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  • Absalom Finch : who else than Anthony Hopkins to play a serial kilelr and psychiatrist ? Good connection to Sean Burns as his dark coutnerpart.




    Boon-nam
    Known aliases : Channarong Manh
    Notable characteristics : Immortal child
    Weapon : Undetermined
    Recorded kills : Khan Nai, Baen Sihanuk,
    Crisitana Tiharu, Souvanna Phouma. Missing
    between 1790 and 2018, reunion with Kit Samak

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Bangkok,
    Thailand
    Occupation : Posing as school child, living with a
    mortal couple as foster parents (re: Kenneth); also
    a child kickboxer, school tournaments
    Prior occupations : Undetermined
    Roster of Immortals Status : Active
    Date :
    Place :
    Victor :
    Watcher : Research, Southeast Asia

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Siamese
    Born : 18th century, Kingom of Siam
    First death : Unrecorded
    First teacher : Unrecorded
    Known past associates : Srijoj Alk, Kantaong Mae,
    Possibly Chao-Tak Chalor
    Known ennemies : Seemingly, Kit Samak
    First recorded sighting : 1790; Bangok, Kingdom
    of Siam. During war against Burma, encounter
    with Kit Samak, challenged by Srijoy Alak

    On 14 January 2018, people took their children to see the military hardware the Royal Thai Army put on display in the Children’s Day event at the Royal Thai Armed Forces headquarters on Changwattana Road on Saturday. Among the visiting children was an Immortal one who met with Kit Samak. Tense words were exchanged, Kit seemengly knew the child, to all appearances, a 10 years old boy. The boy didn't introduce himself and left Samak to join his "parents", no doubt a couple of mortals unaware of the child's immortality and who had adopted him in one orphanage institution of Thailand. Tentatively identified as "John Doe", an enquiry is ordered to find the identity of the boy, how he met Kit Samak in the first place and wether he is a player of the Game or not.

    From the Chronicle of Kit Samak
    Watcher Bureau, Southeast Asia



    Cross-referencing on the deaths of Immortals of Southeast Asia by undetermined Immortals allow to pin the blame on Immortal Boon-nam for the deaths of Kham Nai in Laos and Baen Sihanouk in Cambodia, both Immortal were tricked by a seemingly defenseless boy who won their trust and them disarmed them with violent kickboxing techniques before taking their heads.
    Kham Nai was killed in 1827; Cristiana Tiharu in 1976 durign the Aceh insurgency, Baen in 1981 and Souvanna Phouma in 1998. It is likely Boon-nam took lessons of kickboxing from an Immortal like Chao-Tak Chalor or from May-Ling Shen before risking himself with playing the Game. Obviously he must have crossed Kit Samak a second time between 1790 and 2018 because Samak wasn't too pleased with seeing him again. Did he try his number on Samak ? Unless he came after an Immortal friend or student of his.

    Watcher Research, Southeast Asia

    Kham Nai
    Known aliases : Khamphoui, Konerak Sasorith
    Notable characteristics : 4’4’’
    Weapon(s) : Shotgun, machete

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Ventiane, Laos
    Occupation : Freedom fighter, Hmong
    Guerilla; mercenary siding either on Siam or
    Burma (1770’s); rebel fighter (1828)
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 1827 Destruction of Ventiane by Siamese
    army
    Place : Ventiane
    Victor : Immortal child, identified as Boon-nam
    Watcher : No Muong

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Laotian, Hmong
    Born : 1684; Ventiane, Kingdom of Luang
    Prabang, Laos
    First death : 1707; during attack on Ventiane by
    King of Lang Xiang leading a Vietnamese army
    First teacher : Souvanna Phouma
    Known past associates : Souvanna Phouma
    First recorded sighting : 1707. Ouaphan, Laos.
    Found and mentored by Souvanna Phouma


    Baen Sihanouk
    Known aliases : None
    Notable characteristics : None
    Weapon : Cambodian Infantry saber
    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Cambodia
    Occupation : Khmer soldier, Pol Pot era
    Prior occupations : Cambodian rebel fighter
    against Vientamese influence on Cambodia
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 2 July 1981
    Place : Phnom Penh
    Victor : Immortal child, identified as Boon-nam
    Watcher : Research, Southeast Asia

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Khmer Rouge
    Born : 1810, Cambodia
    First death : 1840; Killed during rebellion against
    Vietnamese rule
    First teacher : Mei Mian
    Known past associates : Mei Mian
    Known ennemies : Appius Lepidus Baro
    First recorded sighting : 1840. Phom penh,
    Cambodia. Adopted as foundling by Mei Main and
    trained upon First Death


    Cristiana Tiaharu
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 4 December 1976 Aceh Insurgency
    Place : Sumatra
    Victor : Boon-nam
    Watcher : Javier Arruceo

    Souvanna Phouma
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 1 May 1998
    Place : Ventiane
    Victor : Boon-nam
    Watcher : Vong Savang




    2017 deaths list:


    Moon Mandele
    Known aliases : Tommy Masuku, Bruce Kangwa
    Notable characteristics : Agressive behavior
    Weapon : British infantry saber
    Recorded kills : Kenny Ngulube, Clem Tholet
    Inconclusive fight against Kenny Nugulube, 1976

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Bulawayo,
    Zimbabwe
    Occupation : Football player, Highlanders F.C
    Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League
    Prior occupations : Football player, Rhodesia
    National Football League
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 23 May 2017
    Place : Johannesburg
    Victor : Sheila Meintjes
    Watcher : Joann Mrisho

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Zimbabwean
    Born : 1906; Makokoba Towship, Zimbabwe
    First death : 1926, Football player, Lions Football
    Club, hit by lightning while training
    First teacher : Dumisani Maraire
    Known past associates : Rory Calhoun
    Known ennemies : Kenny Ngulube
    First recorded sighting : 1972. Southern Rhodesia
    Playing in Rhodesia National Football League,
    encounter with immortal Rory Clahoun and his
    protege, Irish League player Tony McIlveen

    Good game tonight, the F.C of Zimbabwe won another victory against their arch-rivals from Harare and Moon Mandele against yet another immortal, I swear that man won’t be happy till has challenged and killed every immortals living in South America.
    Latest quarry was Sheila Meintjes who got the upper hand on him.

    Joann Mrisho, May 2017


    Angelo Solerzano
    Known aliases : Rodrigo Buono, El Cid Solerzano
    Notable characteristics : Sociopathic, one of
    cruelest and most ruthless immortals of Mexico
    Weapon : Mexican cavalry saber
    Recorded kills : Yolanda Vargas Dulché

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : San Miguel
    Totolapan, Guerrero Mexico
    Occupation : Gang leader, drug trafficker
    specializing in pavot and cannabis
    Prior occupations : Undetermined
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 15 July 2017
    Place : San Miguel
    Victor : Juanita Vasquez
    Watcher : Research, Mexican Immortals

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Mexican
    Born : 1640; Puerto Rico, Viceroyalty of New
    Spain
    First death : 1675, Killed in duel over a woman
    First teacher : Hector Ruiz
    Known past associates : Paul Karros, Gomez
    Clavijero, Hector Ruiz
    Known ennemies : Duncan MacLeod
    First recorded sighting : 1867. Mexico. Sold guns
    to Paul Karros during Mexican Revolution

    Finally Juanita Vasquez avenged the murder of her friend and student Yolanda Dulché when she tracked down El Cod Solerzano to his lair and took him out after rampaging her way thorugh his armed bodyguards in to Villa Quatro of San Miguel Totolapan. While his evil legacy will likely live on, at least the ghost of Yolanda may rest in peace. Solerzano made his first appearance on the immortal scene when he sold contraband guns and ammo to Duncan MacLeod and Paul Karros during the days of the Mexican Revolution, a shady and violent bastard to thrived on the violence brought by the revolution and got oàn very well with Karros, less with MacLeod because of his tendency to treat mortals like cattle. Since then he was involved in all manners of revolutiobns in Latin America and went from weapons trafficking to drugs trafficking by the start of the 1960’s when cocain and heroin started thery grand entrances on the drug scene. Calling himself El Cid after the Spaniard hero, Angelo was known as the most fearless man of the Mexican criminal underground and the most cruelest, using imperished women as mules to transport drugs outside of Mexico to the United States and Latin American countries. In the mid-Nineties he started a lucrative business involving snuff pornography, kidnapping textile factories workers from Ciudad Juarez, having them raped and murdered on camera before selling those videos on clandestine markets. His business improved with the coming of Internet. Those last ten years he was back to drug trafficking and who knows what he would have done else in the coming decades had he not been killed by Juanita Vasquez.

    Watcher Bureau, Mexico


    Valdinhei Sa Pinto
    Known aliases : Diego Joao Dos Santos
    Notable characteristics : Competitive mind; never
    seen without wife Immortal Ana Flavia Salvador
    Weapon : Portuguese Infantry saber

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Belo Horizonte,
    Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Occupation : Association football player,
    Confederação Brasileira de Mina Gerais
    Prior occupations : Football player
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 7 December 2017
    Place : Sao Paulo
    Victor : Anna Flavia Salvador
    Watcher : Sergio Miruelo

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Brazilian
    Born : 1769; Minas Gerais, Brazil
    First death : 1789; Revolt of middle-class colonists
    against Portuguese Crown,caught and executed
    First teacher : Ricardo Ramos
    Known associates : Ana Flavia Salvador
    Known past associates : Ricardo Ramos
    First recorded sighting : 1789. Minas Gerais
    Found and mentored by Ricardo Ramos

    There have been allegations that Valdinei is a wife –beater, but nothing can be proven since Ana Flavia’s regenerative powers heals her physical wounds quickly. But not her psychological wounds. I wonder why she stays with him but I shouldn’t be surprised : they have been together for sixty years now, and she cannot imagine herself without him. Sixty years of physical and psychological abuse, that’s a lot. I wonder when she will finally find the strenght to pick her sword and take his head, because I have stopped counting the times he gave her a temporary death in all the time they have been together.

    Sergio Miruelo, Dec. 2017




    Victoria Kint
    Known aliases : ‘ Deborah ‘Debbie’ Valentine,
    Shannon Abbt, Ruth Franklin, Andrea Stark
    Notable characteristics : Tomboy character
    Expert rodeo performer, marksmanship
    Weapon : Irish celtic broadsword

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Hanover, MD
    Occupation : Rodeo performer
    Prior occupations : Rodeo performer, Wild West
    Shows, stage coach driver; war nurse
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 30 September 2017
    Place : Hanover, MD
    Victor : Grant Makim
    Watcher : Krystel Damiano

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : African American
    Born : 1878; Baltimore MD USA
    First death : 1903; Performer in Buffalo Bill’s Wild
    West show, crushed by falling horse
    First teacher : Possibly Ekaghogho, rumored to
    have enlisted herself in Wild West Shows
    Possiblepast associates : The Dahomey Amazons
    First recorded sighting : 1913. Uttica, NY
    Encounter with Kit O’Brady at rodeo show

    When Victoria Kint faced Grant Makim she showed the same fighting skills and dance movements than the ferocious Dahomey Amazons of the 19th century which allow us to pin Ekaghogho of the Dahomey Amazons as her likely teacher after her First Death in 1903. Victoria described to Kit O’Brady her teacher as a ferocious Africa-born woman, with volatile temper, living in the Buffalo Bill circus with a cadre of female bodyguards, also Africa-born. This tantalizing conversation clue us in the latest occupations and location of the missing Amazons who disappeared in 1894 after the conquest of Dahomey by the French Imperial army.
    Victoria was good with the sword but Makim proved stronger, faster and determined to take her head.

    Watcher Researc, US Northeast



    Toshiro Nakayata
    Known aliases : Toshiro Hitsugaya, Toshiro Shun
    Notable characteristics :
    Under the influence of a Dark Quickening
    Weapon(s) : Customized, silver-braid katana
    Recorded kills : Frederika Toth

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Osaka, Japan
    Occupation : Swordsmith, metalsmith
    Prior occupations : Swordsmith in service to
    Hattori Hanzo, metalsmith, traveller
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 3 April 2017
    Place : Osaka
    Victor : Keiko Watanabe
    Watcher : June Sengu

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Japanese
    Born : 1349, present-day Okinawa, Japan
    First death : 1369, Swordsmith killed by a bandit
    who wouldn’t pay for his katana
    First teacher : Natsuta
    Known past associates : Natsuta
    First recorded sighting : 1379. Province of
    Kanagawa-ken, Kanto. Found and taught of
    immortality by Natsuta

    Toshiro Nakayata was the most skilled swordsmith of 14th century Japan and an immortal; Natsuta the warmonger must have sensed Toshiro's potential when he recruited him in his army in 1379 instead of taking his head, and kept him at his service, in charge of crafting weapons for his soldiers. Toshiro stayed as such until well into the 16ht century when Hattori, in a gesture of good grace, gave him his freedom and sent him on his way. Even since, Toshiro has been keeeping his head on his shoulders by crafting the best swords, cutlasses and katanas for any immortal challenging him... or otherwise.
    Ennemies, friends, lovers... all have received a weapon from his forge, in exchange for a huge sum of money. His prices are high, but none of his swords ever broke in battle and their carriers still live to this day.

