married, her two sons and three daughters mourned and lived however long they had on Earth and didn't turn out to be pre-Immortals, as we once suspected.

Watcher Research, Southern Europe


Kallisto of Nicopolis
Known aliases : Kallistrate of Thrace
Notable characteristics : Woman-at-arms
Weapon : Byzantine war awe

Status
Most recent base of operations : Thrace,
Byzantine Empire
Occupation : Captain, Byzantine army
Prior occupations : Byzantine warrior; also training
Byzantine soldiers in Spartan combat techniques
she learnt from Deoneces & Kyra of Sparta
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1355 Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357
Place : Thrace
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Southern Europe

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Greek
Born : 1165; Nicopolis Theme, Greece, Byzantine
Empire
First death : 1186; Sack of Nicopolis by the
Normans, Third Normand Invasion of the Balkans
First teachers : Seraphina
Known associates : Deoneces & Kyra of Sparta,
Seraphina, Katherine of Samothrace
Known past associates : Thanos of Athens
First recorded sighting : 1186. Nicopolis Theme
Stabbed to death by Normand soldier, rescued
from beheading by Seraphina, at this time
repelling Norman invasion with Deoneces & Kyra

She was called the bear woman by her men, because of her switching moods and the way she ferociously defended her cubs, a tribe of foster children born in the 14th century who followed her everywhere and whom she trained as spies, saboteurs and assassins infiltrating ennemies lines in warfare. She was even thought to have been a past identity of legendary Kellistra because of her former alias of Kallistrate and the fact Kellistra once called herself Ursual Katz, seemingly a dead giveaway. However, Kallisto was found to have been born in the Nicopolis Theme of the 12th century and was identified as a past disciple of Seraphina of Rome. So much for the Kellistra/Kallisto theory. Kallisto disappeared during the Byzantine civil war of 1357 with her children and was never heard from again.

Watcher Research, Southern Europe




Aoife of Alba
Known aliases : Aoife O’Donovan
Notable characteristics : Fiery redhead
The hardest woman warriro in Great Britain
Weapon : Cletic war sword
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kingdom of Alba
Scotland
Occupation : Lover/bodyguard of King David II of
the Scots
Prior occupations : Warrior woman, leading
Irishmen in battle against Vikings plunderers,
and later against British invaders
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1124
Place : Alba
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish
Born : 1rst Century BC; Northern Ireland
First death : Fighting rival sister Scathag in battle
for favors of hero Cuchulain of Muirhtemne
First teacher : Deirdre of the Srorrows
Known past associates : Deirdre of the Srorrows,
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Ailell of Kells
Known ennemies : Scathag
First recorded sighting : 839 Kingdom of Alba
Repelling Viking invasion with Ailell of Kells, after
destruction of the Kingdom of Dal Riata


Scathag of Skye
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Dressed in green clothes,
mistress of illusions,living on Holy Grounds
Weapon : Cletic war sword
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kingdom of Alba
Scotland
Occupation : Lover/bodyguard of King David II of
the Scots
Prior occupations : Warrior woman, leading
Irishmen in battle against Vikings plunderers,
and later against British invaders
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1124
Place : Alba
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish
Born : 1rst Century BC; Northern Ireland
First death : Fighting rival sister Aoife in battle for
favors of hero Cuchulain of Muirhtemne
First teacher : Deirdre of the Srorrows
Known past associates : Deirdre of the Srorrows,
Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Ailell of Kells
Known ennemies : Aoife
First recorded sighting : 850 Repelling Norse
invasion of Outer Hebrides with Ailel of Kells

Some sisters are simply born to hate each other, case in point Scathag of Skye and Aoife of Alba, two women linked by birth and by a bitter hatred that lasted eleven hundred years. This because of their love for legendary hero Cuchulain of Muirthemne who couldn't choose between the two women and had to love both. Unfortunately, none of the two sisters could share Cuchulain and the once friendly rivalry grew to staunch hatred. And as fate will have it, their love for another Irish hero, Ailell of Kells, fueled this particular hatred in the ninth century and had not Ailell interfered in the Game, the two sisters would no doubt have killed each other.
Missing since the 12th century, historians theorize they still live, driven by anger and lust for men; each time they consort, robbing each other's sexual partner in a twisted game unles it be simply to pester each other endlessly.

Watcher Research, Northern Europe

[Apollo1]

Thanks for the latest posting, my friend. Feel free to post all my chronicles and our co-created chronicles over on the other site.

Meanwhile, the HELLFIRE CLUB/SIS SAGA continues:

Nicholas Kedgick

Known aliases: Nicolas Emory (birth name)

Born: 1188, Westminster, Kingdom of England
First death: 1222; Gang leader hanged as a ring-leader
following riots after London defeats Westminster in an
annual wrestling contest
First teacher: Aldrich Monk

First recorded sighting: 1222, Westminster.
Dug from unmarked grave by Monk and recruited
into his Brotherhood

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

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Facebook can prove to be a thornn in your side by moments. No problem. Know however that my chronicles are well appreciated by everyone on the Imagine site :-)


Ivane Kazbegi
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1 May 2018 During recent outbreak of
violence between armed forces factions
Place : Bangui
Victor : Ghost Mulenga



Morag of Caledonia
Known aliases : Jinny Dall, Fionna Dunkirk,
Sister Mary Peter, Jenny MacLain
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Scottish basket-hilt claymore
Inconclusive fight against Lucius Oranius Capito,
83 AD


Status
Most recent base of operations : Leverburgh
Outer Hebrides
Occupation : Ferry ship captain, CalMac Ferries
Prior occupations : Farmer, traveller, scholar,
school teacher, Catholic nun, occasional whore
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 19 July 1995
Place : Leverburgh
Victor : Kanwulf Odinson
Watcher : Angus McWhyrter

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Caledonian
Born : 7th century BC; Caledonia, Province of
Britannia, Roman Empire, present-day Scotland
First death : Raped and killed by Roman soldiers
First teacher : Methos
Known past associates : Alex Raven, Methos
Known ennemies : Lucius Oranius Capito,
Kanwulf Odinson
First recorded sighting : 83 AD. Caledonia
Battle of Mons Graupius, fighting Roman Empire
with Alex Raven and Caledonian Confederacy

Jinny Dall thought she’d get her revenge when she confronted Kanwulf in Leverburgh, four hundred years after he raped her and left her broken in the outer hebrides. This is a strong woman who prepared herself to face her tormentor and trained like crazy to finally face him. Unfortunately, her demons drover her mad and when finally it was time to face her own private demon in the flesh, her resolve faltered. She saw the once proud viking plunderer reduced to a hollow shell of the man, a madman looking for his treasured axe. But Kanwulf is like Jinny Dall, he never forget to tie up loose ends and when he saw how the apt fighter Jinny Dall was, he picked his sword and gave her the fight she wanted.
Sometimes, you must be careful what you wish for : you may get it and also get a sword through your neck.

Angus McWyrter, Leverburgh, Scotland

[Apollo1]

Thanks for posting these chronicles, my friend. Once again, greatly appreciated. I liked the Swiss Immortal's story.

Unfortunately, i'm not on Facebook or any social media. I like to keep my personal details off-line. Had a bad experience a few years back because of personal details i had online and I've been private ever since. You're more than welcome to post all of the SIS details over there if you wish with my full blessing.

Meantime, i'm working on filling in the details of the other Hellfire Club members, which i'll post soon.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Apollo, I have been posting the past stories on the Highlander Imagine page on Facebook. People are getting curious about the SIS, but before I am posting anything, would you like to join us ? We are a very friendly lot. I don't know if you have heard about the Highlander Imagine Series.

The creative forums are dead here, Imagine is full of life. I suggest we move out of here permanently, unless you like your anonimity.

The Hauser chronicles remainsd mostly unchanged, here is the Swiss Immortal.


Jost Von Meggen
Known aliases : Jost Von Brunegg,
Franz Von Alisthofen, Robert Nunlis
Notable characteristics : Fanatically devoted to the
Pope, deeply religious
Weapon : Helberd, Italian switchblade rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations : Vatican City,
Rome Italy
Occupation : Captain of Pontifical Swiss Guard
Prior occupations : Captain of Pontifical guard
Serving Admiral Marcantonio Colonna in the Battle
of Lepanto, 1571
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 12 May 1848
Place : London, England
Victor : Richeard of Mercia
Watcher : Research, SIS Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Swiss
Born : 1529; Canton of Zurich Switzerland
First death : 1559, Performing duties as guard of
Pope John Paul IV , murdered by SIS members
Eadulf and Raymond d’Amboise
First teacher : Giovanni Battista
Known associates : Giovanni Battista,
Ludovico of Boilogna
Known ennemies : Secret Immortals Services
First recorded sighting : 1848. London, England
Leading attacks on SIS Immortals

18 August 1559: Pope John Paul IV dies aged 83 of "natural causes." The Watchers at the time identified Eadwulf and Raimond d'Amboise at large in Rome at the time. Eadwulf once studied with herbalists in the Middle Ages and is known to be an expert in several lethal toxins which leave no trace. We have long suspected the Society arranged the Pope's demise as revenge for his involvement in several plots to remove or kill Elizabeth I.

Three hundred years later, in 1848 after the Swiss Guards temporarily disbanded when Pope Pius IX fled to Gaetia, Raymond d'Amboise and Eadwulf were kidnapped and tortured by an ancient Swiss Immortal who was bodyguard of the Pope and wanted revenge for what he considered to be an evil deed from the SIS. Keeping them hostages, he called for the entire SIS to surrender to him, or Eadwulf and Raymond who surely die. When they didn't respond he organized separate attacks on Richeard of Mercia, Allegra Chambers, Helen Bondeville with mercenaries armed with muskets and finally got his wish when he was confronted by Richeard in person while Allegra and Helen freed their friends. The ancient swiss guard was taken out by Richeard of Mercia himself and thus a lesson was leant : to always stay on their guard where past deeds were concerned.The pasdt can always come back to haunt you.

SIS Chronicle



Horst Hauser
Known aliases: Drago of Saxony, Hektor
Austerlitz,Alejandro Canal, Dragan Carnot, Gabriel
Andretti, Aaron Hunter, Frederick Gruenstahler
Notable characteristics: Identical twin brother of
Hugo; symbiotic link; never seen without Hugo
Weapon: 8th Century Frankish longsword
Recorded kills : Leonhard of Bavaria, Clemenz of Austria, Charles of Strasbourg, Hans Kerschner,
Oleg Karparov, Stein Myhrstad, Everett Bellian
Inconclusive fight against Ceirdwyn, 1048; Auberon, 1367; Deoneces of Sparta, 1537; May-Ling Shen, 1857

Status
Most recent base of operations: US Northeast,
home-based in Boston, MA
Occupation: Terrorism-for-hire; headhunter
Prior occupations: Thief, highwayman, mercenary,
outlaw, horse thief, underworld enforcer
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 2 December 2007
Place : Boston
Victor: Seraphina
Watcher: Drew Walsh

Background
Original cultural affiliation: German
Born: 883, Bremen, Duchy of Saxony
First death: 914; Co-leader of gang of thieves
captured and hung after murdering a nobleman
and his family for their valuables
First teacher: Auberon
Known associates: None
Known past associates: Auberon, Grayson,
Callestina, Karl-Uwe Goltz
First recorded sighting: 1048 Paris, France
Inconclusive fight against Ceirdwyn. He was
losing the fight and jumped into the Seine to
escape being killed


Hugo Hauser
Known aliases: Drogo of Saxony, Horaz Austerlitz,
Alejo Canal, Dragonetz Carnot, Giacomo Andretti,
Adam Hunter, Hans Gruenstahler
Notable characteristics: Identical twin brother of
Hugo; symbiotic link; never seen without Horst
Weapon: 8th Century Frankish longsword
Recorded kills : Clothild of Septimania, Milena of Trieste, Magali Szardos, Eugenia Delacroix,
Sergeil Aloysovitch,Alfred Kohl, Veiko Kamu, Bethany Clarke
Inconclusive fight against Odolf, 1367; Kyra of Sparta, 1537; Katherine of Samothrace, 1641

Status
Most recent base of operations: US Northeast,
home-based in Boston, MA
Occupation: Terrorism-for-hire; headhunter
Prior occupations: Thief, highwayman, mercenary,
outlaw, horse thief, underworld enforcer
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 2 December 2007
Place : Boston
Victor: Deoneces of Sparta
Watcher: Drew Walsh

Background
Original cultural affiliation: German
Born: 883, Bremen, Duchy of Saxony
First death: 914; Co-leader of gang of thieves
captured and hung after murdering a nobleman
and his family for their valuables
First teacher: Auberon
Known associates: None
Known past associates: Auberon, Grayson,
Callestina, Karl-Uwe Goltz
First recorded sighting: 1048 Paris, France
Observing unconlusive fight between Horst
Hauser and Ceirdwyn. Horst was losing the fight
and dived into the Seine to escape. Hugo fled.

The Hauser twins are nearly unique in the Immortal community. They are inseperable, dress exactly alike (lately they have taken to wearing identical black trench coats and wrap-around shades) and when they speak, they finish each other's sentences. Their symbiotic relationship extends to sharing Quickenings.
They take turns fighting other Immortals, one brother hanging back ready to receive the Quickening and both seem to benefit from the power received. The only time they were both forced to fight at the same time was in Florence in 1537 when they encountered Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta. Both brothers were no match for the two Spartans and barely escaped with their lives.
Now they have set up shop in Boston and hiring their services out to various terrorist groups while scouring the Northeastern seaboard for other Immortals.

Watcher Research, Western Europe

Apollo1/Apollo2

[Apollo1]

Thanks for the UK chronicles, my friend, much appreciated. Now i can complete my own updates! Lol

I'm intrigued by that Swiss Immortal who took on the SIS! Could you post his chronicle, please, and also the Horst and Hugo Hauser chronicles so i can fill in some blanks...

