Randolph was the son of a Preacher, and he had set out to the New World to make a name for himself. He ended up captured by pirates, threatened, tortured, and finally at the end of it all Turned.
(Dilios Note: He will give you a tale of the Queens Anne Revenge, Mermaids, and the Fountain of Youth … some days you may believe it)
Thorin was the son of Thrain who was the son of Thror. The king of an established yet unknown village of Erebor up in the mountains of Norway.
His grandfather Thror was not a kind man, and ruled his people with an iron fist keeping all it’s wealth to himself. In one of his campaigns he brought home a wife for his son, Thrain. Not soon after she gave birth to Thorin. Thror was happy for a strong heir, especially after the disappointment of his own son Thrain.
She raised her son to be strong, caring, and treat all with kindness. It was soon obvious Thorin took after his mother, in all things. He had her dark hair, strength, determination, and as he grew she would smile and tell everyone he took after his grandfather. She gifted Thorin, her grandfather’s sword – Orcrist. A weapon that had been passed down, and made of metal Thorin had never seen.
Thror soon realized that the woman he brought back was turning his people against him, and had her killed, along with his useless son. He set out to raise his grandson to be a strong King, never seeing that by the age of twelve Thorin was already plotting his fall.
Thorin made a deal with Smaug, offering up a crystal that was a family heirloom from his mother’s side. Smaug agreed to back Thorin, and at age sixteen he challenged Thror for the throne. In the end, Thror was dead and Thorin was crowned king.
He married not soon after, but tragically lost his wife in childbirth. She gave him two beautiful sons, Fili and Kili.
For the next twenty years Erebor prospered. Thorin made good alliance with other villages, trading their minerals and weapons for food and grains. It wasn’t until a warlord showed up demanding retributions that they lost everything.
Thorin ended up Turned, his family trying to figure out how to best handle this new situation. Then days later the warlord’s horde ransacked the village destroying everything and everyone.
Patrick was born in 1966AD, in Armagh, Northern Ireland to Mary Ann McKenna, a former Nun. His biological father is unknown.
She raised him to be a devout Catholic, attending Mass every day of his life, and teaching him that God loved him, and He had a destiny waiting for him.
When he was six years old, he lost his mother in a UVF bombing at Armagh Cathedral – a protest against the visit by a Titular Archbishop on an Apostolic Mission from the Vatican, who had come to Ireland to try and broker peace. The boy’s survival saw him labelled as ‘The Little Miracle of Saint Patrick’.
The Archbishop took Patrick back with him to Italy, formally adopting him, stating that he would raise the boy in God’s Church.
Patrick had the Vatican as his playground and school yard. He remembered most fondly the Vatican Police officer who usually caught him running from the Nuns and dragged him back to his studies.
As he got older, he found himself talking with that same officer for hours, looking to him for wisdom and companionship.
Though he didn’t have to, when he was 18 he demanded that he follow through with his National Service to the Italian Military. Though he never learned to use a gun, he excelled at flying helicopters. Patrick never told the Vatican Police Officer, that he knew it was him who had made sure Patrick was safe during those two years.
When he returned, he dedicated his life to the Church, going through Seminary and becoming a Priest. When his ‘father’ became Pope, he took the position as Camerlengo – much to the dismay of many older men in the Church who had sought the position for themselves.
He was proud to see his friend go on to become Inspector General of Vatican Police.
When his father suddenly died, he was devastated.
The night of Conclave 2006AD, everything changed.
Matt was born in Denver to Mark & Eleanor Thompson. He was their only child, and raised on the family farm, just outside Denver.
His father’s skills helped them through the Depression, and once the New Deal was enacted Matthew took a job as a carpenter in Denver, Colorado. Where he met Rebecca, a local school teacher. The two were engaged, just before he was shipped out to England during the war. Just before he was sent to the South of England to work on Operation Quicksilver she had sent him a letter, stating she had met someone and was getting married.
Matt focused on the job, ended up meeting MacGyver who was helping with the building of the fake planes, tanks and airfields. When Matt tried to break up a drunken fight, he had been shot by accident. MacGyver offered him a chance to live.