    June Sengu, 2015


    Toshiro has been challenged by Frederika Toth, his skills with the sword proved superior as well as the quality of his blade. Toshiro took Toth out of the Game but I am afraid he underwent the same personality change as Toth and is now ander the thrall of a Dark Quickening, killing people randomly across Greater Tokyo area, immortals or mortals, none are spared.

    June Sengu, Dec; 2016

    Toshiro Nakayata was faced by Keiko Watanabe who sought to avenge the death of her friend, Frederika Toth. Was Keiko aware Toshiro was under the spell of a Dark Quickening I am not sure because sdhe fought him with vigor and when she defeated him she didn’t recoil from the kill and from taking her ennemy’s life-essence. Keiko Watanabe knew Toshiro from way back in the 1800’s when he forged a replacement blade for her in 1832 after it was brothen in combat by Ramelan fo the Batak, but she didn’t know him as her ennemy then. She may have relflected that time changes even the best of men and that the once noble warrior/swordsmith evolved by himself into a crazed killer. I am following Keiko, hoping the good-natured woman that she is doesn’t turn into a rampaging monster.

    June Sengu, 3 April 2017



    Atef Hayreddin
    Known aliases : Tabari Avsar, Azizudeen Al-Razi
    Notable characteristics : None
    Weapon : Damascus steel saber
    Recorded kills : Sobel Har-Zahav
    Inconclusive fight against Sobel Har-Zahav, 1985

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Beirout, Lebanon
    Occupation : Corporal, Lebanese Armed Forces
    Prior occupations : Amal Movement militia
    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
    Date : 30 August 2017
    Place : Beirout
    Victor : Tomi Mets
    Watcher : Kiraz Yamak

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Lebanese, Shi’a Muslim
    Born : 1938; Bzurut, Lebanon
    First death : 1968; Corporal of Lebanon Armed
    Forces killed in conflicts with Palestinians
    First teacher : Undetermined
    Known ennemies : Ruth Bat-Seraph:
    First recorded sighting : 1985, Lebanon. Part of
    Amal Movement militia trying to rout out
    Palestians from Lebanese strongholds, Lebanese
    Civil War

    The final battle of Atef Hayreddin took place in Beirut against Tomi Metz from the Estonian defense forces.
    Some times Immortals do not need a motive to kill each others, the incentive to fight comes from a taste for battles, the need for a Quickening, for added power and this is what happens when two Immortal soldiers meet each other during wartime.

    Kiraz Yamak, August 2017


    Derek Markham
    Known aliases : Michael Derek, Didier Meers
    Notable characteristics : Sociopathic
    Weapon : Double-ring rapier

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : Warsaw, Poland
    Occupation : Kidnapping racket, specialising in
    children from rich families
    Prior occupations : Highwayman
    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
    Date : 31 December 2017
    Place : Warsaw
    Victor : Michael Rojek
    Watcher : Patrick Salzer

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : English
    Born : 1717; Bedford, England
    First death : 1746; Highwayman ambushing
    Swenja Batz and Lootje De Groot
    First teachers : Swenja Baatz and Lootje De Groot
    Known past associates : Swenja Baatz, Lootje De
    Groot, Amanda, Viktor Hansen, Andrew Franklin
    First recorded sighting :1746; the road from
    Ipswich to Bedford. Tried to rob Swenja and Lootje
    who laughed, killed him and then mentored him

    In 1746, Swenja Baatz and Lootje De Groot were travelling from Ipswich, fresh from having kiled Irishman Ethan Callaghan and were going on with their business as highwaywomen. On the road, while travelling to Bedford, they had the surprise to meet a pre-immortal highwayman who tried to rob them from their money and other valuables; the two women felt the pre-immortal presence from Markham and looked at him with a knowing smilebefore Swenja drew her pistol and shot him in the heart. When Markham came back from the dead, he had his would-be victims by his side who explained to him exactly why he wasn’t dead; with his new friends’ teachings, he discovered the world was his playgound and that he could be anything he ever dreamt of. The trio then spent two years robbing the riches,giving only to themsevles before Swenja decided to end their little menage à trois and to leave for Cornwall; they ended their relationship with Markham by suggestign he makes the most of his immortality... and he did, constantly living on the fringes of the Law, evading the attentions of the like of Charles Mako or Matthew of Salisbury, associating himself with immortals such as Viktor Hansen or Amanda.

    From the Chronicle of Derek Markham :

    My father told me what kind of lousy scum I was going to Watch, he didn't prepare me to encounter such a despicable character : egocentric, cowardly, cunning, greedy, obsessed with women and especially with the ancient lady Who made the mistake of associating herself with him. Amanda should have known better, according to what Watcher Archives sent me about her. The two associates were involved in some kidnapping racked, targeting children of London's upper society. This time, the game turned sour with the kidnapped child accidentally killed by Markham. Amanda angrily turned on him and threatened to feed him to the policemen only to feel Markham's sword to her throat.
    Amanda being the only witness of Markham's crimes, he offered her a choice : marry him or die. A wife cannot testify against her husband on court, he reasoned. Amanda, not too good with a sword, agreed and the "lovebirds" were married by a defroqued priest in the hour. But Amanda, amoral thief and loving to mortals, sold her husband to the constable winning the gratitude of a family of mortals and the undying hatred of her ex-husband.

    Oliver Pickwick, Manchester 1867





    Patrick Lynch
    Known aliases : Peter Coote, Jack O’Keefe,
    ‘the Firebug"
    Notable characteristics : Pyromaniac
    Weapon : El Cid Colada sword
    Recorded kils : None, not a player of the Game
    Inconclusive fight against Robert Orin, 1776, 1845

    Status
    Most recent base of operations : London, England
    Occupation : Arsonist, trigered major fires across
    North America between 1776 and 1928
    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
    Date : 30 June 2017
    Place : London
    Victor : Richeard of Mercia, SIS
    Watcher : Peter O'Toole

    Background
    Original cultural affiliation : Irish
    Born : 1715, Galway Ireland
    First death : 1755, Irish revolutionary burnt to
    death by English soldiers for writing poetry
    belittling King George II
    First teacher : Makarios
    Known past associates : Makarios, Bryce Korland
    Known ennemies : Robert Orin, Deoneces of
    Sparta
    First recorded sighting : 1805 Detroit MI. Hunted
    by Robert Orin after setting on Great Fire of Detroit

    Patrick Lynch became a mentor to serial killer Bryce Korland in the 19th century after he got his frozen body out of thawing waters. He inspired him into writing epic fantasy and poetry and delving into his dark side, triggering his taste for fire and murder, leaving James Colte and Duncan MacLeod to clean his mess up in 1958. He is the most wanted arsonist and killer in today America with his proudest achievemtn being the fires he triggered all though American history.

    Peter O’Toole, 2016
    Last edited by Gardner; 05-30-2022, 11:41 PM.

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    • Nicholas Kedgick
      Known aliases : Nicholas Crook
      Notable characteristics : Impulsive behavior, taste
      for underage prostitutes of both sexes
      Weapon : El Cid Tizona sword
      Inconclusive fight against Raymond d’Amboise,
      1743

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

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation : British
      Born : England, unknown date
      First death : Unrecorded
      First teacher : Unrecorded
      Known associates : Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle
      Known past associates : Spanish Cabal, Court of
      Beauties, Knights of Charlemagne
      Known ennemies : Secret Immortals Services
      First recorded sighting : 1743. London, England
      Challenged Raymond d’Amboise to a duel, lost

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

      Watcher Bureau, London



      Roderick Kingsley
      Known aliases : Cornelius Black, Aurelius Fitzroy
      Notable characteristics : Master of illusion
      Weapon : Black knightly sword
      Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
      Inconclusive fight agaisnt May-Ling Shen, 1486

      Status
      Most recent base of operations : New-York ,Y
      Occupation : Warlock, master of mysticla arts,
      trying to overthrow Aldrich Monk’s rule of the
      Hellfire Club
      Prior occupations : Satanic cult leader
      Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
      Date : 12 May 1892
      Place : Manhattan, NY
      Victor : Aldrich Monk
      Watcher : Research, Hellfire Club

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation : Saxon
      Born : 1344; Surrey, England
      First death : 1364; From legend, died trying to
      wrestle a demon for his own soul
      First teacher : Sir Francis Bacon
      Known associates : Hellfire Club
      Known past associates : Secret Immortals Society
      Known ennemies : May-Ling Shen ,SIS
      First recorded sighting : 1486; Kualan Valley,
      China. Wrestling mystical power from local
      Immortal mystic, but failed

      Roderick Kingsley fancied himself a master of mystical arts and often invoked the power of Azaroth and Lucifer during ceremonies involving human sacrifices. When he murdered the young pre-Immortals used as pawns by the Hellfire Club, he went too far. Aldrich Monk confronted him and cast him out of the Club, but Roderick wanted the power and wrestled control of the Club leadership by challenging Monk. The fight ended with the death of Kingsley, the young people he murdered, all recruited from the streets of Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New-York between 1888 and 1898, were now trapped in the bodies of children and pre-teens,deemed useless by Aldrich Monk. Serena Harper had other ideas, though, and developped the children into a cadre of spies and street urchins who became the Hellions in New-York and reivented themseves as the Baker Street Irregulars of London, after the characters of Arthur Conan Doyle.

      From the Chronicles of the Hellfire Club


      Serena Harper
      Known associates : Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle,
      Baker Street Irregulars



      Arxel de Tavira
      Known aliases : Ferdinand De Salvo
      Notable characteristics : Psychopathic, taste for
      rape and murder of Mapuche Indian women
      Weapon : Chilean Infantrey saber
      Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

      Status
      Most recent base of operations : Santiago, Chile
      Occupation : Independent means
      Prior occupations : Officer, Army of Chile
      Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
      Date : 1810 Chilean War of Independance
      Place : Santiago
      Victor : Carmen Morales, sent by Mapuche
      Indians to get rid of the Immortal scourging them
      Watcher : Research, Carmen Morales Chronicle

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation : Chilean, passing
      himself as Criollo Chilean, i.e of Spanish descent
      Born : 17th century, Captaincy General of Chile
      First death : Killed putting down rebellion of
      enslaved Mapuche Indians
      First teacher : Carmen Morales
      Known ennemies : Carmen Morales
      First recorded sighting : 1810. Santiago de Chile
      Involved in the War of Independance against
      Spanish Crown, hunted down by Carmen,
      identified as a pre-Immortal she briefly tutored

      If eyes are the mirror of the soul, then Arxel de Tavira had none : everyone who met him said his eyes were black and lifeless, the eyes of a tiger prawning for prey. And indeed Arxel was a tiger preying on Chilean natives, raping and killing for his own pleasure. He was remorseless, manipulative and hid his true nature behind a combination of youthful charm and chutzpah which allowed him to function in society.
      He helped fund the Chilean War of Independence, posing as a hero of the people, while behind he butchered Mapuche women, his crimes becoming as feared as would be the serial murders of Jack the Ripper in the London of 1888. Eventually the Mapuche community sought the help of a half-godess who lived near Santiago, the Immortal woman today known as Carmen Morales who hunted the perpetrator down and found him to be a fellow Immortal. Arxel had just butchered his eighth victim, leaving her remains on the hills surrounding Santiago as he always does, thus making him easy to find for an apt tracker like Carmen. His chronicle ended in a fury of lightings, the freak storm saluting the passing of one of the most infamous serial killers of the 19th century.

      Watcher Research, South America



      Prejun Casamayor
      Known aliases : Emilio Guttierez Caba
      Notable characteristics : Allergy to vertigo range,
      nausea
      Weapon : Stirling double-edge backsword
      Recorded kills : None known, apt fighter

      Status
      Most recent base of operations : Maracaibo,
      Venezuela
      Occupation : Advisor to the governor of
      Venezuela, lining his pockets with siphoned funds
      Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
      Date : 12 May 1812 Llanero Rebellion
      Place : Maracaibo
      Victor : Alexei Miguez, leading Llanero rebellion
      Watcher : Research, Latin America

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Venezuela
      Born : 18th century; Maracas, Colonial Venezuala
      First death : 1775; Killed putting down rebellion of
      Native Venezuelans, Ye’kuana Indians
      First teacher : Ramon Suarez Llorca
      Known past associates : Ramon Suarez Llorca
      Known ennemies : Alexei Miguez
      First recorded sighting : 1775. Colonial Venezuela
      Disciple of Ramon Suarez Llorca who taught him
      to use the natives to his benefit

      Like all men of his time, Prejun Casamayor considered the Spanish as superior to the savages living half-naked in the jungles and had no qualms using them as workforce for the developpment of the Maracaibo city and taking Indian girls to his bed. Until a rebellion of the Llaneros erupted, led by Immortal Alexei Miguez who faced Casamayor and took the vain man out of the Game. Casamayor felt outraged a Llanero ddared challenged him. The fight was quick, the look on his face was priceless when he fell to his knees.

