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  • Another great update, my friend.

    I have two more chronicles i could use your help to complete:

    Breogan of Dumnonia

    Most recent base of operations: Brixham, Devon
    Occupation: Fisherman
    Prior occupations: Sword-for-hire, warrior
    Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
    Date: 981
    Place: Brixham
    Victor: Elfrida the Black Wolf, aka Evangeline
    Black
    Watcher: Research, Immortals of Medieval England

    Original cultural affiliation: Dumnonii Briton
    Born: 615, Dumnonia, South West England
    First death: 652; Battle of Bradford-upon-Avon, fighting
    the West Saxons led by Cenwalh of Wessex
    First teacher: ?

    An early victim of Evangeline Black in the 10th century, Breogan was a former soldier and sword-for-hire who grew tired of the constant bloodshed as other Immortals often have and retired from the Game, finding peace in the small coastal fishing village of Brixham. Unfortunately, in 981 Evangeline Black was at this time commanding a Viking longship using the name Elfrida the Black Wolf and raiding English coastal settlements. One of these raids fell upon Brixham and Breogan found himself once again wielding a sword, this time on defence of his solitude and the people, ordinary mortals, he had come to call his friends. However, his own rustiness and Elfrida's ferociousness and cunning were not enough and he soon fell to her blade.

    Research, Immortals of Medieval England

    Amelrik of Bibrax

    Most recent base of operations: Avranches, Duchy of
    Normandy
    Occupation: Serial seducer and black widower
    Prior occupations: Confidence trickster, swindler,
    thief
    Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
    Date: Summer 992
    Place: Avranches
    Victor: Alfgar of Winchester
    Watcher: Research, Immortals of Medieval Europe

    Original cultural affiliation: Belgae
    Born: 456, Belgia Gaul, Western Roman Empire
    First death: 483; thief caught and hanged for stealing
    from wife of local landowner
    First teacher: ?

    In 991, Richeard of Mercia sent his student and friend, Alfgar of Winchester, to Normandy to spy on Duke Richard I of Normandy following his treaty with King Aethelfrid of England, suspicious of the duke's motives. A year after he arrived, Alfgar had developed a crush on the daughter of a local lord but feared rejection from her father. When a new suitor appeared, Alfgar grew suspicious and soon discovered he was another Immortal. Claiming to be a wealthy merchant, Amelrik of Bibrax charmed Lord Belcour and his daughter Marie and within a few months an engagement was announced. But Alfgar knew the game Amelrik was playing and warned the Immortal the walk away. Amelrik, although he was armed, was not a skilled swordsman, preferring to rely on his wits and trickery to avoid others of his kind. But Alfgar proved to be more than a match for the conman, trapping him in an alleyway and quickly dispatching Amelrik. Neither Lord Belcour, nor his daughter ever knew what became of her fiancée.

    Research, Immortals of Medieval Europe.

    Also, could you post the active and inactive Immortals of Iberia and France, thanks.

    Cheers
    Apollo1


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    • I really launched something with my Hellfire characters, didn't I Apollo ?
      Btw I credited you as co-author for those characters.

      Breogan of Dumnonia

      Known aliases : None
      Notable characteristics : None
      Weapon : English medieval broadsword
      Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

      Status
      Most recent base of operations: Brixham, Devon
      Occupation: Fisherman
      Prior occupations: Sword-for-hire, warrior
      Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
      Date: 981
      Place: Brixham
      Victor: Elfrida the Black Wolf, aka Evangeline
      Black
      Watcher: Research, Immortals of Medieval
      England

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation: Dumnonii Briton
      Born: 615, Dumnonia, South West England
      First death: 652; Battle of Bradford-upon-Avon,
      Fighting the West Saxons led by Cenwalh of
      Wessex
      First teacher: Beadwhyrd of Ely
      Known past associates : Beadwhyrd of Ely
      First recorded sighting : 652. Bradford upon Avon
      Disciple of Beadhyrd


      Amelrik of Bibrax
      Known aliases : None
      Notable characteristics : Master trickster,
      sociopathic by modern standards
      Weapon : Norman sword
      Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

      Status
      Most recent base of operations: Avranches, Duchy
      ofNormandy
      Occupation: Serial seducer and black widower
      Prior occupations: Confidence trickster, swindler,
      thief
      Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
      Date: Summer 992
      Place: Avranches
      Victor: Alfgar of Winchester
      Watcher: Research, Immortals of Medieval Europe

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation: Belgae
      Born: 456, Belgia Gaul, Western Roman Empire
      First death: 483; Thief caught and hanged for
      stealing from wife of local landowner
      First teacher: Cyricus of Bayeux
      Known past associates : Cyricus of Bayeux
      First recorded sighting : 490. Belgia Gaul
      Found and trained by Cyricus of Bayeux, at this
      time leading a thieves guild in Belgia




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      • IBERIA

        Viola Blanco
        Known aliases : Bianca Volare, Lola Del Moreno,
        Maria Alvarez, Catarina Rey
        Notable characteristics : Eyes sensitive to sunlight
        Weapon(s) : Toledo cup-hilted rapier
        Recorded kills: *See Addendum*

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Madrid, Spain
        Occupation : Psychologist, specializing in suicidal
        teens, incest survivors, rape survivors
        Prior occupations : Explorer, traveller, tutor to
        daughters of nobility, singer, entertainer,
        resistance fighter during Spanish Civil War, agent
        of the Mossad
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Armando Real

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Spanish
        Born : 1822, Avila Spain
        First death : 1848; Suicide, jumped off window to
        avoid forced marriage to violent cousin
        First teacher : Frances Drummond
        Known associates : Frances Drummond,
        Known past associates : Fortunato Cortesi, Ali Ibn
        al-Quattan, Eugenie Camara, Prejun Casamayor
        Known ennemies : See list of kills
        First recorded sighting : 1848. Valencia, Spain.
        Mentored by Frances, at this time her chaperone

        What can an incest and rape survivor do when it comes to heal traumatic wounds from one's childhood ? See a specialist, a psychologist. Like Sean burns who has been helping immortals victims of wars, rapes, murders and countless atrocities pepetrated upon them during or prior to their First Death. Like John Garrick, burnt to a stake four hundred years ago or Viola Blanco, raped from the tender age of five to fifteen years old by her great-uncle, her uncle and then her cousin to which she was bethroted.
        At sixteen years old, Viola couldn't take it anymore and plainly jumped from a window. Her misery stopped there because her chaperone at that time was none other than Frankie Dummond, a firebrand of an immortal and fellow rape survivor who helped her back to her feet and told her why she wasn't in heaven beside God and little Jesus. After sojourning together in a convent near Murcia, away from Avila where she first died, Frances and Viola took revenge on the men who abused the poor innocent pre-iimmortal.
        Then on a suggestion from her teacher, Cleophon of Athens, Frances sent Viola to Sean Burns for counselling - psychotherapy one century before it went in full bloom. Nowadays, Viola repays in kind the good Sean Burns and Frances did her by helping people who have been through the same hell as she has.
        Owever, this isn't a woman to be underestimated : thanks to the teahcings of her mentor, Viola developped quite formidable weapons : an excellent swordarm, indomitable strenght of character and a great appetite for living her immortality to its full potential. In 155 years since her first fight against an immortal, she took out five evil immortals, all cutthoats, thieves and rapists who got a fittign end by Viola's Toledo rapier.
        If there can be only one, Violan certainly will be among the last contestants of the Gathering.

        Armando Real, 2009

        From : Watcher Bureau, Iberia
        To : Watcher Tribunal
        Date : 11.09.2011

        To be added to the chronicles of Timoteo of Lusitania and Joanna Vaz

        Taking a pro-active stance in the war, Frances Drummond and her former student Viola Blanco hunted Timoteo of Lusitania and Joanna Vaz all across Iberia; Viola had been training like crazy since the beginning of the war and started to show the same gusto and cunning as the former Crimson Butterfly to the extant that Frances herself gave her the monisker of Iberian Butterfly. Proudly, Viola received a brand-new cup-hilted rapier from her former teacher before the two women started hunting. They found the two headhunters in Salamnca, where the two ancient immortals were processing the powerful Quickenings of Hipolito Cabral and Gilardo Melgajero; Frances felt confident she could take on Timoteo or Vaz but she wasn't too sure about Viola. However, Viola had been insistent on taking part in the war, not wanting to share the sad fate of the other Iberian immortals who chose to stay in hiding. A long time ago, she swore she would never hide again, and by God she would get a piece of the action ! Beside, she had other weapons than just mastery of the sword : a crafty psychologist, she knew she could see though her opponent's fighting techniques, a talent that helped her face other immortals time and time again.
        Ten years after a war of terror was brought on American grounds, two butterflies brought terror to two agents of Memnet-Ra, coming after them in the middle of the night, yelling like furies and barely leaving their quarries the time to get out of bed and pick their swords. The fight was brutal. Frances brought her usual speed and agility while Viola paced more, carefully studying Vaz's swords move; when they were ready, both women took the offensive and utterly destroyed the immortal couple's confidence before finally taking them out. Frances and Viola's Watchers witnessed a rare occurence in the Game : a double Quickening shared by two immortals; it happened only with the Hauser Brothers, once with Frances and Henry of Kent, another time with Deoneces and Kyra of Sparta during the Horsemen Crisis and now.

        Addendum

        Recorded kils : Nathaniel Reed, Livio Quesada, Hugo Krantz, Txeru Duarte, Joana Vaz
        Inconclusive fight against Antonio Coras, 1854; Salvatore Serra, 1948



        Frances Drummond
        Known aliases : Franklin Drummond, Fiona ap
        Gryffon, Fran Carmichael, Francesca DiPaolo,
        Frankie ‘Firehair’ Durham, Frances Collins,
        Francesca Ortega, ‘the Crimson Butterfly’
        Notable characteristics : Red hair, besexual; skilled
        swordswoman, master of six martial art forms
        Weapon(s) : Chinese Dao sword
        Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Madrid, Spain
        Occupation : Security agent, Ravenwood
        International Security, Iberia Division (on hiatus)
        Prior occupations : British Intelliegence agent, bank
        robber, Innskeper, chaperone, turor to daughters of
        nobility, traveller, mercenary, metalsmith
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Maria Perez

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : English
        Born : 1618, Nottingham England
        First death : 1643, Raped and murdered by
        Roundhead soldiers, First English Civil War
        First teacher : Cleophon of Athens
        Known associates : Ravenwood Immortals;
        Viola Blanco, Kit Samak, Serena Wilde
        Known past associates : *See Addendum*
        Known ennemies : Daria De Souza
        First recorded sighting : 1643, Bristol England
        Found and mentored by Cleophon

        If ever there was an example of never judging a book by it's cover it would be senora Frankie Drummond. Beneath the outward appearance of a small, pretty red-headed young woman lies a cunning, highly skilled fighter who has fooled all of the male headhunters who came for her Quickening expecting an easy kill, and instead gave her theirs. For Frankie is no victim. She was a helpless victim once when she was raped and brutalised by the dozen roundheads who slaughtered her family and burned her home to the ground. But once the newly reborn immortal was rescued from the embers by the Royalist Cavalry officer who revealed himself as Cleophon of Athens and taught her about her new destiny and the Game, she vowed to never be a victim again. She had to be in control, all the time.
        She learned what she could about swordplay from Cleophon, himself a master, but she wanted to know more. So she went east where the old masters still taught the ancient martial forms. She learned them all, mastered them all. She became better than her old teacher and when the first immortal came for her head, she got her first Quickening.
        Frankie isn't just a very good player in the Game, she has also learned to make the most of her immortality; she has a voracious sexual appetite. Man or woman, it doesn't matter to her. And they are all drawn to her like moths to a flame. She has only to flutter those doe eyes and smile that smile and they are all putty in her hands.
        Watcher records recall her seduction of the wife of a Prussian nobleman in the eighteenth century to expose his murder of his first wife. Another incident is recorded in France a few years later, where Frankie slept with both the daughter and son of a Count as part of a plot to uncover his illegal activities as a smuggler.
        And in the US Midwest in the 20s, she had a fling with Corey Raines before running off with a mobster's girlfriend. They fled to the east coast and became the Thelma and Louise of the 1920s as they robbed a string of mob establishments and gave the proceeds to people left destitute during the Great Depression. Her sexual exploits with the ex-pat wives of army officers in Singapore before the Japanese invasion during World War II are legendary.

        By the end of the 1990’s, she was contacted by her old teacher Cleophon, now going by the name Elliott Ravenwood. She is now his chief field agent in Northern Europe, based in Madrid, and is back to her old tricks. She has a wealthy girlfriend in the city's suburbs and a playboy lover in Monte Carlo. They both seem to know about each other and don't seem to care. Frankie has that effect on people.

        That's why she will never be just an ordinary player of the Game.

        From : Watcher Bureau, Southern EuropeHipolito
        To : Watcher Tribunal
        Date : 21.12.2011

        To be added to the chronicle of Ayzebel of Berytus and Frances Drummond.

        After burying her student in Venice, Frances Drummond started hunting Ayzebel of Berytus but didn't have to look for long : the old immortal was expecting Fortunato's teacher and rejoiced at the idea of taking out the fabled 'Crimson Butterfly' rumored to have killed as many immortals as the Kurgan himself.
        (Watcher note : Frances killed 25; however, six more kills were falsely attributed to her, especially the Poison Clan immortals).
        The battle between Frances and Ayzebel was vigorous, the redhead combined six different fighting techniques against her opponent who proved to be a proficient andcunning player; each time counteracting France's moves. Ayzebel laughed while she danced around the Butterfly; 'they didn't call me the Dragonfly of Carthago for nothing, sweetheart ! Dance, dance with me !‘ Then, in the middle of the fight, Ayzebel simply unsheated her sword and took her leave, boasting that luring the Butterfly to Italy had been easy; 'see who protected those under you carge while we fought !' And then she was gone. Indeed, while Frances was busy looking for Cortesi's killer, two other immortals lost their lives theday before.


        Maria Perez, 2009

        From : Watcher Bureau, Southern Europe, Iberian Peninsula
        To : Watcher Tribunal
        Date : 23.12.2011

        Daria De Souza decided it was time to take down Ravenwood's operations in Iberia. And what better way to do this than take on Frances Drummond herself ? The Crimson Butterfly wasn't afraid, she killed nearly forty immortals in her life and De Souza wasn't even a prolific headhunter, just a woman who used the Game for her own purposes.The battle between the two women was a furious exhibition of raw power, a mix of rage from De Souza and nearly-orgasmic pleasure from the Butterfly who ENJOYS fighting other immortals and takes as much pleasure from her battles as Xavier St. Cloud himself - Moroccan king of hedonism that he was. Mere minutes later, the battle was done : Daria De Souza was on her knees, her eyes a mix of pain (right forearm lost in battle, sliced stomach) and anger. Then her eyes expressed nothing : her head fell to the ground. The Quickening was a medium one, but Frankie Drummond enjoyed it.

        ADDENDUM I : Known past associates

        Corey Raines, Carmen Morales, Pamela De Souza, Matthew McCormick, Charles Maycoe, Sit-Hathor Iunet, Maharbal of Carthage, Ethan Benedikt, Mary-Louise Decker, Fu Kang-ho, Helen Welles, Ali Ibn al-Quattan, Borja de la Iglesia, Supriya Bashkar, Cleophon of Athens, Kellistra


        ADDENDUM II : Recorded kills

        Kostya Bodrova, Takhir Oreshkov, Panyarachun Sundaravej, Bina Godwa, Candravimala, Valentina Krylova, Christos Savakis, Dorges Barneveld, Esteves de Aristia, Woody Chewansky, Njord Goldbaek, Dominic Petros, Oskar Gerber, Jonah-Lee Hawkes, Laurette Réan, Marcello Bartoli, Mamiko Harada, Oktav Haas, Asif Malik, Osmo Jarvi, Astrid Gilder, Luciana Salazar, Daria De Souza, Timoteo of Lusitania

        Inconclusive fights against Ho-soon Kit, 1747; Daria De Souza, 1858 and 1929; Hilaria Quintero, 1934; Nariko Genji, 1942; Huneric the Vandal, 1944; Ayzebel of Berytus, 2011




        Maria Escudero
        Known aliases : Maria Escobar, Maria Gonzalez,
        Carmella Parrado
        Notable characteristics : 5’5’’
        Weapon : Spanish cavalry saber, formerly
        belonging to late husband Vicente
        Recorded kills : Vicente Escudero, usually not a
        player of the Game

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Malaga, Spain
        Occupation : Graphic designer
        Prior occupations : Painter, visual artist
        Roster of Immortals Status: Inactive
        Date:
        Place:
        Victor:
        Watcher : Ramon Marcos

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Spanish
        Born : 1912; Guernica, Spain
        First death : 1937, During bombing of Guernica by
        Luftwaffe’s Condor legion
        First teacher : Vicente Escudero
        Known past associates : Vicente Escudero,
        First recorded sighting : 1937, Guernica. Dug up
        from bombed out building by Vicente

        La senora Escudero is like every housewives in Madrid : she rises out of bed early morning, drives her three adopted children to school, goes to her work as daily help, fetches her kids after school, does the shopping and welcomes her husband Miguel back home after work. She also takes the time to train every Thursday and Friday afternoon with a mortal fencing teacher, in case someone would come after her pretty head. Nothing extraordinary about her. However, Maria managed to survive the entire century all by herself, stood up to her late, first husband (famous dancer Vicente Escudero who beat her up every night),and kept a low profile, allowing herself to stay alive. Now that the pace of the game is again in an accelarating mode, we will see how she survives. I wish her luck.