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

UNITED KINGDOM
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Deoneces of Sparta
Known aliases: Marcus Dominius, Damasos of
Colchis, Marco Montisori, Mando Montevideo,
Matthew of York, Drake Matthews, Damian Magos,
Markos Damaskinos, Matthew Deacon
Notable Characteristics: Facial scar over right eye
Current Weapon (s): Hand-and-a-half broadsword
Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation: CEO, Ravenwood International
Security / Head Tribune, Watcher Tribunal
Prior occupations: Cell leader, National Republican
Greek League, 1941-1944; Leader, Greek partisan
group, 1940-1941; Greek Intelligence Agent, 1910-
1914; Founder member, Filiki Eteria, 1821-1830;
Greek; mercenary; tribune, Roman auxilia, cohortes
equitatae; Spartan warrior
Roster of immortals status: Active
Date :
Place:
Victor :
Watcher: Derek Thurston

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Spartan
Born: 518 BC, Sparta, Laconia Greece
First Death: 480 BC; Battle of Thermopylae
First Teacher: Methopholus (aka Methos)
Known Associates: Kyra I, Ravenwood Immortals,
Xanthia of Melitus, Fallen Angels
Known past associates : Alexon of Thessaly;
Methos, Maharbal of Carthage, Aegilaus,
Katherine of Samothrace, Clymene of Thespia,
Medios of Thebes, Appius Lepidus Baro, Browen
Hughes, Epistor of Macedon, Cleophon of Athens,
Rajeshwari, Lord George Byron, Timocleia of
Thebes, Kallisto of Nicopolis
First recorded sighting: 480 BC, Corinth. Student of Methos

Deoneces finally appears to have found a purpose. The dark, brooding loner has gone and has been replaced by a determined, focused warrior with a new cause and a sense of justice, Spartan style. After spending the first two centuries of his immortal life wracked with guilt over surviving the heroic last stand that saw the end of his life as one of the Spartan elite, he then spent the next couple of centuries taking out his anger on the Persians, who he blamed for everything.
Although nothing has been proven in Watcher records from the period, Deoneces's Watcher at the time suspected his involvement in the suspicious death of Philip of Macedon and the subsequent elevation of Alexander to King, owing to Deoneces's apparent close friendship with Alexander's mother, Olympia. The fact he then followed Alexander on his conquest of Persia as one of the young king's must trusted officers do nothing to allay those suspicions.
Alexander's death saw Deoneces abandon the mediterannean and North Africa altogether and head east, where he spent the next four centuries honing his skills, learning from the great masters, still brooding, and carving out a reputation as one of the most fearsome players of the Game. He took heads from India to the furthest reaches of China and Indonesia.

Deoneces of Sparta is among the most powerful Immortals still walking the Earth and one of the oldest. A fearsome warrior, merciless to his enemies, and protective to those he loves and trusts, Deoneces has become a legendary figure in the Immortal community. Some of the most feared and evil Immortals in history have fallen to his sword; the Kurgan, Kane, Kronos...
And dozens of others have fled rather than fight him, his name and reputation alone instilling fear in those who operate in the murky waters of the Immortal world.

But then Deoneces was born a warrior in a warrior society, his childhood forged in the brutal world of the Agoge, where the Spartan state trained him as a living weapon (Watcher historians are still trying to ascertain whether he was a member of the brutal and shadowy Cripteia, the Spartan secret society that was known for dealing out savage justice to Sparta's helot population).

In 480 BC, the Persian Empire invaded Greece and Sparta joined Athens in its defense. Deoneces was one of the three hundred warriors of King Leonidas' personal bodyguard who fought and died alongside the Thespians at the pass of Thermopylae.

When he came to, the elusive Methos was standing over him. Methos told Deoneces all about immortality and the Game, but the two men did not get along. Deoneces was a warrior who thrived on the thrill of the battle, while Methos counseled caution and "living to grow strong." To Deoneces, Methos was a coward and a poor warrior. If the Spartan had known at the time that Methos was once one of the Four Horsemen, would he have tried to kill him? Two thousand years later, Deoneces discovered the truth, but time had passed and people change. Still, in those early days, Deoneces walked away from Methos in disgust, unwilling to be the student of a man he considered dishonourable.

In 478 BC, Deoneces met Cleophon of Athens in Thebes. Their first encounter was a violent one, the Spartan challenged his Athenian blood enemy to a fight, but he lost and ended on his knees with Cleophon's sword at his throat. But Cleophon spared the new Immortal and the Spartan, beaten by a worthy foe, apprenticed himself to the Athenian, becoming his fiercest and most loyal acolyte.

When Deoneces and Cleophon joined the court of King Philip of Macedon, becoming tutors to his son Alexander, Deoneces met Kyra for the first time. A student of Aegelaus, a friend of Cleophon, she was personal bodyguard to Queen Olympius. There was an instant attraction between the two Spartans. Deoneces, as well as being a warrior, has a healthy appetite for women, especially Immortal women, but Kyra became, and would remain, to this day, something more. They fell into bed together that first night and have been on/off lovers for over two thousand years. They have had mortal lovers, and Immortal lovers, but the bond between the two Spartans is unbreakable.

The two have fought side by side down through the centuries, defending Greece from her enemies and joining Achilles of Troy's crusade against the infamous Menmet-Ra and his Zodiac Brotherhood. To Deoneces and Kyra, war and sex goes hand in hand; they fight and kill on the battlefield and then celebrate their survival in the carnal desires of the flesh.
Over the centuries, a number of renowned female Immortals have become part of the Spartan's "harem," women who Deoneces considers to be under his protection, and who often share his bed: Seraphina of Rome and her teacher, Katherine of Samothrace, and Frances Drummond.
Deoneces' appetite for women is offset by his fearsome reputation for hunting and killing the psychopaths of the Immortal community, his skill with a sword is almost unmatched. He is decisive when dealing out justice and protecting those who cannot protect themselves, merciless to those who prey on the weak. His reputation as the dark angel of the Immortal community is well deserved.

From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta
Derek Thurston, 2010

AD 210 - 218: Deoneces of Sparta, as Damasos of Colchis, serves as a Greek officer in the Roman army; a tribune in the auxillia, the Cohortes Equitatae, recruited from the peregrini (non-citizens) of Rome, on the Gallic borders of the empire.

AD 219: Deoneces of Sparta owns a villa in the coastal town of Ostia, which he shares with his long-time on again/off again lover, Kyra. Katherine of Samothrace, re-united with her student, Seraphina, joins them. The three Immortal women, sharing the home of the Spartan, as well as his bed, cause a stir among the patrician classes of the city by openly boasting of their nocturnal exploits, at the city baths. The quartet travel often to Rome, where Deoneces also has a home, to conduct business, and host parties that scandalise the city as the three wonen shamelessly flaunt their relationship with the Spartan.

AD 222: Roman emperor Heliogabalus is murdered by the Praetorian guard, among them Immortal Lucius Oranius Capito, and is succeeded by his 14-year-old cousin and adopted son Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander.

AD 223: Among a group of army veterans seeking revenge for the murder of the previous emperor, Deoneces travels to Rome and confronts Lucius Oranius Capito, tribune of the Praetorian guard. Deoneces fights and defeats Capito, but other Praetorians attack Deoneces, allowing Capito to escape and flee Rome.

AD 225: Deoneces, Kyra, Katherine and Seraphina host a legendary party at their villa in Ostia that lasts for 24 days and nights. Much of what went on is the stuff of rumour and speculation, but such important figures as the consuls Fucius and Domitius, and Sallustia Oribias, wife of the emperor Alexander Severus, are said to have attended.

AD 227: Deoneces mentors Immortal Quilo of Hispalis, a slave who he buys from his master and then frees. Quilo spends the next two years with the four Immortals in Ostia, learning all he can from all of them.

AD 229: The five Immortals of Ostia go their separate ways after ten years together. Katherine and Seraphina leave Italy altogether, Quilio sets off to explore Western Europe, while Deoneces and Kyra relocate to Greece, before Kyra then parts ways with her lover six months later.

The five Immortals will continue to cross paths with each other for the next 1800 years. Kyra, Katherine and Seraphina continue to share the Spartan's bed whenever each of them is reunited with Deoneces, and Quilo continues to learn from his three mentors until his death.

Apollo1, 2009


In 1814, Deoneces of Sparta and his on/off lover, Kyra of Sparta I, helped to found the Filiki Eteria resistance group with the aim of liberating Greece from Ottoman rule. They planned to launch revolts in the Peloponnese, the Danubian Principalities, and Constantinople. The Ottoman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his son Ibrahim Pasha to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial gain.
By the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Messalonghi - under siege by the Turks since April 1825, fell in April 1826. Following years of negotiation, the three Great Powers, Russia, Great Britain and France intervened in support of the Greeks, defeating an Egyptian-Turkish fleet at Navarino. A French expeditionary force then helped the Greeks expel the Turks from the Peloponnese and recaptured central Greece by 1828. Greece was finally recognised as an independent nation in May 1832. The long, hard struggle fought by Deoneces and Kyra had seen their ancient homeland free at last.

From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta, 1814 to 1832

Apollo1 / Apollo2




THE DARK DEONECES CHRONICLE

There is much speculation in Watcher ranks as to how it is that Deoneces of Sparta has never
succumbed to a Dark Quickening as did his line-brother Henry of Kent, the Highlander Duncan MacLeod,
James Coltec and Guy LeStrange, especially when you consider the infamous Immortals who have fallen
to his blade: Kane, The Kurgan, Kronos, Coronus of Persia; any one of them could have corrupted the
mighty Spartan. So, what is the answer? Perhaps the secret lies in a simple truth: only someone who
has conquered the darkness in their own soul could contain the darkness in others.

Deoneces was forced to confront that darkness during two decades in the late 8th century AD,
The Spartan had settled down for the first time in around 1200 years on the island of Sicily with a
mortal woman named Aria, the wife of a former comrade-in-arms who died in battle and who Deoneces
made a promise that he would take care of his family. The Spartan fell in love with Aria and her
three children and, much to the astonishment of his Watcher at the time, became a merchant after so
long as a warrior.

This woman, Aria, was of an astonishing beauty, but more importantly is that she reminded him of
Hyppolita, his first wife in pre-immortality who could never have borne him children at the time of
ancient Sparta. Her three children, one boy and two girls, where amazing little hellions, fierce,
petulant, open-mouthed and showing the promise of being someday either great warriors of great
artists. For they were gifted with painting, music and archery. At such a young age it was a marvel
to behold and Deoneces felt those were truly the reincarnations of people he knew twelve centuries
ago. So akin Deoneces felt to his new family that he swore to himself that he would stood forever
ready to their needs as well as the needs of their descendants.
It was the first time Deoneces oppned his heart in this fashion - with the exeption of his three
sirens - and the decade that followed would be one of the happiest in his long life.
The warrior had become a family man.

But Deoneces’ peace was short-lived: after only ten years, the Spartan was away on the Italian
mainland on business when Immortal Kossos of Illyria, a student of Coronus of Persia, led a band of
raiders in an attack on the village. All the men were put to the sword, the women and girls were
brutally raped and then butchered, even the children were slaughtered.
When Deoneces returned to the island a few days later, the woman and children he loved were dead and
his home was gone. Consumed by grief he sought answers from a nearby village that had also been hit
and where there were survivors and learned of the raiders and the man who led them, who had survived
a sword to the chest; Deoneces saw the handiwork of an acolyte of Coronus, his old enemy, in the
leader of the raiders.

Soon, the Spartan’s grief turned to rage and a burning desire for revenge; he would hunt them all
down, every last one of them, but he would save Kossos for last.
For the next two decades, from 762 to 785, Deoneces followed the trail of Kossos and his
bloodthirsty band. He barely slept, his hair grew long and his face was nearly unrecognisable
beneath a bushy beard, his clothes were unkempt; he resembled a wild man as he moved from town to
town, spending his nights getting drunk and his days tracking his quarry.
He caught two of the raiders at an inn in Burgundy where they had been left behind by Kossos to
sober up. Deoneces flew into a rage and attacked them both. The inn was owned by a fellow Immortal,
Durand, who objected to people being murdered on his premises, but the Spartan ignored Durand’s
protests and brutally slaughtered the men anyway. When Durand tried to eject Deoneces, threatening
to inform the local militia, the Spartan, enraged, beheaded the Burgundian, who didn’t even have
time to arm himself.

And so it was for the next 23 years as Deoneces hunted down the raiders and killed them one by one
all across Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Kossos, fearful of the wrath of the Spartan
relentlessly hounding his steps, fled for his life. Meanwhile, any Immortal unlucky enough to cross
the path of Deoneces, innocent or otherwise, was treated with contempt and brutally dispatched for
getting in his way. The Spartan was obsessed with revenge. In all, another four Immortals met their
tragic end at the sword of the wrathful Deoneces.
In time, word reached Kyra of Sparta in Bohemia of the bedraggled, wild-haired warrior slaughtering
raiders and who laughed maniacally during a lightning storm after beheading a man in Bavaria. His
description could only be her on again/off again lover Deoneces. The stories even reached the ears
of Seraphina in Anatolia and Katherine of Samothrace in the Frankish Kingdom. Separately, the three
women set out on the trail of the man they all loved, determined to help a man they knew could only
be in terrible pain.

In 785, they finally all converged on the town of Bremen in Saxony over the course of a week, each
following the bloody trail the Spartan had been unwittingly leaving for them. On the outskirts of
the town, having been re-united the night before at an inn in Bremen, the three women found Doeneces
throttling the last of the raiders to death. They barely recognised their lover, pain and rage
etched on his face, and he warned them not to interfere or get in his way. But all three of his
“sirens” refused to allow him to destroy himself. He drew his sword and attacked the women, who
defended themselves, but would not hurt the Spartan. Using skills Deoneces had taught them all
himself, Kyra, Katherine and Seraphina parried or dodged his wild blows. Eventually, all three women
lowered their swords, fell to their knees, and offered their heads to Deoneces, hoping that their
Quickenings would heal his pain, that their love for him would heal the wound in his soul.
But Deoneces could not kill the three women he cared about the most in the world. He fell to his
knees, screamed at the sky, and then wept. Kyra, Katherine and Seraphina, crying with him, held him
in their arms and comforted the Spartan as the rage and grief drained from him, washed away by the
love of the three Immortal women.
The next day, the quartet checked into the inn in Bremen and spent the next month scandalising the
townsfolk with their noisy sexual exploits and open displays of affection. The dark Deoneces was
gone, the rage was still there below the surface but it was now contained and would always be a part
of him, brought out only in his duels with other Immortals, the reason he is so formidable.