      Watcher Research, South America


      Izdihar of Araba
      Known aliases : The Spider of Hatra
      Notable characteristics : Seductress, sexual
      charisma to burn, no man could resist her charm
      Weapon : Scimitar

      Status
      Most recent base of operations : Hatra, Kingdom
      of Araba, present Iraq
      Occupation : Courtesan of local Arab prince, luring
      Immortals travelling on caravan trade routes from
      Roman and Parthian Empires
      Prior occupations : Wealthy dancer and courtesan
      Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
      Date : 390
      Place : Hatra
      Victor : N.A Possibly Selim Ubadah
      Watcher : Research, Middle East

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation : Araban
      Born : circa 270, Kingdom of Araba
      First death : 290; Lost in the desert with caravan,
      suffocated to death
      First teacher : Issam of Awsan
      Known past associates : Issam of Awsan
      First recorded sighting : 290 Kingdom of Araba
      Found in the desert by Issam of Awsan

      We don’t know how many she killed precisely in one century of immortal life, one dozen at most because she lived in a place where Immortals travelled through one country to another and Iraq was at the crossroad of the Middle East since the heyday of Babylon. Izdihar was a tyoung Immortal but she played the Game with a passion only matched by her prowesses in bed. A mistress of the sword and of sexuality, luring men like moths to the flame. Her last known quarry was Selim Ubadah who was en route to Hatra when he was taken by a desert sand storm and lost for a time, his Watcher having presumably suffocated to death I nthe sand. 400 AD Immortals census for Middle Eastern countries lists Izdihar among the missing.
      She may have seduced Selim Ubadah and may have been killed by him.

      Watcher Bureau, Middle East



      Mira of Caspiane
      Known aliases : None, called a Djinn by Arab
      soldiers, 651
      Known aliases : None, called a Djinn by Arab
      soldiers, 651
      Notable characteristics : Dressed in the Oriental
      fashion, hiding her face behind a blue veil
      Weapon : Set of twin daggers, Moorish sword
      Recorded kills : None

      Status
      Most recent base of operations : Caspiane,
      Balasagan, satrapy of the Sassanian Empire
      Occupation : Warrior-woman, leading defense of
      Caspiane agaisnt invadign Rashidun
      Prior occupations : Holy woman, whore, courtesan
      Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
      Date : 651 Rashidun Conquest of Balasakane
      Place : Balasagan
      Victor : Selim Ubadah
      Watcher : Research, Middle East

      Background
      Original cultural affiliations : Caspians
      Born : 3rd century, Caspian province, Balasagan,
      Satrapy of Sassanid Empire
      First death : Suicide pact, jumped from cliff with
      her lover
      First teacher : Khojasteh
      Known past associates : Khojasteh
      Known ennemies : Selim Ubadah
      First recorded sighting : 651. Balasakane
      Found and killed by Selim Ubadah, at this time a
      general of the Rashidun army

      It may have been his encounter with serial murderess Izdihar of Araba that taught Selim Ubadah how deadly Immortal women can be in the Game, like praying mantises prawning for quuarries. Whichiswhy he showed no mercy to Mira of Caspiane, a once doomed lover mentored by Khojasteh of the Sassanids. Khojasteh married the young woman and taught her the ways of the Game, of the sword, insistent that she was to become his equal in all things. Khojasteh was open-minded but it is also his sword that led him to his final battle agaisnt General Darius and from then on, Mira had to survive on her own. We have a very fragmented chronicle for Mira, but she became a courtesan, a whore, a holy woman at Medina and lately a warrioress defending Caspiane agaisst Arab forces led by Selim Ubadah. Mira used scare tactics against Selim’s men, apparing out of nowhere like a djinn with a squadron of deadly women armed with short sword, cuttign throats and taking names, so to speak. Eventually, Selim hunted the dozen of women led by Mira, killed them all and finished Mira of Caspiane in a quick fight. The Djinn of Caspiane was gone.

      Watcher Research, Middle East


      Jenna of Edessa
      Known aliases : Makbule, Kiraz of Istanbul
      Notable characteristics : Chameleon-like, able to
      blend in any environment, master of disguise
      Weapon : Turkic war sword
      Inconclusive fight against Kismet Necdet, 1380;

      Status
      Most recent base of operations : Constantinople
      Byzantine Empire
      Occupation : Performer, assassin in disguise
      targeting Ottoman soldiers
      Prior occupations : Traveller, scholar, hunting
      Ottoman Immortals; courtesan, Byzantine Empire
      Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
      Date : 29 May 1453 Fall of Constantinople
      Place : Constantinople
      Victor : Sabite Bayar
      Watcher : Research, Western Asia

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation : Anatolian
      Born : 1124; Edessa, Anatolia
      First death : 1144; Capture of Edessa by Imad ad-
      Din Zengi who had all of its inhabitants passed to
      the sword
      First teacher : Sabahat of the Khazars
      Known past associates : Sabahat
      First recorded sighting : 1144. County of Edessa
      Found and mentored by Sabahat

      The 1453 Chronicle of the Fall of Constantinople list four Immortals present durign the Ottoman siege of the city : Thanos of Athens, pre-Immortal Cristos Savakis, Sabite Bayar the Ottoman archer and Anatolian assassin Jenna of Edessa. Durign the 53 days which the siege lasted, she infiltrated Ottoman troops disguised as an Ottoman prostitute, killing one senior officer after the other in nightly encounters, in the vain hope of delaying the inevitable fall of Constantinople. Jenna wasn’t aware one of the Ottoman archers was an Immortal, and a woman, but it was too late when she sensed her presence : an arrow through her heart ended her murdering spree, her head discreetly separated from her body – the ensuing Quickenign was explained by Sabite as a freak storm. During the siege, the young Cristos Savakis was killed and mentored by Thanos of Athens who witnessed the Quickening from afar. His chronicle for 1453 ended there, as his Watcher was killed during the three days of plundering which followed the Fall; Thanos chronicle was recovered by a team of Watcher historians one decade,thus helping to put together the story of the Fall of Constantinople as seen by the Watchers.

      Watcher Research, Middle East


      Arishat of Carthage
      Known aliases : None
      Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
      Weapon : Ptolemaic Egypt saber
      Recorded kills : None known
      Inconclusive fight against Irene of Antioch, 197
      BC, Scipio Africanus, 146 BC

      Status
      Most recent base of operations : Carthage,
      Phoenicia
      Occupation : High priestess of Astarte, goddess of war
      Prior occupations : High priestess of Ishtar
      Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
      Date : 49-44 BC
      Place : Carthage, Roman Province of Syria
      Victor : Scipio Africanus
      Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

      Background
      Original cultural affiliation : Carthaginian
      Born : 3rd century BC; Carthage, Phoenicia
      First death : Killed during invasion of Phoenicia by
      Ptolemic Egyptians, raped and killed by Egyptian
      soldiers
      First teacher : Ishtar of Erech
      Known past associates : Ishtar, aka Astarte
      First recorded sighting : 197 BC. Carthage
      During invasion of Phoenicia by the Seleucids, in
      conflict against Irene of Antioch

      The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman bazaar storage building, and an Ottoman caravanserai located in the Old Town of Skopje. It is in the area of Museum of Macedonia. It has served as an inn and as a prison.
      In the museum is an ancient sarcophagus representing a Carthagianian priestess dated to the 3rd century/2nd century BC and which was recovered on the digging site of ancient Carthage. The remains of a woman were found inside, she had seemingly died from decapitation and been buried with the honors due to her position in the Carthaginian society. Watcher historians assigned to the Museum did some research work and found how Immortal Julius Scipio (aka Scipio Africanus) had been in conflict against a Carthaginian priestess and Immortal named Arishat, later found to have been a disciple of the fabled Ishtar of Erech.
      The reason of the conflict was found : it happened arounf 49-44 BC at the time of Carthage' reconstruction by the Roman Empire; Scipio was one of the architects of Carthage's destruction during the Third Punic War in 146 BC. The Third Punic War was a mini-Gathering of Immortals as several of them were involved : Jamal Soliman, Maharbal of Carthage, Tetramnestus, the Kurgan,
      Karmanshar and Tomyris, at this time members of Carthage’s ruling council nd finally Ayzebel of Berytus. Talk about History spawning Immortals : Ayzebel and Tetramnestus met their First Deaths during the fall of Carthage.
      Arishat seemingly never forgot, nor forgave the destruction of her city and the massacre of her people. She fought Scipio and Scipio put the woman's ghosts to rest.

      Watcher Research, Middle East
      Last edited by Gardner; 04-12-2018, 05:04 AM.

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      • Another good set of chronicles, my friend, and great update to the Hellfire Club.

        Okay, here's the final part of the SIN EATER SAGA:

        Abigail Crane, aka The Sin Eater VIII

        Known aliases: Alison Colter, Angela Colt
        Notable characteristics: Strategic thinker; excellent mimic
        of people and accents; poses as a man when wearing
        the mask of the Sin Eater
        Weapon: White braid katana, stolen from antique
        dealer who she then murdered

        Status
        Most recent base of operations: Washington, DC,
        USA
        Occupation: FBI Special Agent & profiler, murderer
        Prior occupations: Detective, London Metropolitan
        Police; Inspector, Paris Police Prefecture; SOE Agent
        Roster of Immortals Status: Active
        Date:
        Place:
        Victor:
        Watcher: Cindy Williams, FBI

        Background
        Original cultural affiliation: French-English, French
        mother, English father
        Born: 1918, Lille, France
        First death: 1943; SOE Agent working with Yugoslav
        partisans, killed in ambush by Chetniks
        First teacher: Absalom Finch, aka The Sin Eater VI
        Known associates: None
        Known past associates: Absalom Finch

        First recorded sighting: 1943, Eastern Bosnia.
        Mentored by Absalom Finch, at this time serving as
        a medic, in return for access to German prisoners

        Abigail Crane is the first female Immortal to bear the title of The Sin Eater. Unlike her predecessors, Crane's murders are a means to an end: revenge.
        When Absalom Finch found Abigail following her First Death in an ambush, he not only became her mentor but also her lover, despite the apparent age gap. Even after she found out about his true nature and the legacy he carried, she still loved him, although she refused to follow in his footsteps.
        All that changed in November 1956, when she returned to the apartment they shared in Paris and discovered the decapitated body of Finch. Grief-stricken, she picked up Finch's sword and scoured the streets for his killer, but found nothing.

        It would be a full decade before she found out who killed her lover and the group of Immortals to which she belonged. Another ten years of research to uncover everything she could about the SIS and its activities. Then she set about planning her revenge, a long-term plan. She entered law enforcement and took up the mantle of the Sin Eater, knowing it would eventually draw the attention of Allegra Chambers and her compatriots. She used her job to cover her tracks as she killed "sinners" and utilised her mimicry skills to pose as a man while killing, so Immortals would hunt for the wrong perpetrator, as would their mortal counterparts in law enforcement.

        For Abigail, killing Allegra Chambers is not enough, destroying her world first is. So she used her work and skills to plant evidence and lead investigating Immortals where she wanted to lead them: to innocent Immortals she had decided to implicate as a dry run for what she intended to do to Chambers. Two Immortals have been framed and killed in the last decade as Abigail hones her talents. Preparing for the time when Allegra Chambers falls into her web.

        22 August 2005
        From the Chronicle of the Secret Immortals Society

        Since transferring to DC, Abigail has already made her mark as the Sin Eater. Three bodies have been dragged out of the Potomac in the last six weeks; the leader of a local Latino street gang, a sleazy lawyer with links to organised crime, and a suspected paedophile. The Director has already set up a task force which we've been assigned to and i suspect, as before, all the evidence will point to a male perp. At some point, the mark of The Sin Eater will be found and before long, word will get back to the UK and a certain centuries-old female Immortal with unfinished business. When she comes to Washington, she'll be walking into Abigail's intricate trap.

        Cindy Williams, FBI, 10 April 2018
        Chronicle of Abigail Crane, aka The Sin Eater VIII

        Cheers
        Apollo1

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        • Great bio, Apollo! Good finale to the Sin Eater saga... with scores to settle for Allegra Chambers.
          I wonder who are those Immortals who were framed by Abigail. Btw, here is a good pic for her... Gillian Anderson as Scully, looking a bit sinister.

          Cheers!
          Last edited by Gardner; 06-02-2023, 12:12 AM.