        Ramon Marcos, Feb. 1993


        Harry Houdini
        Known aliases : Erich Weiss (birth name),
        Henri Verne, Antonio Grimaldi, Hugo Guzman
        Notable characteristics : Facial scar predating first
        Death. Immortality triggered past his prime
        Used magician tricks to survive in the Game
        Weapon : Guingate sword, discarded
        Recorded kills : Sigurd Jarlson, Vrej Ratavoussian, Pilar Gonçalves

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Madrid, Spain
        Occupation : Stage magician
        Prio occupations : Benedictine monk, magician
        Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Anton Lapaglia

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Magyar
        Born : 1874, Budapest Hungary
        First death : 1926, Peritonitis
        First teacher : Sita the Diviner
        Known associates : Ahmet Dede
        Known past associates : Sita the Diviner,Duncan
        MacLeod,Patrick Dziuma, Darryl McShane,
        Khalid Belkacem,Mary O’Reilly
        First recorded sighting : 1926 New-York
        Student of Duncan MacLeod

        It's not very hard to imagine that Harry Houdini, the fabled magician who used to get out of impossible odds on stage, could be an immortal. Could live forever and get out of even more frightning odds like a two-tons enraged immortal coming at him (Sigurd Jarlson). As a boy his name was Erich Weiss and his father wanted him to become a locksmith. But he ran away and joined the traveling show of Dr. Grimaldi, where he learned the tricks of a magician and a little mystery from his Indian assistant, a mysterious woman named Sita who always seemed to know something was up about the boy. Houdini died of peritonitis, resulting from appendicitis, after one of his stage performances. But a good man like Harry always get lucky, even in dire situations. He had his friend Duncan MacLeod to teach him the rules of the Game and the proper ways of living his immortality. Sita, was also here for him, an immortal who taught him to defeat an opponent without having to use a sword.

        Every magician in the world dreams of becoming another Houdini, but Houdini dreams secretly of being like every magician in the world : a simple mortal with a wife and children. There are just two passions he has known in his life: the art of magic, and his mortal wife, now tragically deceased. He views his immortal nature as a cheat, a shortcut which cheapens the thrills of his art. Because she aged and he did not, his wife's eventual death left him alone and bereaved.
        Because of his highly publicized First Death, he was never able to live with her, even in secrecy; the only time he could even set eyes upon her was during seances, in which he would appear disguised as his own ghost. The magician faking his appearances rather than his disappearances. These circumstances poisoned Houdini's immortal existence. Though he fights to escape death, inwardly he dreams of the day a stronger immortal will beat down his guard and take his head - sending him at last to join his wife in the afterlife.

        Carmen Loureiro
        Lima


        Gardner & Sylvia Volk, 2000



        Steven Keane
        Known aliases : Steven Kingston, James Hinkley,
        Thomas Hazlehurst, Frank Rhys-Davis
        Notable characteristics : Boy-scouttish
        Weapon : 16th century British military saber
        Weapon background : Given to him by Richard
        Dunbar, the Earl of Rosemont
        Recorded kills : Annie Devlin, James Douglas
        Inconclusive fight against Carter Wellan, 1588; Brujeant of Chalunac, 1656; Karaja Benzai, 1684;
        Raphael Oimbari, 1989

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Malagua, Spain
        Occupation : Night Club proprietor
        Prior occupations : Captain, British Colony forces;
        Sierra Leone Company, Ghana Company; officer,
        English Armada
        Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Peter Jones

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : English
        Born : 1501, Gloucester England
        First death : 1536, Trampled by a horse
        First teacher : Sean Burns
        Known past associates : Sean Burns, Linley
        Osbourne, Fergus MacMillan, Tamba Brima,
        Mandawy, Mark Mellady, Christopher
        West, Kwan Fengying, Ne-Win, Dakin Bardell,
        Elias Durant, Emma Nicholson
        Known ennemies : Fergus MacMillan, Abdul Salis
        First recorded sighting : 1505 England; student of
        Sean Burns

        Steven Keane has moved out of Wales for a new life in Malagua, Spain, where Britons —who are the third biggest immigrant community in Spain— reside in large numbers; he is the second British citizen to settle in Spain since the end of the Immortals War with Andrew Breeland the photographer.

        Northern Europe Bureau
        August 2012

        Bernadette died two years ago during the couple's travel to Belfast, caught in the crossfire of Annie Devlin's plot against "the invading English forces". Keane avenged the death of his wife by killing Annie Devlin and dismantling her IRA cell, but his heart aches at the memory of his beloved wife, his nights feel lonely and cold. His disco club is in relative disarray, his friends worry about him and he trains no more. It is like a part of himself died with Bernadette. I am always amazed at seeing how an immortal can still feel love, pain, grief, even after centuries of existence. The humanity of Steven Keane touches me.

        Maryellen Connelly, 1998




        Mustapha Zemmouri
        Known aliases : Estavanico, Black Stephen,
        Esteban the Moor, Esteban Dorantes,
        Esteban Vihaio
        Notable characteristics : None
        Weapon : Damascus steel rapier
        Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
        Missing between 1702 and 2012

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Granada, Spain
        Occupation : Preservation and restoration,
        Alhambra palace/fortress
        Prior occupations : Slave, guide to explorers
        looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola, merchant
        Roster of Immortals Status: Inactive
        Date:
        Place:
        Victor:
        Watcher : Research, US Southwest

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Morrocan
        Born : 1500; Morocco
        First death : 1539; Serving as guide for exploration
        party to New Mexico, killed in the city of Hawikuh
        First teacher : Ali Ibn al-Quattan
        Known past associates : Ali Ibn al-Quattan,
        Fatima Zouareb
        First recorded sighting : 1539. New Mexico.
        Servant of Melgajero, then his student

        The immortal known as Esteban the Moor has been confirmed as active on the immortal roster under the identity of Esteban Vihaio, chef-restorator and responsible of preserving the Alhambra fortress in Granada. The Alhambra is an historical and architectural treasure, and alwo the past centerpoint of Spanish history since the 9th Century.

        Watcher Bureau, Iberia
        March 2012

        Estevanico (c. 1500–1539), born in Morocco, was the first known person born in Africa to have arrived in the present-day continental United States. He is known by many different names, common are Esteban de Dorantes, Estebanico and Esteban the Moor. Enslaved as a youth by the Portuguese, he was sold to a Spanish nobleman and taken in 1527 on the Spanish Narváez expedition. He was one of four survivors among the 600 men who started, and traveled for eight years with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado across northern New Spain (present-day U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico), before they reached Spanish forces in Mexico City in 1536.
        Later Estevanico served as the main guide for a return expedition to the Southwest, where he was killed in the Zuni city of Hawikuh in 1539.

        The new immortal became the servant of immortal Ali Ibn al-Quattan, himself a Moorish immortal who soon fred him and then mentored him but never could infect him with his passion for hte Game.Estevanico preferred his role of scholar and traveller above all things. In the beginnign of the 18th century he retired from adventuring and settled in St. Augustine, Florida, part of New Spain where he disappeared after his Watcher was killed fighting English troops during Queen Ann's War.

        Watcher Research, US Southwest



        ITALIAN PENINSULA

        Mario Cardoza
        Known aliases : Mario Giunta, Francisco Gallito,
        Gerard Calabrese, Miguel Cardenas, Frederico
        ‘Coco’ Lezzone
        Weapon : El Cid Colada sword
        Recorded kills : Monique Mozel, Benny Carbassa,
        Paul Furio, Farooz Kassar
        Inconclusive fight against Mary MacGreggor,
        1806; Radu Cozma, 1819; Charles Mako, 1979;

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Bologna, Italy
        Occupation : Assassin/Chef/Restaurator
        Prior occupations : Murder-for-hire, innkeeper,
        Spadassin, traveller, cook
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Sandro Palermo

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Guatemalan
        Born : 1628, La Antigua Guatemala
        First death : 1668, During attack by indigenous
        indians
        First teacher : Gilmar Coya
        Known associates : Elene of Sparta
        Known past associates : Amanda, Paul Kinman,
        Ruffio Mocenigo, Solomon Burke, Luigi Cabrini
        Known ennemies : Hugh Fitzcairn, Monique
        Mozelle, Amanda, Benny Carbassa, Charles Mako
        First recorded sighting : 1698 Verone Italy
        Unconclusivbe fight against Hugh Fitzcairn

        Mario Cardoza, Chef, gourmet to a fault, creator of the greatest dinners ever made since Renaissance days, he who cooked for Emperors and Queens. Mario the creator is also one of the greatest assassins of the world, second only to the likes of Paul Kinman or Ida the Leaper. Go figure how such a creator can be such a cold-blooded killer. Mario hates the modern world and the feeling of being spied upon by troublesome Watchers. Renaissance Immortals tend to look upon themselves as the flower of manhood -- born in a time between two ages of barbarians. They are quite arrogant, since they are old enough to be more experienced than younger Immortals and young enough to be able to learn modern sciences. This is exactly how Mario sees himself. Proud of having achieved himelf in culinary arts and in murder.
        Like he always says, "it's a good life for a murderer !"

        Karen Harris
        Toronto 1997



        Bonafemina D'Elia
        Known aliases : Delia Buenoano, Cordelia D'Elia
        Notable characteristics : Petite built, physical
        handicap from polyomelitis
        Weapon : Ottoman cavalry saber
        Inconclusive fight against Marcello Bartoli, 1698
        and Victor Meirelles, 1892

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Florence, Italy
        Occupation : Bed & Breakast proprietor
        Prior occupations : Dance teacher, nun; resistance,
        fighter, WWII
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Valerie Cipriano

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Italian
        Born : 1601; Milan, Italy
        First death : 1631, Died during Great Plague of
        Milan
        First teacher : Rodelinda of Lombardy
        Known past associates : Rodelinda of Lombardy,
        Angelo Quattrocchi, Rocco Lago, Nikki Bakogianni,
        Ariana Agosti, Fortunato Cortesi, Fausta De Rosa,
        Adelaide Capobianco
        Known ennemies : Marcello Bartoli
        First recorded sighting : 1828. Capri, Italy.
        Encounter with Immortal Virgil fo Naples

        Bonafemina is one of the few living handicapped immortals who have been living through the centuries relying on pepper spray and smarts to survive. She is good at hiding, living in peace and not caring about the Prize or about the Gathering. Bonafemina first appeared on the immortal scene in 1826, in Capri where she was living as a dance teacher; she was mentored by Lombard immortal Rodelinda who taught her how to use her intelligence in the Game - although Bonafemina would hear none of this Game nonsense. She has been living retired from other immortals, teaching the arts of dancing to generations of young mortals. When a challenger comes for Bonafemina's head she always has a gun and a can of pepper spray in her bag. Pepper to blind the opponent, two bullets to lop the head off the impudent's shoulders. In spite of her bad leg, she proved to the immortal world that one can survive in spite of physical impairment - something on which Kenneth and Keith Boyer would agree.

        Valerie Cipriano, 2016


        Marie-Louise d’Orty
        Known aliases : Louise Desorties, Marie-Jeanne
        Guillaume, Whilelmina Wallace, Mary Carpenter,
        Luisa Camponello
        Notable characteristics : Thrillseeking personality,
        infectous sense of humour, adredaleine-junkie
        Weapon : Spanish cavalry saber
        Inconclusive fight against Felica Martins, 1872;
        Gabriel Piton, 1917

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Turin, Italy
        Occupation : Independent means, part-time
        painter, full-time socialite and thrilseeker, also
        Agent of Ravenwood with the Secret Daggers
        Prior occupations : Master forger, specializing in
        Italian Renaissance paintings
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Francesca Neri

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : French
        Born : 1802; Paris, France
        First death : 1827; Stabbed to death by psychotic
        neighbor who was later executed for the murders
        of two women
        First teachers : Swenja Baatz & Lootje De Groot
        Known past associates : Swenja Baatz & Lootje
        De Groot
        Known ennemies : Felicia Martins, Gabriel Piton
        First recorded sighting : 1827. Paris, France
        Found and mentored by Swenja and Lootje

        When Swenja and Lootje found the dead body of Marie-Louise in a back-alley near their Parisian home, they knew a new immortal would be born soon. When the young woman awoke in their home, cleaned and sleeping in their bed, she had Swenja and Lootje beside her, who told her wild stories of living forever and staying young forever and always. Disbelieving, Marie-Louise was forced to accept the truth and learnt to stop worrying and love the life her teachers would give to her.

        While Swenja the thrillseeker and killer had no maternal bone in her body and couldn't care less about the ever-growing population of young immortals, her heart melt when Marie-Louise introduced herself : she bore the same name as her teacher ! Here was a woman she couldn't decently leave in this world on her own, what would her mentor say, is she was living ? So Swenja and Lootje taught the rules of immortality to Marie-Louise as they did to Corelio of Brazil and infected her with their love of immortality, their appreciation of a Quickening and their philosophy of taking what you want and never suffer from the consequences.They also taught her their trade : forging. And soon Marie-Louise became a master herself and was so good at her craft that she made Swenja and Lootje wild with pride each time she'd sell of of her fakes to a gallery in Paris or around Paris.
        In 1834, Swenja and Lootje got in trouble with a local immortal woman to whom they sold some of her fakes and were forced to kill her (Watcher note : cross-check Monique Cassard, WD France). Marie-Louise who witnessed the Quickening received by Lootje was amazed by such a spectacular sight and by the mix of pleasure and pain that came with the thunder and lightnings. In seven years, the three women had become a kind of 'ménage à trois', sharing the men they seduced and having parties that became the stuff of legend in Paris : every Satuday nights, a six-way in the home of Swenja and Lootje, three men and three women blending together. Marie-Louise had tasted blood, she wanted more, and more, and more.

        In 1836, Swenja and Lootje finally decided they had enough of Paris and of forgery and decided to leave. They also gave their goodbyes to a tearful Marie-Louise who didn't understand why her friends would abandon her; but she had to learn to live on her own and beside, Swenja and Lootje's relationship was exclusive : they didn't mind to have a student here and now but the ménage à trois couldn't go on forever.

        From the Chronicle of Swenja Baatz & Lootje De Groot
        Watcher Research, Western Europe




        Gabriel Piton
        Known aliases : Gabriel Renoir, Pietro Gabrielli
        Notable characteristics : Silver hair
        Weapon : Black-braid katana
        Recorded kills : David Sambé, Khalid Belkacem,
        Kate Devaney, Cain Brewser, Ursa
        Inconclusive fight against Marie-Louise d’Orty,
        1917

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Rome, Italy
        Occupation : Fashion designer
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Veronique Millet

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : French
        Born : 1670, Bordeaux France
        First death : 1715; Hung for rrobbing a manor
        First teacher : Dennis Vachon
        Known associates : Amanda, Hugh Fitzcairn,
        Xanthia of Melitus, Robert and Gina de Valicourt,
        Sean Burns, Carolyn Mortimer, Connor MacLeod,
        Duncan MacLeod, Pharamond
        Known past associates : Dennis Vachon,
        Ghislaine Renoir, Lucilla Begnini, Fabrice de
        Sauveterre
        First recorded sighting : 1796 Guest at the
        Valicourts 200th wedding anniversary

        The House of Gabrielli has presented its new collection this fall, enchenting the creme of Rome's good society. Rome's good society doesn't know that their host is in fact Gabriel Piton, Frenchman, master theif and collector of beauty : jewels, clothoses, women, wines; Gabriel views himself as a patron of arts, self-annointed protector of beautiful things, and not above killing to protectc what's his. He is the Bluebeard of legends : he married seven times, and each time killed his wife when she discovered the monster he had become over the year : a sincere admirer of the wonders the world has to offer, whose heart became cold after three hundred years of loving material things.