Remy first appears in Vampire history with Nicolaus in Rome. He was Nico’s manservant before he got Razi.
From there he’s in and out Vampire Society.
From a few mentions here and there, it’s known that he’s worked with Lamont over the centuries, but has also stayed very loyal to Nico.
It’s Remy who convinced Nico to move to New Orleans and build a Clan. He’s been in New Orleans since, become the the city’s protector.
It was soon after he met Aveline that she told him they were Mates. Besides the fact they are Mates, the two have a very open relationship but always come back to each other.
When Charles builds his school, Remy spends his time between New Orleans and the school to protect and help where he can.
(Dilios Note: It’s not sure if he’s a Mutant but the consensus is that he may be … or not … Update: discovered not a Mutant but a Kryptonian!)
The second and eldest surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Archduchess Maria Theresa was born early in the morning of 13 May 1717, at the Hofburg Palace, Vienna, shortly after the death of her elder brother, Archduke Leopold, and was baptised on that same evening.
Maria Theresa was a serious and reserved child who enjoyed singing and archery. She was barred from horse riding by her father, but she would later learn the basics for the sake of her Hungarian coronation ceremony. The imperial family staged opera productions, often conducted by Charles VI, in which she relished participating. Her education was overseen by Jesuits. Contemporaries thought her Latin to be quite good, but in all else, the Jesuits did not educate her well. Her spelling and punctuation were unconventional and she lacked the formal manner and speech which had characterized her Habsburg predecessors. Maria Theresa developed a close relationship with Countess Marie Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard, who taught her etiquette. She was educated in drawing, painting, music and dancing – the disciplines which would have prepared her for the role of queen consort. Her father allowed her to attend meetings of the council from the age of 14 but never discussed the affairs of state with her. Even though he had spent the last decades of his life securing Maria Theresa’s inheritance, Charles always expected a son and never prepared his daughter for her future role as sovereign.
Charles VI died on 20 October 1740, probably of mushroom poisoning. He had ignored the advice of Prince Eugene of Savoy who had urged him to concentrate on filling the treasury and equipping the army rather than on acquiring signatures of fellow monarchs. The Emperor, who spent his entire reign securing the Pragmatic Sanction, left Austria in an impoverished state, bankrupted by the recent Turkish war and the War of the Polish Succession; the treasury contained only 100,000 florins, which were claimed by his widow. The army numbered only 80,000 men, most of whom had not been paid in months; they were nevertheless remarkably loyal and devoted to their new sovereign.
Maria Theresa found herself in a difficult situation. She did not know enough about matters of state and she was unaware of the weakness of her father’s ministers. She decided to rely on her father’s advice to retain his councillors and defer to her husband, whom she considered to be more experienced, on other matters. Both decisions, though natural, later gave cause for regret. Ten years later, Maria Theresa recalled in her Political Testament the circumstances under which she had ascended: “I found myself without money, without credit, without army, without experience and knowledge of my own and finally, also without any counsel because each one of them at first wanted to wait and see how things would develop.”
She dismissed the possibility that other countries might try to seize her territories and immediately started ensuring the imperial dignity for herself; since a woman could not be elected Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa wanted to secure the imperial office for her husband. However, Francis Stephen did not possess enough land or rank within the Holy Roman Empire. In order to make him eligible for the imperial throne and to enable him to vote in the imperial elections as elector of Bohemia (which she couldn’t because of her sex), Maria Theresa made Francis Stephen co-ruler of the Austrian and Bohemian lands on 21 November 1740. However, it took more than a year for the Diet of Hungary to accept Francis Stephen as co-ruler. Despite her love for him and his position as co-ruler, Maria Theresa never allowed her husband to decide matters of state and often dismissed him from council meetings when they disagreed.
The first display of the new queen’s authority was the formal act of homage of the Lower Austrian Estates to her on 22 November 1740. It was an elaborate public event which served as a formal recognition and legitimation of her accession. The oath of fealty to Maria Theresa was taken on the same day in Hofburg.
Like all members of the House of Habsburg, Maria Theresa was a Roman Catholic, and a devout one as well. She believed that religious unity was necessary for a peaceful public life and explicitly rejected the idea of religious toleration. However, she never allowed the Church to interfere with what she considered to be prerogatives of a monarch and kept Rome at arm’s length. She controlled the selection of archbishops, bishops and abbots.