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          • For your files...


            CENTRAL ASIA

            Emomali Nabiyev
            Known aliases : Junaid Khan
            Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist,
            turned over to ISIL; trained falcon
            Weapon : Moorish boradsword
            Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

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

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

            SOUTHERN ASIA

            Nanlha of Bumthang
            Known aliases : Nanlha Kinga
            Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
            Weapon : Never carrying one
            Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

            Status
            Most recent base of operations : Bumthang
            Occupation : Event planner/organiser, annual
            religious festivals
            Prior occupations : Shrine keeper; rebel fighter
            resisting Chinese and Tibetan invasions of Buthan
            Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
            Date :
            Place :
            Victor :
            Watcher : Michelle Wang

            Background
            Original cultural affiliation : Southern Asian
            Born : 1025, Kingdom of Bumthang
            First death : Performing religious services in a
            cave, killed by crumbling roof during earthquake
            First teacher : May-Ling Shen
            Known past associates : May-Ling Shen,
            Ngawang Namgyal
            Known ennemies : Immortal Maiden, People’s
            Protectorate
            First recorded sighting : 1050. Kingdom of
            Bumthang. Found and mentored by May-Ling
            Shen, at this time looking for al ocal Buddhist
            monk



            Faneesh Sikdar
            Known aliases : None
            Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
            with Buddhist priests aware of her immortality
            Weapon : Not carrying one
            Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

            Status
            Most recent base of operations : Kingdom of
            Mrauk U, Bengal Empire
            Occupation : Shrine keeper
            Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
            Date : 2 July 1785 Conquest of the kingdom by
            soldiers of the Konbaung Dynasty, Burma
            Place : Mrauk U Temple of Buddha
            Victor : Sau Bau Gyi
            Watcher : Research, Southern Asia

            Background
            Original cultural affiliation : Bengali Buddhist
            Born : 1609; Buddhist Kingdom of Mrauk U
            Bay of Bengal, Part of Mughal Empire
            First death : 1629, Killed by Arakenese raiders
            looking for salves from Bengal
            First teacher : Friar Sebastian Manrique , cross-
            identified as Sebastian Medina
            Known past associates : Toribio de Benavente
            First recorded sighting : 1635 Kingdom of Mrauk U
            Found and mentored by Friar Sebastian Manrique
            who witnessed the coronation of King Thiri
            Thudhamma

            There is a legend in Southern Asia that Sau Bau Gyi, once a feared warlord, took the head of an Immortal holy woman of the Kingdom of Mrauk U in the Bengali Empire and was changed forever, forsaking his armies and turning into a man of peace. While this story is a reflection of the tale of Darius, Gothic general tunred monk, it is true however : Faneesh Sidkar lived for 150 years in the Empire of Bengal and tended to a shrine site when her homeland was invaded by the Burmese in 1785. Sau Bau Gyi was forbidden, as all Immortals, to take a headon Holy Ground,s so he had his soldiers pull Faneesh from her place and took her head before his men, earning the reputation of a demon who could invoke lightnings and thunder at will.

            Watcher Research, Southern Asia
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            • Baba Yaga
              Known aliases : Illyana Petrova, Catherine
              Katushka, Barbara Yagarevna
              Notable characteristics : Elderly immortal, lured
              Immortals in bobby-trapped house
              Weapon : Shotgun and bobby-trapped house
              Recorded kills : Vasily Dionisy

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : St. Petersburgh,
              Russia
              Occupation : Occasional headhunter, targeting
              specific Immortals on behalf of Andre Korda
              Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
              Date : 2 October 1742
              Place : Moscow
              Victor : N.A
              Watcher : Research, Eastern Europe

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Russian
              Born : 1208, Village of Eastern Russia
              First death : 1258, Suspect in the murder of several
              children and killed by incensed vilagers
              First teacher : Lazarus
              Known associates : Andre Korda, Borghildur
              Known past associates : Lazarus
              First recorded sighting : 1712 Petrograd, luring
              immortal Victor Markov to her house; Markov
              narrowly escaped with his head on his shoulders



              Borghildur
              Known aliases : Maren Davidsen, Eloise Dunn,
              Frida Hansen, Gyory Firenze, Elina Uspenskaya
              Notable characteristics : Immortal child, 12 years
              old in appearance, mistrusting of male Immortals,
              Weapon : Speargun, pirate cutlass; shot Immortals
              from range with speargun before taking their heads

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : St. Petersburgh,
              Russia
              Occupation : Occasional headhunter, targeting
              specific Immortals on behalf of Andre Korda
              Prior occupations : Traveller, convent apostle
              Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
              Date : 1823 Hunting Sidor Tadui, witnessed his
              death by the blade of Stenka Bulavin
              Place : Novossibirsk, Siberia
              Victor : N.A
              Watcher : Research, Scandinavia

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Icelander
              Born : 1160; Commonwealth of Iceland
              First death : 1172; Murdered by child-killer Sidor
              Tadui, who didn’t recognize her as a pre-immortal
              First teacher : Kirsten Qvist
              Known associates : Kirsten Qvist, Andre Korda,
              Baba Yaga
              First recorded sighting : 1192. Forests of Iceland
              Found and mentored by Kirsten, investigating
              tales of a murdered child coming back as a ghost,
              Mentored her before handing her to Andre Korda

              Borghildur made an efficent team with the Baba Yaga (aka Illyana Petrova), the young girl and her grandmother, killing Immortals on behalf of Andre Korda who needed his ennemies disposed of. They have killed scores of Immortals in the two hundred years they have been together, facing prawning headhunters, before parting ways, Borghildur tiring of the old crone and the old woman herself tiring of the little pest‘s tantrums. Did Borghildur eventually kill Baba Yaga, we are not sure, they got on well together. Or maybe Borghildur needed time on her own and the Baba Yaga simply let ‘her grandchild’ go..

              Watcher Bureau, Eastern Europe




              Prometheus

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : Anatolia
              Occupation : Mathematician, astronomer
              Prior occupations : Scholar, tried to bring
              knowledge to mortals
              Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
              Date : 1800 BC, killed by Bellerophon in jealous
              rage over Methos’ affections for him
              Place : Anatolia
              Victor : Bellerophon
              Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Minoan
              Born : Minoan civilisation, unknown date
              First death : Chained to a mountain, died from
              exposure and/or from being attacked by vultures
              First teacher : Methos
              Known associates : None
              Known past associates : Methos, Bellerophon
              Known ennemies : Kronos
              First recorded sighting : 11th Century BC
              Mentioned in conversation between Aganesthos
              and Methos, as Bellerophon’s mentor and killed by
              his former disciple

              Prometheus was always considered an apocryphal Immortal in the chronicles, i.e one whose real identity was unknownd and/or existence unverified. It is once again to the credit of the Ancient Immortals Watcher Research team that we could put a proof of Prometheus’ existence from the chronicles of the 11th century BC as having been murdered by his own disciple, the fallen hero Bellerophon.
              Bellerophon once loved the ancient Immortal Methos and was loved by him. Is is not out place to discuss the ancient Immortal’s sexual life or choices in companions. What matters is that Bellerophon conceived an intense jealousy about Prometheus who also loved Methos and was loved by him. The amorous triangle between the three Immortals ended tragically when Bellerophon challenged his former teacher and killed him. Ironically, Methos killed Bellerophon two hundred years later after he joined three horsemen wearing masks, riding to the sun.
              Was it the death of Prometheus which drove Methos over the edge. We shall never know, unless Methos himself decides to tell all.

              Watcher Bureau, Western Europe




              Sabahat of the Khazars
              Known aliases : Katerina Botzaris
              Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
              Weapon : Khazars cavalry saber
              Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
              Inconclusive fight agaisnt Nicholas Kuchinka,
              bodyguard to Prince Oleg of Chernigov, 1079

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : Constantinople
              Occupation : Artesan, living with local Greek
              Community; married to a swordsmith
              Prior occupations : Raider (Cuman-Kipchaks)
              Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
              Date : 1821 Massacre of Constantinople
              Cross-identified as former student of Katherine
              Place : Constantinople
              Victor : Unidentified Ottoman Turk
              Watcher : Research, Western Asia

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Khazar Jews
              Born : 1001, Khazar Qaghanate
              First death : 1016; During Byzantine-Rus attack
              Khazaria, raped and killed by Rus soldiers
              First teacher : Nicholas Kuchinka
              Known associates : Katherine of Samothrace
              Known past associates : Jenna of Edessa
              Known ennemies : Nicholas Kuchinka
              First recorded sighting : 1079. Constantinople
              Involved in kidnapping of Varangian Prince Oleg I
              of Kievan Rus, shipped off ot Constantinople,
              reunited with her tormentor, Nicholas Kuchinka

              The Constantinople massacre of 1821 was orchestrated by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire against the Greek community of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in retaliation for the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1830), with the Swords of Allah pulling strings behing the scene. Melik Tanju took the opportunity of an easy kill when he hunted and killed Immortal woman
              Sabahat of the Khazars, at this time married to a local Greek swordsmith.

              From the Chronicles of the Eternal Swords of Allah




              Talayeh of Galilee
              Known aliases : Princess Talayeh Chenal
              Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
              Weapon : Not carrying one
              Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : Jerusalem,
              Palestine
              Occupation : Shine keeper
              Prior occupations : Holy woman
              Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
              Date : 1517 During fall of Jerusalem to Ottoman
              Turks
              Place : Jerusalem
              Victor : Melik Tanju, ESA
              Watcher : Research, Middle East

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Arab
              Born : 13rd century, Principality of Galilee;
              Kingdom of Jerusalem
              First death : 1270; Married to Galilean Prince
              Geoffrey Chenal, murdered with husband in ploy
              against his life
              First teacher : Berenice of Jerusalem
              Known past associates : Berenice of Jerusalem
              First recorded sighting : 1270. Principality of
              Galilee. Foudn and mentorerd by Berenice

              In 1517 Jerusalem fell to the invading Ottoman Turks, among whom Melike Tanju of the Swords of Allah. Talayeh of Galilee’s Watcher was found raped and butched, while Talayeh herself had been decapitated, clues pointing to an Immortal responible. That Immortal may well have been Melike Tanju, a captain in the Ottoman armies at the time and hater of the Christian world; he must have been thrilled to have killed a ‘traitor’ who once married a Christian knight in 1270.

              From the Chronicles of the Swords of Allah



              Mahnaz of Bilad al-Sham
              Known aliases : Sahar of Dimashq
              Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
              Weapon : Moorish broadsword
              Inconclusive fight against Doruq Oyan, 970

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : Orontes, Lebanon
              Occupation : Married to Maronite community
              leader, fostering his mortal children
              Prior occupations : Fought Shia Fatimids and
              Umayyad Arabs ; 998, killed Fatimid ruler Al Hakim
              who executed hundreds of Damascus citizens
              Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
              Date : 1095-1099 First Crusade, conquest of
              Lebanon by Christian Crusaders
              Place : Orontes valley
              Victor : Pascal Chaussende, Crusader
              Watcher : Research, Middle East

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Maronites (Christian
              Syrians) Eastern Catholic Church
              Born : 785; Bilad al-Sham, Abassid Caliphate, Syria
              First death : 799; Concubine of Caliph Harun al-
              Rashid poisoned by senior jealous concubine
              First teacher : Leofric
              Known past associates : Leofric; Marie-Louis Biez,
              trained her during her stay in the Frankish Kingdom
              Known ennemies : Jamal Laboudni, Taher al Jaber
              First recorded sighting : 799. Abbasid Caliphate
              Offered as gift by Harun al-Rashid to Leofric, at this
              time Christian missionary

              Mahnaz of Bilad al-Sham was one of the oldest ennemies of the Swords of Allah and was thought long dead, killed by Jamal Labdouni or by one of his cohorts. We were surprised to learn she had been challenged and killed by French crusader Pascal Chaussende in 1099 durign the First Crusade when she rebuked Pascal’s advances. Pascal had a way with Christian women, using them as pawns in the Game, and he belived Mahnaz would be no diferent. But this is a different breed of Christian who surprised Pascal with her Moorish broadsword and she challenged him herself. Strong as an ox, brave as a lion, with the heart of a coward : Pascal cheated an weakened Mahnaz with a throwing dagger rubbed in poison. Mahanz fell to the Frenchman at the same time his men were conquering and pillaging her homeland.