        Veronique Millet, 2008

        In 1835, Gabriel Piton turned a beaten, shell of a woman selling her body on the streets into a socialite and expert at worming her way into rich men's bed to scope out their valuables and political sympathis, thus seving hte mabitions of her master Gabriel. Gabriel had more on his mind than being a master theif all his life : he also wanted to be a 'Prince of the Universe' like the fabled Karmanshar and his wife, Tomyris, like Andre Korda and Grayson; he wanted to be respected, to have the world on a string. What better way to achieve this goal than to take on students, fragile young women who would do his bidding ? Lucilla Begnini did so for fifteen years until Gabriel felt she had given everything she could, created enough political allies for Gabriel and filled enough of his mansions with stolen jewels and paintings.
        When Gabriel decided to part withher, he gave her a few bank-notes, a jewel from his collection and sent her on her way. The bitter Lucilla understood she had been manipulated and turned on her master, who nearly killed her.. but spapred her anyway.
        Two months later, Lucilla was in Rome, burglarising the house of a wealthy socialite of Rome who came home early the night Lucilla had chosen to invade his home; the immortal was Victor Meirelles, an Argentine headhunter who didn't let Lucilla the time to run and took her head in mere minutes. The poor woman didn't beg for mercy : she bared her teeth, drew her sword and readied herself for the fight, never losing her dignity.

        Research, the Chronicle of Gabriel Piton



        Giovanni Battista
        Known aliases : Janus Severus, Paulus Orosius,
        Antonio Andrade, Dante Boccario, Peter Deunov,
        Gianfranco Fassino
        Notable characteristics : Lives on Holy Ground
        Eyes sensitive to sunlight
        Weapon : Crusader sword
        Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Vatican, Italy
        Occupation : Bishop
        Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Rodolfo Visconti

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Italian
        Born : 1327, Sienna Italy
        First death : 1357, Drank poisoned wine
        First teacher : Leofric
        Known past associates : Marcantonio Fitipaldi,
        Jost von Meggen, Leofric, Ludovico Da
        Bologna, Alima Nguessan
        First recorded sighting : 1655 Paris; encounter with
        Darius

        With use of political stratagems, coercion and various degrees of blackmail, Cardinal Giovanni successfully had Joseph Ratzinger elected as Pope in 2005 after doing all he could to keep his previous tool living as long as possible. Giovanni loves the manipulation of Christian masses he can make by being the counsellor of the Pope in power. He has been doing this for the past seven hundred years. His great secret Game. The other Game, the one practiced by the Immortals isn't thrilling to him anymore, he prefers to dabble in politics.
        As far as immortality is concerned, there is only one question to which he wants an answer : where do the Immortals come from ? How many of them are there on Earth precisely ? (From our numbers, 692 all told in 2007)
        Why did Immortals keep fighting and what is the source of their power ? Those questions obsess Giovannand he will use every mean necessary to obtain answers, even if it means sacrificing the lives of mortals or immortals.

        Rodolfo Visconti 2008




        Merlino Bolognesi
        Known aliases : Francesco Borromini
        Notable characteristics : None
        Weapon : 16th century Italian rapier, discarded
        Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Vatican City,
        Rome Italy
        Occupation : Benedictine monk; building
        renovation, currently working on St. Christopher’s
        dining hall
        Prior occupations : Architecture apprentice
        Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Brother Antoine, St. Christopher
        Chronicle

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Genoese
        Born : 1545; Genoa, Italy
        First death : 1565; Working for architect Galeazzo
        Alessi, fell from rooftop while supervising
        construction of Genoa palazzo
        First teacher : Galeazzo Alessi, aka Archelaus
        Archelaus
        Known past associates :, Marcovaldo Lupino
        First recorded sighting : 1550, Bologna. Student of
        Archelaus

        Nine months after finishing renovating the dining room and most of the dormitory, Merlino Bolognesi gave his goodbyes to his friends of St. Christopher, feeling the time had come for him to re-join the human race outside, to resume his activities as an architect in the cities of Europe. He isn't the only one to feel wanderlust again : the Rochia sisters have spoken of their project to settle in the Stura valley where they were born.
        Merlino is heading to Vatican City where he feels he is needed in renovations projects.

        Brother Antoine, St. Christopher Chronicle
        11 September 2011




        Sharifa Shameq
        Known aliases : None
        Notable characteristics : Suffering from post-
        traumatic stress syndrome, consequence of
        multiple rapes suffered as an ‘Amazon’ of Colonel
        Muammar Gaddafi
        Weapon : One-handed broadsword

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Valley of Tuscany
        Occupation : Bodyguard to reclusive millionaire
        Countess Eleanora Valentine
        Prior occupations : Bodyguard of Colonel
        Gaddafi, part of his infamous ‘Amazon Guard’
        Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Research, Immortals of the Maghreb

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Libyan
        Born : 1983; Southern Libya
        First death :: 2011; Fall of Tripoli, killed by rebel
        forces while defending life of Colonel Gaddafi
        First teacher : Musa Chekchemani
        Known past associates : Musa Chekchemani
        First recorded sighting : 2011. Tripoli, Libya
        Taught the rules of immortality by Chekchemani
        before her capture by rebels with other Amazons

        Sharifa Shameq re-appeared in the Valley of Tuscany, under total anonimity, one of the 400 former Amazons of Colonel Ghadaffi, most of them executed, raped, missing after the fall of the Libyan dictator. Sharifa is a very young immortal who was loyal to Ghadaffi until the end, enforcing herself the discipline among the Amazons ranks but like any other, subject to cruel treatments from the colonel’s men, including serial rapes.
        The glamorization of the Amzeon’s lifestyle evaporated, and Sharifa has now all the time to think about how she is going to survive in this world.

        Watcher Bureau, Italy



        FRANCE


        Gina de Valicourt
        Known aliases : Gina di Bergamo, Lady Angelina,
        Gina Valcourt
        Notable characteristics : Air of aristocracy
        Weapon : 8th Century Frank sword
        Recorded kills : Maria Vaccario, Vladimir Ozorov
        Inconclusive fight against Krijak Chamlong, 1905

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Paris
        Occupation : Independent means
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Clément Duval

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : Lombard
        Born : 1589, Bergamo Duchy of Milan, Italy
        First death : 1618, Perished in fire set up by
        jealous rival
        First teacher : Angelo Quattrocchi
        Known associates : Robert de Valicourt, Amanda,
        Grace Chandel, William Grenville, Sean Burns,
        Xanthia of Miletus
        Known past associates : Angelo Quattrocchi, Lady
        Carolyn, Gabriel Piton, Hugh Fitzcairn, Claude
        Devereux, Marie de Valicourt, Genevieve d'Eon,
        Veiko Kamu, Gaston Andreu, Analise Thibadeau,
        Duncan MacLeod, Fabrice de Sauveterre, Ai Nu
        Ma
        First recorded sighting : 1694 Paris. Courted by
        Duncan MacLeod and Hugh Fitzcairn



        Robert de Valicourt
        Known aliases : The Bloody Baron, Robert Morgan,
        Robert Valcourt
        Notable characteristics : Air of aristocracy
        Weapon : 8th Century Frank sword
        Recorded kills : Rodrigo of Navarre
        Inconclusive fight against Narciso Lopes, 1592;
        Bernardu Arenas, 1637; Captain Davy Jones, 1667;
        Feleicitas Camardan, 1669; Kronos, 1778

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Paris, France
        Occupation : Independent means
        Prior occupations : Pirate ship captain, English
        Royal Navy captain
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Clément Duval

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : French
        Born : 1461; Calais, France
        First death : 1493, Seaman who fell overboard
        during rough sea
        First teacher : Captain Jacques Montpellier
        Known associates : Amanda, Sean Burns,
        Xanthia of Miletus, Gina de Valicourt
        Known past associates : Jacques Montpellier,
        Angelo Quattrocchi, Lady Carolyn, Gabriel Piton,
        Hugh Fitzcairn, Claude Devereux, Genevieve d'Eon,
        Veiko Kamu, Gaston Andreu, Ai Nu Ma, Tomàs De
        Mendoza, Analise Thibadeau, Duncan MacLeod,
        Fabrice de Sauveterre, Marie de Valicourt
        First recorded sighting : 1493; Calais, France.
        Student of Montpellier

        They were back at it last night, six-hours long of lovemaking when us poor mortals last barely twenty minutes. I am admirative. Ever since that decapitation scare in 1996, Gina is even more committed to her husband, as is Robert to her. While the two immortals have few reported kills to their scorecards, us Watchers well imagine they can look after themselves in the Game : Gina always had one protector or another with Quattrocchi, MacLeod or Fitzcairn, and now Robert, but she knows how to use a sword and went after poor Methos like a fury when he jokingly threatened the life of her husband.
        Robert, while not a player of the Game, is no cheese either and can defend himself, hs wife and his castle.
        After three hundred years together, they are a shining example of a couple of immortals able to survive the perils of the Game wihtout having the demonstrate any killer instinct.

        Clément Duval, 2008



        Sigrid Solvig
        Known aliases: Sigrid Thomsen, Oskara Frank,
        Siggi Salter
        Notable characteristics: Over 6' tall, blonde hair;
        short-tempered, with a wicked blade
        Master of disguise, assumed male identities during
        her years as a mercenary
        Weapon: Two-handed Viking longsword
        Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

        Statu
        Most recent base of operations: Paris, France
        Occupations : Proprietor, Salter's Model Agency,
        part-time fashion photographer
        Prior occupations: Headhunter; Fashion &
        underwear model, bodyguard, sword-for-hire
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher: Lucy Becker

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation: Dane
        Born: 1473, Copenhagen, Denmark, Kalmar Union
        First death: 1504; Murdered by her husband's
        mother for not producing an heir
        First teacher: Thor Steen
        Known associates: Swenja Baatz, Lootje De Groot,
        Radu Cozma
        Known past associates: Thor Steen, Axel Kjarstad,
        Kanwulf Odinson, Gertrud Strazzer, Serena Wilde
        Known ennemies: Jorgen Hammer, Bridget
        Ingvarsen
        First recorded sighting: 1504, Copenhagen
        Found by Steen

        The more stable of Thor Steen’s line of students, an amoral player of the Game who answered violence to violence and lived by the sword for five hundred years of her life. She lastly distinguished herself as a member of Ravenwood’s Secret Daggers during 2012 Immortals War and resumed her carreer as manager of a modelling agency in Paris. The Viking bombshell is still a walking nightmare with a Viking sword to the Immortal community of Paris and while she hasn’t been killing any in the last five years, 2018 could be the year of anotehr victory for the Danish woman.

        Lucy Becker, January 2018.

        ADDENDUM : Recorded kills

        Frida Alsvik, Abshjorn Gjeldnes, Hans-Carl Glauber, Desiferio Bagio, Ivaylo Lilov, Jared and Hannah Anderson, Richard Gall, Dunstan De La Mare, Orville Webber, Azita Ebtehaj, Maja Obasanjo, Kiri Asaro, Kao Bangxao, Ludwig Malek, Becky Sharpe
        Inconclusive fights against Jorgen Hammer 1632, 1705; Angelo Piannoro (aka Caspian), 1849; Rajko Zinzifov, 1876; Carmen Vasquez, 1923; Betsy Mitchell, 1986; Percevbal Romero Quinoz, 2011


        Agathe Vierny
        Known aliases : Agathe of Avignon, Cosetta of
        Ravenna, Onorata Rodiana, Celestria d’Angleville,
        Ana Ipatescu, Agathe Milelli
        Notable characteristics : Confrontational, quick
        temper; master of disguise
        Weapon : Greek Hoplite sword
        Recorded kills : *See Addendum*

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : No fixed adress
        Occupation : Globe-trotting journalist, Le Monde
        Prior occupations : War correspondant, war
        photographer, soldier and mercenary sword
        Roster of Immortals Status : Active
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Sophie Giard

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : French
        Born : 1321, Avignon France
        First death : 1349, Drowned as a witch and
        scapegoat during the Great Plague
        First teacher : Kyra of Sparta
        Known associates : Ravenwood, Jacques Morant,
        Burchazd of Alsace
        Known past associates : Kyra, Charles of
        Strasbourg, Fouchier of Nantes, Marcovaldo
        Lupino, Mengarde De Meligny, Benjamin Perec,
        Makarios, Jacques Morant,Seraphina, Henri
        Valjean, Gonzague Campiche, Adelaide of Belley,
        BMR, Sylvain Bakamé, Kadigha, Louis Mortius,
        Santos-Dumont, Felicia Delacruz
        First recorded sighting : 1351. Avigon, France.
        Student of Kyra

        Found and raised by the village wise woman, Agathe was always on the fringe of society and was not afraid to challenge authority. When the Black Death came to Avignon the terrified people looked for some way to stop the disease that was ravaging their town. And they looked to those outsiders as the source for their misery. Agathe and Minette (her mother) were thrown in to the river; if they floated they were innocent if they sank they were witches. Well, both sank like a stone and drowned. That night Kyra, who had kept an eye on Agathe since she was a little girl, helped her out of the river and together they buried Minette.
        But Agathe never forgot the lessons of courage and independence that Minette taught her, and those lessons were also strengthened by having Kyra as her teacher. Those qualities are quite apparent when you see her interviewing a politician or chasing after some other to get a story.

        But these same qualities that make her successful in journalism and a formidable swordswoman, are also the same things that seem to make her love life so contentious. Past chroniclers have noted (and the male ones seems to have disapproved of) that her relationships with lovers mortal and immortal are often fiery and confrontational. Charles of Strasbourg described her as a “consort battleship” and said that it took a man of extraordinary strength and endurance to withstand the woman, but if he could he would find her magnificent.

        DmvTrek, 2008



        Romain De Villiers
        Known aliases : Bernard-Henri Lalanne,
        Jean-Louis Menard
        Notable characteristics : French Nationalist
        Weapon : Charlemagne sword
        Recorded kills : Zein Kassis

        Status
        Most recent base of operations : Lyon, France
        Occupation : Nationalist patriot, revolutionary cell
        leader, disbarred from French National Front
        Prior occupations : Security, French National
        Front; member, Club de l’Horloge, officer; French
        Army under General Raoul Salan and later OAS
        (Secret Army Organisation)
        Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
        Date :
        Place :
        Victor :
        Watcher : Bruno Seychant

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation : French
        Born : 1924; Lille, France
        First death : 1956, Killed by Algerian rebels during
        Algerian War of Independance
        First teacher : Burchard of Alsace
        Known past associates : Burchard fo Alsace
        Known ennemies : François Marchette, ESA,
        Agathe Vierny
        First recorded sighting : 1956. Algiers, Algeria
        Found and mentored by Burchard, at this time
        police superintendant, Algiers
        Last edited by Gardner; 10-27-2022, 12:57 AM.

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        • Sobel Har-Zahav
          Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
          Date : 21 May 1990
          Place : Tel Aviv, Israel
          Victor : Atef Hayreddin


          Toshio Katsumata
          Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
          Date : 12 May 2003
          Place : Okinawa
          Victor : May-Ling Shen

          Katsumata finally paid for the war crimes he comitted during WWII and particularly against May-Ling Shen who hunted him
          down in Okinawa. The medical experiments he performed were unethical and barbaric, ranking him with the Nazi doctors of
          Auschwts and it was time he paid in full blood. May-Ling’s nightmare took end when she took out that one.

          Kiri Kaito, May 2003


          Jacob Bar Shebron

          In 1855, Jacob Bar Shebron killed an Israelite Immortal man whose identity remains unknown to us. The only two missing
          Israelites on our lists are Judith of Bethulia and Na'amah of Ramah. It is our home none of those women were killed by the
          Beta Israeli Ethiopian who was a hot-blooded character in the 19th century. Now a teacher, Jacob gives a message of
          peace to the young generations in the hope the conflicts between peoples of the Levant will be toned down by diplomacy
          and respect of other people’s beliefs. If he killed Na’amah then he may well have been impacted by her Quikcneing, in the
          same way Darius was changed by the Quickening of the Holy Man of Paris
          Isroel Anamis, Tel Aviv 2017

          Note : correction on the Israelite gender


          Feri Cansel
          Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
          Date : 7 July 2010
          Place : Curpus
          Victor : Kenneth
          Watcher : Tracey Emin

          I fear Feri made a mistake when she welcomed the Immortal boy in her home. Kenneth is good ast passing himself for a
          defenceless immortal child accordign to Western records, but this is a ruthless player of the Game who will strike Feri in
          the back as soon as paossible, or when he is finished taking advantage of her good nature. I heard that Kyra of Sparta is on
          the trail of Kenneth, I hope she gets to him before he kills the dancer.