In 1931, Kossos of Illyria, henchman to a notorious Irish mobster, was lured into an alleyway by a
mysterious woman, an Immortal, offering him a quickie outside a nightclub. Instead, Kossos was
challenged and defeated in battle. On his knees, he demanded to know the identity of his attacker.
She told him her name was Kyra and she was righting a wrong, bringing closure to a dark chapter in
the life of a lover. “What’s his name?” he asked her. “Deoneces,” she told him and then took his
head and his Quickening.

From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta
December 2012




ADDENDUM
Recorded kills : Djeserka, Shopak of Saba’a, Atropates of Dascylium, Tenagon of Aleppo, Trebatius Juba, Gavius Dexion, Shisupala, Kane, Senghi Khan, Khabul Khan,Koert Bloodgood, Atek Kazaz, Abd al-Haqq, Ejder Orga, Hank Denke, Chiaro Colleano, Catajano Grande, Jerome Haller, Patrick Kraus, Taher ibn Hamed al Jaber, Malik Tanju, Bassan ibn Emad, the Kurgan, Issa Job, Kalif Farah, John Garrick, Huneric the Vandal, Ari al-Muzaiyin, ESA Abdul al-Nigeri
Dark Deoneces : Durand of Burgundy, Calvinus Viator, Decebal of Dacia, Averki of Bospora, Baldewyn of Septimania

Inconclusive fight against Clerophon of Athens, 478 bc. Pharzeanabus of Sardis, 331 BC; Lucius Oranius Capito, 223; Hugo Hauser, 1537; Hazeem al-Bachrim, 1689; Jamal Laboudini, 1827; Huneric the Vandal, 1972




Kyra of Sparta
Known aliases : Kyra of Sparta, Kyra Stamoulis,
Kyra Allbright
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Greek hoplite sword
Recorded kills : *See Addendum I*

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation: CEO, Ravenwood International
Security / Head Tribune, Watcher Tribunal
Prior occupations : Agent, Ravenwood International,
Balkans Division; Bodyguard, mercenary sword,
Co-founder, Filiki Eteria; Cell leader, Natianal
Republican League, 1941-1944; Spartan warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Marjorie Brubeck

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Spartan
Born : 425 BC, Sparta Laconia Greece
First death : 400 BC, Fatal fall in chariot racing
(male rival suspected)
First teacher : Aegilaus
Known associates : Ravenwood Immortals,
Deoneces of Sparta, Durante De Rosa, Agathe
Vierny, Xanthia of Melitus, George Byron, Fallen
Angels
Known past associates and students :
*See Addendum II*
First recorded sighting : 70, Athens. Reuniting with
Aegilaus, cross-identified as his student

Kyra grew up thinking that the reason she’d been abandoned as an infant was because her parents had wanted a boy and left her out on a hillside to die. In ancient Sparta, it happened all the time. She was found by a priestess of Diana and raised in the image of the Huntress. Because of her anger at the parents who she thought abandoned her, she was determined to best the boys her age at sports, in the gymnasium, and in games of war, which she regularly did. It was only after her First Death, a fall in a foot race some said was caused by a jealous male runner, that she learned she’d not been singled out as a baby because she was a woman-no immortal knows who his parents are. But by then, the patterns were so deeply ingrained that she has never gotten over the feeling she always has to prove herself despite her gender.

Marjorie Brubeck

After the death of Alexander the Great, Kyra went hunting for the man who ordered the death of her beloved friend and commander. Her lover, Deoneces, had already left to chase down the assassin, but Kyra wanted the astermind. It took her a year to track Coronus to a luxury villa in Gaza, Palestine. The fierce warrior woman slew all of his guards and fought the Persian. Coronus was outmatched and close to defeat, his eye already lost to a sword thrust, when the local militia interrupted the fight. While Kyra fought off the soldiers, Coronus escaped by jumping from the balcony into the sea.

Watcher Report: Immortals of the Ancient World
From the Chronicle of Kyra of Sparta I

Apollo1/Apollo2

In 1814, Deoneces of Sparta and his on/off lover, Kyra of Sparta I, helped to found the Filiki Eteria resistance group with the aim of liberating Greece from Ottoman rule. They planned to launch revolts in the Peloponnese, the Danubian
Principalities, and Constantinople. The Ottoman Sultan negotiated with Mehmet Ali of Egypt, who agreed to send his
son Ibrahim Pasha to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial gain.
By the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese was under Egyptian control, and the city of Messalonghi - under siege by the Turks since April 1825, fell in April 1826. Following years of negotiation, the three Great Powers, Russia, Great Britain and France intervened in support of the Greeks, defeating an Egyptian-Turkish fleet at Navarino. A French expeditionary force then helped the Greeks expel the Turks from the Peloponnese and recaptured central Greece by 1828. Greece was finally recognised as an independent nation in May 1832. The long, hard struggle fought by Deoneces and Kyra had seen their ancient homeland free at last.

From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta, 1814 to 1832

Apollo1 / Apollo2



ADDENDUM I
Recorded kills : Patrocles, Bardelys of Illyria, Tukutli-Ninurta, Kaushmalaku, Jagganathan, Thersa, Oebarsius, Nasr-ed-Din, Migliorozzo Lepante, Melquiades of Lisbon, Ola Medhat, Petar Stojanov, Socrate Koronades, Kossos of Illyria, Jamal Labdouni, Najia El Khalej, Djoka Vasic, Milos Vladic, Cassandra, Kenneth, Paul Karros, Hachim Barro-Diene, ESA Tawnat Belaouf

Inconclusive fight against Tukutli-Ninurta, 330 BC; Coronus of Persia, 322 BC; Eteocles of Thespia, 268 BC; Marcus Constantine, 168 BC; Jin Ke, 184; Xavier St. Cloud, 1217; Grayson, 1503; Fevzi Oz, 1521; Waffa el-Sadr, 1689; Victor Markov, 1721; Melik Tanju, 1827; Najia El Khalej, 1829; Elektra Natchios, 1887; Caspian, 1991

ADDENDUM II
Known past associates : Aegilaus, Kyra Xanthos, Prince Marko, Zhang Shi, Agathe Vierny, Sit-Hathor Iunet, the Lady of Lesbos, Diana Trojanos, Hyllos of Argos, Alexon of Thessaly, Athalos of Thebes, Clymene of Thespia, Medios of Thebes, Ioanna of Anatolia, Epistor of Macedon, Ke Xi Ping, Pamela Calza, Pavlos Neptalias, Duncan MacLeod, Appius Lepidus Baro, Betsy Mitchell, Zvika Kovac, Omar Matoub, Mercadier of Neustria, Timocleaia of Thebes, Kallisto of Nicopolis





SIS Helen Bondeville
Known aliases: Helena North, Eleanor Naylor
Notable characteristics: Mistress of disguise
Weapon: Basket-hilt rapier
Recorded kills : Borja Cortez, Honoria Dedlock,
Caleb Judge, Oskar Felder, Loretta Lynn. Ronnie
Rodgers Inconclusive fight Against Rosendo of
Castille, 1560; Honoria Dedlock, 1668; Godebert of
Worcester, 1781; Mildred Rath, 1821

Status
Most recent base of operations : Birmingham,
Occupation: Children's entertainer; Operative,
Secret Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date:
Location:
Victor:
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: English
Born: 1508, Nottingham England
First death: 1534; Protestant set upon and
murdered by Catholic mob in retaliation for King
Henry VIII's break from Rome
First teacher: Raymond d'Amboise
Known associates: SIS, Gavin Cummings, Thalia
Known past associates: Henry of Kent, Mary-Louise
Decker, Alfgar of Worcester, Eleanor Courcy
First recorded sighting: 1558 London. Meeting
Raimond d'Amboise, Eadwulf and Richeard of
Mercia and founded the Secret Immortals Society
SIS Allegra Chambers
Known aliases: Chantelle Allegra, Allegra Cooke
Notable characteristics: British patriot; photographic
memory, explosives expert
Weapon: Toledo Salamanca rapier
Recorded kills : Estefana De Sancha, Kemp
Armitage, Thomas Baxter, Sanchia Zarafulla,
Winston Mobay
Inconclusive fight agaisnt Eric Cannago, 1908;
Lydia Melchior, 1940

Status
Most recent base of operations: Manchester
Occupations: Office manager; Operative, Secret
Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date:
Victor:
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English
Born: 1621, Canterbury England
First death: 1650; Royalist spy discovered and
drowned attempting to escape Parliamentarian
soldiers during the Third English Civil War
First teacher: Helen Bondeville
Known associates: Secret Immortals Society
Known past associates: Henry of Kent,
Mary-Louise Decker, Alfgar of Worcester,
Eleanor Courcy, Roger Ludlow, Jane Chirwa
First recorded sighting: 1651 Derby
Student of Bondeville, recruited into the SIS

When Helen Bondeville debuked the pedophile network operating in England, she didn’t expect it to be ran by an immortal pedophile cowering in the midlle of London. But informations from the Secret Immortals Services pinned the blame of several missing children on Ronnie Rodgers, an immortal who had been behind the infamous kidnapping of young Gavin Cummings in 1995. Rodgers raised the child on his own, turned him into his own sex slave until he one day murdered him, hoping to keep him by his side, forever.
The incensed Helen killed Ronnie, had most of his clients arrested and then took on herself to take Gavin with her, introducing him to Doctor Sean Burns for extensive sessions of therapy before adopting him as his ward, since there was no way he could be returned to his family.

From the Chronicle of the SIS

The SIS’s own explosive expert, Allegra Chambers investigated a string of terrorist attacks from a gang of bombmakers making dozens of victims in the centertown of Manchester where only recently she took out the ringleader of a sex-slave operation and also an Immortal. This time the ringleader also turned out to be an Immortal mercenary working for the Jamaican underground of London with links to ISIL. It seems Winston Mobay became a Muslim and had his mind turned over by the Caliphate of Iran, triggerred several attacks between London, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester. The SIS was on the call and it was Allegra who had to take the Jamaican out of the Game he played on 27 June after the three successive attacks on London this same months.

SIS Chronicle, 2017


SIS Raymond d‘Amboise
Known aliases: Raymond A'Court, Ray Ambrose,
Cross-identified as Charles Talbot of Shrewsbury
Notable characteristics: Ruthless killer, sniper
Weapon : Stirling basket-hilt backsword
Recorded kills : Cewyd ap Defel, Alfonso Bermejo,
Jeremiah Morse, Yacine Kateb, Alfgar of Winchester
Inconclusive fight against Garcia Alemao, 1561;
Alfonso Bermejo, 1580; Emmanuel d’Orby, 1617;
John Glasmore, 1672; NicholasKedgik, 1743
Alice Lenshina, 1897; Orisa Kagamé, 1929

Status
Most recent base of operations : London England
Occupations: Head of Security, Hilton Hotel;
Operative, Secret Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: English
Born: 1427, Tewkesbury, Duchy of Lancaster,
England
First death: 1455; Fighting for the House of
Lancaster at the First Batlle of St Albans, Wars of
the Roses
First teacher: Eadwulf
Known associates: SIS, Xanthia of Melitus
Known past associates: Henry of Kent, Mary-Louise
Decker, Alfgar of Worcester, The Knight of Eon,
Eleanor Courcy
First recorded sighting: 1455 St Albans. Student of
Eadwulf

18 August 1559: Pope John Paul IV dies aged 83 of "natural causes." The Watchers at the time identified Eadwulf and Raimond d'Amboise at large in Rome at the time. Eadwulf once studied with herbalists in the Middle Ages and is known to be an expert in several lethal toxins which leave no trace. We have long suspected the Society arranged the Pope's demise as revenge for his involvement in several plots to remove or kill Elizabeth I.

Three hundred years later, in 1848 after the Swiss Guards temporarily disbanded when Pope Pius IX fled to Gaetia, Raymond d'Amboise and Eadwulf were kidnapped and tortured by an ancient Swiss Immortal who was bodyguard of the Pope and wanted revenge for what he considered to be an evil deed from the SIS. Keeping them hostages, he called for the entire SIS to surrender to him, or Eadwulf and Raymond who surely die. When they didn't respond he organized separate attacks on Richeard of Mercia, Allegra Chambers, Helen Bondeville with mercenaries armed with muskets and finally got his wish when he was confronted by Richeard in person while Allegra and Helen freed their friends. The ancient swiss guard was taken out by Richeard of Mercia himself and thus a lesson was leant : to always stay on their guard where past deeds were concerned.The past can always come back to haunt you.

SIS Chronicle



SIS Eadwulf
Known aliases: Eduard Du Buisson, Edward
Chambers, Edward Russel, Edward "Eddie" Jarvis
Notable characteristics: Ladies-man, master of
Disguise, expert in lethal toxins
Weapon: Templar sword
Recorded kills : Garcia Alemao, Jacques
Boudreaux, Linley Osbourne, Bashir ibn Khalid Al
Kal, Kieran Doherty, Hermann Detzner, Simon
Killian, Koinet Kalubino
Inconclusive fight against Godebert of Worcester,
1564; Jobo Bermudez, 1739; Huneric the Vandal,
1798; Alice Lenshina, 1923; Tasmanian Devil, 1976

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupations: Stockbroker, Barclays Bank; Deputy
Leader, Secret Immortal Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Angle
Born: 1028, East Anglia, Kingdom of England
First death: 1066; Fighting under Harold Godwinson
of England at the Battle of Hastings
First teacher: Richeard of Mercia
Known associates: SIS, Xanthia of Melitus
Known past associates: Henry of Kent, Mary-Louise
Decker, Aethelwine of London, Alfgar of Worcester,
Eleanor Courcy, Piers Jacobs,Jobo Bermudez,
Sher Khan Nasher, Tancredus of Trye, Bob Watson
First recorded sighting: 1068 York. Student of
Richeard

18 August 1559: Pope John Paul IV dies aged 83 of "natural causes." The Watchers at the time identified Eadwulf and Raimond d'Amboise at large in Rome at the time. Eadwulf once studied with herbalists in the Middle Ages and is known to be an expert in several lethal toxins which leave no trace. We have long suspected the Society arranged the Pope's demise as revenge for his involvement in several plots to remove or kill Elizabeth I.