Her approach to religious piety differed from the approach of her predecessors, as she was influenced by Jansenist ideas. The empress actively supported conversion to Roman Catholicism by securing pensions to the converts. She tolerated Greek Catholics and emphasized their equal status with Roman Catholics.
Besides her devotion to Christianity, she was widely known for her ascetic lifestyle, especially during her 15-year-long widowhood.
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It was her faith that had her speaking extensively with Wenceslaus throughout her career. Vaclav and Cinderella were frequent visitors to Maria’s court and she adored the couple. Wenceslaus showed her respect for her position, but was not afraid to speak his mind.
Many times he would ‘scold’ her on her more stringent views of intolerance. At times she listened.
When she was ill with smallpox, she was surprised to find Wenceslaus coming to visit her. It was then she learned more about who he really was. He had asked if she wanted to be Turned. That he saw great things from her, but warned she would have to walk away from the monarchy.
It wasn’t until her deathbed she called him.
Eisenheim, like his father Dresden, doesn’t talk about anything of his life.
All that’s known for sure is that after Dresden was Turned, he then Turned his son.
Philipe and Eduard were Fraternal twins left at the Von Trapp’s doorstep when they were barely six months old.
The two were always inseparable and did everything together. Georg had made sure they were educated and well trained in sword fighting. Though Eduard took to the sword fighting like a Master.
It was Georg who first noticed something was wrong, when Philipe collapsed in the middle of a training session. He called the local doctor, who couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him, but the fact his blood was weak.
Taking him and Eduard to the Council, Plato informed them that both brothers were very sick, and it was a blood disease he had seen before but didn’t know how to fix. (Dilios Note: Plato looked back at his notes and realized both Cheirmine brothers had leukemia).
Imenand sat down with both of them, asked them if they thought about being Turned.
John Preston never knew his father. He was raised by his mother, who told him that it never mattered, and that he would be a good man.
He became a Bobby when he grew up, learning everything he could. Enjoying the life of structure the Police Force gave him.
His life changed when he met someone who looked just like him. He barely remembered what happened, just that he woke up and was told he was now dead.
Nathan doesn’t talk much about his life before Japan. He fought in the Civil War, was a decorated officer, that saw too many of his men killed. After the war, he drank to stop the memories and barely held onto his rank and pension.
He was sent to Japan to help train the soldiers into an Imperial Army. Except they were kids and not even close to being ready to face battle. When they sent them anyway he rode in afterwards trying to save those he could.
He ended up taken by Takamori, the Shogun warrior holding back the Emperors advances. He hated the man instantly, yet felt a pull to him that made him want to do anything he asked. Takamori detoxed him, trained him, and then sent him to battle.
Nathan watched in horror as they were slaughted now under true military soldiers. He carried Takamori’s sword to the young emperor and told his story. All of it. Including what war does to a man. Showed him the honor of Takamori’s heritage.
He returned to the village only to discover Takamori was actually Katsumoto, a Vampire and his Mate.
He was Turned and Claimed that night.
Jack Reacher was born on a military base in Berlin, on 29 October 1960. Jack’s mother Josephine Moutier Reacher (née Moutier) was a French national, making Jack fluent in French from an early age.
After being shunted around the world, growing up on U.S. military bases as his father Stan was deployed, he gained an education in basic survival as well as an education that allowed him to enter the United States Military Academy at West Point. Graduating from West Point, Reacher worked to achieve the ranks of 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, Captain, and Major including an intervening demotion from Major to Captain in 1990 during his tenure in the Military Police. During his 13 years of service, his achievements were recognised in the form of citations and awards including the Silver Star, the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Soldier’s Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Bronze Star, and a second Silver Star and Purple Heart for wounds sustained in the bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983.
Among his formal qualifications Reacher is fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat, Reacher describing himself as a brawler, his fighting is akin to a thrown chainsaw with the motor running.