          Tracey Emin, July 2010


          Salman Abu Sita
          Most recent base of operations : Haifat, Israel
          Occupation : Broadcaster, local radio
          Prior occupations : Traveller, student, scholar
          Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
          Date : 12 July 1995
          Place : Haifat
          Victor : Nasir Djaballah, Swords of Allah
          Watcher : Imad Ahmad



          Django Espinoza
          Known aliases : Rafael Cruz
          Notable characteristics : Mystical abilities, healing
          and sixth sense mastery; lives on Holy Grounds
          Weapon : Never seen carrying any
          Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

          Status
          Most recent base of operations : Santiago Atitlàn,
          Guatemala
          Occupation : Shaman
          Prior occupations : Slave, indentured servant
          Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
          Date : 13 June 2004
          Place : Ssantiago Attlàn
          Victor : Napoleon Maldonado
          Watcher : Leilla D’Ornano

          Background
          Original cultural affiliation : Carribean, posing as
          Garifuna, African-Guatemalan
          Born : 1635; Present-day Martinque, Carribean
          islands
          First death : 1660; Killed by French troops during
          Carib Expulsion, ethic cleansing of Martinique
          From its native population
          First teacher : Jacques Morant
          Known past associates : Clemont Haynes,
          Cleophon of Athens, Jacques Miorant
          First recorded sighting : 1806. St. Joseph, Trinidad
          Encounter with Cleophon of Athens and Clemont
          Haynes with whom he shared his tragic past

          I hate an opportunist rascist, especially in the Game. Django was a good man and none of his magic tricks could save his
          head against the blade of the determined Maldonado. Django had been taught everything he needed about the Game by
          Jacques Morant but he didn’t care about the Game and never possessed a sword, never trained and expected to live for
          centuries. Fool! Nox he is dead and I hope Maldonado will get his right dessert soon.

          Leila D’omano, June 2004


          Lucinda Montalban
          Known aliases : Lucia Clement
          Notable characteristics : None
          Weapon : Cutlass
          Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

          Status
          Most recent base of operations : Trinidad,
          Carribean Islands
          Occupation : Professional photographer
          Prior occupations : Prostitute
          Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
          Date : 7 July 2005
          Place : Trinadad
          Victor : Napoleon Maldonado
          Watcher : Carmen Diaz

          Background
          Original cultural affiliation : Native Latin American
          Quiché Indian
          Born : 1967; El Progreso, Guatemala
          First death : 1990; Killed by a right-wing ‘death
          squad’ cleaning streets of Guatemala City
          First teacher : Tereza De La Garza
          Known past associates : Tereza De La Garza
          First recorded sighting : 1992, Guatemala City
          Found and mentored by Tereza, at this time
          documenting right-wing political assassinations

          Lucinda Montalban is in Trinidad, a professional photographer. Recently, she took pcitures of dozens of African Brazilians,
          capturing the culture of a minority of South America. The art gallery in which she showed her works received dozens of
          visitors and she earned a prize for her work; however, the only prize she wants is to keep her head on her shoulders so she
          can be allowed to work as the mortals' Watcher.

          Watcher Bureau, Central America


          Carlos Montoya
          Most recent base of operations : Salvador, Bahia,
          Brazil
          Occupation : Flamenco guitarist & dancer
          Prior occupations : Soldier, Army of Aragon; Capin
          of colon Spanish army in Philippines
          Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
          Date : 12 May 2003
          Place : Salvador
          Victor : Camilla & Bruna Montero

          Finally Carlos Montoya got to Guenau Bolano and Isabel Regalo who tricked him out of a student/lover in 1868 and took out
          Belano before Isabel took a run for her life.But she didn’t escape the mariachi’s blade for long. Carlos wasn’t a violent player
          of the Game before the deadly duo murdered his beloved, but Immortals do have a good memory and never forget when one
          of their kind murder someone they love.
          A chance encounter allowed Carlos to get his revenge.

          Watcher Bureau, Brazil



          Camilla & Bruna Montero

          Status
          Most recent base of operations : Rio, Brazil
          Occupation : Independent means, occasional
          player of the Game, using Immortal baits
          Prior occupations : Socialite, independent means;
          pirate woman, highwaywoman
          Roster of Immortals Status : Active
          Date :
          Place :
          Victor :
          Watcher : Santana Andrade

          Background
          Original cultural affiliation : Unrecorded
          Born : Unrecorded
          First death : Unrecorded
          First teacher : Unrecorded
          Known associates : Bruna Montero, Estefana
          Dominguez
          Known past associates : Several Immortal children
          and teenaged Immortals over the centuries,
          disposed of when outliving their usefulness
          First recorded sighting : 1776. Viceroyalty of Rio
          de la Plata, Argentina. Encounter with Simon de
          Miranda

          Carlos Montoya shouldn’t have trusted Estafania Dominguez, did he see in the young girl the lover he once had ? For once
          in a long time he felty happy, but Estefania is the acomplice of a game of bait, with him being the cheese on the
          mousetrap. Camilla and Buna Montero have been playign the Game for centurie,s each time using “little sisters” as baits,
          disposing of them when they were done using them or when the girls smartened up.

          Watcher Bureau, Brazil


          Estafania Dominguez

          Known aliases : None
          Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
          Weapon : Not carrying one
          Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

          Status
          Most recent base of operations : Rio, Brazil
          Occupation : Immortal bait, luring adult Immortals
          to the blade of Camilla and Bruna Montero
          Roster of Immortals Status : Active
          Date :
          Place :
          Victor :
          Watcher : Santana Andrade, Montero Chronicle

          Background
          Original cultural affiliation : Peruvian
          Born : 1981; Arequipa, Peru
          First death : 1997; Killed in earthquake, hunted
          from her village by her family
          First teacher : N.A Found by Camilla and Bruna
          Montero, used as Immortal bait
          Known associates : Camilla & Bruna Montero
          First recorded sighting : 1997. Callao, Peru
          Found on the streets of Callao, underage
          prostitute, recruited by the Montero sisters as bait
          Last edited by Gardner; 01-01-2020, 01:14 PM.

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          • Solomon ben Judah

            Known aliases : Solomon ibn Gabirol,
            Solomon he-Nagid, Solomon boaz Yerubin
            Notable characteristics : Master philosopher
            Weapon : Toledo Salamanca rapier
            Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

            Status
            Most recent base of operations : Tunis, Tunisia
            Occupation : Professor in philosophy, Tunisia
            Private University
            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
            Date : 2 November 1997
            Place : Sfax
            Victor : Nura Al Habash
            Watcher : Saoud Amin’a

            Background
            Original cultural affiliation : Andalucian Jew
            Born : 1021, Malaga Spain
            First death : 1058, Poet murdered by jelous rival
            First teacher : Hamza el Kahir
            Known past associates : Ibn Mohammed Kara,
            Hamza el-Kahir, Malik bin-Ayoob, Ousman Ngum,
            Zoraida, Alim Ibn Al-Nasr, Barbrak Kamal,
            Melquiades of Lisbn
            First recorded sighting : 1059 Spain. Travelling
            with Kara

            This day, I must close the Chronicle of my charge, the great poet Solomon ben Judah, who vanished two years ago in Damascus. For those past two years I have been relentlessly looking for him but to no avail. Solomon is missing, possibly killed facing one of the immortals living in Damascus circa 1851 : Farid al'Zafir, Iman Fasil, Isra of Algiers.
            Solomon was an outstanding poet and writer in medieval Spain and was fortunate enought tot be mentored in poetry by Achilles of Troy himself who latter taught him swordsmanship when he was murdered by a jealous rival. During eight hundred years, Solomon illuminated the Middle East and Renaissance-era Europe with his poetry, how fortunate the mortals were to know such a poet ! And what greatness he gave to the world ! I live in the hope that Solomon didn't die against one of the Damascus immortals and that he is living peacefully somewhere away from the Game.

            Aaron bar Moshe, 1853

            Solomon Ben Judah re-apeared in 1993 in Tunis, alive and well and was challenged to a duel in 1997 by Nural Al Habash, female player of the Game with a taste for male Quickenings. She savored it while the Quickening of her oppobnent burnt his library away. Two losses for the Immortal world : a good man and his extensive library.

            Watcher Bureau, Northern Africa


            Rebeka Mwaze
            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
            Date : 3 July 1991
            Place : Nairobi
            Victor : Elise Yeow



            Amyr Beg
            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
            Date : 12 September 2006
            Place : Lake Issyk-kul
            Victor :Elise Yeow

            Amyr Beg trained Immortals in the ways of Immortality for nearly two thousand years before retiring during the years of WWII, he now trains falcons for the hunt, a more pacifical way to live with mother nature without having to teach others of his kind how to kill other Immortals. I don’t know where this change of heart comes from but this is an Immortal who renounced all violence and now thrives on peacful living.

            Pavel Ozov, 2006



            Tshala Massanga
            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
            Date : 13 May 2007
            Place : Bangui
            Victor : Elise Yeow

            Victor Tao

            Known aliases : Shoo Han
            Notable characteristics : Silver-haired; bearing the
            hallmarks of ancient origins
            Weapon : Cixong sword
            Recorded kills : None known, fought to protect his
            life and his business; Inconclusive fight against
            Immortal Maiden, 1840

            Status
            Most recent base of operations : Canberra,
            Australian Capital Territory
            Occupation : Architect, in charge of repairing
            buildings in Canberra’s centertown
            Prior occupations : Architect, Shang Dynasty
            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
            Date : 23 December 2011
            Place :Canberra
            Victor : Elise Yeow
            Watcher : Janie Chan

            Background
            Original cultural affiliation : Chinese
            Born : 1192 BC; Shang Dynasty of China
            First death : 1142 BC; Circumstances unknown
            First teacher : Unrecorded
            Known past associates : Sun Tzu, Kan-chang
            Ch’ih, Lung-Shu
            First recorded sighting : 1856 Shangai, China
            Working on repairing Shagai centertown during the
            Opium Wars, encounter with Immortal Maiden

            Research through the scrolls of Inyotef have allowed to pin the origins of the mysterious immortal Victor Tao as the Shang Dynasty of China, circa 1192 BC. Inyotef met Victor Tao through Sun Tzu during the 10th century BC, a brillant architect who later became responsible for drawing the plans of the Great Wall of China, or at list its earlier incarnation in the 7th century BC under Quin Shin Huang, the first Emperor of China.

            John Mortimer III
            Head Research, Memnet-Ra’s Fortress
            Last edited by Gardner; 07-05-2022, 11:26 PM.

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            • Thanks for the credit, my friend, you're too kind.
              The Hellfire Club inspired me and i knew we couldn't have its members all with unrecorded origins and bland stats. They needed a story, especially the nemeses of the SIS, a history that makes them more than just average villains. Aldrich Monk needed to be a worthy adversary for Richeard of Mercia and what better backstory than former blood brothers - turned - enemies? They're always the best antagonists, right?

              Thanks for the chronicles, much appreciated.
              One thing though, who is the last Immortal, the one killed by Elise Yeow in 2013? You missed the name out...

              Cheers
              Apollo1

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              • Glad the HC idea works for you. In the final gathering the two survivors of the SIS and HellFire Club will face each other... because yes, the best antagonists are always former blood-brothers or sisters.

                I don't know if I mentioned this in the deletions list : the Fallen Angels, with the exeption of Vitalya Lobanova.
                I don't even know if you have those girls in your files.


                Here is the timeline of Duncan MacLeod for the 1990's, accordign to the A.U we built.
                Tell me if you find this coherent enough please.


                1990 : Berlin, Germany. Kuyler is killed by Rogue Watchers.
                1991 : In Seattle, Grayson tracks down the Cross of St. Antoine and kills John Durgan who won't hand it over to him.
                Memphis TE. Kage, aka John Kirin, is murdered by a Rogue Watcher.

                1992

                Peru. Gavriel Larca is killed by immortal Rascar Inca Huaco.
                Luxembourg. Irena Galati is murdered by James Horton.
                Between 1992 and 1995, Jacob Galati murders roughly fifty Watchers.
                Seattle WA. MacLeod becomes the guardian of pre-immortal Richie Ryan. Tessa is captured and nearly killed by Slan Quince who Duncan kills in front of Richie Ryan's to whom he explains hte Game and the existence of immortals.
                Richie is nearly killed by Felicia Martins who targeted Duncan MacLeod; MacLeod defeats her but lets her go.
                Steveston WA. Investigates the death of Lucas Desiree, fights and kills Howard Crowley.
                Randi MacFarland investigates Duncan MacLeod and finds really odd things about the Highlander until she mysteriously vanishes without a trace. MacLeod is suspected while in fact Randi is sent to Watcher Academy and becomes a Field Watcher four years later.

                1993

                Seattle WA. MacLeod fights one of the most harrowing battles of his life when he takes on Grayson and is nearly killed. After finally defeating the ancient immortal, Duncan, Tessa and Richie leave for Paris.
                Paris, France.
                Grace Chandel kills ex-husband Carlo Sendaro
                Gabriel Piton settles in Rome.
                Unconclusive fight of DM against Xavier St. Cloud who loses his right hand to the Highlander.
                Darius is murdered by the Hunters, MacLeod investigates his death and soon discovers the existence of the Watchers through Joe Dawson who shoots James Horton.
                MacLeod, Richie and Tessa spend an uneventful year in Paris, reuniting with Robert & Gina de Valicourt, until Tessa and Richie are finally killed in a mugging. Richie turns immortal.
                Seattle WA, Linda Plager dies. Gregor starts making trouble.
                Pallin Wolf kills two more immortals before being found by Joe Dawson cleanup-squad, tried and executed.
                Washington DC : Annie Devlin tries to murder an Irish ambassador whom she deems a traitor to the cause of Ireland.
                Charlie DeSalvo loses his dojo and resumes his career as mercenary in Central America.

                1994 : Paris, France. After killing Antoine Legris, James Horton and Xavier St. Cloud take on Duncan who was forewarned by interfering Joe Dawson. Dawson kills Horton for good (still checks for his pulse, just in case) while MacLeod rids the world from Xavier.
                Marcus Constantine never finds Nefertiri and doesn't meet MacLeod. Rebecca Horne kills Luther.
                Hit with wanderlust, Richie Ryan travels to Cordoba, Barcelona, Madrid: in Cordoba. He is hunted down by Martin Hyde right back to Paris where MacLeod disposes of an old ennemy. Richie decides he never want to be hunted again and starts training in earnest.
                Tokyo, Japan. Duncan MacLeod kills Michael Kent to honor a centuries-long promise.
                Balkans. Paul Karros gets in conflict with Andrew Cord and kills him.
                Frank Brody is murdered by Kenneth who never meets Duncan and Richie.
                Michelle Webster is killed in a car accident and is found by Axel Kjarstad.
                US Southwest. Brian Cullen causes a traffic accident, killing and wounding several mortals. He escapes from the Albukerque hospital and start hunting other immortals in a drug-induced frenzy.

                1995

                Canada. Michael Christian targets May-Ling Shen who turns the table on him and kills him. Rita Luce is tried and executed by the Watcher Tribunal.
                Paris, France. After a quiet year in Paris, MacLeod and Hugh Fitzcairn are targeted by the revengeful Kalas. Joe Dawson tips MacLeod on Watcher Adam Pierson for help on finding the elusive Methos before Kalas kills him. It turns out Pierson is Methos. Kalas murders Hugh Fitzcairn, Auberon, three Watchers, triggers the Watcher CD crisis and is finally killed by Jacques Vemas, a senior Watcher leading a clean-up squad going after Kalas and the lost cd.
                Meanwhile, Richie runs into trouble with a competitive racer, an Immortal named Tristan Cagnat and is forced to kill him. He must leave Paris and goes on a road trip in America where he kills Felicia Martins, Brian Cullen, William Cullbraith. Meets the Messenger.
                Glenfinnan, Scotland. MacLeod returns to his homeland, investigates a rash of brutal ritualistic murders and kills Kanwulf.
                MacLeod returns to Seattle for a time, reunites with Methos
                Kristin Gilles settles in Seattle, MacLeod cannot bring himself to kill her. Methos takes her down.
                Pacific Northwest. Paul Kinman shoots Peter Kanis' dogs and takes the hunter's head. Four days later, in Miami, he is killed by Matthew of Salisbury, investigating the murder of FBI agent Kayla Brooks.
                Los Angeles CA. Claudia Jardine is killed by Walter Graham who mistakenly believed her death will preserve her talent. Claudia decides she wants no part in the Game and that she needs the fear of death for he talent to blossom.

                1996

                Seattle WA. Methos falls for Alexa and takes her on a road trip.
                James Coltec fights and kills Horvan Kant; centuries of absorbing the world's evils finally do him in as he becomes an homicidal psychopath, terrorizing Seattle before being killed by MacLeod who turns "evil." MacLeod nearly kills Richie and is stopped in time by Dawson who explains the facts of immortality and dark quickenigns to an understanding Richie.
                Wales. Sean Burns runs the Black Friar Asylum for the Criminally Insane, the Arkham Asylum of the Highlander universe. He is killed by MacLeod. Methos later restores MacLeod's sanity.
                Paris, France. Kassim ibn Sallis urges DM to keep his promise and help him save the life of the last Al Deneb son. A man of honor, Duncan keeps his word.
                Duncan and Amanda try to mentor Danny Cimoli who in turn tries to go after DM's head. Duncan sends him packing.
                Duncan and Methos help Warren Cochrane find his memory back after he killed his student. Duncan, Methos as well as other immortals guests atend the 300th anniversary of Robert & Gina de Valicurt's wedding.
                Duncan and Methos attend the trial of Joe Dawson, indicted for breaking the Watcher's oath of non-interference. Meanwhile, Jacob Galati hunts and kills Watchers for the murder of his wife, Irena. In the end, Jack Shapiro, head of Watcher Tribune, murders Galati. MacLeod forcefully ends the Immortal/Watchers war before it becomes uncontrollable.
                Washington DC. Carl Robinson is a pro baseball player. He briefly reunites with his former teacher who agrees to forget Carl killed his wife's father 150 years ago.
                Pacific Northwest. Corey Raines lives the high life of a bank robber.
                Moscow, Russia. Ingrid Henning's crimes are put to and end by Dimitri Bukharin, BMR.
                Bordeaux, France. Deoneces< and Kyra of Sparta put an end to the existence of the Four Horsemen.
                Paris, France. Steven Keane forces Duncan to come to terms with the crimes he committed after the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and decides (again) to retire from the Game as much as possible.