Three hundred years later, in 1848 after the Swiss Guards temporarily disbanded when Pope Pius IX fled to Gaetia, Raymond d'Amboise and Eadwulf were kidnapped and tortured by an ancient Swiss Immortal who was bodyguard of the Pope and wanted revenge for what he considered to be an evil deed from the SIS. Keeping them hostages, he called for the entire SIS to surrender to him, or Eadwulf and Raymond who surely die. When they didn't respond he organized separate attacks on Richeard of Mercia, Allegra Chambers, Helen Bondeville with mercenaries armed with muskets and finally got his wish when he was confronted by Richeard in person while Allegra and Helen freed their friends. The ancient swiss guard was taken out by Richeard of Mercia himself and thus a lesson was leant : to always stay on their guard where past deeds were concerned.The past can always come back to haunt you.

SIS Chronicle



SIS Alice Ming
Known aliases: Alice Mei, Alice Lan
Notable characteristics: British patriot; Extremely
intelligent, SIS tech expert
Weapon: Basket-hilt rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations: Birmingham
Occupations: IT Analyst; Operative, Secret
Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date:
Location:
Victor:
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Chinese-English
Born: 1808, London England
First death: 1832; Raped and murdered during
Chinese gang warfare at the London docks
First teacher: Allegra Chambers
Known associates: Secret Immortals Society
Known past associates: Henry of Kent, Mary-Louise
Decker, Alfgar of Worcester, Eleanor Courcy,
Piers Jacobs
First recorded sighting: 1840 London. Found and
trained by Allegra, recruited into the Secret
Immortals Society

Alice Ming has been seeing Sean Burns again, the nightmares from her past came back : her First Death and rape in 1832, her investigation of the Connoisseur’s crimes in 1842, the Asian Immortals from the criminal Chinese undergrounds she had to kill over the years, her investigation of the Rape of Naking, all of this has brought back terrible memories from the past. While this is a tough woman she reached her breaking point and needs her rest. Her best therapy so far is her involvement with the online Chinese community with which she runs non-profit social events in Birmingham’s Chinatown, thopugh this is not enough to alleviate her burgeoning depression.

SIS Chronicle, May 2017



SIS Richeard of Mercia
Known aliases: Richard de Monchy, Richard
Marlow, Richard Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough,
Capt. Richard Moreland, Rick Mercia
Notable characteristics: British patriot; brilliant
strategist, charismatic leader
Weapon: English two-handed broadsword
Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

Status
Most recent base of operations : London , England
Occupations: Director, Mercia Construction;
Leader, Secret Immortal Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Saxon
Born: 599, Kingdom of Mercia, English Midlands
First death: 633; Battle of Hatfield Chase, during
the invasion of Northumbria by Mercian Saxons and
Gwynedd Welsh
First teacher: Thibalt of Frisia
Known associates: SIS, Cleophon of Athens,
Watchers Initiative, Xanthia of Melitus
Known past associates: Aethelwine, Thibalt of
Frisia, Ailef of Deira, Mary-Louise Decker, Alfgar of
Worcester, Eleanor Courcy, Carmen Santiago,
Terrence Zic
First recorded sighting: 633 Northumbria. Found
and mentored by Timothy of Gilliam

As director of Mercia Construction, Richeard of Mercia suffered an inquiry on the burning of Grefell Tower in London, havign been the architect of the tenement building. However, no charges could be pressed against him. Havign been recently followed by one of his kind in recent weeks, Richeard suspected foul play from an Immortal and recruited his SIS cohorts to help him find out wether or not an Immortal could be responsible for this heinous act. The only likely suspect was Patrick Lynch, an Irish immortal and pyromaniac living in New-York, but he had moved out of the city and was nowhere to be found. Eventually, he was located in Greater Lndon, and in his appartment was found enough paraphernalia and explosives to set half of West London ablaze. Lynch was quickly found, interrogated and was forced to write a full confession which was sent to the police before his body was found in the Thames, seemingly decapitated by a boat’s propellers.

From the Chronicle of the Secret Immortals Services

Addendum :

Recorded kills : Gonand of Bude, Musaed ibn Rihaz, Huidemar of Avranches, Juan Antonio Villa, Jost Von Meggen, Samson Brass, Salim Ibn Khalid Al Kal, Salilu Ibrahim, Kondh Brothers Ranver Kapoor, Niccolo Machiavelli, Kapalei Kalubino, Thomas Morehead, Godebert of Worcester. Inconclusive fight against Paul Kinman, 1714; Sampson Brass, 1786



Hellfire Club Evangeline Black
Known aliases : Elfrida of York (birth name),
Abbess Elfrida of Iona, Lady Emma Wharton,
Lady Emma Dashwood, Paula Brimstone
Notable characteristics : Dresses in Victorian-era
clothing during Hellfire Club gatherings
Weapon : Italian 16th century rapier
Recorded kills : Morello of Potentia, Breogan of Dummonia, Aeronwen of Caerwent
Inconclusive fight against Algar of Winchester, 944, 1001


Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Black Queen, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Hellifre Club Watcher team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British
Born: 915, Scandinavian York, England
First death: 939, Raped and murdered during the
capture of York by Olaf Guthfrithson, King of Dublin
First teacher: Ailef of Deira, aka Aldrich Monk
Known associates : Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle
Known past associates : Spanish Cabal, Court of
Beauties, Knights of Charlemagne
Known ennemies : Secret Immortals Services
Found the Black Friars Club, satirizing and
ridiculing important figures of London society
Hellfire Club Theobald Cleaver
Known aliases : Robert Vansittart, Morgan Steed
Notable characteristics : Dresses in Victorian-era
clothing during Hellfire Club gatherings
Weapon : Colombus clamshell rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : White Bishop, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Hellifre Club Watcher team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British
Born : England, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle
Known past associates : Spanish Cabal, Court of
Beauties, Knights of Charlemagne
Known ennemies : Secret Immortals Services
First recorded sighting : 1659. London, England
Found the Black Friars Club, satirizing and
ridiculing important figures of London society



Hellfire Club Serena Harper
Known aliases : Jane Whitehead, Diana Rigg
Notable characteristics : Dresses in Victorian-era
clothing during Hellfire Club gatherings
Never seen without her pet white rabbit
Weapon : Single-ring rapier

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : White Rook, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava,Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Hellifre Club Watcher team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British
Born : England, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle,
Baker Street Irregulars
Known past associates : Spanish Cabal, Court of
Beauties, Knights of Charlemagne
Known ennemies : Secret Immortals Services
First recorded sighting : 1659. London, England
Found the Black Friars Club, satirizing and
ridiculing important figures of London society



Hellfire Club Aldrich Monk
Known aliases : Ailef of Deira (birth name),
Aldrich the Monk, Sir Philip Wharton, Sir Francis
Dashwood, James Brimstone
Notable characteristics : Dresses in Victorian-era
clothing during Hellfire Club gatherings
Weapon : Charles III sword
Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : White King, Brimstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Brimstone
Brotherhood, Friars Club, Hellfire Club, Infernus
Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Hellifre Club Watcher team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British
Born: 584, Kingdom of Deira, Northern England
First death: 616, Killed in battle by the River Ide
fighting for Raedwald of East Anglia
First teacher: Timothy of Gilliam
Known associates : Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle
Known past associates : Spanish Cabal, Court of
Beauties, Knights of Charlemagne
Known ennemies : Secret Immortals Services
First recorded sighting : 1659. London, England
Found the Black Friars Club



Hellfire Club Dominic Piper
Known aliases : Thomas Potter, Michael Wyngarde
Notable characteristics : Dresses in Victorian-era
clothing during Hellfire Club gatherings
Weapon : Bronze Charles V sword

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Black Knight, Brismstone Society
Prior occupations : Founder, Black Friars Club,
Hellfire Club, Infernus Clava, Brimstone Society
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Hellifre Club Watcher team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British
Born : England, unknown date
First death : Unrecorded
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle
Known past associates : Spanish Cabal, Court of
Beauties, Knights of Charlemagne
Known ennemies : Secret Immortals Services
First recorded sighting : 1659. London, England
Found the Black Friars Club, satirizing and
ridiculing important figures of London society

The Hellfire Club, an organisation of rich Immortals who have been a thorn in the SIS'side since the 17th century and are like a wet bar of soap : impossible to hold for long. Richeard and his group could never catch them in time and put a permanent end to their activites. Not exactly major villains, but still severe nuisances. Irritatign and frustrating, hedonistic, scheming, anti-patriotic, everything the SIS isn't! They even made friends with the SIS ennemies such as the Spanish Cabal, the Knights of Charlemagne and the Court of Beauties. They dress up in Victorian-era clothing, are involved in racketeering, counter-inelligence, wanton acts of terrorism and also extortion. They don't mind murder too. They tend to target and kill, ridicule, harass important figures of the Londonian society. Everything that can annoy, piss off or endanger the SIS they do it! Their credo is: do what you want unto others, but don't get caught.. and don't lose your head! Watcher Bureau, London England


Addendum
Recorded kills : Beathan of Ce, Faiz Raboud, Folgarda of Aachen, Etheria of Spoleto, Ideswif of Westphalia, Asbjorn Blacktooth, Willa of Dunwich, Mary of Lincoln, Scorcha of Dumbarton, Doeyen Coolssens



Badri Toppur
Known aliases : Sanjay Kapoor
Notable characteristics : Pacifist, weakness for
gambling and poker games
Weapon : Malay kriss

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Market trader
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Neal Shaara

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Parsi
Born : 1976, Chandigarh Punjab, India
First death : 2000, Natural causes (congenital
aneurysm)
First teacher : Indira Bedi
Known associates : Indira Bedi
First recorded sighting : 2000, near Chandigarh.
Recruited out of a Tower of Silence by Indira Bedi

From : R.Sundaram (Field Watcher, Venkatesh Raman)
To : Devika Subramanian (Area Supervisor, Punjab)
Subjet : Awakened immortal
30 November 2000

Sir,

Indira Bedi, turned up with a new student she just recruited out of the local Tower of Silence. The boy's name is Badri Toppur, a Parsi who died performing a religious ritual. From what I gathered, he died from aneurysm, unless it was an heart attack. Natural causes, anyway. Badri Toppur was left to rot on one of the "Towers of Silence"until he came back to life and was believed to be a demon bent on cursing former fellow Parsi. When Indira heard the tale of a young man coming back to life, she rushed from the office and managed to put Badri Toppur to safety in his home. I've already begun a Watcher profile for Badri Toppur, to be added to the database.

With regards,
R. Sundaram



Xanthia of Miletus
Known aliases : Rebekah, Rivka of Jerash, Queen
Boudicca, Majidah, Elisabeth of Trent, Lady Marian,
Rebekha bat Yehudah, Deirdre Harrogate, Rebecca
Horne. Cross-identified as Yekta of Phoenicia, and
the Lady of the Lake
Weapon : Single-ring rapier
Recorded kills : *See Addendum I*

Status
Most recent base of operations : London, England
Occupation : Independent means
Prior occupations : Resistance cell leader, human
rights activist, mother superior, holy woman
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Amelia Ephraim

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Mycenean
Born : 1500 BC, Mycenaen Greece
First death : 1470 BC, Murdered by jealous slave
First teacher : Aganesthos of Tiryns
Known associates : Methos, Watchers Initiative,
SIS, Gina & Robert de Valicourt, Amanda, Malcus
of Ephesus, Virgil of Naples, Sr. Mary-Jean Mitchell,
Seamus of Athlone
Known past associates and line of students :
*See Addendum II*
First recorded sighting : 350 BC. Babylon. Fought
and beheaded Nicodemus.

The oldest living immortal woman, Xanthia is without a doubt the grande dame in the immortals community. Always a lady, with a sense of style and elegance that transcended millennia, Xanthia is Princess Grace with a three thousand year reign. But gentle Xanthia is not without her bite, too -- no Immortal lives so long without a formidable sword arm, even if they do own an abbey on Holy Ground. She is also a remarkable teacher, passing on both her knowledge of the sword and her wisdom and love to numerous students, some of whom followed her teachings better than others. There are many legends about her -- as a lover of Agamemnon, as keeper of the mythical Methuselah's stone, as model for the Venus de Milo -- but it is her legendary graciousness that will bring her into the millennia to come.

Amelia Ephraim
April, 1994

ADDENDUM I : Recorded kills

Nathanael, Nicodemus, Amar the Immortal, Haytham of Arabia, Mazaieus, Califax, Srivatsan Rhagavan, Clovis, Roger Mortimer, Zeheb Bele, William Campbell, Albert Munte, Baptiste Luther. Dark Quickenings : Chandrakirti, Bumin Qaghan, Lady Sun, Abraham of Kratia, Shibtu of Yambad, Gershem ben-Zion, Protiz of Cadiz, Prisca Negra

Inconclusive fight against Bardelys of Illyria, 598 BC; Marcus Constantine, 250 BC; Ahaziah of Ramoth-Gilead, 70; Ari al-Muzaiyin, 11th century; Guy of Gisbourne, 1190; Kronos, 1230; Cyricus of Bayeux, 1319; Lootje De Groot, 1636; Almerik Boykens, 1680; Immortal Maiden, 1852; Lucius Oranius Capito, 2010; Ari al-Muzaiyin, 2011

ADDENDUM II
Known past associates : Aganesthos of Tiryns, Ascelpius, Asteria, Aegilaus, Achilles of Troy, Carolyn Mortimer, Gabriel Piton, Nakano, Martin of Tours, Gideon, Kellistra, Lucretia Garibaldi, Medios of Thebes, Jola Lundgaard, Helchias of Palestine, Epistor of Macedon, Duncan MacLeod, Hugh Fitzcairn, Sean Burns, Grace Chandel, Athanasius, Abdul Shattar-Edhi, Fanta Damba, Alim Ibn Al-Nasr, Heilewys of Glastonbury, Andrew Kaspis

Students
Rebeka Mwaze, Dea Namoujimbo, Parthenia of Udiyana, Nura Al-Habash , Niko Tsaganis, Jonas of Pietra, Mary MacGreggor, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Wyndemere, Onacona, Simon Atlan, Kateb Qateb, Saint-Germain , Sarah of Antioch, Ashley Wilkinson, William of Essex, Amanda, Lazarus, Ahmet Rahim, Azra Samar, Lady Sun, Ren Yuan Lin, Shen Li-Min, Samira Hamid, Deena Yazdi , Berenice of Jerusalem, Prophet Elijah, Mahasti of Petra, Yonathan the Israelite, Malachi the Parthian, Hassan-i-Sabbah, Verrinia of Aquileia, Odolf, Emil Rosenbluth, Libuse, Noah Faulkner, Robert of Locksley, Ceirdwyn, Alex Raven, Codrus of Athens, Joaquin Barjuan, Clemence Dubois, Carpus Cornelius, Asteria of Gaul, Baptiste Luther, Henri Valjean , Stein Myrhstad, Ilsa Stromberg, Phillipe Caneeus, Lancelot of the Lake, Vita Sackville-West, Moreland Mahoney