              Watcher Research, Immortals of the Levant



              Jilla of Shule
              Known aliases : Souad Al Katib Al Kal, Fatima,
              Abī al-Qāsim
              Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
              Weapon : Moorish broadsword, once stolen from
              Hamza el-Kahir, discarded

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : Rhages, Iran
              Occupation : Scholar, writer and mother
              Prior occupations : Slave-warrior woman, disciple
              of Hamza el-Kahir; traveller
              Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
              Date : 1042
              Place : Rhages
              Victor : Oghuz Turk, unidentfied
              Watcher : Research, Al Andalus Immortals

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Iranian Muslim
              Born : 702; Kashgar, Shule Kingdom,
              Taklamakan Desert, present Xinjiang, China
              First death : 715; Attack of Shule Kingdom by
              Qutayba Ibn Muslim, Umayyad Caliphate
              First teacher : Hamza el-Kahir
              Known past associates : Hamza el-Kahir
              Known ennemies : The Chameleon of Iberia, ESA
              First recorded sighting : 715. Shule Kingdom
              Found and mentored by Hamza, taken as slave
              after her death by the sword of one of his men

              In the 9th century, Tehran was a well known village, but less known than the city of Rhages, which the Oghuz Turks invaded discretely in 1035 and 1042, but the city was recovered under the reigns of the Seljuks and the Khwarezmians.[ In Rhages lived an Immortal woman, a scholar and pacifist who kept away from the Game and didn't even carry a sword. She cocnetrated on raising her children and writign poetry. The Oghuz Turk who raped her and killed her was unidentified but it is written she offered him her virtue and her life to him in exchange for the life of her children. The Turk laughed, took her by force and murdered her children.

              Watcher Research, Middle East




              Polyxena of Thrace
              Known aliases : Polyxenus (birth name)
              Notable characteristics : Transgender Immortal,
              felt she was a woman trapped in the body of a
              man
              Weapon : Thracian sword
              Recorded kills : None known

              Status
              Most recent base of operations : Central Anatolia
              Achaemenid Empire
              Occupation : Transgender whore, servicing
              soldiers of Achaemenid army
              Prior occupations : Ditto, in Thracian armies
              Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
              Date : 334 BC Conquest of Anatolia by Alexander
              the Great, lover of Deoneces of Sparta
              Place : Macedonia
              Victor : N.A
              Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

              Background
              Original cultural affiliation : Thracian
              Born : 500 BC Thrace
              First death : 480 BC; Mercenary in armies of King
              Xerxes I of Persia fighting the Greeks
              First teacher : Cleophon of Athens
              Known past associates : Cleophon of Athens,
              Deoneces of Sparta
              Known ennemies : 334 BC. Thracian mercenary
              acompanying Alexander the Great when he
              crossed the Hellespont during invasion of Persia

              Once, in a joke, Deoneces’ sirens asked him if he had ever slept with a man. Deoneces answered seriously that it happened to him in 334 BC during the conquest of Anatolia by Alexander the Great. One night, after a day of fighting, exhausted, he visited the army’s ambulant brothel and found himself in the company of a fellow Immortal, Polyxenus, a former disciple of Cleophon fo Athens, who had changed gender and followed the armies of Alexander as an expensive prostitute. Deoneces found Polyxenus was as skilled in bed as he was with the sword. His former companion, now known as Polyxena, had changed his lifestyle so much that Deoneces barely recognized him but was forced to admit the truth to the Thracian’s sexuality : this was a woman much like Kyra or Seraphina, trapped in the body of a man. Deoneces wasn't repulsed by Polyxenus' appearance, a man who voluntarily had himself castrated and whore women's clothing, because he respected the mental and physical pain he went through and chose the hardest way for an Immortal to spend eternity : neither man, nor woman, living between both worlds.

              Research is in motion to fhe final fate and, possibly, current whereabouts of Polyxena, one of the first recorded transgender Immortals of the antique world.

              From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta
              Last edited by Gardner; 04-16-2018, 05:21 AM.

              Comment


              • Another great set of chronicles, my friend. An interesting addition to the story of Deoneces with Polyxenus, a new side to the fearsome Spartan which i liked very much. Well done! Lol

                So, it's back to the Hellfire Club/SIS Chronicles saga:

                If you could be so kind as to fill in the blanks for me, my friend,

                Mary of Lincoln

                Known aliases: Mary of Torksey, Margaret of
                Chester

                Most recent base of operations: Melvaig, village on
                west coast of Scotland
                Occupation: Basket weaver, married to local
                fisherman
                Prior occupations: servant, peasant
                Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
                Date: 1168
                Place: Melvaig
                Victor: Aldrich Monk
                Watcher: David Nisbet

                Background
                Original cultural affiliation: Anglo-Saxon
                Born: 912, Lincoln, The Five Boroughs, Danish
                Mercia
                First death: 941; raped and murdered by Vikings
                during re-capture of Lincoln from the English by
                King Olaf of York
                First teacher: ?

                After more than a century on Holy Ground scheming and plotting, Aldrich Monk and Elfrida of York, now calling herself Evangeline Black, returned to the mainland of Scotland and set about rebuilding their powerbase. While Evangeline headed east toward the bigger towns, Aldrich was hungry for a Quickening, something he hadn't had for over a hundred years. Still disguised in the robes of a humble monk, he scoured the west coast of Scotland, until arriving in the small fishing village of Melvaig, where he found Mary of Lincoln. Unarmed and unprepared, she was easy prey for the ruthless, misogynistic Aldrich, who first gained her trust and then took her head and her Quickening.

                From the Chronicle of the Hellfire Club

                Mary just wanted a quiet life. She had no time for the Game, avoiding other Immortals at all costs. Despite the words of advice of the Immortal who had found and attempted to train her, Mary rejected the offer of a sword, insisting that warfare was not for women. Warned by her teacher that Immortals would come for her head despite her beliefs, Mary chose to hide away from the big towns and cities, choosing small villages and remote settlements, living a peaceful life.
                Until the day the mysterious Immortal monk came to the quiet village of Melvaig. He spoke kind words to Mary and lived under her roof for several weeks, before betraying her in her own garden, taking her head from behind. Coward and deceiver!

                David Nisbet, 1168

                Cheers
                Apollo1

                Comment


                • Glad you liked the Deoneces story :-) Maybe Carter Wellan and Haresh Clay could have been his male "sirens" ?

                  Gardner



                  Mary of Lincoln
                  Known aliases: Mary of Torksey, Margaret of
                  Chester
                  Notable characteristics : None
                  Weapon : Not carrying one
                  Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations: Melvaig, village
                  on west coast of Scotland
                  Occupation: Basket weaver, married to local
                  fisherman
                  Prior occupations: servant, peasant
                  Roster of Immortals Status: Deceased
                  Date: 1168
                  Place: Melvaig
                  Victor: Aldrich Monk
                  Watcher: David Nisbet

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation: Anglo-Saxon
                  Born: 912, Lincoln, The Five Boroughs, Danish
                  Mercia
                  First death: 941; raped and murdered by Vikings
                  during re-capture of Lincoln from the English by
                  King Olaf of York
                  First teacher: Edwina of Mercia
                  Known past associates : Edwina
                  First recorded sighting : 951. Danish Mercia
                  Found and mentored by Edwina of Mercia,
                  rescuing Mary from bonfire as a neveraging witch


                  Bruna Montero
                  Known aliases : Bruna Torres, Bruna Sanchez
                  Notable characteristics : Identical twin sister of
                  Camilla Montero; teenaged Immortal
                  Weapon : Mexican cavalry saber
                  Recorded kills : Carlos Montoya

                  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 : Camilla 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, hunting him by using a local Argentine
                  Immortal child



                  Camilla Montero
                  Known aliases : Camilla Torres, Camilla Sanchez
                  Notable characteristics : Identical twin sister of
                  Bruna Montero
                  Weapon : Mexican cavalry saber
                  Recorded kills : Carlos Montoya

                  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, hunting him by using a local Argentine
                  Immortal child

                  They may look like a pair of little lolitas but those are cruel and manipulative vixens, remorseless sociopaths who play the Game for thrills and for the power of the shared Quickenings. There aren’t a lot of Immortalslike those two : identical twins. There were the Hauser brothers, the two Immortals from Shangai in the 19th century and that’s all. Were the Hausers played the Game by destroying the morale of their quarries, Bruna and Camilla use pawns, locating pre-immortal children and teens and using them asbait after they triggered their First Death in staged accidents. They have been destroying countless lives in the 240 years we have been observing their activities and it would be fitting for those two ladies if a pair of Immortals took them out of the Game, instead of a solitary one. Now if they could move to Buenos Aires, there are a pair of smart ladies whose instincts are as sharp as their swords. Unless François Marchete or Kate Greehill get to them first.

                  Santana Andrade, April 2018



                  Jesus Santiago
                  Known aliases : El Cristo
                  Notable characteristics : Periods of mental
                  unstability, believes to be Christ reincarnated
                  Weapon : Not carrying one
                  Recorded kills : None, preaches the end of the
                  Game to his fellow immortals

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Santa Catarina,
                  Brazil
                  Occupation : Educator, preacher
                  Prior occupations : Traveller, scholar, Jesuit
                  missionary
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                  Date :
                  Place :
                  Victor :
                  Watcher : Diego Cristobal

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Brazilian
                  Born : 1595; Paraiba, Colonia Brazil, Empire of
                  Portugal
                  First death : 1635; During capture of Paraiba by
                  the Dutch during Dutch colonization of the
                  Americas
                  First teacher : Gavriel Larca
                  Known past associates : Gavrel Larca
                  First recorded sighting : 1639. Paraiba, Brazil
                  Found and mentored by Gavrie lLarca

                  Unlike his teacher, Jesus Santiago doesn’t use pawns in the Game, he just contents himslf with impersonating Jesus Christ our savior and since the 17th century there were heated arguments about wether Santiago was actually Christ or not. This is all a matter of faith and until he briefly reunited with Gavriel Larca in 1990 and was identified as his past student, we started believing his wild tales about him beign the Second Coming. As a matter of fact, Gavriel belived he was God made man and he turned out to be an impostor. So his Santiago to our collective relief. There was once a chronicle for Christ, describing him an an Immortal disgusted by mankind, a fornicator and wanderer, but the chronicle was proven a falsehood.
                  Jesus Christ, the historical figure, did meet some Immortal like Cleophon of Athens, Cassandra, Lazarus and possibly Cassius Marius (aka Brother Paul), but those tales are apocryphal at best and the miracle of resurrection attributed to the Christ remains a matter of faith.

                  Diego Cristobal, April 2018


                  Koteoho
                  Known aliases : Ramana, Katerina Gonsalez
                  Notable characteristics : Lives on Holy Grounds
                  Easter Island patriot, fighting for her people’s rights
                  Weapon : Roman gladius, gift from Cassivellaunus
                  Recorded kills : Unidentified Hanau Epe Rapanui,
                  1676, according to apocryphal legend
                  Inconclusive fight against Qani Colotl, 1862

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Hanga Roa,
                  Easter Island
                  Occupation : Political lobbyist; choral singer/dancer
                  Prior occupations : Rock carver, warrior woman
                  Prior occupations : Inactive
                  Date :
                  Place :
                  Victor :
                  Watcher : Mari Lopez

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Polynesian Native
                  Rapa Nui, Hanua momoko ethnicity
                  Born : Easter Island; circa 300-1200, unknown date
                  First death : Unrecorded
                  First teacher : Unrecorded
                  Known past associates : Jacob Van Houten,
                  Cassivellaunus (Cook expedition, 1774)
                  Known ennemies : Qani Colotl, leading a slave-
                  raiding operation on Easter Island
                  First recorded sighting : 1722. Easter Island
                  Encounter with Jacob Van Houten during landing
                  party, aware of the existence of the Game

                  We always felt taking the head of an Immortal in Easter Island was aking to killing on Holy Grounds, explaining possibly why Koteoho has been safe in her little world for the past three hundred years since she met Jacob Van Houten, Dutch explorer and one of the more benevolent Immortals from the European continent. Only once did she leave her island when the Rapa-Nui were deported en masse to Peru in the 1860’s for decades of slavery, working in the mines. It is a miracle that she survived deportation with the aggressive players of the Game cruising for an easy kill; when she came back, her people had been decimated by smallpox and she felt loney and isolated inside a very reduced community.
                  Today Koteoho hunts illegal fishermen and promotes her people’s civil rights. She keeps her gladius sharp for the coming Gathering because this is one tough lad who won’t go down without a fight as she told Duncan MacLeod when she managed to land him in her bed!