                1998-1999
                Paris, France. MacLeod reunites with an old student, Keith Douglas, immortal parricide, who comes after Methos' head. MacLeod is forced to kill Keith and feels devastated that he was forced to kill a former student.
                To celebrate his friend's 25th birthday, MacLeod takes Richie Ryan back to his roots in Glenfinnan where Richie falls for Rachel MacLeod, Duncan's cousin.

                2000 : Paris, France. MacLeod fights and kills Avram ben Mordecai and Grayson's widow, Callestina.
                2002 : Paris, France. MacLeod fights and kills madwoman Artemissia of Helicarnassos.
                2009 : MacLeod briefly returns to Seattle to help his god-daughter, Mary Lindsey, who fell in the clutches of immortal predator Jason McKinney. MacLeod kills McKinney.
                2010 : Alexandria, Egypt. MacLeod lives with new lover Ashur Badaktu, is killed in battle against Hasdrubal Skaras.


                Apollo, I restored the DQ storyline because this is really a good story and we need more interaction between MacLeod and Methos

                Kristin Gilles
                Most recent base of operations : Seattle, WA
                Occupation : Director, Kristin Model Agency
                Prior occupations : School director, aristocrat
                Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                Date : 23 October 1995
                Place : Seattle
                Victor : Methos
                Watcher : Veronique Millet

                Kol T'ek
                Most recent base of operations : Seattle, WA
                Occupation : Beat poet/serial killer
                Prior occupations : Political lobbyist, shaman,
                healer, warrior, tribe leader
                Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                Date : 26 March 1996
                Place : Seattle, WA
                Victor : Duncan MacLeod
                Watcher : Xanthia Running-Bear

                Sean Burns
                Most recent base of operations : Swansea Wales
                Occupation : Founder/ Director and chief
                psychiatrist of Black Friar Mental Asylum
                Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                Date : 2 April 1996
                Place : Swansea
                Victor : Duncan MacLeod
                Watcher : Sylvia Krause, Black Friar Chronicle



                Pheretima of Pasargadae
                Known aliases : None
                Notable characteristics : Entombed for fifteen
                hundred years, unable to adapt to modern era
                Weapon : Not carrying one
                Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

                Status
                Most recent base of operations : Shiraz, Fars
                Province, Iran
                Occupation : Goddess, leading underground cult,
                tried to murder Aurel Stein
                Prior occupations : High-priestess, cult of Cyrus
                the Great, deliverer of the Jews
                Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                Date : 3 May 1934
                Place : Shiraz
                Victor : Connie Richland
                Watcher : Research, Middle East

                Background
                Original cultural affiliation : Achaemenid
                Born : 5th century BC; Pasargadae,
                Achaemenid Empire; present-day Iran
                First death : Killed during earthquake, buried in
                underground chamber, suffocated to death
                First teacher : Connie Richland
                Known associates : Conni Richland
                Known ennemies: Sir Aurerl Stein
                First recorded sighting : 1905. Fars Pronivce, Iran
                During exploration of city’s ruins by archaeologist
                Ernst Herfeld and Immortal Connie Richland

                Connie Richland never expected she would take an antique out of the Game but that’s what happened to her in 1905 when she uncovered the ruins of Pasargadae and was confronted by an Immortal women entrapped for one tousand years and a half and who had a very hard time adaptign herself to modern times. Pheretima never did and was still behavign like a goddess in 1934 when she tried to murder Sir Aurel Stein, Immortal and a friend of Connie. Connie freed Stein and took out Pheretima herself.

                Watcher Bureau, Middle East



                Judyta Gajarsky
                Known aliases : Sylvia Kapersky
                Notable characteristics : Bookworm, possessed
                one of the most extensive private libraries of the
                19th century
                Weapon : Single-ring rapier, passing it as family
                heirloom
                Inconclusive fight against Fritjof Myrdal, 1661;
                Sigurd Jarlson, 1721; Anton Vanko, 1863

                Status
                Most recent base of operations : Vilnius, Lithuania
                Occupation : Running a Lithuanian book smuggler
                network, resisting Russification of Lithuania
                Prior occupations : School teacher, librarian
                Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                Date : 1863 Durign uprising against Russian
                Empire; hid books from Anton Vanko’s squadron
                Place : Vilnius
                Victor : N.A
                Watcher : Research, Northern Europe

                Background
                Original cultural affiliation : Lithuanian
                Born : 1415; Vilnius, Lithuania
                First death : 1440; Rescuing children from school
                in fire, suffocated by fumes
                First teacher : Edwina of Mercia
                Known past associates : Edwina of Mercia
                Known ennemies : Anton Vanko
                First recorded sighting : 1445. Vilnius, Lithuania
                Found and mentored by Edwina, investigating
                tales of a miraculous recovery in Vilnius

                Bookworm there, stuffed to the gills with useless knowledge with a love for books unparalleled by any other of her kind. That’s why she saved thousands of them from the Russians, smuggling them to other Baltic states. And good with a sword too, the BMR and Victor Markov chose to leave her alone but suggested she be cautious around Anton Vanko, the Siberian Tiger. We expect her to azttend the final Gathering comfy in an armchair, a book in her hands. And her sharp sword ready.

                Watcher Research, Northern Europe


                Dania of Amman

                Known aliases : Lina Khalifa
                Notable characteristics : Split personalities
                between the psyches of Immortals she killed
                Weapon : Circassian cavalry saber
                Recorded kills : Boaz of Hebron, Karif of Nabataea,
                Andronika of Armenia, Ekmel of Canik, Ehsan Ibn
                Fauzi, Maro Atef, Hussein Abu Shakra, Malek Ben Mansour
                Inconclusive fight agaisnt Sharuq Aminedi, 1918

                Status
                Most recent base of operations : Amman, Jordania
                Occupation : Instructor, Women’self-defence
                Center; trainees learn martial arts and self-esteem
                to counter sexual harassment and rape
                Prior occupations : Village woman, leading
                rebellion against invading Arabs, WWI
                Roster of Immortals Status : Active
                Date :
                Place :
                Victor :
                Watcher : Rasha Salih

                Background
                Original cultural affiliation : Jordan
                Born : 729; Jerash, Jordan
                First death : During destruction of Jerash,
                Earthquake of 749
                First teacher : Mahasti of Petra
                Known past associates : Mahasti of Petra
                Known ennemies : Saruq Aminedi
                First recorded sighting : 1918. Amman, Jordania
                Great Arab Revolt, World War I theater of
                operations, in conflict against Sharuk Aminedi
                Last edited by Gardner; 10-28-2022, 02:50 AM.

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                • The updated Duncan MacLeod chronicle is fine, my friend. One thing though, since you have Sean Burns being killed by MacLeod, who now runs the Black Friars Asylum in his stead? Or do mortals connected to the Watchers now run it?

                  Okay, i need your help fleshing out another victim of Evangeline Black, if you could:

                  Damaen of Wexford

                  Most recent base of operations: Canterbury, Kingdom
                  of England
                  Occupation: Bishop
                  Prior occupations: Warrior
                  Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
                  Date: 29 Sept 1011
                  Place: Canterbury
                  Victor: Elfrida the Black Wolf, aka Evangeline
                  Black
                  Watcher: Research, Immortals of Ireland

                  Original cultural affiliation: Irish
                  Born: 835, Wexford, Kingdom of Leinster
                  First death: 868; Battle of Cell Ua nDaigre on the
                  Boyne estuary, fighting the High King of Ireland, Aed
                  Findliath
                  First teacher: ?

                  For over one hundred years Damaen was a warrior who fought in many battles, but with his own code of conduct unusual for his time. He never raped or pillaged, fighting only those he considered warriors, and was good at it; one of the great Irish swordsmen of his generation. Then in 972, he fought his first Immortal and lost. Preparing to die, he was shocked when his head was spared, his opponent unwilling to kill a man of such honour and courage. Believing that God had intervened to spare his life to serve Him, Damaen discarded his sword, abandoning the warrior life for the robes of a priest.

                  Unfortunately, on 29 September 1011, he was in Canterbury, serving as a bishop, when the city was captured by the Danes led by Elfrida the Black Wolf, an early identity of the infamous Evangeline Black of the Hellfire Club. Aelfheah, the archbishop, was taken prisoner while Damaen was caught trying to flee by Elfrida's mortal Valkyries and dragged before their mistress, who was hungry for a Quickening. This time, even God could not spare Damaen from the Black Wolf's blade.

                  Research, Immortals of Ireland

                  Cheers
                  Apollo1
                  Last edited by Apollo1; 01-25-2018, 12:59 PM.

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                  • His student Carolyn Mortimer, now head psychiatrist and director of Black Friars Asylum.
                    She disagreed with Sean when he went to face Evil Duncan without his sword and tipped Steven Keane on the whereabouts of MacLeod...

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                    • Adjustement to Dania of Hamman:
                      Recorded kills : Boaz of Hebron, Karif of Nabataea,
                      Inconclusive fight agaisnt Sharuq Aminedi, 1918

                      Thank you for another great character, Apollo.

                      Damaen of Wexford
                      Known aliases : None
                      Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
                      Weapon : Celtic medieval sword, dsicarded
                      Inconclusive fight against Ailell of Kells, 972

                      Status
                      Most recent base of operations: Canterbury,
                      Kingdomof England
                      Occupation: Bishop
                      Prior occupations: Warrior
                      Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
                      Date: 29 Sept 1011
                      Place: Canterbury
                      Victor: Elfrida the Black Wolf, aka Evangeline
                      Black
                      Watcher: Research, Immortals of Ireland

                      Background
                      Original cultural affiliation: Irish
                      Born: 835, Wexford, Kingdom of Leinster
                      First death: 868; Battle of Cell Uan Daigre on the
                      Boyne estuary, fighting the High King of Ireland,
                      Aed Findliath
                      First teacher: Seamus of Athlone
                      Known past associates : Seamus of Athlone,
                      Ailell of Kells
                      First recorded sighting : 868. Northern Ireland
                      Disciple of Seamus of Athlone


                      Nuha Kalash
                      Most recent base of operations : New-Yok, NY
                      Occupation : Restaurator, Matam Kalash
                      Prior occupations : Restaurant proprietor, cook,
                      shrine keeper, traveller, teacher; gourmet chief,
                      Delhi Sultanate, Mughal Empire
                      Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                      Date : 13 May 1996
                      Place : New-York
                      Victor : N.A
                      Watcher : Steven Erdmann
                      Last edited by Gardner; 01-26-2018, 02:22 AM.

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                      • Thanks for completing the Damaen stats, my friend. Once again, much appreciated. I'm really enjoying co-collaborating on these Immortals killed by the various members of the Hellfire Club and the early SIS.

                        BTW Have to ask, which raven-haired actress do you have as Evangeline Black? And who do you have as the now infamous Aldrich Monk?

                        Cheers
                        Apollo1

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                        • Here they are. Two British actors in regency era clothing. Can't remember their names though.

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                          • And here are Theobald Cleaver, Serena Harper, Dominic Piper

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                            • Nice photos, although i always pictured Jaime Murray as Evangeline. Plus, there are photos of her in 19th century garb from her role in Warehouse 13 as a previous English agent of the Warehouse of that time.

                              And Jonas Armstrong as Aldrich Monk with some great pictures of him in Ripper Street as Nathaniel Dove, ironically a 19th century serial killer.

                              Cheers
                              Apollo1

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                              • Impressive actor and actress, very scary looking. Prime villains material there.
                                The final Gathering will see the SIS and the Hellife Club fight each others until one one remain. Unless they have killed each others beforehand.

                                About the final Gathering (circa 2025-30) I am thinking of several mini gatherings along the years before the grand finale.

                                Last edited by Gardner; 01-29-2018, 05:15 AM.

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                                • Originally posted by Gardner View Post
                                  Impressive actor and actress, very scary looking. Prime villains material there.
                                  The final Gathering will see the SIS and the Hellife Club fight each others until one one remain. Unless they have killed each others beforehand.

                                  About the final Gathering (circa 2025-30) I am thinking of several mini gatherings along the years before the grand finale.
                                  Yeah, no worries, my friend. The mini-Gatherings are a good idea to whittle the numbers down somewhat. And i always planned that Richeard and Aldrich would be the last ones standing anyway, settling an old score as it were; they both started the SIS and the Hellfire Club, it's only fitting they should end it.

                                  Also, could you post the active and inactive Immortals of Benelux, Germany, and Switzerland, please...

                                  Cheers
                                  Apollo1

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                                  • SWITZERLAND

                                    Bertric
                                    Known aliases : Berthold Braum, Bertrand Rigaud,
                                    Alberic of Koln, Albert Richfield
                                    Cross-identified as Robert Fitzhamon
                                    Notable characteristics :
                                    Immortality triggered past his prime
                                    Weapon : Never seen carryin any
                                    Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

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

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : Saxon
                                    Born : 306, England
                                    First death : 356, Beaten to death by slave-owner
                                    First teacher : Anatellon
                                    Known associates : Grace Chandel, Liam Riley,
                                    Emilie Valentin
                                    Known past associates : Anatellon, Bartholomew,
                                    Frederick Barbarossa, Maria Vaccario, Makar,
                                    Thanos of Athens, Nestore Udinesi
                                    First recorded sighting : 356 England. Student of
                                    Anatellon

                                    Bertric found remedies against forms of lymphoms and neural degeneracies thanks to his research through herbal medecines; with Grace Chandel's death, he felt he had lost not only a friend but also a valuable colaborator. However, unlike Andrew Kaspis, he is ready to put up the paperwork and send the results of his work to the outside world.

                                    Brother Antoine, August 2011

                                    From the Records of the Tribunal
                                    5 July 1990

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



                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville
                                    Known aliases : Albert Préjean, Pietro di Salvi
                                    Notable characteristics : None
                                    Weapon : Never seen carrying any
                                    Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Canton of Zurich,
                                    Switzerland
                                    Occupation : Abbot
                                    Prior occupations : Franciscan monk, in service to
                                    the Immortal Court of Beauties
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Brother Jeremy

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : Savoyard
                                    Born : 1572; Albertville, province of Chambery,
                                    Duchy of Savoy
                                    First death : Killed during War of 1600-1601
                                    between France and Savoy
                                    First teacher : André de Florac
                                    Known associates : The Von Erlon Family
                                    Known past associates : Machiavelli and the Court
                                    of Beauties, Brother Paul
                                    First recorded sighting : 1656 Venice Italy
                                    Encounter with Duncan MacLeod, as part of the
                                    Immortal Court of Beauties



                                    André de Florac
                                    Known aliases : Brother André Florac, Andre Fiore
                                    Notable characteristics : immortality triggered past
                                    his prime
                                    Weapon : Never seen carrying any
                                    Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Canton of Zurich,
                                    Switzerland
                                    Occupation : Abbot
                                    Prior occupations : Franciscan monk, in service to
                                    the Immortal Court of Beauties; architect
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Brother Jeremy

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : French
                                    Born : 1320; Florac, province of Mende, France
                                    First death : 1368; Felled by bricks during
                                    construction of the Cathedral of Mende
                                    First teacher : Archelaus, cross-identified as his
                                    student when meeting Merlino Bolognesi at St.
                                    Christopher Monastery
                                    Known associates : The Von Erlon Family
                                    Known past associates : Machiavelli and the Court
                                    of Beauties, Brother Paul
                                    First recorded sighting : 1656 Venice Italy
                                    Encounter with Duncan MacLeod, as part of the
                                    Immortal Court of Beauties

                                    Watcher Research
                                    Report on the Immortal Court of Beauties
                                    Venice Chapter, 17th Century

                                    The Immortals Court of Beauties led by Niccolo Machiavelli, renowned author of The Prince and apostle of "right makes might", first appears on Watchers scope in 1656 during a confrontation with Duncan MacLeod that ended with Machiavelli being entombed for at least two hundred years before he re-appears around 1897 in Rome, and most of the Court in disarray with half its membership either dead or missing. Machiavelli had been scouring Renaissance-days Southern, Western
                                    Europe and Northern Asa in search of pre-immortals he could mold into perfect agents of espionnage in the European courts, to fill his means of political and
                                    financial manipulations.