UNITED KINGDOM
WALES AND SCOTLAND


SIS Meghan MacKay
Known aliases : Meggan Scott-Thomas, Maiween
Braddock
Notable characteristics : Strong-willed person,
great charisma and intelligence; 6’6’’ tall
Weapon : Khandar sword, originally belonging to
Abhishek Bachchan, Kondh Brothers

Status
Most recent base of operations : Dundee, Scotland
Occupation : Agent, Scottish Office/ Operative, SIS
Prior occupations : Secretary, Scottish Office,
separate administration for Scotland affairs
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Donna MacKenzie, SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Scottish
Born : 1947; Invergarry, Scotland
First death : 1965, Killed by lighting strokes during
Quickening of Abhishek Bachchan received by
Robert Henderson, SIS
First teacher : Robert Henderson
Known associates : SIS immortals
First recorded sighting : 1965, Edimburgh.
Mentored by Robert Henderson who intronzed her
in the SSI after two years of training

From Watcher Bureau, Great Britain
To Ravenwood
Date : 30.09.2012

The SIS warned Meghan MacKay against Robert Henderson, urging her to stay clear of him : this was a Dark Quickening alert. But Meghan listed to her own heart, not to her head and looked for her past teacher. She didn't need to look for him, he alrerady was hunting her.
When they faced each other, Meghan tried to takl him out of his madness, unfortunately she was adressing the MacTaggert bits that festered in Hendrson's psyche. You do not reason a raving psychopaht like Kevin MazcTaggert.
And when Henderson drew his sword, Bang ! He waqs shot from range by Raymond d'Amboise, the SIS' own master sniper. The Eadwulf, d'Amboise and Chambers took Henderson to a secluded location while Teague and Eadwulf scolded MacKay for tryong to play bait in such a dangerous situation.

Before the beginning of the Immortals War, Meghan MacKay infiltrated the Scot nationalist party in order to document the rise of immortal-triggered nationalism in the country watched over by Robzert Henderson and Andrew MacNair, but found none of it. While Warren Cochrane was known as an ardent supporter of Scottish independance, he declared not guilty after having been murdered along with eight other immortals during August 2011' attacks on the UK immortals. Warren was the shadow of hismelf, wracked with guilt over the murder of his most recent student (see Andrew Donelly chronicle) and took few part in the rise of nationalism in Scotland.
During her investigation, Meghan found no foul play from any immortal, but she has proven herself as such a valuable member of the SIS group that she didn't need the help of Henderson and MacNair who were already busy with covering the growing number of immortals deaths in their part of United Kingdom.

From the Immortals War Chronicle



SIS Rhiannon Teague
Known aliases : Rhonda Tudor, Susan Develynn
Notable characteristics: British patriot; uses her
sexuality to get close to targets
Weapon: Malaysian kriss
Recorded kills : Sarhang, Daemon ap Tudor

Status
Most recent base of operations: Cardiff, Wales
Occupations: CPS Lawyer; Operative, Secret
Immortals Society/Service
Roster of Immortals Status: Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Welsh
Born: 1920, Cardiff, Wales
First death: 1943; SOE Agent captured and
executed by the Gestapo in France
First teacher: Frances Drummond
Known associates: Secret Immortals Society
Known past associates: Frances Drummond,
Henry of Kent, Mary-Louise Decker, Alfgar of
Worcester, the Knight of Eon, Stephane Witkowski
First recorded sighting: 1945 London. Recruited
into the Secret Immortals Society by Eadwulf


Black Friar Robert Henderson
Known aliases: Robert Hendry, Robert Weir
Notable characteristics: British patriot; SIS
Medic/scientist. Under the spell of Dark Quickening
from killing immortal Kevin MacDougall
Weapon: 19th Century British cavalry sabre
Recorded kills : Abishek Bachchan,
Kevin MacDougall, Andrew McNair

Status
Most recent base of operations : Black Friar
Mental Asylum, Swansea Wales
Occupation : Mental patient
Prior occupation: Accident & Emergency doctor,
Royal Edinburgh Hospital; Operative, SIS
Roster of Immortals Status: Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: SIS Watcher Team

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Scot
Born: 1793, Aberdeen, Scotland
First death: 1815; Cavalryman of the Royal Scots
Grays killed at the Battle of Waterloo
First teacher: Andrew MacNair
Known associates : Black Friar mental patients
Known past associates: SIS, Duncan MacLeod,
Henry of Kent, Mary-Louise Decker, Alfgar of
Worcester, the Knight of Eon, Eleanor Courcy
First recorded sighting: 1815 Antwerp, Belguim
Student of MacNair, recruited into the SIS

From Watcher Bureau, Great Britain
To Ravenwood
Date : 30.09.2012

The SIS warned Meghan MacKay against Robert Henderson, urging her to stay clear of him : this was a Dark Quickening alert. But Meghan listed to her own heart, not to her head and looked for her past teacher. She didn't need to look for him, he alrerady was hunting her.
When they faced each other, Meghan tried to takl him out of his madness, unfortunately she was adressing the MacTaggert bits that festered in Hendrson's psyche. You do not reason a raving psychopaht like Kevin MacTaggert.
And when Henderson drew his sword, Bang ! He waqs shot from range by Raymond d'Amboise, the SIS' own master sniper. The Eadwulf, d'Amboise and Chambers took Henderson to a secluded location while Teague and Eadwulf scolded MacKay for tryng to play bait in such a dangerous situation.




Carolyn Mortimer
Known aliases : Caroline Trebuchet, Lady
Carolyn, Linda Wallace, Carole de Trevise
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Single-ring rapier
Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Swansea, Wales
Occupation : Director/ chief psychiatrist, Black
Friar Asylum
Prior occupations : Aristocrat
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Sylvia Krause, Black Friar Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : French
Born : 1665, Paris France
First death : 1691, Poisoned eating spoilt cherries
First teacher : Sean Burns
Known associates : Robert and Gina de Valicourt
Known past associates : Darius, Hugh Fitzcairn, Sean Burns
First recorded sighting : 1691 Paris. Student of
Sean Burns



Emilie Valentin
Known aliases : Emily Valentine
Notable characteristics : Piercing blue eyes
Weapon : 8th Century frankish broadsword
Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Swansea, Wales
Occupation : Medical nurse, Black Friar Asylum
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Tom Cullen

Background
Original cultural affiliation : French
Born : 1982, Versailles France
First death : Medical doctor and student of Grace
Chandel, killed in January 2008 suicide bombing in
Zayouna, Baghdad
First teacher : Grace Chandel
Known associates : Liam Riley, Betric, Grace
Chandel
First recorded sighting : 2008, Paris France.
Student of Grace Chandel

When Father Liam Riley found Emilie Valentin in that orphanage near Versailles, region of Paris, she was a fifteen-years old mere slip of a girl, shy like a mouse whose sole noteds of mark were a love of flowers and a powerful Presence of immortality - according to what he told Bertric and Amanda when referring to her.
Liam took her in and became her teacher, helping her mature as years went on. Seeing her passion for flowers blossom, he sent her to Bertric, immortal botanist and ancient warrior who taught her well too. Emilie is now a nurse in Cork County, living away from the Game, but with her is the strenght she acquired from Grace, a doctor who used to be quite a firebrand in Mediaval Europe.

Tom Cullen, 2016



Thor Kanwulfsson
Known aliases : Gauka Thorir, Olaf Peacock,
Svein Haconson, Hrafn Onundson, Sigtrygg
Silkbeard, Egil Skallagrimsson, Donar Baran
Notable characteristics : Boasts about his warring
exploits (real or imagined). Alcohol problem
Weapon : Two-handed broadsword
Recorded kills : Edvard Harafnsson, Wille
Naukkarinen
Inconclusive fight against Tommi Kiviniemi, 1897

Status
Most recent base of operations : Village on the
outskirts of Edimburgh, Scotland
Occupation : Distillery proprietor
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Ulrich Thorstein

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Viking
Date of birth : 11th Century, Vinland
First death : 11th Century, undetermined
First teachers : Sygin Fenrisdottir (aka Kellistra)
Known associates : Six of Vinland, Kellistra,
Ceirdwyn, Alex Raven
Known past associates : Kanwulf, Isadora Wynter,
Karnilla, Chief Watchful Fox, Donald Fagen,
Klera Hatig
First recorded sighting : 1888 London, England;
Hunt for Jack the Ripper

Watcher Research for Nothern Europe
Report on the Six of Vinland
15.05.2000

The Vikings, like other sea-rovers, are not as romantic as nineteenth-century fiction would make them out to be; neither are they exclusively the blood-thirsty ravishers depicted in the chronicles of the monks of England and Ireland. They may not have worn horned helmets,
but they did sail ships carved with dragons' heads and they ventured far out into the western sea in search of new lands and adventure. In about 1000 AD, Leif Eriksson (son of Erik the Red) explored the new continent, acompanied by immortals Ejnar Kanwulfsson and Sygin Fenrisdottir, the latter being later cross-referenced as Kellistra, student of the fabled Four Horsemen. For the next ten years a number of voyages were made from Greenland to the new land, which the Norselmen called "Vinland" because of the profusion of grapes that grew there. Sygin and Kanwulf settled there and created a colony that flourished, adopted several orphaned Viking children they named after Gods of Norse mythology : Eir, Freya, Thor, Heimdall, Kvasir and Balder.
More than one century went on before the prophecy of six immortal Vikings born from Vinland would come true. Kanwulf and Sygin's clan enlarged itself and then came the time for her brethen to leave the paradise for a much harsher world. The six children she adopted and who all turned out to be immortals spent decades discovering the North-Amercian continent before
leaving for the land of their ancestors toward the beginning of the 12th century.
The Vinland immortals had originally decided to stay in the New World when their mortal comrades all returned to Greenland and Iceland because they were disgusted when the Vikings converted to Christianity. This happened just before the year 1000 AD and created much controversy. What happened is, some of the Vikings had converted; most had not; then some of them appealed for judgement to a highly respected thane, and he mulled over the question for about a year and then announced that the entire Viking nation ought to convert en masse. His opinion had the protectorate of law and the pagan Vikings, much to their disgust, were obliged
to comply. This legal judgement led ultimately to the conversion of all Norsemen to Christianity . The Six of Vinland, though, rejected the whole business and washed their hands of their brethren in disgust. They still protect each other and each other's families and each New Year's eve they gather with their families and immortal students to remember legends of times past when all of them were heroes.

Following, are reports on each of the Six of Vinland, who were first identified in London during the infamous Hunt for Jack the Ripper (File#57458-1899).

Thor : in mythology, God of thunder and battle
Thor was usually portrayed as a large, powerful man with a red beard and eyes of lightning. Despite his ferocious appearance, he was very popular as the protector of both gods and humans against the protectorates of evil. He even surpassed his father Odin in popularity because, contrary to Odin, he did not require human sacrifices. In his temple at Uppsala he was shown
standing with Odin at his right side. This temple was replaced by a Christian church in 1080. The Norse believed that during a thunderstorm, Thor rode through the heavens on his chariot pulled by the goats Tanngrisni ("gap-tooth") and Tanngnost ("tooth grinder").
Lightning flashed whenever he threw his hammer Mjollnir. Thor wears the belt Megingjard which doubles his already considerable strength. His hall is Bilskirnir, which is located in the region Thrudheim ("place of might"). His greatest enemy is Jormungand, the Midgard
Serpent. At the day of Ragnarok, Thor will kill this serpent but will die from its poison. His sons will inherit his hammer after his death.

The story of Thor Kanwulfsson is a sad story of a man screwed up by immortality, by the Game, and more importantly by the education he received from his mother, Sygin Fenrisdottir. Conversations between the Vinland immortals state of the harsh methods used by "Sygin" to raise her children, to mold them from pre-immortals into efficient war-machines able to survive the perils of the Game. Kvasir himself, the calmer of the lot, stated that being raised by Kellistra was like a blade being forged through fire and cold water : the more ardent the fire, the stronger the steel. The result, according to him, is : six warriors from Vinland, but also a demented psychopath roaming the street of London, an unhappy killer hailing from China and many troubled immortals from Kellistra's line. While the Vinland clan apparently honor Kellistra as they would honor the Second Coming, some of them sounded a triffle bitter about their training as immortals.

Eir and Freya are prompt to defend their mother, reminding their brothers of how she loved and nurtured her children, but Thor is the most bitter of the lot. When he was small, he fell in a ravine and received such a blow on his head that it resulted in disminished intelligence; although strong as an ox and capable in the arts of war, he didn't become a bright man, so Kellistra educated him with the utmost severity so as to tame the violence she felt in him. Did Thor felt pressured ? Did he feel less loved ? As centuries went back and the Vinland Clan's stature as heroes disminished, Thor lost himself in bottles of mead and became a chronic alcoholic, haunted by the dangers of the Game. Because of his alcoholism, he lost his beautiful wife, his daughter, his house, his wealth. He now lives in an isolated farm as a distillery operator, keeping out of trouble and sadly remembering the times when he was a hero.