                  Maria Lopez, Apriil 2017



                  Jimena Garbajosa
                  Known aliases : Jenna San Antonio
                  Notable characteristics : Rarely seen without
                  partner Nuela Montavez; teenaged Immortal
                  Weapon : El Cid Colada sword

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Santiago, Chile
                  Occupation : Manager, « Desaparecidos »
                  association; trying to find whereabouts of past
                  victims of Pinochet regimen
                  Prior occupations : College student, painter
                  Joined the Sandinista army in Nicaragua, guerrilla
                  forces in Argentina or training camps in Cuba after
                  General Pinochet rose to power
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                  Date :
                  Place :
                  Victor :
                  Watcher : Kiara Montalbàn

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Chilean
                  Born : 1941; Valdivia, Chile
                  First death : 1960; Great Valdivia Earthquake
                  First teacher : Nuela Montavez
                  Known associates : Juanita Vasquez
                  Known past associates : Nuela Montavez
                  First recorded sighting : 1960. Buenos Aires,
                  Argentina. Found and mentored by Nuela
                  Montavez

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

                  Watcher Research, South America


                  Nuela Montavez
                  Known aliases : Lucinda Malomar
                  Notable characteristics : Rarely seen without
                  partner Jimena Garbajosa
                  Weapon : Spanish basket-hilt rapier
                  Unconclusive fight agaisnt Arturo Barba, 1973

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Santiago Chile
                  Occupation : Playwright, writer, opposing
                  dictatorship of General Pinochet
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                  Date : 11 October 1973
                  Place : Santiago
                  Victor : Arturo Barba
                  Watcher : Kiara Montalbàn

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Chilean
                  Born : 1870; Santiago, Chile
                  First death : 1891; Killed by her family by military
                  officer, Chilean Civil War
                  First teacher : Pedro de Torva
                  Known associates : Jimena Garbajosa
                  Known past associates : Pedro de Torva
                  First recorded sighting : 1819. Santiago, Chile
                  Found and mentored by Pedro de Torva, at this
                  time her teacher at University of Santiago

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

                  Watcher Research, South America


                  Adriano Pacheco

                  Known aliases : Francisco Nunez
                  Notable characteristics : Possibly homosexual
                  Weapon : Brazilian infantry saber
                  Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Colonial Brazil
                  No fixed location
                  Occupation : Soldier, army of Brazil, in conflict
                  against National Army of Argentina
                  Prior occupations : Ditto
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                  Date : 6 May 1865
                  Place : Porto Alegre, Brazil
                  Victor : Rodolfo Bautista
                  Watcher : Research, South America

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Brazilian
                  Born : 1714; Greater Recife, Brazil
                  First death : 1756; Guarani War; jointed Spanish
                  and Portuguese forces fighting Guarani Indians
                  First teacher : Carlos Montoya
                  Known past associates : Carlos Montoya
                  First recorded sighting : 1756. Greater Recife
                  Brother in arms and student of Carlos Montoya,
                  possibly lovers

                  The love that daren’t say its name : homosexual love between Immortal men is rare and not as easy to find as are lesbian relationships (i.e Gabriela de Savedra & Carmen Morales) but it does exist. Hareh Clay and Carter Wellan have professed their love for each other for centuries and Carlos Montoya always demonstrated his feelings to his students when he felt they could play in his league, so to speak.
                  We were never too sure about Adriano Pacheco : was he truly hetero sexual or simply an homosexual forced to live in a machist, sexually-repressed environment and who couldn’t live with the feelings Carlos had for him ? Adriano lived for one hundred years before Bautista took him out of the Game, but though he was rarely seen consorting with young men, he was never seen with a woman either. Had he lived one century more, he could have felt free to live as he wished, a true shame.

                  Watcher Research, South America



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

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

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Portuguese
                  Born : 1242; Algarve, Kingdom of Portugal
                  First death : 1272 During conquest of Faro from
                  the Moors under King Alfonso III, Portuguese
                  Reconquista
                  First teacher : Hippolito Cabral
                  Known associates : Eulogio Guajira
                  Known past associates : Hipolito Cabral
                  Known ennemies : Andromeda Valdez
                  First recorded sighting : 1648. Colonial Brazil
                  Hunting gold, capturing and enslaving
                  Indians, reunitign with Hippolito Cabral


                  Eulogio Guajira
                  Known aliases : None
                  Notable characteristics : Sadistic streak, taste for
                  raping Indian and negro women
                  Weapon : Portuguese infantry saber
                  Recorded kills : None known

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

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Colonial Brazilian
                  Born : 1611 Sao Paulo Captaincy, Colonial Brazil
                  First death : 1641 Hity by blowgun at Battle of
                  Mbororé between Guartani Indians and
                  Bandeirantes
                  First teacher : Modesto Anjos
                  Known associates : Modesto Anjos
                  Known past associates : Hippolito Cabral
                  Known ennemies : Andromeda Valdez
                  First recorded sighting : 1648. Colonial Brazil
                  Hunting gold, capturing and enslaving
                  Indians, encounter with Hippolito Cabral


                  Tome Lluna
                  Known aliases : Hijo de la Luna (birth name,
                  translated from Oriente language)
                  Notable characteristics : None
                  Weapon : Machete
                  Recorded kills : None known

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Quito, Ecuador
                  Occupation : Bodyguard, Governor of Ecuador
                  Prior occupations : Warrior
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                  Date : 12 May 1797
                  Place : Puruhas
                  Victor : N.A Watcher killed during Earthquake of
                  May 1797
                  Watcher : Researchn Latin American

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Native Latin American
                  Oriente Indians,converted to Catholiscism
                  Born : 16th century, region of Puruhas, Ecuador
                  First death : Resisting invasion of Ecuador by the
                  Incas, on the wrong end of an Inca spear
                  First teacher : Carmen Morales
                  Known past associates : Carmen Morales
                  First recorded sighting : 16th century Chronicles,
                  Ecuador. Idendified by Carmen Morales as an
                  unkillable Ecuadorian Indian warrior, c. 1570 at
                  Royal Audience of Quito

                  Why did a warrior like Hijo de la Luna of the Oriente chose to become the bodyguard of the governor of Ecuador is unknown, our best theory is that he was mentored/enslaved by a Spaniard Immortal who turned him over to the Spanish world, decades before he was mentored by Immortal Carmen Morales. Carmen once told the story of an Oriente warrior clad in Spanish army armor who challenged her in 1570 and lost against her superior skills. She let him live to be followed by a local Watcher who wrote the chronicle of a muscular Immortal of Quito. Lluna had the reputation of being invicible in battle and an unkillable bodyguard of the local governor.
                  There was indignous resistance against Spanish colonization of Ecuardor, led by Inca warrior Ruminahui, bodyguarded by then pre-immortal Lluna, in theory. In 1534, Conquistador Sebastián de Benalcázar (possibly an Immortal himself) captured Rumiñahui and killed him, endign the resistance.
                  The earthquake of 1797 killed Lluna’s Watcher and nothing has been told about Lluna since.

                  Watcher Research, South America


                  Felicitas Camardan
                  Known aliases : Aurora Felix, Patricia Guzmàn
                  Notable characteristics : Tattoo on left shoulder
                  Underwent a Dark Quickening at unknown date
                  Weapon : Archer sword
                  Inconclusive fight against Robert de Valicourt, 1669

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Cerro Grande,
                  Vargas State, Venezuela
                  Occupation : Black widow, serial murderer
                  siphoning wealth from men she marries
                  Prior occupations : Art gallery proprietor
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                  Date : 14 December 1999
                  Place : Vargas State
                  Victor : N.A House taken in flash-flood which killed
                  tens of thousands of people, destroyed thousands
                  of homes
                  Watcher : Research, South America

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Venezuelan
                  Born : Venezuela, unknown date
                  First death : Unrecorded
                  First teacher : Sarah d’Abbeville, in theory
                  Known past associates : Robert & Gina de
                  Valicourt, Dietlinde Draeger
                  First recorded sighting : 1669. Maracaibo,
                  Venezuela. During sack of Maracaibo py pirate
                  Robert Henry Morgan, aka Robert de Valicourt

                  Robert de Valicourt nearly lost his head against Felicitas Camardan in 1669 when she married the pirate ship captain and tried to take his head on their wedding night. A M.O that seems to remidn of Sarah d’Abbeville who also murdered her husband Sean McLaughlin before taking his ship, his wealth and his crew, cluing us in the possible identity of Fdelicitas’ first teacher. She certainly took after her manner because she killed hundreds of rich mortals in the 330 years we have been following her and she took her fair share of Quickenings too. The latin counterpart to Sarah McLaughlin and Nell Fagin made her mark on this world before her disappearance in 1999, one hope she finally met the final fate fitting her, at the end of an Immortal’s sharp sword.

                  There is a legend, about her, explaining her behavior : that early in her life she was forced into killing a male Latin Immortal and the Quickening overloaded an other wise good personality. The Immortal was a devil of a man, so wicked and cruel that Felicitas had no choice but to take his head. The Immortal was a Native Venezuelan, a Yamomani who ruled over his tribe and ate the flessh of conquistadores and bandeirantes he capured. He captured Felicitas, raped and and tortured her until finally she managed to escape her bonds and killed him herself with her cutlass. Ever since, she has been killing indiscriminately, eating the hearts of men like the praying mantis she is.

                  Watcher Bureau, South America



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

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Rio de Janeiro
                  Occupation : Socialite, independent means
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                  Date : 1641 The first carnaval of Rio celebrating
                  the coronation of Dom Joao IV, King of Portugal
                  Place : Rio
                  Victor : N.A
                  Watcher : Research, South America

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


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

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Rio de Janeiro
                  Occupation : Socialite, independent means living
                  under the protection of Palema De Souza
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                  Date : 1641 The first carnaval of Rio celebrating
                  the coronation of Dom Joao IV, King of Portugal
                  Place : Rio
                  Victor : N.A
                  Watcher : Research, South America

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

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

                  In seventy years of Immortal life, Pamela stayed on her own, moving from one convent to another one, occasionally working in a brothel to make a living and only once taking another Immortal woman under her wing, with whom she hared her fear of the Game, of Immortals. In 1539, both women met Giuseppa Polo, a socialite and player of the Game who nearly killed them before Antonio Pettisani took her head. In those moments of terrors they found Immortal women could be as distrutful as men and found out about the power of the Quickenig : its frightening beauty, its power, how it can change and shape an Immortal.

                  A talk with Pettisani convinced them that they would either have to train seriously or they wouldn't outlive the 17th century. The Field Watcher assigned to Pamela and Abril was killed in a mugging during the carnival of Rio in 1641 and so we lost their trace. Did they train like Pettisani instructed them to, did they find an Immortal they could trust ? Or are they still out there cowering in a convent ? Unless finally, a player of the Game mercifully put the two ladies out of their misery.

                  Watcher Bureau, South America



                  Arturo Barba
                  Known aliases : Gaspar Gallego, Adolfo Ramirez
                  Notable characteristics : Uses used books as
                  firewood
                  Weapon : Toledo rapier
                  Recorded kills : Nuela Montavez
                  Inconclusive fight against Viola Blanco, 1937

                  Status
                  Most recent base of operations : Santiago, Chile
                  Occupation : Lieutnant, Dirección de inteligencia
                  Nacional, in service to General Pinochet
                  Prior occupations : Lieutnant in Franco army,
                  Spanish Civil War; slave-hunter
                  Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                  Date : 13 May 1988
                  Place : Santiago
                  Victor : N.A
                  Watcher : Research, South America

                  Background
                  Original cultural affiliation : Dominican
                  Born : 1772; Dominican Republic
                  First death : 1810; Killed by runaway slave during
                  expedition to caputure fugitive enslaved negroes
                  First teacher : Felicidad Delacruz
                  Known past associates : Felicidad Delacruz,
                  Kage, Leonel Cazzanso
                  Knownenemies : Viola Blanco, Duncan MacLeod
                  First recorded sighting : 1810. Found and
                  mentored by Felicidad Delacruz, a nun housing
                  runaway slaves

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

                  From the Chroncle of Jimena Garbajosa and Nuela Montavez
                  Watcher Research, South America

                  Update

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



                  Aura Angeloz

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

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

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

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

                  Watcher Bureau, South America
                  Last edited by Gardner; 04-06-2023, 02:49 AM.

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                  • Emomali Nabiyev (updated)
                    Known aliases : Junaid Khan
                    Notable characteristics : Religious fundamentalist,
                    turned over to ISIL; trained falcon
                    Weapon : Moorish boradsword
                    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

                    Status
                    Most recent base of operations : Afghanistan
                    Occupation : Terrorist, ISL soldier
                    Prior occupations : Officer, Police Unit, Interior
                    Ministry of Tajikistan, fighting Islamists
                    Tajik rebel fighter, leading uprising against Sovier
                    rule in Central Asia
                    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                    Date : 26 April 2017
                    Place : Nangarhar
                    Victor : N.A
                    Watcher : Wang Lie

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

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

                    Watcher Bureau, Central Asia


                    Sameh Hadad

                    One of the two ISIL / ESA operative still unaccounted for (along with Emomali Nabiyev in Afghanistan) is Sameh Hadad who disappeared in November 2016 during the Battle of Aleppo. She may have been killed by Hazeem al Bachrim or Carter Wellan who operated in Syria at that time unless Deoneces and Kyra finally got to her. Samh was an ardent follower of the ESA and a zealous disciple of Najia El Khalej who infected the yougn Immortal with her hatred of the Western World. Between the end of the 19th century and the 1960’s she was running her own network of freedom fighters and terrorists in countries of the Maghreb – Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria – and killed scores of offciials of the ciolonial army of France. Only once she was captured in Algeria, in 1962; raped, tortured and finally killed by a French officer, captain Jean-Marie Le Pen, who became the president of the French National Front in later decades. The bombing of Le Pen’s flat and nearly eradication of his family in the 1970’s was originally attributed to Ingrid Henning, but it was her responsibility though she failed to kill her tormentor. In recent decades she manufactured bombs for the ESA during their reign of terror in the 1970's and joined the Kurdish freedom fighters in the 1990's, eventually expelled because of too estreme tactical maneuvers involving explosive-rigged children.
                    2014 saw her join ISIL, financing the Immortals led by Omar Matoub who also hunted and killed their way across the Middle East and Western European countries.