                                    The Game Machiavelli played was of intrigue, manipulations, more than the Immortal Game itself for which he had nothing but disdain.Machiavelli ruthlessly manipulated his "pawns", never hesitating to sacrifice
                                    them when needed, using his righ-hand man Ruffio Mocenigo as executioner.

                                    The Renaissance Court was made of :

                                    - Sergeil Aloysovitch : spy at court of Alexei I, Czar of Russia. Killed by Ruffio Mocenigo during the battle between MacLeod and the Court.

                                    - Paloma Alcina : seductress and spy at the court of Kingof Spain Philippe IV. Paloma died in 1662 against Felicia Martins in Madrid where she lived as a madam, having lost the support of Machiavelli.

                                    - Brother Andre and Brother Jean Pierre, two Franciscan months assigned to the Vatican went missing and re-appeared in 1770 at St. Christopher Monastery, where
                                    they lived in peace until Brother Paul's death at the blade of Antonius Kalas in 1995. They became Paul's sucessors and are now in charge St. Christopher, welcoming any peaceful immortal seeking safe haven in their home.

                                    - Bernardo Caprio and Giulietta Fantini : one master forger, the other an art thief, working together to replace famous paintings by fakes, to fill Machiavelli's private collection. Treasures were recovered in his home,
                                    including a "lost" work by Leonardo Da Vinci and another one by Rafaello. They were killed in Venice in 1668 by Marcello Bartoli, unable to defend themselves, having learned nothing about sword-fighting.

                                    - Cristofori : another spy, this time infiltrating the families of Visconti and Medici, gaining political weight in service to his master. Cristofori died against Walter Reinhardt in 1718 in Vienna where he was living off the wealth accumulated during his days in Venice.

                                    - Eugenia de la Croix and Annette Rouen were spies and courtesans at King Louis XIV's Court of Versailles. Eugenia went missing, Annette died against Terence Kincaid in Bordeaux.

                                    - Ruffio Mocenigo was the only surviving member of the Court to present times, having gathered a new group of immortals for Machiavelli.



                                    Malcus of Ephesus
                                    Known aliases : Melos of Sparta, Martin Castro
                                    Lacroze, Dominguo De Jesus, Toussaint Gerthory,
                                    Frater Corrado
                                    Notable characteristics : Lives on Holy Ground
                                    Weapon : Never seen carrying any
                                    Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

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

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

                                    In 250 AD, In a city called Ephesus, located in today's Turkey, the Emperor Decius refused to believe in God alone. He did not like the new Christian religion and was punishing those who did not listen to him or follow him. Many of the Christians at this time were punished, expelled from their homes or killed for refusing to obey him.

                                    Some young men, seven of them (Malcus, Maximian, John, Dionysius, Constantine, Seraphim and Martinian), refused to obey the Emperor and want to continue to worship God alone. They were afraid that the Emperor may kill them if they stayed around or force them to obey him. They took their dog with them and escaped the city and found a cave outside the city. They decided to hide in the cave. God decided to put them to sleep for 300 years until the Emperor and his children died and the good believing Christian took control of the city. When they woke up after 300 years they felt hungry and sent one of them, Malcus, to buy them food from the city. When he went to the city and bought the food, he gave them the old money he had. The people of the city then realized this person is one of the youths who escaped to the cave and were delighted to find them. They treated them well and allowed them to worship God alone, freely until they died and buried them in the cave. This particular legend was current during the 6th century and was referred to by Gregory of Tours.

                                    Now, here are the more likely facts about their myths : the circumstances behind them being forced to hide in a cave are certainly true, the Christians were still suffering from persecutions at this time. It is proven in the Chronicles that all but one of of the Sleepers were ancient immortals, with Malcus a pre-immortal. Malcus probably suffered his first death from oxygen deprivation alongside his brothers, and laid dormant during three centuries - 180 years is more likely - until the cave was opened.

                                    Earlier chronicles, from the 15th century BC to the time of the Sleepers entombement, state immortals called like the other Sleepers - Dyonisius and Marcus Constantine - lived in the Mediterranean area. It is likely that when Jesus Christ began performing his "miracles" and Gathering disciples, they heard his call and converted themselves to christianity, whatever their religious beliefs were. For centuries, a group of seven immortals spread the word of Christ around the civilized world, not limiting themselves to the Mediterranean area.

                                    Malcus is the last surviving Sleeper of Ephesus : the six others either died or went missing centuries ago.

                                    - Constantine (who shouldn't be confused with Marcus Constantine, the former Roman general) died against Ahaziah of Ramoth-gilead in 300 AD, over a religious dispute.

                                    - Seraphim went missing in 500 AD, he was last seen on the border of the Caspian sea before re-appearing at St. Christopher Monastery where he lived for a decade before being killed by Antonius Kalas.

                                    - Dyonisius, oldest of the Sleepers, died against General Darius at the gates of Paris in 451 AD, changing an invicible warrior into a man of peace.

                                    - John (aka Johannes of Belgium) lost a battle against Selim Ubadah in Morocco in 700 AD, as he was trying to convert a local tribe to christianity.

                                    - Maximian went missing in 1190 AD during the Third Crusade as he was sailing to Jerusalem with hundreds of other crusaders. The boat he was travelling on was caught in a storm and never reappeared. He re-appeared in France in 1307 and was killed by Uneric the Vandal during the persecutions of the Templar Knights by Phillip the Fair

                                    - Martinian was beheaded by the Kurgan in 1276 after the massacre of Zograf Monastery in Greece. During his battle with Flavio Parrocchi in 1663, the Kurgan gloated he had the privilege of slaying one of the fabled Seven Sleepers after hunting him down during seven days and seven nights.

                                    The legend of the Seven Sleepers
                                    Watcher Research, Western Asia


                                    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.





                                    GERMANY

                                    Hannah Baran
                                    Known aliases : Ashputtel, Cindy Spacek
                                    Notable characteristics : Acute fashion sense
                                    Weapon : Single-ring rapier
                                    Recorded kills : Lady Tremaine, Uwe Oberle,
                                    Ernst Daimler, Talia Bauer, Alajos Kovac, Luka
                                    Baikov
                                    Inconclusive fight against the Bogeyman, 1729;

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Mobile
                                    Homebased in Berlin
                                    Occupation : German Secret Services
                                    Prior occupations : Proprietor, The Glass Slipper
                                    shoe shop: charter member, Teutonic League
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Active
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Gunther Kolb

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1440, Germany, Holy Roman Empire
                                    First death : 1460, Frozen to death during 15th
                                    Century Ice Age
                                    First teacher : Terence of Coventry
                                    Known associates : Gregor Czardas, Nazif Sharani
                                    Known past associates : Terence of Coventry,
                                    Edith Foch, Rosalia d’Argento, Max Lieber,
                                    Gertud Strazzer, Teutonic Immortal League,
                                    Heike Duhr, Gert Foreke, Gabrielle Stein
                                    Known enemies : Mohammed Zein, Kareem
                                    Rassul, Tawfiq Youssef
                                    First recorded sighting : 1460 Holy Roman Empire
                                    Travelling with Terence of Coventry, lover/teacher

                                    There isn't one Prince Charming Chronicle, when you look at it, as the identity was assumed by three different immortals (Ashe, Fitzmartin, Lord Terence), with only one having survived the Game over the centuries. Cinderalla was a student of the third Prince Charming whose stories were chronicled by Hans and Jacob Grimm under the guise of dark fairy tales. Hannah's life wasn't a fairy tale from her point of view : after that nasty business with Lady Tremaine and her stepsisters and swearing she would never be anyone's slave again, Hannah swore she would never be a victim of the Game and always avoided others of her kind as much as possible and remains among the large number of immortals who have never taken a head in their entire lifetime. She knows that someday she will face a challenge she won't be able to run from, so she trains constantly with the best mortal teachers she can find, while devoting her life as agent of German secret services.



                                    Ender Gezmen
                                    Known aliases : Herzek Segem
                                    Notable characteristics : None
                                    Weapon : Turkish cavalry saber

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

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : Turk
                                    Born : 1983; Eskisehir, Turkey
                                    First death : 2003; Racing accident, Motorsport
                                    Rally of Turkey
                                    First teacher : Nasreddin Hoca
                                    Known associates : Richie Ryan
                                    Known past associates : Nasreddin Hoca
                                    First recorded sighting : 2003. Istanbul, Turkey.
                                    Found and mentored by Nasreddin Hoca, at this
                                    time attending the Annual Rally

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

                                    Alper Al-Taftazarni, Le Mans France


                                    Alice McKenzie
                                    Known aliases : ‘Clay Pipe Alice’, Alice Bryant, Alicia
                                    MacKenzie, Alice Beaubier, Alicia Van der Zee
                                    Notable characteristics : None
                                    Weapon : Swept-hilt rapier
                                    Recorded kills : Louis Ducharde, Zoltan Laszlo,
                                    Stenka Bulavin, Patrice Alard, Keith Boyer

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Berlin, Germany
                                    Occupation : Hooker
                                    Prior occupations : Ditto, never changed her lifestyle
                                    in 120+ years
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Active
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Mylene Zandt

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : English
                                    Born : 1848; Peterborough, England
                                    First death : 1889; Murdered by an imitator of Jack
                                    the Ripper in Whitechapel
                                    First teacher : Virgil of Naples
                                    Known associates : Watchers Initiative
                                    Known past associates : Virgil of Naples, Lucy
                                    Bettles, Daria De Souza
                                    Known ennemies : Lous Ducharde, Stenka Bulavin
                                    First recorded sighting : 1943. San Francisco, CA
                                    Fought an beheaded Zoltan Laszlo

                                    Many people prefer to view prostitution as a "lifestyle choice," or even an "addiction" to a lifestyle. They think most people in the sex industry are there to support their drug habits, when actually the drugs are used to cope with what is happening to their lives. Society assumes that nothing can be done to help them, so there is no need to try. The pimps count on it. When Zoltan Lazlo was beheaded by Alice Nichols in 1943, the Watchers launched research to find out the identity of the red-haired prostitute who had so boldly challeged and beheaded the Magyar immortal.

                                    It turned out Alice Nichols was really Alice McKenzie, a prostitute who had been murdered by an imitator of Jack the Ripper in London, 1889. She was mentored by none other than Virgil the Magician, researcher and writer of books who rid the 20th Century of Jack the Ripper, and taught her how to fend for herself in the world of immortality. Alice switched identity three times since the 19th cent. (as far as we know), always assuming the names of famous victims of Bloody Jack : Polly Nichols, Mary Kelly and Liz Stride.
                                    Once a hooker, always a hooker : Alice doesn't see why she should change her lifestyle since her immortality prevent her from STDs, disgruntled customers and threatening pimps which are common in such a hazardous line of work.

                                    From the Chronicle of Alice McKenzie :

                                    Alice lived in San Francisco in 1953 when she found the battered body of Lucy Bettles, a withered woman who she had seen selling her body to demanding men in the area where she was working, so that she could support her drug addiction. "Angel" Bettles was lucky to find Alice by her side who brought her home, cleaned her up, fed her and told her of immortality and of the Game. Alas, Angel was a drug addict who didn't last two years in the Game before getting killed by an unknown party.

                                    Lily Moss, 2000


                                    Nikola Tesla
                                    Known aliases : Dr. Nikolai Grissov, Dr. Nicholas
                                    Delmonico, Dr. Abel Parrado, "Tesla the Magician"
                                    Notable characteristics : Psychotic genius
                                    Obsessive-compulsive disorder, patholigac fear of
                                    dirt; occasional cruel streak
                                    Weapon : Courtille sword
                                    Recorded kills : Jaelle Mafany, Grigori Sitchenko,
                                    Jacob ben Joshua, So Hark-Fu

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Inventor
                                    Prior occupations : Would-be ruler of the world
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Active
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Carlito & Suzana Paez

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : Serbian, naturalized
                                    American
                                    Born : 1856; Smiljan, Austrian Empire, present-day
                                    Croatia
                                    First death : 1906; Killed during testing of
                                    bladeless turbine (‘Tesla Turbine’)
                                    First teacher : Undetermined
                                    First recorded sighting : 1876. Philadelphia PA
                                    Centennial International Exhibition, encounter with
                                    Virgil the Magician and Saint-Germain

                                    From the Records of the Tribunal
                                    The Chronicle of Nikola Tesla

                                    There are two reasons "Tesla the Magician" is also known as "Tesla the Madman".

                                    Tesla's legacy can be seen across modern civilisation wherever electricity is used. Tesla considered his exploration of various questions raised by science as ultimately a means to improve the human condition with the principles of science and industrial progress, and one that was compatible with nature. However, many of his achievements have been used, sometimes inappropriately and with some controversy, to support various pseudosciences, UFO theories, and New Age occultism. Tesla wanted to use science to improve the human condition.

                                    At the price, naturally, of a few heads belonging to minor immortals, whose deaths would come unnoticed in the immortal community.
                                    He subjected fellow immortals to painful electricity-based experimentations in his laboratory, kidnapping them then testing their resistance to electricity before he would be taking their heads. There are records of mortals in his neighborhood who witnessed strange electric arcs coming off his house with windows exploding. That was Tesla killing another one of his kind "in the name of science", he claimed, and he had been practicing since the early 20th Century when he took part in the Industrial Revolution with his inventions like "wireless communication", deemed a magician because of his electrical feats.

                                    An investigation was made regarding the disappearance of eleven immortals living in various places of the world, minor immortals who seldom played the Game, all having been in contact with one medical doctor or another, all were Tesla living under assumed names.
                                    Those immortals were kidnapped between 1912 and 2008 and subjected to experiments based on electric power before being killed; Tesla hired a group of mortal mercenaries to do the dirty work for him and conducted the experiments himself. To him, sacrificing a few lives was well worth seeing his vision of a new world come true. It came true : we became totally reliant on nuclear-based electrical power. Not counting mortals'essential needs for oil. Let's see the look on his face when the Oil Peak brings forth a new Dark Age era on mankind. We'll certainly need his genius then, if he still has his head on his shoulders.

                                    The second reason was his attempt at overthrowing the government of the United States of America during the 1890's , backed up by a cadre of the world's richest men. All this to create a new nation dominated by himself and his genius, creating a "paradise on Earth" for the upcoming 20th Century. He was helped in his enterprise by his paramour, a mortal woman known as "Ada, the Countess of Lovelace" who had invented the "Thinking Machine", an ancestor to modern-day computers. Ada was completely subjugated to Tesla's will and unfortunately perished because of Tesla when his plans got twarted by P.T Barnum and his ragtag band of "anomalies" (all circus performers, including siamese twins, an amazon and a fire-breather). Weeks of plotting, scheming and battling, Tesla's plans had gone to smoke, Ada was dead, Barnum and his friends stood triumphant. A part of history forever forgotten by the mortals but to be found in the Watchers'chronicles.

                                    Tesla escaped with his life and ran back to Sarajevo where the Archiduke could "prove" Tesla had spent the last six motnhs working for his government.
                                    In 1943, looking considerably aged through the use of cosmetics, Tesla tried to publish a theory on the unified field, which was seen by the scientific commmunity as exeeding the bounds of reason. The year of his public death, Tesla had transferred his wealth to a secret bank account in Geneva and didn't bother paying his debts to his many debitors; instead he faked his death and fled for an unknown destination with his latest invention, a death-ray gun. His Watcher lost him at that time before he re-appeared in South America in the 1990's.



                                    Balder Kanwulfsson
                                    Known aliases : Balder of Kolb, Ottar Brighting,
                                    Hrein Styrmisson, Gjafvald, Teit Isleifson,
                                    Baldur Morgenstern
                                    Notable characteristics : Womanizer
                                    Weapon : Stirling Basket-hilt backsword
                                    Recorded kills : Koenraad of Ultrecht, Velli
                                    Suikhonen

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Hamburg
                                    Occupation : Inspector, police department of
                                    Hamburg
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Eric Admunsen

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : Vinland Vikings
                                    Date of birth : 11th Century, Vinland
                                    First death : 11th Century killed in duel for the love
                                    of a woman
                                    First teachers : Sygin Fenrisdottir (aka Kellistra)
                                    Known associates : Six of Vinland, Kellistra,
                                    Ceirdwyn, Alex Raven, Ravenwood, SIS
                                    Known past associates : Kanwulf, Isadora Wynter,
                                    Karnilla , Chief Watchful Fox, Thor Kanwulfsson
                                    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 force 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).