IRELAND AND ULSTER

Lang Quing
Known aliases: Little Dragon, Ou-yang Lai, Lee
Qui, Wendy Lee
Notable characteristics: Petite; very beautiful;
wanderlust and passion for other cultures
Weapon: Chinese War sword. A gift from Henry of
Kent, originally belonged to Hu Fa-tang
Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

Status
Most recent base of operations: Dublin, Ireland
Occupation: Artist; proprietor, Wendy Lee's Arts &
Crafts
Prior occupations: Bodyguard, chaperone
Roster of Immortals Status: Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher: Jo Wong

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Chinese
Born: 1636, Szechwan province, Ming Dynasty
First death: 1659; Raped and murdered by bandits
on the road to Chin-ch'uan
First teacher: White Dragon, cross-identified as
Henry of Kent
Known associates: Henry of Kent, Amy Ross,
Ginjer Wu & the Shaolin Three, Hang Danzu
Known past associates: May-Ling Shen, Frances
"Frankie"Drummond, Roman Alvarez, Fu Kang-Ho,
Victor Tao, Gemma, Ajara Durai
First recorded sighting: 1660 Szechwan province
Student of the White Dragon

Lang Quing, or Wendy Lee, as she's known these days, is one of Henry of Kent's most successful students. Born in China, she has spent little time there; inspired by her teacher's tales of the wider world, Lang Quing has lived in most of the big cities in her three centuries on this earth: London, Paris, Madrid, Rome, New York. These days, it is San Francisco's Chinatown, as owner of Wendy Lee's Arts & Crafts, where she indulges her passion for art, in particular, her expertise at painting landscapes of most of the places she has seen. Don't let her small frame and beauty fool you, for Lang Quing is a well-trained student of one of the greatest swords of the Immortal world: Henry of Kent, grandmaster of headhunter-slayers. And like her teacher and mentor, the Little Dragon has slain a few headhunters in her time and i'm sure if any others cross her path, they will meet the same fate.

Long may she live.

Jo Wong, 2010

Apollo1/Apollo2 2010

From the Chronicle of Lang Quing

Lang Quing was in tears when Henry of Kent announced her the demise of Guo Jing at the sword of Frank Bascombr. An immortal of unknown origins, Guo was barely a bleep on Watcher scope; never playing the Game, seldom meeting other imortals and living in obscurity until she was found and killed by Bascombe.
She was an opportunity for a kill, as far as the Boer was concerned, but to Lang she was a good friend, albeit a poor student in swordmanship. Henry of Kent offered Kang to track down Bascombe but she would hear none of it : she wanted to nail the bastard herself, as she put it. Henry gave her the coordinates of the killer and acompanied her to the airport, giving her moral strenght. Two days later, after scoping out Cincinnati, Lang found Bascombe and challenged him to a fair fight. Bascombe never played fair, but Lang saw through his tricks and easly overpowered the arrogant Boer who fell to his knees, muttering 'finish it, Chinese whore'. 'The whore has a name, it's Lang Quing !' she yelled before sending Bascombe's rotten soul to the deepest pits of hell. Guop Jing was avenged and another headhunter has been removed from the active roster of immortals.

Jo Wong, 2010

ADDENDUM

Recorded kills : Ju Fai, Chu Mi-Na, Xu Juzhing, Abjit Gajendra, Khwaja Rana, Zusman Schwab, Lantos Rosza,
Qu Man, Frank Bascombe, Half Moon, Juan Moreno, Jacob Kell
Inconclusive fight against Kameke Minoto, 1695; Esra Sevin, 1752; Henry of Kent and Maya Lin of China Force, 2011




Typhoid Mary
Known aliases : Black Annie of Strathclyde,
The Ghost of Perth, Sally-Ann McGee
Notable characteristics : Carrier of typhoid fever
Weapon(s) : One-handed broadsword

Status
Most recent base of operations : Belfast, Ulster
Occupations : Assassin
Prior occupation : Mobile; Waitress, stripper,
occasional prostitute, mental patient, blues singer
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Charlie Bass

Background
Original cultural affiliation : English
Born : 1327, London England
First death : 1347, Fell with family to the Black
Plague
First teacher : Sir Korvin of England, cross-
identified as Kronos
Known past associates : Kronos
First recorded sighting : 1347. London, England
Found and mentored by Sir Korvin, aka Kronos



Etain of the Second Look
Known aliases : Edain Mor, Aidan of Kells,
Lola Thomas
Notable characteristics : Redhead; Wiccam
Practicioner; celtic tattoos on stomach
Weapon : Sword of Tralee
Recorded kills : Charmian, usually not a player of
the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Belfast,
Northern Ireland
Occupation : Children books illustrator
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Jill Thompson

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish
Born : 740, Northern Ireland
First death : 765, Circumstances undetermined
First teacher : Methos
Known associates : Methos, Pharamond, Ishtar of
Erech, Hob Gadling, Katherine of Samothrace,
Seamus of Athlone, Paddy Bell
Known past associates : Linda Flaherty,
Cassandra,Seamus of Athalone, Cuchulain of
Muirthemne, Beatha of Clontarf, Clodagh of
Leinster
First recorded sighting : 980. Ireland. Fought
And beheaded Ubbe Ragnarsson

From the Records of the Tribunal/Ravenwood
21 January 2013

One year after the Immortals War, after the dust has cleared and the dramatic takeover of the Watchers by Ravenwood, a census was made on the current population of immortals, worldwde, made of active immortals and inactive immortals (read : living on Holy Grounds).

Ireland always had a complicated history with its northern portion being part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ulster while the southern portion is part of Western Europe. It was decided to give it a particular status in the Northern part of Europe. Ever since the death of Annie Devlin, the Irish immortals have been livign in relative peace and now that the Immortals War is over, they no longer need to be afraid of the coming Gathering. Rasheed Awuja and Dela-O-Kande Umaru moved out of New-York to join hte Nigerian community of Dublin. Paddy Bell, a young immortal, is a webmaster; political satirist, film-maker, having founded the Laughing Horse Productions. Etain fo the Second Look is in Belfast. Lang Quing left San Francisco and settled in Dublin where Fahter Liam Riley also lives, bringing modern views of the world to the Catholic youth. Seamus of Athlone rea-appared in Limerick.

From : Jill Thompson (Field : Etain)
To : Nell Gaiman (Area Supervisor : Cincinnati)
Subject : Missing assignment

Dear Sir,

This morning, Etain of the Second Look rose up early and did her morning routine before freezing like a deerr caught in headlight, looking like she sensed the presence of another Immortal. She then quickly took her shoes, her purse and jumped out of her window before her flat suddenly exploded. Investigation by the firemen later concluded to a gaz leak.
Etain rushed to the nearest store for clothing and vanishedl, losing me in the crowd. I lost her trace, but I suppose she took the first train at the station, looking like she was running from something... or someone.
Did her clairvoyance abilities warn her of a gaz leak in her flat, or of the presence of a headhunter ?
I hooked on the Watchers Grapevine to find out about any headhunters in town, but there were none.
Etain took a Greyhound for New-York, trying apparently to put as much distance between herself and Ohio as possible. I do not know what went through her head, but I cannot follow her : my baby is due next week, not the right time for my Immortal to grow legs.

I would like to request re-assignment with your kind permission, Sir, in the hope that Etain of the Second look will be safe in New-York.

Cordially, Janie



Seamus of Athlone
Known aliases : Seamus O'Del, James Hanigan,
Seamus Finnigan; cross-identified as Finn Eces
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Celtic broadsword
Recorded kils : Abel Attwood, usualy not a player of
the Game
Inconclusive fight against Corin McGeary, 1167;
Conan MacCartaigh, 1270; Devlin Halloran, 1712

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

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Hibernian
Born : 413, Athlone Hibernia (present-day Ireland)
First death : 433, Killed by freak lighting bolt during
a storm
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known associates : Etain of the Second Look,
Pharamond, Hob Gadling, Ishtar of Erech, Methos,
Katherine of Samothrace, Xanthia of Melitus
Known past associates : Damian Thackaray,
Richard Sharkey, Gerald O’Flynn, Beatha of
Clontarf, Comac of Connacht, Clodagh of Leinster,
Ann McClatchey, Amadan Dubh, Sean Burns,
Shawn Lowery, Quail of Clonmachois, Loreena
McKennit, Morven of Strathclyde, Siobhan of Cork,
Damaen of Wexford
First recorded sighting : 665, Ireland. Encounter
with Grayson and Ailell of Kells

The Celtic tradition has been an oral one. Poems, songs, stories were not written down but told from father to son, and Teacher to student. Seamus is a walking repository of Celtic music and stories. I shudder to think of all that would be lost if he ever loses his head.
I pray every day that he will begin to set down all that he knows. But that seems as likely as the ocean turning purple.
Right now the man is completely smitten with Linnett’s new receptionist Moira. Maureen Butler, my boss and Seamus’s former watcher, told me she was able to get many fine stories by buying him a pint or two and showing a bit of leg. When I said I don’t think that would work in my case, she said a real Watcher would do whatever was necessary to fulfill his oath.
At first I thought she was joking but when she showed up a week later at my apartment with a wig and a dress I was not laughing. I told her she was absolutely daft that there is no way the man would think I was a woman!
But she said that by 10 pm the man is so blind drunk that he can barely recognize himself in the mirror.
Well at 10 sharp I entered the pub all tarted up, Thank God no one recognized me, and sat a seat down from him. I no sooner had set my fanny on the stool when he started to chat me up. We talked for about 2 hours and I got some real good stories about the court of Brian Boru and he recited some love poetry in Gaelic. I had a tape recorder in my purse so I got down every word. It wasn’t till the end that he started getting grabby but I managed to hold him off. Maureen says that I did way better than she ever had and she has my outfit all picked out for next week.
Dear God I need a transfer !

Sean Cohan 1998

DMVTREK 2008

[Apollo1]

Another great set of chronicles, my friend. I especially enjoyed the story of the Seven Champions of Christendom, all disciples of Dionysus the Aeropagite. Some gripping tales there...

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Sankara Babba-Lade
Known identties : Boubacar Biro, Muhammad
Bello
Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist
Weapon : Fulani war sword
Inconclusive fight against Xavier St. Cloud, 1590;
Jamal Labdouni, 1673; Bashir ibn Khalid, 1808

Status
Most recent base of operations : Nigeria
Occupation : Captain of elite troops of
Nigerian warriors; leading Fulani Jihad
Prior occupations : Fula Warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1808 Fulani War against Hausa State
Place : Nigeria
Victor : Bashir Ibn Khali Al Kal
Watcher : Research, Western Africa

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Woodabe (Borono
Fulani)
Born : 1504 Northern Nigeria
First death : 1534; Tribal warfare
First teacher : Sa'ad Ibn Ubadah
Known associates : Fulani Immortals clan,
Eternal Swords of Allah
Known past associates : Sa'ad Ibn Ubadah
Known enemies : Xavier St. Cloud, Kuta
Marenah, Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
First recorded sighting : 1534, Northern Nigeria.
During visit of scholar Muhamad al-Maghili (aka
Sa'ad Ibn Ubadah) preaching Islam religion to
elite of Northern Nigeria


Faakhir Bello
Known identties : Kadiatou, Aissatou Gambari
Notable characteristics : Religious
Fundamentalist. Teenaged Immortal
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Nigeria
Occupation : Captain of elite troops of
Nigerian warriors; leading Fulani Jihad
Prior occupations : Fula Warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1808 Fulani War against Hausa State
Place : Nigeria
Victor : Selim Ibn Khali Al Kal
Watcher : Research, Western Africa

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Denianke
Born : 1500, Empire of Great Fulo, Senegal
First death : 1531; During attack by neighboring
Malian invasive forces
First teacher : Sa'ad Ibn Ubadah
Known associates : Fulani Immortals clan,
Eternal Swords of Allah
Known enemies : Xavier St. Cloud, Kuta
Marenah, Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
First recorded sighting : 1531. Senegal. Found
and mentored by Sa'ad Ibn Ubadah


Daafiq Jabaar
Known identties : Aissatou Nyako, Dalanda
Notable characteristics : Religious
Fundamentalist. Teenaged Immortal
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kebbi State,
Nigeria
Occupation : Fula warrior fighting the Emir of
Argungu
Prior occupations : Fula warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1891
Place : Kebbi State, Nigeria
Victor : Dimeji Yar’adua
Watcher : Research, Western Africa

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Fulani,
Born : 1653; Futa Tooro, Senegal River
First death : 1673 Unsuccesful Fulani Jihad in the
Fuuta Tooro
First teacher : Sankara Babba-Ladé
Known associates : Fulani Immortals clan,
Eternal Swords of Allah
Known enemies : Xavier St. Cloud, Kuta
Marenah, Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
First recorded sighting : 1673 Near Senegal River
Jihadist and disciple of Fatoumata Bello


Bubacar Jalloh
Known identties : Oumar Ben Nyako
Notable characteristics : Religious
fundamentalist
Weapon : Fulani war sword

Status
Most recent base of operations : Kansala, Kaabu
Federation, Guinea-Bissau
Occupation : Warring agaisnt Kaabu with Fula
rebels
Prior occupations : Fula Warrior
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 24 May 1867 Battle of Kansala
Place : Kansala
Victor : Kuta Marenah
Watcher : Research, Western Africa

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Fulani,
Born : 1701, Immamate of Futa Jallon, Most
Recent-day Republic of Guinea
First death : 1725 Following the Fulanis during
jihad agaisnt animist Mande elites
First teacher : Sankara Babba-Ladé
Known associates : Fulani Immortals clan,
Eternal Swords of Allah
Known enemies : Xavier St. Cloud, Kuta
Marenah, Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
First recorded sighting : 1725 Guinean Highlands
Jihadist and disciple of Sankara Babba-Ladé

The Fulani Brotherhood viewed the Game as holy and played it, they fought Immortals in legimitate defense or to kill their enemies. Some Immortals play the Game and kill Immortals in the name of their chosen God (Safiyah Khan, Damon Case,..) the Fulani Brotherhood played the Game because they believed it is the will of Allah to see Immortals kill each others in the name of the fabled Prize.