                    Watcher Research, ESA operatives




                    Naatje of Guelders
                    Known aliases : Andries of Guelders,Faas of
                    Overissel, Gabriel of Zeeland, Quirlin of Frisia
                    Notable characteristics : Teenaged Immortal
                    Hiding her feminity under male clothiing; tought
                    little fighter, taught harshly by her teacher
                    Weapon : Two-handed medieval broadsword

                    Status
                    Most recent base of operations : Nancy, Duchy of
                    Lorraine, Kingdom of France
                    Occupation : Mercenary sword, also hunting
                    Darek Alak;companion of Raoul of Lunéville
                    Prior occupations : Squre of Mirabelle of Gascony
                    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                    Date : 1477 Battle of Nancy, Burgundian Wars
                    Place : Duchy of Lorraine
                    Victor : N.A
                    Watcher : Research, Western Europe

                    Background
                    Original cultural affiliation : Dutch
                    Born : 1096: Duchy of Guelders, Holt Roman
                    Empire, present Netherlands
                    First death : 1110; Invasion of Guelders by
                    Brabant troops, raped and killed by soldiers
                    First teacher : Mirabelle of Gascony
                    Known associates : Raoul of Lunéville
                    Known past associates : Mirabelle of Gascony
                    Known ennemies : Michel of Burgoyne, Darek
                    Alak
                    First recorded sighting : 1115. Duchy of Guelders
                    Found and mentored by Mirabellle

                    Revenge is a dish best served cold, Old Klingon proverb, according to Quentin Tarantino. In the 15th century, revenge was a meal served hot and Naajte of Guelders liked it hot, preferably with her sword bathed in the blood of her ennemy. She has been hunting Darek Alak for centuries after he killed her teacher, Mirabelle of Gascony and now this is Michel DeBurgoyne who killed her companion at the Battle of Nancy. She is on the warpath again, killing her ennemy is the only thing that can satisfy her. But how long can an Immortal live with such hatred ? Immortals do carry long grudges (don’t you Antonius Kalas ?) and it can prove to be a burden over time. Mirabelle died in 1186, Darek Alak was killed one century later by Henry of Kent, grandmaster of headhunters-slaying, cheating Naatje out of her revenge. And still she hunts, and still she hates.
                    What a waste of time can immortality be !

                    Watcher Research, Western Europe



                    Luciana Salazar (updated background)

                    Known aliases : Susana Loureiro, Lourdes Chantel
                    Manuela Echevarria

                    Original cultural affiliation : Basque
                    Born : 1583; Lima, Portugal
                    First death : 1609; Drowned by the Inquisition for
                    alleged witchcraft, later burnt to death when she
                    revived, finally buried alive; Basque Witch Trials
                    First teacher : Sean Burns

                    Known past associates : Hipolito Cabral, Sean
                    Burns, Kage, Spanish Cabal



                    Echevarria is Basque name, not Portuguese. The Immortal formerly known as Manuela Echevarria becomes...


                    Manuela Simoes
                    Known aliases : Victoria Arrujeo
                    Notable characteristics : Portuguese patriot,
                    advocating peace, condemning terrorist action
                    Weapon : El Cid Tizona sword
                    Inconclusive fight against Esteves de Aristia, 1838
                    Salvatore Serra, 1962; Luciana Salazar; 2002

                    Status
                    Most recent base of operations : Minas Gerais,
                    Brazil
                    Occupation : Restaurant prprietor,/ gourmet chef
                    Prior occupations : Portugese freedom fighter;
                    school teacher, writer
                    Roster of Immortals Status : Inactive
                    Date :
                    Place :
                    Victor :
                    Watcher : Susana Simoes

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




                    Merab of Iberia
                    Known aliases : Sajidah Zubaidah, Carla Espinoza
                    Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
                    Weapon : Not carrying one
                    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game

                    Status
                    Most recent base of operations : Diocese of Cadiz,
                    Spain
                    Occupation : Mother superior, Convent of Cadiz
                    Prior occupations : Shrine keeper, Temple of
                    Cadiz dedicated to Phoenician God Melqart
                    Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                    Date : 1241 During establishment of Roman
                    Catholic Diocese of Cadiz
                    Place : Cadiz
                    Victor : N.A Hunted by Blasco Calvo who
                    threatened to desecrate her place of worship
                    Watcher : Research, Ancient Immortals

                    Background
                    Original cultural affiliation : Iberian
                    Born : 226 BC; Qart Hadasht, modern Cartegena,
                    Iberia
                    First death : 206 BC; Fall of Cadiz during invasion
                    of Iberia by Romans led by Scipio Africanus
                    First teacher : Protiz of Cadiz
                    Known past associates : Protiz of Cadiz,
                    Cassandra, Hamza el-Kahir, Ben Said al-Maghribi
                    First recorded sighting : 206 BC. Cadiz, Iberia
                    Hunted by then pre-Immortal Scipio Africanus,
                    rescued by Protiz of Cadiz

                    Merab of Iberia lived for 1400 years as a Holy Woman and as a bride of Christ after she met Jesus of Nazareth and was moved by his deep goodness and faith in man. She built hundreds of places of worship, gathered thousands of women under the banner of Christian faith in hundreds of convents across Europe and wasn’t without her bite : the iron hand under the velvet glove. She didn't need a sword to fend for herself in the Game, Christ was on her side and no decent Immortal man could resist her triumphant will.
                    When Blasco Calvo challenged her she came to him unarmed, convinced her faith in Jesus and in men could turn Blasco Calvo into a man of God, a follower of Christ. She never came back to her convent, her body was never found.
                    Did her resolve falter that one time ? What did Blasco Calvo tell her that night that could turn her from her sisters, from her faith ? We only know Blasco Calvo spoke to her once and that she disappeared forever. Even Jesus of Nazareth doubted once, and his own disciples doubted him.
                    As for Blasco Calvo, he died a heathen death in 1374 against Henry of Kent, an Immortal as much devoted to Christ as was Merab of Iberia and whose resolve to hunt down headhunters never faltered in nine hundred years of playing the Game.

                    Watcher Research, Ancient Immortals



                    Hiawassee

                    Hiawassee has a sixth sense that allows her to detect Immortals at twice the usual range, a useful git from an Immortal who tries to avoid fighting those of his kind. If Hiawassee fought other Immortals it’s because she chose to do so, feeling the need to fight and to protect her homeland from European Immortals. She led the Cherokees in battle on two occasions, during the Tuscaroa Wars and during the English-Cherokee war, a rebel fighter and leader who never let any man put her down (mortal or otherwise).
                    When she plays the Game it is because she chooses to do so, same thing when she marries or when she chooses to raise of crop of children, which she has done in four separate occasions. She is now temporarily retired from the Game but keeps her sword sharp : the Gathering isn’t far and the last two decades have killed a lot of Immortals. Can Hiawassee be among the contestants of the final Gathering ?

                    Mary Bennett, April 2018
                    Cherokee, NCA



                    Lydia Melchior
                    Inconclusive fight against Allegra Chamber,1940

                    Lydia Melchior, aka Lydia Stahl, was born in Russia in 1885. She married a Russian nobleman who later disvorced her. Lydia travelled to France and adopted a son who died in 1927, six years after she herself reached her Immortality and was mentored by an Immortal named Melchior of Babylon. The year she died she had joined the Soviet Intelligence agency and was a silent partner to the Immortals of Mother Russia for whom she copied American military documents in the guise of a professional photographer.
                    From 1931 to 1940 she worked in London, England, where she was confronted by the Secret Immortals Services and nearly lost her head against Allegra Chambers. Before Allegra could sanction her, she jumped in the Thames and disappeared from Watchers scope before re-appearing in Macau, then Bombay where she lived as a socialite and adventuress, meeting Immortals Sunda Kastagir, Sanjiv Gupta, Yung Dol Kim. She did get around. In the 1950's she was war nurse in Korea and in Vietnam durign the 1970's.
                    Those days she lives retired from adventuring, but who knows what she is up to behind that facade of calm in her suburban house ?




                    Livio Broccolino
                    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                    Date : 18 April 2018
                    Place : Guatemala City
                    Victor : Grant Makim




                    Dessislava of Bolghar
                    Known aliases : Saint Dessislava
                    Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
                    Weapon : Never carrying one
                    Recorded kills : None ,not a player of the Game

                    Status
                    Most recent base of operations : Bolghar, Volga
                    Bulgaria,presernt European Russia
                    Occupation : Shrine keeper, posing as holy
                    woman rumored to never age
                    Prior occupations : Volga Bulgarian princess
                    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                    Date : 1223 Invasion of Volga Bulgaria by Mongol
                    hordes, offered her own life if the Mongols agreed
                    to spare her city
                    Place : Bolghar
                    Victor : The Kurgan
                    Watcher : Research, the Chronicle of the Kurgan

                    Background
                    Original cultural affiliation : Volga Bulgarian
                    Born : 9th century; Bolghar, Volga Bulgaria
                    First death : Internecine fights between Volga
                    kings; princess taken as hostage and murdered
                    First teacher : Darius
                    Known associates : Lyubochka of Pskov
                    Known past associates : Darius
                    First recorded sighting : 9th century Russia
                    Found and mentored by Darius, deeply inspired by
                    his encounter with the Holy Man of Paris

                    The people of Bolghar expected a miracle when word came that the Mongols would invade, pillage and rape their homeland. They sent their protector to the Mongols, hoping the miracle of the Holy Man of Paris would repeat itself. Unfortunately the Kurgan was more cruel than Darius, a heathen and savage who didn’t care that Dessislava was of the Christian faith. It was the first time in the Watchers Chronicles that the Kurgan was quoted as saying how Jesus Christ’s death on the cross would prove his undoing. Jesus Christ and Dessislava had this one thing in common : though of different kind of immortalities, thery shared the same love for mankind, the same hope to redeem the darkness in man’s heart, the same belief in man’s goodness and the same sense of self-sacrifice.
                    The Kurgan raped Dessislava, then he took her head before the Mongols, who watched in awe how their Russian ally could master thunder and lightnings. Rape wasn’t even sexual : it was a conquest of her body, though not of her eternal soul sent to join her God in heaven.

                    Watcher Research, Eastern Europe


                    Gabriel Larca (updated)
                    Known aliases : Henrique Sandoval Mataos,
                    Joao Soares de Almeida
                    Notable characteristics : Dellusions of Godhood
                    Weapon : Crusader sword

                    Recorded kills : Anne Dieu-le-Veut, Angus
                    MacDonald, Leandro Xuarez
                    Inconclusive fight against Inah Gaetswe, 1513;
                    Sanjiv Gupta, 1600; Carmen Morales, 1624;
                    Sghair M’Barek, 1665


                    Nanlha of Bumthang

                    Known aliases : Nanlha, Nanlha Kinga, Sona
                    Basnyat
                    Notable characteristics : Lived on Holy Grounds
                    Weapon : Never carrying one
                    Recorded kills : None, not a player of the Game
                    Missing between 1480 and 1972.

                    Status
                    Most recent base of operations : Lalitpur, Nepal
                    Occupation : Events organizer.planner, colors
                    festival of Nepal
                    Prior occupations : Civil rights activist
                    Roster of Immortals Status : Deceased
                    Date : 23 April 2008
                    Place : Lalitpur
                    Victor : Kharma Fayzal
                    Watcher : Mara Bahadur

                    Background
                    Original cultural affiliation : Southern Asian
                    Born : 1025, Kingdom of Bumthang
                    First death : Performing religious services in a
                    cave, killed by crumbling roof during earthquake
                    First teacher : May-Ling Shen
                    Known past associates : May-Ling Shen,
                    Ngawang Namgyal
                    Known ennemies : Immortal Maiden, People’s
                    Protectorate
                    First recorded sighting : 1050. Kingdom of
                    Bumthang. Found and mentored by May-Ling
                    Shen, at this time looking for al local Buddhist monk

                    Nanlha of Bumthand and Sona Basnyat have been identified as one and the same, Sona did appear in 1972 in Nepal and was a temporary guest of Immortal Madhav Yadhav but not as his disciple and wasn’t born in 1952 as previously recorded. She was a one-thousand years old past student of May-Ling Shen, missing since the 15th century, and only sought to live in peace before Kharma Fayzal took her out of the Game. Thus, “Sona Basnyat” has to be removed from our lists of Immortals.