                                    Balder : in mythology, God of radiance, peace, and rebirth
                                    Writing about the end of the 12th century, the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus tells the story of Baldr (recorded as Balderus) in a form which professes to be historical. According to him, Balderus and Høtherus were rival suitors for the hand of Nanna, daughter of Gewar, King of Norway. Now Balderus was a demigod and common steel could not wound his sacred body. The two rivals encountered each other in a terrific battle. Though Odin and Thor and the rest of the gods fought for Balderus, he was defeated and fled away, and Høtherus married the princess. Nevertheless Balderus took heart of grace and again met Høtherus in a stricken field. But he fared even worse than before. Høtherus dealt him a deadly wound with a magic sword, named Mistletoe, which he had received from Miming, the satyr of the woods; and after lingering three days in pain Balderus died of his injury and was buried with royal honours in a barrow.

                                    Balder is the wisest of the Six, whose First Death while raiding a coastal town in Iceland created a chain of events that led to the destruction of Sygin Fenridottir colony of Vinland and the Kabwulfsson's abrupt departure to North America. Balder was the longest to be revived, his body being carried by his brothers across the Vinland colony to be revived in his own house. The mortal Vikings of Vinland were amazed to say the least, and saw Balder as a God walking among men, which his family didn't like since they thrived for discretion were their immortality was concerned. Balder was last to reach immortality and it is through those circumstances that Kellistra and her family left Vinland.



                                    Gregor Pyzdra
                                    Known aliases : Gregor Proust, Gregor Powers,
                                    Gregor Musky
                                    Notable characteristics : None
                                    Weapon : El Cid Tizona sword
                                    Inconclusive fight against Mahe, 1760

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Munich
                                    Occupation : Medical doctor, Munich General
                                    Hospital.
                                    Prior occupations : Photographer, battlefield
                                    surgeon
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Helena Belsen

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : Magyar
                                    Born : 1679, Budapest Hungary
                                    First death : 1707, Medical student at Heideberg,
                                    beaten by robbers
                                    First teacher : Duncan MacLeod
                                    Known associates : Hannah Baran
                                    Known past associates : Duncan MacLeod, Sean
                                    Burns, Nick Delgado, Alec Hill, Frank Brody,
                                    Gustav von Stroheim, Bodor Krosko
                                    First recorded sighting : 1707. Munich, Bavaria
                                    Student of Duncan MacLeod



                                    Frau Totenkinder
                                    Known aliases : Frau Kohler, Eva Klein, Heike
                                    Stauch, cross-identified as Black Annis of English
                                    folklore
                                    Notable characteristics : Cannibal; powerful witch
                                    Immortality triggered past her prime
                                    Weapon : One-handed broadsword

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Delicatessen proprietor, headhunter
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Inga Modrow

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Note : From folktale, burned in her oven by
                                    Hansel and Gretel, possibly her First Death
                                    Born : Unrecorded
                                    First death : Unrecorded
                                    First teacher : Unrecorded
                                    Known past associates : Possibly Rapunzel,
                                    Monika Kluk
                                    First recorded sighting : 1460, Holy Roman
                                    Empire. Encounter with Terence of Coventry and
                                    Hannah Baran

                                    When the Germans came asking questions around her shop about the rash of vanishied people in town, Frau Totenkinder quickly packed her bags and left town in a fortnight. For hundreds of years she had the habit of cooking people in her oven, including immortal challengers.
                                    But this time, the German police came after her and she made the decision she should have made when Adolf Hitler was elected Fuerher of Germany in 1933.

                                    Helga Gruss, 1944

                                    She's back ! The old lady's cooking meat again, having opened a new delicatessen shop in, Hanover, where she was met by Luba Loengard, opera singer in search of delicacies. The two women spoke a little but no chalenge was exchanged; the old woman introduced herself as 'Frau Heike Stauch', but extensive research trhough records allowed to positively identify her as the wily chil-killer of Grimm fables.

                                    26 August 2010
                                    Watcher Research, Germany



                                    Beatrix Von Arlon
                                    Known aliases : None
                                    Notable characteristics : Teenaged immortal
                                    Weapon : Custom broadsword
                                    Recorded kills : Herbert Lewis Grimes

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Child model, posing as emancipated
                                    minor
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Von Arlon Watcher Team

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1334, Bavaria Germany
                                    First death : 1348, Died from the Great Plague
                                    First teacher : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    Known associates : Von Arlon Family, Brother
                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville, Brother Andre de Florac
                                    Known past associates : Kurt & Irmgard Von Erlo
                                    First recorded sighting : 2004. Canton of Uri,
                                    Switzerland. Attending funerals of Isadora Wynter



                                    Benedict Von Arlon
                                    Known aliases : None
                                    Notable characteristics : Teenaged immortal
                                    Weapon : Custom broadsword

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Model, posing as emancipated
                                    minor
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Von Arlon Watcher Team

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1334, Bavaria Germany
                                    First death : 1348, Died from the Great Plague
                                    First teacher : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    Known associates : Von Arlon Family, Brother
                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville, Brother Andre de Florac
                                    Known past associates : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    First recorded sighting : 2004. Canton of Uri,
                                    Switzerland. Attending funerals of Isadora Wynter




                                    Clemens Von Arlon
                                    Known aliases : None
                                    Notable characteristics : Immortal child
                                    Weapon : Custom broadsword

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Model, posing as emancipated
                                    minor
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Von Arlon Watcher Team

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1336, Bavaria Germany
                                    First death : 1348, Died from the Great Plague
                                    First teacher : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    Known associates : Von Arlon Family, Brother
                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville, Brother Andre de Florac
                                    Known past associates : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    First recorded sighting : 2004. Canton of Uri,
                                    Switzerland. Attending funerals of Isadora Wynter




                                    Franz Von Arlon
                                    Known aliases : None
                                    Notable characteristics : Teenaged immortal
                                    Weapon : Custom broadsword

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Model, posing as emancipated
                                    minor
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Von Arlon Watcher Team

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1332, Bavaria Germany
                                    First death : 1348, Died from the Great Plague
                                    First teacher : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    Known associates : Von Arlon Family, Brother
                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville, Brother Andre de Florac
                                    Known past associates : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    First recorded sighting : 2004. Canton of Uri,
                                    Switzerland. Attending funerals of Isadora Wynter




                                    Isolde Von Arlon
                                    Known aliases : None
                                    Notable characteristics : Immortal child
                                    Weapon : Custom broadsword

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Model, posing as emancipated
                                    minor
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Von Arlon Watcher Team

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1338, Bavaria Germany
                                    First death : 1348, Died from the Great Plague
                                    First teacher : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    Known associates : Von Arlon Family, Brother
                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville, Brother Andre de Florac
                                    Known past associates : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    First recorded sighting : 2004. Canton of Uri,
                                    Switzerland. Attending funerals of Isadora Wynter




                                    Ingrid Von Arlon
                                    Known aliases : None
                                    Notable characteristics : Immortal child
                                    Weapon : Custom broadsword

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Model, posing as emancipated
                                    minor
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Von Arlon Watcher Team

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1340, Bavaria Germany
                                    First death : 1348, Died from the Great Plague
                                    First teacher : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    Known associates : Von Arlon Family, Brother
                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville, Brother Andre de Florac
                                    Known past associates : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    First recorded sighting : 2004. Canton of Uri,
                                    Switzerland. Attending funerals of Isadora Wynter



                                    Niklaus Von Arlon
                                    Known aliases : None
                                    Notable characteristics : Immortal child
                                    Physically, the youngest living Immortal
                                    Weapon : Custom broadsword,

                                    Status
                                    Most recent base of operations : Koln, Germany
                                    Occupation : Model, posing as emancipated
                                    minor
                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                                    Date :
                                    Place :
                                    Victor :
                                    Watcher : Von Arlon Watcher Team

                                    Background
                                    Original cultural affiliation : German
                                    Born : 1342, Bavaria Germany
                                    First death : 1348, Died from the Great Plague
                                    First teacher : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    Known associates : Von Arlon Family, Brother
                                    Jean-Pierre d’Albertville, Brother Andre de Florac
                                    Known past associates : Kurt & Irmgard Von Arlon
                                    First recorded sighting : 2004. Canton of Uri,
                                    Switzerland. Attending funerals of Isadora Wynter

                                    From the Records of the Tribunal
                                    The Von Arlon Family

                                    One would think the Watchers would have noticed the existence of a family of immortal children, surviving in the vast world, by themselves and staying united against dangerous immortals. Yet, if they ran from each immortal they met and remained quiet, it's not surprising we've been missing out on them. The "Lost Children", as we dub them, are a family of seven children, the eldest being a teenage boy who looks barely sixteen. However, given the poor nutrition and growth conditions of the Dark Ages, it is likely they may have met their First Death later than at 16 years old or 12 years old in the case of Clemens. From what we know of them, they were born in the sixteen years before the Great Plague struck Europe, which mean they became immortal around 1348. They are close-knit, don't seem shy around other immortals, and are not afraid to fight when forced to.

                                    Franz and his siblings reffered to themselves as the Von Arlon family. So we looked for a Von Arlon family who would have lived in isolation in Germany, during the Dark Ages, near the time of the Black Death. After a torough search in old records, we discovered how an immortal called Baron Von Arlon wed a woman named Irmgard, who had the reputation of being a witch, and settled with her in his castle of Bavaria. An isolated castle where they raised a family of seven children from 1332 (birth of their first adopted son) to 1342 (birth of their seventh child).
                                    We think they might have gathered pre-immortal children until the rats brought the Plague from Asia, spreading it all across Europe. According to those records, the Von Arlon timeline went like this :
                                    Kurt Von Arlon married Irmgard the witch the 21th September of 1330. They traveled together two years before settling in the Bavarian castle were little Franz was born the 3rd July of 1332.
                                    Six other children were adopted the following years, each birth separated by twenty-four months. After Franz came Benedict & Beatrix (1334), Clemens (1336), Isolde (1338), Ingrid (1340) and Niklaus (1342) who died in early infancy.
                                    In 1348, the Great Plague struck. Not even the isolated conditions in which this family lived in could protect them from the black death.

                                    The way the Von Arlons fight is reminiscent of a wolf pack, Franz (the elder boy) striking the first blow with his sword and his siblings rushing to pin the poor guy to the ground. And then, Franz strikes to kill. The Lost Children are very distinct from each other and seems to have different traits of characters, yet they behave as a kind of social hierarchy.
                                    Is it an act ? they are severn immortal teens and pre-teens, they are aware of it and they all carry customized swords with short blades. They had to learn to live as children in an adult world for the past seven centuries but they remain children : no wonder Kenny behaves like a spoiled brat, no hormones to trigger growth, to add cerebral matter and to lead him toward adulthood. The same apply to them : four kids forever frozen in time.

                                    A team of Watchers has been following them since they left the Canton of Zurich. They stayed a few days with the Rochia Family in Geneva on sacred grounds from July to August 2004. Then left on their merry way, travelling south to Brother Paul St. Christopher Monastery. After Paul's death, the monastery has been placed under the care of Brother Jean-Pierre d'Albertville and Brother Andre de Florac, two former members of Machiavelli's Court of Beauties.
                                    The Lost Children were guests here, and seeme to come and go as they please, sharing their mother’s taste for long travels and art : during the few months spent at St.Christopher’s they were seen re-enacting old tales like the Knights of the Round Table or a Midsummer’s Night Dream for the entertainment of their fellow immortal guests. After the end of the Immortals War, they decided to leave London for Koln, a holy city in Germany where they intend to reunite with their German roots.

                                    ADDENDUM
                                    A German fairy tale...

                                    Once upon a time in a high castle of Bavaria, lived a powerful witch who was very wise and whose name was Irmgard. That witch had a husband who was a knight, Count Von Arlon, and both yearned for children of their own.
                                    But the knight was cursed and couldn't sire children. One night the witch spoke to her husband and prophesized:
                                    "Through magic we shall have seven children together, of both genders, they will look like you. But there will come a terrible day some years hence when a terrible plague will affect us all and our children, although terribly sick and near death, will awaken and be sentenced to forever walk the earth."

                                    The knight was worried that his own flesh should bear such a terrible curse but he desperately yearned for heirs to call his own and Irmgard knew it well. One night, one terrible night when thunderstorm struck the high castle, a child was conceived and nine months later was born. He was dark of skin, had dark, curly hair and when he cried for milk, wailed like a banshee. His name was Franz. He was a baby—in wonderful shape, strong and beautiful,who brought much joy to his father and mother. His father claimed he would become a powerful knight, his mother retorted he would be a magician and would lead his brothers and sisters in a life of adventures across Bavaria, through all of German lands and far, far beyond.

                                    Within sixteen years, Irmgard the witch would bear six other children to her husband, all conceived in the middle of a thunderstorm which frightened villagers living around Von Arlon Castle. After Franz, twins were born who were named Benedict and Beatrix, one pale of skin, the other with a dark complexion, together joined by the hips. The witch separated the babies herself but all their life they would stand together, never forgetting they were born co-jointed.
                                    Four years old Franz marveled at the presence of his twin sister and brother who although different in appearance, spoke and behaved as if living in one same body and showed clever minds at only two years old. The three siblings were soon joined by a new baby, Clemens who was unlike his parents in that he was blonde and had a fair complexion with piercing blue eyes. When hungry he never wailed, never cried, simply waited patiently for his milk, as if a good fairy had somehow told him that he had all the time in the world. Little Beatrix was quite fond of her new little brother and would often take him in her arms, singing him lullabies.

                                    As years rolled on, three new children were born in Von Arlon Castle.Isolde, Ingrid and little Niklaus brought more joy in the place and soon the seven siblings found themselves united like the five fingers of the hand and Franz, Benedict and Beatrix, almost men and woman, took theirresponsibilities toward their siblings because Irmgard and the Count taught them so. Irmgard called them "her seven little ravens", her seven little wonders who had magic in their eyes and would wander the world, gathering knowledge and power.

                                    Years passed by, then a terrible plague visited the country were the Von Arlon lived, a devastating plague that came from the Orient, from a place far, far away and which brought countries of Europe to their knees. There was nothing the knight and the witch could do to prevent the plague from affecting their children, and one by one, the Von Arlon siblings fell sick, and went inagony, near death. Irmgard, soothed their pain with a special soup she prepared for them, a soup that would prevent them from undergoing excruciating pain caused by the plague. Franz, Benedict, their bothers and sisters fell asleep, suffering no more. Von Arlon and his wife brought their children to their beds, tucked them in safely and retired, waiting.

                                    One by one, the children died. And then, one by one, they woke up from a deep slumber which lasted one day and one night. They woke up in their beds, fully healed and cured, suffering no more. The oldest of them in puzzlement and awe, the youngest simply asking for their parents. Together they rejoined their loving mother and father who waited to them, happy to see them healthy and living again. Irmgard made them sit down and told them a story, so extraordinary they couldn't believe it.

                                    The Count and the Witch were long-lived people belonging to a clan of long-lived being, Immortals living for centuries, who fought eachother to the death in the never-ending war of good vs evil. She the witch had lived hundreds and hundreds of years before Germany was calling itself Germany and the count himself, though younger than his wife, had live for nine centuries. They had met, fallen in love, and had decided to raise seven children together who would bear the same gifts and abilities immortality bestowed upon them. They explained how they wanted their seven little ravens to grow up, to take flight, to become able to survive in a cruel and violent world, but unfortunately the fates decided otherwise. The Great Plague struck, bringing death and desolation, and they would never grow up more than they had: they would remain children, with the exceptions of Franz, Benedict and Beatrix who were out of their childhood games when death took them.

                                    The three first-born understood the gravity of the situation: they would have to stand united and protect the youngest of them, they would stay together until the end of time, untilthe fabled time when the last Immortals alive would fight to the last. The Gotterdamnerung was far away in time, they had countless opportunities to grow up together, to learn together and to fight together.
                                    Last edited by Gardner; 11-20-2022, 10:02 AM.

                                    Comment


                                    • Thanks for the chronicles, my friend, much appreciated, as always.

                                      In the meantime, i have another kill of Richeard of Mercia i would like your help completing, if you could:

                                      Rodolphe of Nordgau

                                      Most recent base of operations: Coutances, Duchy of
                                      Normandy
                                      Occupation: Posing as travelling physician
                                      Prior occupations: Herbalist, apothecary
                                      Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
                                      Date: Winter 1034
                                      Place: Coutances
                                      Victor: Richeard of Mercia
                                      Watcher: Research, Immortals of Medieval Europe

                                      Original cultural affiliation: Swiss
                                      Born: 743, Nordgau, Alamannia, Frankish
                                      Empire
                                      First death: 785; stoned to death by angry mob in
                                      a village in Ortenau after his "miracle cure" instead
                                      killed several children while trying to treat them for
                                      a vomiting sickness
                                      First teacher: ?