Watcher Bureau, Western Africa

[Gardner]

THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM


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

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

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



Anthony of Antioch
Known aliases : Saint Anthony of Italy
Possibly a past identity of Malcus, Martinian or
Maximian of Ephesus
Notable characteristics : « Holy Immortal »
Weapon : Tulwar sword

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

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Turkish
Born : 266; Antioch, Turkey
First death : 302, Christian martyr
First teacher : Dyonisios the Aeropagite
Known associates : Champions of Christendom
Known past associates : Dyonisios, Methos
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra


David of Wales
Known aliases : Saint David of Wales
Possibly a past identity of Ellwyl ap Carnedyr
Notable characteristics : « Holy Immortal »
Weapon : Damascus steel rapier

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

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Welsh
Born : Early 6th century, Pembrokeshire Wales
First death : Undetermined
First teacher : Undetermined, possibly Andrew the
Apostle or Saint James of Spain
Known associates : Champions of Christendom
Known past associates : Dyonisios, Methos
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra


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

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

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


James, son of Zebedee
Known aliases : Saint James of Spain,
Saint James Boanerges the Moor-slayer
Notable characteristics : « Holy Immortal »
Weapon : El Cid Colada sword

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

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Levantine Christian
Born : 24, Bethsaida Judea
First death : 44, Executed by King Herod Agrippa I
First teacher : Undetermined
Known associates : Champions of Christendom
Known past associates : Dyonisios, Methos
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra


Patrick of Ireland
Known aliases : Saint Patrick of Ireland; Palladius,
Bishop of Ireland; possibly of Diamat Slaine
Notable characteristics : « Holy Immortal »
Weapon : Irish broadsword

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

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Irish
Born : Early 5th century, Ireland
First death : 447, Undetermined
First teacher : Undetermined, possibly Andrew the
Apostle or Saint James of Spain
Known associates : Champions of Christendom
Known past associates : Dyonisios, Methos
Known ennemies : Kalyb the Enchantress, cross-
identified as Cassandra, Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 695 Palestine. Questing
for the Holy Grail, captured by Cassandra

The legend of the Knights of Christendom truly commences by 650 AD, when shadowy immortal Metopholus gathered seven immortal heroes from all parts of Western Europe as help to hunt the legendary Xathia of Melitus at this time a thrall of the dreaded Dark Quickening. Xanthia received it from an old and evil immortal in India and for one century, roared and ramapaged across two continents, with Methos hot on her trails, trying to prevent her from causing more deaths. She put thousands of mortals to the sword, killed at least six immortals we know of and damaged her reputation to the extant her former disciples went in hiding, dreading the days she would come after them.
Finally, Xanthia was captured by the Knights of Christendom, originally six Christian martyrs mentored by the ancient Dyonisios who combined their strenghts against the forces of darkness. They fought many evil immortals, but it was the first time they had to face one of the most benevolents of their kind, the legendary Rebecca,keeper of the Stone of Methuselah and former lover of King Agamemnon.
It is Methos who guided his allies to a holy spring where Xanthia was forced to confront her inner demons, her good side eventually prevailing. The seven holy knights were the one she had to thank and truly, this was their most acomplished feat : bringing Xanthia back from the darkness ot the light.

Watcher Research, Western Europe



The seventh one being...

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

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


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

Further research has been made on the legendary "Holy Man of Paris" in the wake of Darius' tragic death at the hands of the accursed James Horton. His first appearance can be traced back to the height of the Aegean civilisation according to conversations reported by the Watchers of Xanthia of Miletus, Karmanshar & Tomyris, Cassandra and from earlier Methos chronicles, sparse as they may be. What follows are fragments of Lycos' story from around 3,500 BC to his end at the hands of General Darius. While Lycos'death was tragic, his greatest acomplishment was to give the world one of the most benevolent immortals who ever existed.
With his death, Methos became the oldest living immortal.

Emrys, mythical pagan priest who lived in before Methos was born, around 3500 BC and already an ancient immortal. Mentioned in a conversation between Methos and Xanthia of Miletus circa 850 AD, said to have been killed by General Darius in Lutetia, 410. Emrys is possibly one of the ancient Druids who built Stonehenge.

Genonn Gruadsolus : a druid who lived in Ulster, Ireland, around 900 BC. Practiced black magic until getting burnt to a stake by the Inquisition. Did he become as mad as John Garrick from the agony he suffered ?

Lycurgus of Sparta, semi-mythical Spartan lawgiver said to have lived in the 7th century BC. Lycurgus was traditionally believed to have patterned his laws after those of Crete or to have received them from the oracle at Delphi (possibly Cassandra). He then established a new social order and introduced a constitution that transformed Sparta into a military state. Obtaining from the Spartans an oath not to alter his laws until he returned, Lycurgus went into voluntary exile and never came back.

Vohuman (559 BC-400 BC) : Aechemenian in Iran until the invasion by Alexander the Great. He was living as a Zoroastrian priest. Befriended Cleophon of Athens and his disciple, Deoneces of Sparta.

Lycurgus of Athens (circa 396-c. 325 BC), Athenian financier, statesman, and orator. He was a pupil of Plato and of the orator Isocrates of Athens. Lycurgus is most famous for his administration of Athenian finances from 338 to 326 BC, when he greatly increased the wealth of the state. He also erected many new buildings and remodeled a number of old ones, among them the theater of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and vegetation. In politics Lycurgus strongly supported the policy of opposition to Philip II, king of Macedonia, advocated by the Athenian orator Demosthenes. Met and befriended immortals Karmanshar and Queen Tomyris.

Dionysius the Areopagite (1st century-3rd Century AD), member of the Areopagus in Athens and convert to Christianity through the preaching of Saint Paul. He is reputed to have been the first bishop of Athens and to have been martyred there in the reign of Domitian, emperor of Rome. At this time, he also was one of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in Turkey (see Chronicle : the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus).

Udpate 22.10.2012 : As recently told by Malcus of Ephesus during his stay in London in the middle of the Immortals War, Dyonisus mentored all six of the other Sleepers of Ephesus who turn out to be six actual brothers from Ephesus. How six pre-immortal boys turned out in Ephesus at the beginning of the 3rd century is as unlikely as six pre-immortals born in Vinland during the 10th century; however, the Six of Vinland do exist and their origin story was confiormed by Kanwulf and by Bjorn Gustavson themselves.
Hence, the need to update the Sleepers’ chronicles accordingly and to work on the first recorded sightings of the men bearing the names of Constantine and Seraphim of Ephesus.

Watcher Research, Western Europe

[Gardner]

I will post those chronicles tomorrow; Meanwhile, Manuela Simoes gets a different origin story, as the M.I.A Maria Rosa :

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

Status
Most recent base of operations : Southern Brazil
Occupation : Leading guerilleros during
Contestado War, 1912-1916
Prior occupations : Lady-in-waiting
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : August 1916
Place : Santa Catarina, Brazil
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, South America immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Portuguese
Born : 1804; Porto, Portugal
First death : Killed during Portuguese Civil War
of 1828-1834
First teacher : Vasco Balboa
Known associates : Viola Blanco
Known past associates : Vasco Balboa
First recorded sighting : 1836. Colonial Brazil
Found and mentored by Vasco Balboa



Miguel de Boaventura
Known aliases : Miguel Lucena
Notable characteristics : Taste for teenaged
village girls, predatory pedophile
Weapon : Brazil cavalry saber
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Southern Brazil
Occupation : Posing as herbal healer and monk
Drifter and serial rapist
Prior occupations : Officer, Army of Brazil
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 2 October 1912
Place : Santa Catarina, Brazil
Victor : Maria Rosa, cross-identified as Manuela
Simoes
Watcher : Research, South America immortals

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Brazilian
Born : 1805; Rio grande Do Sul Brazil
First death : 1835; Ragamuffin War, rebelling
against authority Empire of Brazil
First teacher : Antonio Pettisani
Known past associates : Antonio Pettisani
First recorded sighting : 1835. Riogradese Republic, Brazil.
Found and mentored by Pettisani
serving as chief-surgeon in army of General
Giuseppe Garibaldi, supporting Ragamuffin rebels

How many rapists and pedophiles are there in our chronicles ? One dozen ? Two ? Miguel de Boabventura was another one and a defroqued priest to boot, an impostor posing as a man of peace and servant of Jesus Christ. Maria Rosa saw beyond the charming demeanor and believed the tale fo Lisa who told her mama and tio about Padre Miguel molestiong her, hurting her private parts. Maria Rosacame after Miguel who smiled and told her about the amorous relationship he developped with little girls over the years. The disgusted and revolted Maria didn’t let him finish. She drew her sword and after a quick fight promptly executed the pedophile. After she castrated him for good measure. Then she came back to Lisa’s home and consoled her as much as she could, explaining her that she should never let a man hurt her but also that men would someday gave her all the love and pleasure she deserved. Tearful Lisa listened and learnt her lesson : whatever happened to her, it wasn’t a normal relationship with men. Maria Rosa was truly a woman in advance with her times, a child psychologist in the 1910’s ! Maybe she took lessons from Sean Burns ?

Watcher Research, South America


Salomon Nyobé
Known aliases : Ibrahim Mbassi
Notable characteristics : Paraplegic
Weapon : Not carrying one
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Yaoundé,
Cameroon
Occupation : Social rights activist/blogger, trying to
fight /endemic child abuse in Cameroon and also
protecting migrant workers from exploitation
Prior occupations : Civil rights activist, leading
campaign of civi disobedience dubed « Operation
Ghost Town » (1991)
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 2 June 2015
Place : Yaoundé
Victor : Barthelemy Kiesso
Watcher : Anne Marie Kiessou

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Cameroonian
Born : 1954; Subum, Northwestern Cameroon
First death : 1986. Lake Nyos incident, intoxicated
during eruptions of deadly gasses
First teacher : Ibrahim Endele
Known past associates : Ibrahim Endele
Known ennemies : Barthelemy Kiesso
First recorded sighting : 1991. Yaoundé,
Cameroon. Leading Operation Ghost Town with
Ibrahim Endele

Ever since cops broke his spine in 1984, two years before he reached Immortality and could have been healed from his injuries, Salomon Nyobé has been stuck in a wheelchair but he never let that wheelchair be his prison, fighting for the rights of civilians in Cameroon and recently trying to curb endemic child abuse, planting viruses in computers used by pedophiles, and fighting the child prostitution ring led by Immortal Barthelemy Kiesso who didn’t take kindly to the meddlesome Immortal. One such viruses destroyed years worth of data on Kiesso’s computer database and the police was alerted to Kiesso’s business by a floppy drive sent anonimously. Salomon always had a gift with computers, less with the sword since he couldn’t use one. Ibrahim Endele taught him to always stay on Holy Grounds since this is where no one could touch him.
Kiesso’s mercs kidnapped him and brought him bound and gagged to their master who dealt with his ennemy as he saw fit. Too late, though, as dozens of children were freed by childcare services with Kiesso leading his own battle for freedom in court with the best atorneys money can buy.


Watcher Bureau, Central Africa
2015



Sami Nazari
Known aliases : Cyrus Runelby (birth name)
Notable characteristics : Christian, converted to
Islamic religion through brainwashing
Weapon : Persian shamsir
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Tripoli, Libya
Occupation : Fugitive
Prior occupations : Reluctant member of the
Eternal Swords of Allah
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1593
Place : Tripoli
Victor : N.A In likelihood, Jamal Laboudni
Watcher : Research, ESA Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : British Muslim
Born : 1560; London, England
First death : 1583; during travel to Tripoli, Libya,
captured by Berbers and sold as slave
First teacher : Jamal Labdouni
Known ennemies : Eternal Swords of Allah
First recorded sighting : 1583. Tripoli, Libya
Found and puchased by Jamal Labdouni, coerced
into indentured servitude

In 1593, Sami Nazari, tipped local Ottoman authorities on activities of terrorist underground led by Jamal Labdouni, tired of the constant massacres caused by the ESA and tired of beign their unwilling acomplice. Labdouni never takes betrayal kindly and while Nazaris is listed on the rost of Missing Immortals, his fate in Tripoli doesn't look good. Being a smart fellow, there is a possibility that he managed to evade the Swords of Allah in 1593 but for how long ? Did he make it to London, after all ? He may not even have reached the shores of Italy where the merchant ship was supposed to take him.
The last report of Sami's Watcher states that he was located in Tripoli's portuary zone, walking fast and nervously but Sami lost him in the crowd and he was incapable of finding him.

Watcher Bureau, North Africa



Abdul Razzad
Known aliases : Zuhair Da'ud Dagher
Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist
Weapon : Pakistani cavalry saber
Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

Status
Most recent base of operations : Punjab, Pakistan
Occupation : Fighter, Eternal Swords of
Allah
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 14 September 1947
Place : West Punajb
Victor : Nuha Kalash
Watcher : Research, ESA Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Muslim Gharis
Born : 1885; Lahore, Pakistan
First death : 1915, Battle of Broken Hill, shot down
by police forces in retaliation for killing civilians
First teacher : Jamal Laboudni
Known associates : Eternal Swords of Allah
Known ennemies : NuhaKalash
First recorded sighting : 1915. New South Wales,
Australia. Disciple of Jamal Labdouni

In 1947, Immortal Abdul Razzad was leading an ethnic cleansing campaign against Hindi/Sikh women of Western Punjab following communal rioting triggered by the Swords of Allah. Abdul was identified as a disciple of Jamal Labdouni, ESA, and while he used to be a devout follower of Phopher Mahomet' teachings, Labdouni turned him over to the darker side of Islam, converting him into a murdering fanatic who was confronted by Nuha Kalash, at this time living in the Punjab.

Watcher Bureau, Southern Asia



Suriash of Bit Bahiani
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Travelled under male
disguise, mistaken for male lover of Parthos of
Aram
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Gergovia, Gaul
Occupation : Celtic princess, huntign Methos
Prior occupation : Chariot racer, competing with
her husband, Parthos of Aram
Prior occupations : Undetermined
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 52 BC
Place : Gergovia
Victor : Methos
Watcher : Research, Methos Chronicle

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Aramite
Born : 12th century BC; Bit-Bahiani city-state,
Aramean Kingdom
First death : During Bronze Age collapse; raped
and killed by Kaskiasplunderers
First teacher : Parthos of Aram
Known associates : Parthos of Aram
Known ennemies : Methos
First recorded sighting : 1160 BC Aramean
Kingdom. Found by Parthos of Aram

Suriash did hunt me for centuries after I killed her husband in fair fight. She pretended I cheated and that had I not cheated, I would be pushing daisies instead of her beloved. I know I won fair and square and won’t abide by any of the guilt Suriash wanted me to feel in those days. The Game is the Game and it has been so for thousand of years. I should know since we started it, my brothers and I. Or did we ? I can’t seem to remember how it all started. Anyway, I killed Parthos of Aram’s wife I remember exactly when and where. Celtic Gaul, during Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars when I mentored that idiot Vorlix of Gergovia, another one among my “thousand regrets”. Seems to me Suriash posed as a celtic princess and she came after me screaming fo revenge.
I was known as Caratarix then, and later called “the Son of Tutatis, God of thunder and lightings” when I took her crazy head. Funny, I even thought she was Cassandra coming after my like the Furies of ancient myth. I thought I was rid of the pest then, imagine my surprise when she re-appeared in my life in 1996 !