                    Watcher Bureau, Southern Asia
                    Last edited by Gardner; 01-12-2023, 12:33 AM.

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                    • Re: Deoneces of Sparta. Well, as someone who has studied ancient Greek and Roman history, i can tell you that Deoneces and Kyra would almost certainly have bi-sexual tendencies. Spartan hoplites were encouraged to bond with their fellow warriors in a male-only environment that encouraged physical and emotional relationships that were supposed to be beneficial on the battlefield to the survival of the Spartan soldiers, loyalty to a lover is stronger than to a mere fellow soldier. Spartan women were similar as they were also encouraged to bond with other women while the men were away fighting. In fact, Spartan women had such a reputation for fitness and beauty that men from all over Greece hoped to one day catch a glimpse. If you think women today are under pressure to look a certain way, imagine Spartan women who had to live up to the reputation of Helen of Sparta, the face that launched a thousand ships. In fact, the other women of Greece envied their Spartan sisters because of their relative freedom in relation to themselves and the fact that the Spartan women were also trained in sports and combat.

                      In the meantime, the Hellfire Club saga continues:

                      Once again, if you could fill in the blanks, my friend:

                      Aeronwen of Caerwent

                      Known aliases: Angharad of Cardiff

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

                      Background
                      Original cultural affiliation: Welsh
                      Born: 1019, Caerwent, Kingdom of Gwent
                      First death: 1042; victim of serial killer targeting
                      prostitutes, later helped her teacher hunt down and
                      kill the perpetrator
                      First teacher: ?

                      After over a century in exile on the Isle of Iona, Elfrida of York re-emerged in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1168 now calling herself Evangeline Black. She set about taking the pulse of the city's underworld, moving among the various thieves, thugs, prostitutes, black marketeers and knaves, making her presence felt, she soon found herself crossing paths with Aeronwen of Caerwent, an Immortal who owned the largest brothel in the city and used it to exert influence over those in power who frequented its rooms. Elfrida made acquiring the brothel a priority as a means to put herself in a position of influence so she could rebuild the reputation she once had.

                      Aeronwen did not take too kindly to Elfrida's overtures and Elfrida had never been too trusting of other female Immortals. A pity then for Aeronwen. She put up a good fight but had never been among the best swordswomen in the Immortal world. Elfrida was rusty but had too much nous for the younger woman. With one stroke of her sword, the now Evangeline Black gained a foothold in the city that what would become the Hellfire Club would never really relinquish.

                      From the Chronicle of the Hellfire Club

                      Cheers
                      Apollo1

                      Comment


                      • Have you noticed my recent workload, Apollo ? Good points on Kyra and Deoneces, it would be interesting to develop their past romances.
                        Cheers !
                        Last edited by Gardner; 04-22-2018, 04:04 AM.

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

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

                          Cheers
                          Apollo1

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

                            Aeronwen of Caerwent

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

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

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

                            UPDATES

                            Andronika of Cyprus

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

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

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

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

                            From the Chronicle of Kismet Necdet



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

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

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

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

                            Watcher Research, from the Chronicle of Melania of Traxiane




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

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

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

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

                            Watcher Research, ESA Chronicles


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

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

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

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

                            Watcher Bureau, Northern Africa


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

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

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



                            Lucimar Botelho

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

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

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

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

                            Watcher Research, South America
                            Last edited by Gardner; 10-04-2022, 10:55 PM.

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

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

                              Cheers
                              Apollo1

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

                                Cheers !

                                Gardner
                                Last edited by Gardner; 04-23-2018, 07:34 AM.

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

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

                                  Cheers
                                  Apollo1

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

                                    Watcher Research, South America


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

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

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

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


                                    Watcher Bureau, Central Africa
                                    2015



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

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

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

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

                                    Watcher Bureau, North Africa



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

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

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

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

                                    Watcher Bureau, Southern Asia



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

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

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

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

                                    From the Journals of Methos
                                    2017




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

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

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

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

                                    Watcher Bureau, Middle East
                                    Last edited by Gardner; 04-24-2018, 03:32 AM.

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                                    • THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM


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

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

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



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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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                                      The seventh one being...

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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                                      • Fulani Clan Sankara Babba-Ladé
                                        Known aliases : Boubacar Biro, Muhammad Bello
                                        Notable characteristics : None
                                        Weapon : Fulani war sword
                                        Inconclusive fight against Xavier St. Cloud, 1590;
                                        Jamal Labdouni, 1673; Bashir ibn Khalid Al Kal,
                                        1808

                                        Status
                                        Most recent base of operations : Nigeria
                                        Occupation : Nomad, teaching Islam religion
                                        Prior occupations : Captain of elite troops of
                                        Nigerian warriors; leading Fulani Jihad
                                        Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                                        Date : 1970 Hunted by the Eternal Swords of Allah
                                        Place : Nigeria
                                        Victor : N.A
                                        Watcher : Research, Western Africa

                                        Background
                                        Original cultural affiliation : Woodabe
                                        (Borono Fulani)
                                        Born : 1430; Northern Nigeria
                                        First death : 1505; Tribal warfare
                                        First teacher : Selim Ubadah
                                        Known past associates : Selim Ubadah
                                        Known ennemies : Xavier St. Cloud, ESA,
                                        Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
                                        First recorded sighting : 1534, Northern Nigeria.
                                        During visit of scholar Muhamad al-Maghili (aka
                                        Selim Ubadah) preaching Islam religion to elite of
                                        Northern Nigeria


                                        Fulani Clan Fatoumata Bello
                                        Known aliases : Kadiatou, Aissatou Gambari
                                        Notable characteristics : Face covered with yellow
                                        tribal paint
                                        Weapon : Fulani war sword

                                        Status
                                        Most recent base of operations : Nigeria
                                        Occupation : Nomad
                                        Prior occupations : Nomadic cattle-herder
                                        Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                                        Date : 1970 Hunted by the Eternal Swords of Allah
                                        Place : Nigeria
                                        Victor : N.A
                                        Watcher : Research, Western Africa

                                        Background
                                        Original cultural affiliation : Denianke
                                        Born : 1517, Empire of Great Fulo, Senegal
                                        First death : 1537; Durign attack by neighboring
                                        Malian invasive forces
                                        First teacher : Sankara Babba-Ladé
                                        Known associates : Sankara Babba-Ladé
                                        (husband), Ibrahim Kantah, Dalanda Kantah
                                        Known ennemies : Xavier St. Cloud, ESA,
                                        Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
                                        First recorded sighting : 1537. Senegal. Found
                                        and mentored by Sankara Babba-Ladé


                                        Fulani Clan Ibrahim Kantah
                                        Known aliases : Ibn Muhunnad Diallo, Saikou
                                        Tuggar
                                        Notable characteristics : None
                                        Weapon : Fulani war sword

                                        Status
                                        Most recent base of operations : Nigeria
                                        Occupation : Nomad, teaching Islam religion
                                        Prior occupations : Warrior, Fulani Jihad
                                        Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                                        Date : 1970 Hunted by the Eternal Swords of Allah
                                        Place : Nigeria
                                        Victor : N.A
                                        Watcher : Research, Western Africa

                                        Background
                                        Original cultural affiliation : Woodabe
                                        (Borono Fulani)
                                        Born : 1768, Northern Nigeria
                                        First death : 1804, Fulani Jihad on Hausa state
                                        First teacher : Sankara Babba-Ladé
                                        Known associates : Sankara Babba-Ladé
                                        Known ennemies : Xavier St. Cloud, ESA,
                                        Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
                                        First recorded sighting : 1804. Fulani Jihad on
                                        Hausa State. Part of the Fulani cavalry led by
                                        Sankara Babba-Ladé


                                        Fulani Clan Dalanda Kantah
                                        Known aliases : Binta Diallo, Binta Tuggar
                                        Notable characteristics : None
                                        Weapon : Fulani war sword

                                        Status
                                        Most recent base of operations : Nigeria
                                        Occupation : Nomad
                                        Prior occupations : Nomadic cattle-herder
                                        Roster of Immortals Status : Missing
                                        Date : 1970 Hunted by the Eternal Swords of Allah
                                        Place : Nigeria
                                        Victor : N.A
                                        Watcher : Research, Western Africa

                                        Background
                                        Original cultural affiliation : Fulani
                                        Born : 1876, Immamate of Futa Jallon, present-
                                        day Republic of Guinea
                                        First death : 1896, During conquest of Immamate
                                        of Futa Jalon by the French
                                        First teacher : Sankara Babba-Ladé
                                        Known associates : Sankara Babba-Ladé,
                                        Ibrahim Kantah (husband), Fatoumata Bello
                                        Known ennemies : Xavier St. Cloud, ESA,
                                        Bashir and Salim ibn Khalid Al Kal
                                        First recorded sighting : 1896. Futa Jallon
                                        highlands. Found by Ibrahim Kantah

                                        The Fulani Clan viewed the Game as unholy and seldom played it, or fought Immortals only in legimitate defense. I don’t think Sankara ever took a Quickening in the four hundred years he was observed by Watchers. Some Immortals play the Game and kill Immortals in the name of their chosen God (Safiyah Khan, Damon Case,..) the Fulani Clan avoids confrontations because they believe it is not the will of Allah to see Immortals kill each others in the name of a fabled “Prize”. Sankara wouldn’t even let his cohorts fight aggressive players, he took himself the responsability of defending his clan. He must have been the bravest of men, or rather an obessive control freak who never let his clan members grow up and learn from their mistakes. In the name of Allah he avoided the Game, in the name of Allah the Swords of Allah hunted them down and in likelihood killed them all.

                                        Watcher Bureau, Western Africa

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

                                          Cheers
                                          Apollo1

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                                          • UNITED KINGDOM
                                            ENGLAND


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                            From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta
                                            Derek Thurston, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                            Apollo1, 2009


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

                                            From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta, 1814 to 1832

                                            Apollo1 / Apollo2




                                            THE DARK DEONECES CHRONICLE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                                            From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta
                                            December 2012




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

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




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

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

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

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

                                            Marjorie Brubeck

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

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

                                            Apollo1/Apollo2

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

                                            From the Chronicle of Deoneces of Sparta, 1814 to 1832

                                            Apollo1 / Apollo2



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

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

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





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

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

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

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

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

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

                                            From the Chronicle of the SIS

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

                                            SIS Chronicle, 2017


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

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

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

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

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

                                            SIS Chronicle



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

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

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

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

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

                                            SIS Chronicle



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

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

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

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

                                            SIS Chronicle, May 2017



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

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

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

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

                                            From the Chronicle of the Secret Immortals Services

                                            Addendum :

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



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


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

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

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

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



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

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

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



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

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

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



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

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

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

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


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



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

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

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

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

                                            Sir,

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

                                            With regards,
                                            R. Sundaram



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

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

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

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

                                            Amelia Ephraim
                                            April, 1994

                                            ADDENDUM I : Recorded kills

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

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

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

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




                                            UNITED KINGDOM
                                            WALES AND SCOTLAND


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

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

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

                                            From Watcher Bureau, Great Britain
                                            To Ravenwood
                                            Date : 30.09.2012

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

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

                                            From the Immortals War Chronicle



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

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

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


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

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

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

                                            From Watcher Bureau, Great Britain
                                            To Ravenwood
                                            Date : 30.09.2012

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




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

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

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



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

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

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

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

                                            Tom Cullen, 2016



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




                                            IRELAND AND ULSTER

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

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

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

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

                                            Long may she live.

                                            Jo Wong, 2010

                                            Apollo1/Apollo2 2010

                                            From the Chronicle of Lang Quing

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

                                            Jo Wong, 2010

                                            ADDENDUM

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




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

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

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



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

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

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

                                            From the Records of the Tribunal/Ravenwood
                                            21 January 2013

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

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

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

                                            Dear Sir,

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

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

                                            Cordially, Janie



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

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

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

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

                                            Sean Cohan 1998

                                            DMVTREK 2008
                                            Last edited by Gardner; 10-27-2022, 01:55 AM.

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

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

                                              Cheers
                                              Apollo1

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

                                                SIS Chronicle



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

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

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


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

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

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

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

                                                Watcher Research, Western Europe

                                                Apollo1/Apollo2
                                                Last edited by Gardner; 06-23-2022, 10:32 PM.

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

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

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

                                                  Cheers
                                                  Apollo1

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


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



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


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

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

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

                                                    Angus McWyrter, Leverburgh, Scotland
                                                    Last edited by Gardner; 05-02-2018, 12:41 AM.

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