                                      It should be noted that not all of Richeard of Mercia's recorded kills were politically motivated or enemies on the battlefield. In fact, several have been Immortals unlucky enough to cross his path while indulging in various nefarious activities which the Saxon found unpalatable. One early victim of Richeard's wrath was Rodolphe of Nordgau. A particularly unpleasant character, a former apothecary who became a master of potions and poisons, after being stoned to death when failing to cure an illness that resulted in infant fatalities. Rodolphe went on to apply his herbal skills to line his own pockets; he would sneak into towns and villages and pollute the water supply with an elixir of his own making, nothing fatal, but it would cause rather nasty symptoms and spread rapidly. Then Rodolphe would ride to the rescue with a "miracle" cure which he would administer - for a hefty price, of course. Rodolphe was not a simple scam artist either. In fact, he was more than willing to murder to cover his tracks and had left a trail of bodies in a dozen countries in two centuries. Which is why when Richeard caught wind of his activities in Coutances while he and Alfgar were in exile in Normandy, the Saxon Immortal made a point of warning Rodolphe off. But the Swiss Immortal did not heed his advice and Richeard is not one to give second chances; he's as ruthless as Deoneces of Sparta when it comes to carrying out threats: he means what he says and is more than willing to carry it out. So when Rodolphe continued his scheming, Richeard hunted him down and ruthlessly dispatched him without mercy.

                                      Research, Immortals of Medieval Europe

                                      Cheers
                                      Apollo1

                                      Comment


                                      • Great chronicle, Apollo! It makes sense Richeard's kills wouldn't be exclusively political killings.

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

                                        Status
                                        Most recent base of operations: Coutances,
                                        Duchy of Normandy
                                        Occupation: Posing as travelling physician
                                        Prior occupations: Herbalist, apothecary
                                        Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
                                        Date: Winter 1034
                                        Place: Coutances
                                        Victor: Richeard of Mercia
                                        Watcher: Research, Immortals of Medieval Europe

                                        Background
                                        Original cultural affiliation: Swiss
                                        Born: 743, Nordgau, Alamannia, Frankish
                                        Empire
                                        First death: 785; stoned to death by angry mob in
                                        a village in Ortenau after his "miracle cure" instead
                                        killed several children while trying to treat them for
                                        a vomiting sickness
                                        First teacher: Hamran of Babylon
                                        Known past associates : Hamran of Babylon
                                        First recorded sighting : 1034. Duchy of Normandy
                                        Challenged and killed by Richeard of Mercia

                                        Glad to see two sociopathic doctors can find each others In the crazy world of Immortality.

                                        Do you have a logical and sensible explanation as to why pre-immortals would stop being born past the 1980's ?
                                        Other than "the source has stopped birthing Immortals" or whatever LOL

                                        Last edited by Gardner; 10-10-2023, 04:12 AM.

                                        Comment


                                        • Thanks for completing Rodolphe's chronicle, my friend. And yes, i didn't think it would be realistic for all of Richeard's kills to be political, it wouldn't make sense if he didn't cross paths with some Immortals up to no good when he wasn't on SIS business.

                                          That was the last catch-up chronicle that you asked me to do along with the SIS/Hellfire Club historical record detailing all the Immortals who crossed paths with Richeard, Aldrich et al, up to that point. My next posting will be to continue the historical record from 1052, only this time i'll include those Immortal encounters...

                                          Cheers
                                          Apollo1

                                          Comment


                                          • ESA Sameh Hadad
                                            Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                                            Date : 15 November 2016
                                            Place : Aleppo
                                            Victor : N.A Watcher killed during Aleppo
                                            Offensive of November-December 2016

                                            I hope you like the following chronicles.

                                            Amestrin of Ugarit
                                            Known aliases : Anat, virgin goddess of war
                                            Notable characteristics : Worshipped as an
                                            ancient goddess, possibly mentored by Methos
                                            Weapon : Egyptian bronze age sword
                                            Recorded kills : Undetermined

                                            Status
                                            Most recent base of operations : Ugarit, present-
                                            day Northern Syria
                                            Occupation : Goddess
                                            Prior occupations : Undetermined
                                            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                                            Date : 1190 BC Destruction of Ugarit during
                                            Bronze Age collapse
                                            Place : Ugarit
                                            Victor : Methos
                                            Watcher: Ancient Immortals Research Team

                                            Background
                                            Original cultural affiliation : Canaanite
                                            Born : 18th century BC; Ugarit, present-day Ras
                                            Shamra, Northern Syria
                                            First death : Unrecorded
                                            First teacher : Khotarat, goddess of marriage and
                                            Pregnancies, identified as Sammu-Ramat
                                            First recorded sighting : N.A. Mentioned in the
                                            12th Century BC Chronicles as a possible victim
                                            of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

                                            I killed Amestrin of Ugarit during the Bronze Age collapse when we rode in the Middle East and destroyed entired cities, passing people to the sword, killign and raping and burning and looting. The madness seemed to go on forever. Kronos raped Ugarit and then we three took turns with Silas and Caspian. Who would take the head and Quickenign was decided with dice. I won become I was lucky and smarter than my brothers. When I read those words it feels like an ancient demon speaking and maybe I still am. The old Methos is lurking somewhere and this is one of the things I am still afraid of.
                                            Was Kronos right ? Did I truly change over the centuries ?

                                            From the Journals of Methos



                                            Gulbuddin Shah

                                            Known aliases : Wafiq Bishara
                                            Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist
                                            Bombmaker, explosives expert
                                            Weapon : Damascus steel saber
                                            Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

                                            Status
                                            Most recent base of operations : Sydney, New
                                            South Wales, Australia
                                            Occupation : Terorrist, Eternal Swords of Allah
                                            Prior occupations : Fighter, Swords of Allah
                                            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                                            Date : 13 February 1978 Sydney Hilton Hotel
                                            bombing
                                            Place : Sydney, Australia
                                            Victor : John Frederick Horrigan
                                            Watcher : Research, ESA Chronicles

                                            Background
                                            Original cultural affiliation : Afghan
                                            Born : 1875; Adelaide, South Australia
                                            First death : 1900, Camel herder, travelling
                                            through Australian deserts
                                            First teacher : Barbrak Kamal, Camel train leader
                                            Known associates : Eternal Swords of Allah
                                            Known past associates : Barbrak Kamal
                                            Known ennemies : New South Wales Corps
                                            First recorded sighting : 1900. Western Australia
                                            Disciple of Barbrak Kamal

                                            In 1978 J.F Horrigan investigated the Sydney Hilton bombing and found the culprit to be a Middle Eastern Immortal by name of Gulbuddin Shah, with links to a former associate of the Eternal Swords of Allah. Gulbuddin was a religious fundamentalist whose ideals had been twisted inside out by the teachings o f Jamal Laboudini and Labdouni’s message of hatred extended as far as Australia.

                                            Watcher Research, ESA


                                            Walter DeGrey

                                            Known aliases : Dorian Walther
                                            Notable characteristics : Obsessed with finding a
                                            cursed picture representing him
                                            Weapon : British cavalry saber
                                            Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

                                            Status
                                            Most recent base of operations : Tel El-Kebir,
                                            Egypt
                                            Occupation : Colonel, British Infantry
                                            Prior occupations : Officer, British Colonial Army
                                            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                                            Date : 6 May 1882 Battle of Tel El-Kebir
                                            Place : Tel El-Kebir
                                            Victor : Unidentified Egyptian Mameluk, possibly
                                            Mihrimah Pamuk
                                            Watcher : Research, Northern Africa

                                            Background
                                            Original cultural affiliation : English
                                            Born : 1770; County of Kent, England
                                            First death : 1811; Killed durign capture of Java
                                            from the Netherlands
                                            First teacher : Bethany Clarke
                                            Known associates : Simon Killian, John Stoppard
                                            Known past associates : Bethany Clarke
                                            First recorded sighting : 1811. Island of Java
                                            Found and mentored by Bethany Clarke, at this
                                            time living on Java

                                            The Immortal who killed Water DeGrey in 1882 may have been Mameluk warrior woman Mihrimah Pamuk and we do hope she wasn’t afflected with DeGreys pathological obsession for his missing picture when sse took his Quickening. DeGrey was obsessed with a painting representing him and which was cursed by the painter who made it for him. The painter was Jan DeMooys, a dutch little devil who suspected DeGrey’s Immortal nature and sentenced him to a life of torment after DeGrey killed his wife during a foiled rape.DeMooys delved in black magic and his curse somehow worked because if something happened to the painting, it reflected itself on DeGrey and DeGrey kept it locked until it was stolen in 1821. From 1821 to 1882 DeGrey scoured most of Western Europe in search for it and never found it until he was clued in by a Casablanca thief who disclosed the possible location of the painting. In Egypt. While stationed there, DeGrey took part in the battle of Tel El-Kebit and was challenged by a Mameluk warrior who took his head and Q.
                                            Whatever may have happened to the painting through sixty years, the curse worked, Walter DeGrey was damned.
                                            And now the painting, recovered by DeGrey’s Watcher, orantes the main lecture hall of Watcher Academy in Zurich.

                                            Watcher Bureau, Northern Africa
                                            Last edited by Gardner; 03-10-2023, 04:39 AM.

                                            Comment


                                            • Yep. Loved these latest chronicles, my friend. Great work as always. I especially like the Methos excerpts on his past encounters, and good job with the Richeard and Eadwulf encounter with the two African Immortal brothers.

                                              Cheers
                                              Apollo1

                                              Comment


                                              • I hope you like that one.
                                                Tell me, how do you like the Chagga Clan and the Brides of Mahomet ?

                                                Jeong Soochan
                                                Known past associates : Ryom Joo-hee
                                                Most recent base of operations : Seoul, South
                                                Korea
                                                Occupation : Athlete, traning for 2018 Olympics
                                                Prior occupations : Olympian athlete
                                                Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                                                Date : 12 June 1988
                                                Place : Seoul
                                                Victor : Matsuhiro Kanagawa
                                                Watcher : Yu Hyounwoo

                                                Jeong Soochan was found decapitated in 1988 during Summer Olympic games and this caused a diplomatic incident between Japan and Korea when the murder was pinned on a Japanese citizen by Name of Hiro Kanagawa. Kanagawa got out of this mess thanks to bribery but no one will forget Jeong Soochan.
                                                Search was in motion to find the quarrel between Soochan and Kanagawa through the tense history between Japan and Korea and it was found how Jeong’s’s foster daughter and pre-immortal Ryom Joo-hee had been enslaved by the Japanese as part of the comfort women slave operation led by Kanagawa and Kanagawa himself raped Ryom. Jeong died trying to avenge his daughter’s honor who never recovered from her ordeal.

                                                Watcher Bureau, Eastern Asia




                                                The encounter of Jason Samaris and Olympe Dimitrakos with the band of roving headhunting migrant children who have been active since the beginning of the migrant crisis ended with the two Immortals taking out the band’s ringleaders, two Middle Eastern Immortals using the children as pawns in the Game as they have been doing for centuries. Now the children are free to go where they please. Jason and Olympe decided to train the kids themselves adopting them as their own little family, but those are not innocent children anymore, they had a taste of the Quickening and a strange hunger animate them. A hunger for more. It will take a lot of work and efforts from the Greek couple to curb the pack’s violent tendencies, lest they become as dangerous players of the Game as the Coyoteros of Mexico.

                                                Watcher Bureau, Balkans

                                                Galien of Adrianople
                                                Known aliases : Marcus Galien
                                                Notable characteristics : Hunted Immortals with a
                                                group of Immortal children as bait
                                                Weapon : Basilard sword

                                                Status
                                                Most recent base of operations : Nicosia, Cyprus
                                                Occupation : Independent means, headhunter,
                                                ringleader, Middle East Headhunters pack
                                                Prior occupations : Traveller, wealthty socialite
                                                Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                                                Date : 29 January 2018
                                                Place : Nicosia
                                                Victor : Jason Samaris
                                                Watcher : Research, Middle East

                                                Background
                                                Original cultural affiliation : Anatolian
                                                Born : East Thrace, present Turkey, unknown date
                                                First death : Unrecorded
                                                First teacher : Unrecorded
                                                Known associates : Hekate of Antioch, Migrant
                                                children group
                                                Known past associates : Several groups of
                                                Immortal children at various points of history
                                                Known ennemies : Xanthia of Melitus, Achilles of
                                                Troy
                                                First recorded sighting : 378. Roman Province of
                                                Thracia, Gothic War. Encounter with Xanthia of
                                                Melitus and Achilles of Troy, surrounded with a
                                                group of slave-children


                                                Hekate of Antioch

                                                Known aliases : Hekate Kyrinos
                                                Notable characteristics : Hunted Immortals with a
                                                group of Immortal children as bait
                                                Weapon : Basilard sword

                                                Status
                                                Most recent base of operations : Nicosia, Cyprus
                                                Occupation : Independent means, headhunter,
                                                ringleader, Middle East Headhunters pack
                                                Prior occupations : Traveller, wealthty socialite
                                                Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                                                Date : 29 January 2018
                                                Place : Nicosia
                                                Victor : Olympe Dimitrakos
                                                Watcher : Research, Middle East

                                                Background
                                                Original cultural affiliation : Greek Orthodox
                                                Christian
                                                Born : Antioch, Hatay Province, unknown date
                                                First death : Unrecorded
                                                First teacher : Unrecorded
                                                Known associates : Galien of Adrianople; Migrant
                                                Children group
                                                Known past associates : Several groups of
                                                Immortal children at various points of history
                                                Known ennemies : Xanthia of Melitus, Achilles of
                                                Troy
                                                First recorded sighting : 378. Roman Province of
                                                Thracia, Gothic War. Encounter with Xanthia of
                                                Melitus and Achilles of Troy, surrounded with a
                                                group of slave-children
                                                Last edited by Gardner; 02-02-2018, 02:02 PM.

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                                                • I don't mind a few groups of Immortals who are somewhat related, but i think we don't need too many, since the majority of Immortals are solitary people. There will be groups of "acquaintances" or some who get together for mutual gain, but i think we need to be careful about going overboard with too many related Immortals.

                                                  Loved what you did with Galien and Hekate, btw.

                                                  Also, i seem to have lost the full chronicle for Sean Burns. Any chance you could post the updated chronicle, my friend?

                                                  Cheers
                                                  Apollo1

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                                                  • Well, as I stated previously a lot of those groups (especially in Africa) are now listed as missing, especially the Chaggas, Bakongos, Fulani quartet and presumably the Himba clan (one survivor only). The Brotherhood of Ra got wipied out recently, the delightful Sisters of the Night (tuaregs) were killed by Ari al-Muzaiyin, the Spartan-like Dahomey Amazons are missing and so are the Bani Israeel Brothers; ISLAM group has been wiped out by the ESA who in turn were killed by Deoneces and Kyra. The Kalubino brothers were part of an old Maasai clan comprising Jakaya Mrisho and the Theuri couple, and now the entire clan has been wiped out by the Game.

                                                    The two surviving groups are the Black Mambas and the Afar Clan. In total we have 67 Immortals who made up clans and groups in a population of 500+ immortals on the entire African continent, that's not much.

                                                    Remember Africans do not live like Europeans do : living in clans and tribes is a priority for survival as well as an essential element of Africans cultures in any parts of the black continent. So I thought interesting to describe a few clans and tribes.

                                                    I appreciate your compliment on Hekate and Galien, if only I could find identiies for the pack of children taken in by Olympe and Jason (wink!)

                                                    Sean Burns
                                                    Known aliases : Father Sean, Stefan of Alvastra
                                                    Abbey, Sean Cassidy, Seamus MacAleer, Paul
                                                    Brennan, John Munro, Sean Garrigan
                                                    Notable characteristics : Redhead
                                                    Weapon : Celtic broasword
                                                    Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game

                                                    Status
                                                    Most recent base of operations : Swansea Wales
                                                    Occupation : Founder/ Director and chief
                                                    psychiatrist of Black Friar Mental Asylum
                                                    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                                                    Date : 2 April 1996
                                                    Place : Swansea
                                                    Victor : Duncan MacLeod
                                                    Watcher : Sylvia Krause, Black Friar Chronicle

                                                    Background
                                                    Original cultural affiliation : Irish
                                                    Born : 760, Tyrconnel Ireland
                                                    First death : 805, Protecting Books of Kells from
                                                    Viking raiders
                                                    First teacher : Ailell of Kels
                                                    Known associates : Duncan MacLeod, Grace
                                                    Chandel, Virgil of Naples, Liam Riley, Robert & Gina
                                                    De Valicourt, Carolyn Godfrey, Seamus of Athlone

                                                    Known past associates : Ailell of Kells, Darius,
                                                    Xanthia of Melitus, John Garrick, Gabriel Piton,
                                                    Artemis Lowe, Henry Jekyll, Damian Thackaray,
                                                    Artemissia of Helicarnassos, Edwina of Mercia,
                                                    Benedikt of Markenfield Hall, Jennifer De Chaillot

                                                    Known students : Steven Keane, Carolyn Mortimer,
                                                    Artemis Lowe, Roldàn Ferreira, Michael Moore

                                                    First recorded sighting : 805, Tyrconnel. Found and
                                                    mentored by Aillel
                                                    Last edited by Gardner; 03-26-2021, 02:42 AM.

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