From the Journals of Methos
2017




Smerdis of Khwarezm
Known aliases : None
Notable characteristics : Immortal child
Weapon : Khazar cavalry saber
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Gurganj, capital
city of Khwarazmian Empire
Occupation : Posing as squire to local general of
the Khwarazmian Imperial army
Prior occupations : Traveller, squiring himself to
any army officer who could protect him
Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
Date : 1017
Place : Gurganj
Victor : N.A
Watcher : Research, Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Iranian Khwarezmian
Born : 702; Oasis region of Khwarezm,
Amu Darya River, Western Central Asia
First death : 712 Killed with his family by Umayyad
Arabs during conquest of Khwarezm
First teacher : Seraphina
Known past associates : Seraphina
First recorded sighting : 712. Western Central Asia
Travelling with Seraphina

Seraphina taught what she could to the Immortal boy she mentored in the Eighth century but where Amanda the thief taught trickery and deceit to Kenneth the Saxon and forgetting his existence for the following eight hundred years, Seraphina the Roman gladiatrix taught Smerdis to use speed and agility to evade aggressive Immortals and to never try eating a meal he couldn’t chew, i.e she didn’t turn him into an aggressive player of the Game. Seraphina and Smerdis stayed together for two decades before the boy felt he had grown enough and wanted to strike on his own. For three hundred years he avoided the Game, ran from Immortals he felt could hurt him and proved to be very good at hiding in plain sight; in the mortal world he hired himself as squire to knights or armies officers who would need him and he had a knack at making himself useful : imagine, a boy with the life-experience of a three hundred years old man ! Smerdis disappeared from our chronicles in 1017, during the invasion of Khwarezm by Sultan Mamhud of the Ghaznavid, Jamal Labdouni and Taher Ibn Hamed Al Jaber founders of the Swords of Allah were present and while we cannot prove for certain Smerdis was killed by Labdouni or by Al Jaber, he would have been but an appetizer to the two conquering Muslims.

Watcher Bureau, Middle East

[Apollo1]

Thanks for that. my friend. It's a struggle, but i'm coping somehow. And i look forward to coming here to wind down when i can.

If you could, could you now post the active and inactive chronicles of the Immortals of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Somehow I suspected you were busy with your mother, that week, I am sorry to hear that she is not doing well. Take all your time. I am nearly done will all my unfinished characters.
Aeronwen : you are welcome.

Cheers !

Gardner

[Apollo1]

Yeah, my friend. I read everyone. Sorry if i got the wrong end of the stick. Normally i comment on your chronicles but at the time i had this new chronicle in my head which i had to get down and i wanted to reply to the points you made about Deoneces and Kyra. I appreciate all of your postings and i read every one which are always great. I'm not as prolific as you are as i'm in the midst of caring for my mum who has dementia and my dad, who is also not in the best of health. Sort of a full-time job at the moment. Reading your postings cheers me up and i look forward to them all. I post when i can and i'm still working on more Hellfire Club postings and i'm also delving into a few kills for Roman Alvarez who i feel I've neglected.

BTW Thanks for the work you did on Aeronwen, i appreciate it very much.

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

My question was wether you read those stories or not...
Good point about Kyra.

Aeronwen of Caerwent

Known aliases : Angharad of Cardiff
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Undetermined
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations: Edinburgh,
Kingdomof Scotland
Occupation: Brothel owner and blackmailer
Prior occupations: Thief, prostitute
Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
Date: 1169
Place: Edinburgh
Victor: Elfrida of York, aka Evangeline Black
Watcher: Research, Immortals of the British Isles

Background
Original cultural affiliation: Welsh
Born: 1019, Caerwent, Kingdom of Gwent
First death: 1042; victim of serial killer targeting
prostitutes, later helped her teacher hunt down
and kill the perpetrator
First teacher: Ellwyl ap-Carnedyr
Known past associates : Ellwyl ap-Carnedyr
First recorded sighting : 1042. Kingdom of Gwent
Found and mentored by Ellwyl who frequented
local prostitutes

UPDATES

Andronika of Cyprus

Known aliases : Andronika of Armenia
Notable characteristics : None
Weapon : Greek hoplite sword
Recorded kills : None known
Inconclusive fight against Kismet Necdet, 1064

Status
Most recent base of operations : Anatolia
Occupation : Leading guerillas against Ottomans
Prior occupation : Resistance leader, repellling
Seljuk invasion of Armenia, 1064
Prior occupations : Traveller, warrior-woman
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1571
Place : Anatolia
Victor : Kismet Necdet
Watcher : Research, Western Asia

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Cypriot Armenian
Born : 840; Armenian colony of Cyprus
First death : 860 Killed during Arab raid on Cyprus
First teacher : Anatellon
Known past associates : Anatellon
Known ennemies : Kismet Necdet
First recorded sighting : 860. Cyprus. Found and
mentored by Anatellon

Kismet Necdet sought Kyra of Sparta in Southern Anatolia and fought her once lover, Andronika of Cyprus. Kyra and Kismet both loved the strenght and will of Andronika but sought her out for different motives : Kyra wanted to bed her and to love her, Kismet wanted to lover her in his own twisted fashion and to take her head. Andronika was good with a sword but Kismet proved to be better.

From the Chronicle of Kismet Necdet



Diaexis of Elymais
Known aliases : Daexos of Parthia
Notable characteristics : Cheated in the Game
Weapon : Elamite sword, used archery to kill
Immortals from range before beheading htem

Status
Most recent base of operations : Southern Turkey
Occupation : Assassin, master archer in service to
Persian commander Perozes, House of Mihran
Prior occupations : Mercenary archer, assassin
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 530 Battle of Dara between Byzantines and
Sassanids
Place : Mardin Province, Southern Turkey
Victor : Melania of Traxiane
Watcher : Research, Middle East

Background
Original cultural affiliations : Parthian
Born : 3rd century; Elymais, Parthian Empire
First death : Killed during invasion of Elymais by
Sassanid Empire
First teacher : Unrecorded
Known ennemies : Omid Mahdavi-Kia, Melania of
Traxiane
First recorded sighting : 506. Persian Empire
Serving the House of Mihran durign the
Anastasian Wars, encounter with Melania of
Traxiane, shot her before raping her in order to humiliate her

Since the dawn of time soldiers have been using rape as a war tool, to break and destroy the spirits of entire populations and there also has been Immortals to use rape inn the Game as a tool, to break a potential ennemy, as did the Kurgan with the mortal wife of Connor MacLeod. Diaexis assulted Melania of Traxiane in 506 and raped her, before giving her a temporary death. He made a mistake for the rape didn’t break Melana : she had suffered worse in six centuries years of Immortality and while this was a traumatic experience, she didn’t let her shame and fear take the best of her. She hunted Diaexis until she finally confronted him in the middle of the Battle of Dara, and defeated him in combat, before revealing she had been a woman all along, shaming him before his men. And finally she took his head, frightening the Byzantines and the Sassanids who saw how a woman could master thunder and lightnings.

Watcher Research, from the Chronicle of Melania of Traxiane




Fayza Ikmat Biba
Known aliases : Hafizah Quaraishi
Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist
Weapon : Berber cavalry saber
Recorded kills : None known

Status
Most recent base of operations : Mauritania,
Western Africa
Occupation : Leading Sanhadja berbers against
Beni Hassan tribe, Char Bouba War
Prior occupations : Berber warrior, fightign the
Infidels with the Swords of Allah
Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
Date : 1673 Jihad of Bars El Din, Char Bouba War
Place : Futa Tooro, Senegal River
Victor : Xavier St. Cloud
Watcher : Research, ESA Chronicles

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Sanhaja Berbers
Born : 1120, Southern Morocco
First death : 1151, Capture of Algiers by
Almoravids (Sanhaja Berbers)
First teacher : Jamal Labdouni
Known associates : Eternal Swords of Allah
Known ennemies : Kassim ibn Sallis
First recorded sighting : 1151. Algiers, Algeria
Found and mentored by Jamal Laboduni

Xavier St .Cloud took part in the Char Bouba War as a mercenary warrior on the side of the Beni Hassan Tribe and couldn’t resist the challenge to face a warrior woman like Fayzza Ikmat Biba, in spite of warnings about her being a protégé of the infamous Jamal Labdouni, a powerful and influencal Immortal who do not take kindly on those killing his disciples. But the nature of the Game is as such that Immortals fight each others to the death and Xavier was very good at hunting those of his kind, no matter who protect them.
In 1653 when he killed Hamza el Kahir, Xavier gained an ennemy with Duncan MacLeod of Scotland. When he took out Faiza Ikmat Biba he gained an even worse ennemy with Jamal Labdouni, leader of the Eternal Swords of Allah.

Watcher Research, ESA Chronicles


Sid Ahmed Taleb
(Note : I changed the name which I didn't quite like)
Known aliases : Osmane Kalish, Ossama ben Ezab
Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist
Weapon(s) : Damascus steel rapier
Recorded kills : Mehmet Simsec, Moahamed el
Ouaer, Omar ibn Ibrahim
Inconclusive fight against Assadollah Javadi, 1740;
Ali Ibn al-Quattan, 1820

Status
Most recent base of operations : Algiers, Algeria
Occupation : Ringleader, Groupe Salafiste pour la
Predilection et le Combat, leading terrorist
campaign against government of Algeria
Prior occupation : Leader, National Algerian
Movement & National Liberation Front; soldier of
fortune, traveller, soldier of Algerian army
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Atmen Lattrache

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Algerian
Born : 1544, El Djefa, Algeria
First death : 1589, Killed fighting berber tribe
First teacher : Xavier St.Cloud
Known past associates : Xavier St.Cloud, ESA,
Callestina, Paul Musonge, Sameh Hadad
First recorded sighting : 1589, outskirts of Oran.
Found and mentored by Xavier St. Cloud

Salafistes are naturally an intolerant and violent group and Sid Ahmed Taleb is too easily viwed as the consummate bad guy by Maghrebi Watchers : former disciple of Xavier St Cloud, headhunter, terrorist leader, past associate of the Eternal Swords of Allah whose terrorist actions spread terror in countries of the Maghreb and in Europe from 1975 to 1990 and caused the unnecessary deaths of ten Immortals and hundreds of mortals caught i nthe crossfire.
This is forgetting we have an ardent patriot here, with the love of his homeland at heart and this love got turned inside out by the teachings of Jamal Laboudini, changing a noble player of the Game and freedom fighter into a remorseless killer, to random acts of violence are justified by his country's need to frre itself from the shackles of tyranny. He has been fighting the Ottomans, the French, all manners of Europeans Immortals coming after him and when he allied himself with the Swords of Allah, he lost his soul to dreams of freedom and hegemony of Islam. The man who could have been navigatign in the grey area of the Game is now a mad dog in need to be put down, and the sooner the better.

Watcher Bureau, Northern Africa


Farah Ibn Said
Known aliases : Fakhria Bint Mohsen
Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
Missing between 1065 and 1535
Weapon : Saber with short blade, throwing dagger

Status
Most recent base of operations : Cairo, Egypt
Occupation : Homeless child, living off mendicity
and occasional theft
Prior occupations :Occasional prostitute, mistress
to wealthy men with taste for underage girls
Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Research, Northern Africa

Background
Original cultural affiliation : Fatimid
Born : 921; Mahdia, Tunisia, capital city of
Fatimid Caliphate
First death : 939; Stoned to death for adultery,was
actually raped by her father-in-law
First teacher : Rasha Shehata
Known associates : Hassan
Known past associates : Rasha Shehata,
Rubea of Galilee, Mihrima Pamouk
First recorded sighting : 939. Tataouine, Tunisia
Found lost in the desert by Rasha Shehata,
instant chemistry between the two women



Lucimar Botelho

Known aliases : Tabata Pedrosa, Lucimar
Ferreira, Lucimar Botelho
Notable characteristics : Competitive mind
Damage by the Game, wary of Immortal men
Weapon : Greek Hoplite sword, gift from Kyra of
Sparta who trained her in Spartan warfare
Inconclusive fight against Isadora Wynther, 1819

Status
Most recent base of operations : Sao Paulo, Brazil
Occupation : Track and field athlete
Prior occupations : Competitive athlete, indentured
servant, slave
Roster of Immortals Status : Active
Date :
Place :
Victor :
Watcher : Nunzo Da Costa

Background
Original cultural affiliation : African-Brazilian
Born : 1773; Captaincy of Bahia, Brazil
First death : 1789; Rebelling slave killed during
Revolt of the Afaites
First teacher : Alexandra Racine
Known past associates : Alexandra Racine,
Kyra of Sparta
First recorded sighting : 1789. Captaincy of Bahia
Found and mentored by Alexandra Racine

The Immortal Lucimar Botelho has recently been identified as Tabata Pedrosa, a negro slave living in Brazil in the 18th century once mentored by Alexandra Racine and who went missing in 1819 after a confrontation agaisnt Isadora Wynther, herself part of a group of 1400 Swiss migrants who serttled in Brazil in the 19th century. The confrontation took place because of the agression of Tabata seemingly wary of the Game and of other Immortal; Isadora defeated Tabita but chose to spare her head, not wanting her arrival in Brazil tainted by her killing another Immortal woman, whom she sensed as a disturbed soul.
Lucimar re-appear in 1965, in Rio de Janeiro, the first negro athlete to compete in track and field sports, she met Christianne Krause an Kyra of Sparta, also competing with whom she competed in calmer, more serene circumstance. What could happen to Lucimar/Tabata to give her such a positive outlook on the Game we do not know.

Watcher Research, South America

[Apollo1]

Yeah, sorry about that, i know i'm stretching it a bit. The suggestion of a teacher would be fine, and i'll do the rest.

Re: Deoneces and Kyra. Well, Deoneces would still class himself as a heterosexual male with fluid tendencies since Spartan warriors restricted their male lovers to their fellow warriors, those they'd known since they were young. Spartan women would, i think, be far more fluid in their lovers and i would think Kyra would have had many lovers, both male and female and, like Frankie Drummond, would not restrict her physical relationships to lovers but also to whoever she fancied for a quick "role in the hay" as it were...

Cheers
Apollo1

[Gardner]

Have you noticed my recent workload, Apollo ? Good points on Kyra and Deoneces, it would be interesting to develop their past romances.
Cheers !