He left the service, only to be pulled back into it, after 9/11. Reacher continues to work as an Investigator, despite now starting to reach retirement age. He’s mostly a loner, no wife or family, and doesn’t have an online footprint. Even for the Military there are times he’s hard to track.
While following a suspected killer, he ended up in Chicago working with Detective Vecchio to bring in the suspect. In the process of saving Vecchio he was wounded, it would seem his age was starting to show. Vecchio approached him in the hospital about another option.
Claudio was the youngest son of French and Spanish Aristocracy. He was raised in privilege and had the finest tutors. Though Claudio may look fancy and flighty, in truth he was very politically savvy, and had the ear of many ladies and lords in Court.
His parents gave up hope of finding him a wife, and hoped he would become someone’s ‘kept boy’.
When Lord Lucien La Croix introduced himself to Claudio at a party, their hopes were soon realized.
Claudio liked the charming Italian instantly. He was open and honest with him, told him about Vampires and that he was his Mate.
Until he saw him with the male hussy. It took Lucien months to get back the ground he lost. (Dilios Note: Ask Kirk Lazarus and Nico about that particular moment in time)
Claudio finally gave into Lucien, and he was Turned and soon after they two Mated. He still talks about how romantic it was, and how attentive Lucien was to his needs.
In his youth, Claus and his brothers were members of the Neupfadfinder, a German Scout association and part of the German Youth movement.
Like his brothers, he was carefully educated and inclined toward literature, but eventually took up a military career. In 1926, he joined the family’s traditional regiment, the Bamberger Reiter- und Kavallerieregiment 17 (17th Cavalry Regiment) in Bamberg. It was around this time that the three brothers were introduced by Albrecht von Blumenthal to the poet Stefan George’s influential circle, Georgekreis, from which many notable members of the German resistance would later emerge. George dedicated Das neue Reich (“the new Empire”) in 1928, including the Geheimes Deutschland (“secret Germany”) written in 1922, to Berthold. The work outlines a new form of society ruled by a hierarchical spiritual aristocracy. George rejected any attempts to use it for political purposes, especially Nazism.
Stauffenberg was commissioned as a leutnant (second lieutenant) in 1930. He studied modern weapons at the Kriegsakademie in Berlin-Moabit, but remained focused on the use of horses—which continued to carry out a large part of transportation duties throughout World War II—in modern warfare. His regiment became part of the German 1st Light Division under General Erich Hoepner, who had taken part in the plans for the September 1938 German Resistance coup, cut short by Hitler’s unexpected diplomatic success in the Munich Agreement. The unit was among the troops that moved into the Sudetenland, the part of Czechoslovakia that had a German-speaking majority, as agreed upon in Munich. However, Stauffenberg disliked the method by which the Sudetenland was annexed and strongly disapproved of the invasion of Prague.
In November 1942, the Allies landed in French North Africa, and the 10th Panzer Division occupied Vichy France (Case Anton) before being transferred to fight in the Tunisia Campaign, as part of the Afrika Korps.
In 1943, Stauffenberg was promoted to Oberstleutnant i.G. (lieutenant-colonel of the general staff), and was sent to Africa to join the 10th Panzer Division as its Operations Officer in the General Staff (Ia). On 19 February, Rommel launched his counter-offensive against British, American and French forces in Tunisia. The Axis commanders hoped to break rapidly through either the Sbiba or Kasserine Pass into the rear of the British 1st Army. The assault at Sbiba was halted, so that Rommel concentrated on Kasserine Pass where primarily the Italians in the form of their 7th Bersaglieri Regiment and 131st Centauro Armoured Division had defeated the American defenders. During the fighting, Stauffenberg drove up to be with the leading tanks and troops of the 10th Panzer Division. The division, together with the 21st Panzer Division, took up defensive positions near Mezzouna on 8 April.
On 7 April 1943, Stauffenberg was involved in driving from one unit to another, directing their movement. Near Mezzouna, his vehicle was part of a column strafed by Kittyhawk (P-40) fighter bombers of the Desert Air Force – most likely from No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force – and he received multiple severe wounds.
Stauffenberg spent three months in a hospital in Munich, where he was treated by Ferdinand Sauerbruch. Stauffenberg lost his left eye, his right hand, and two fingers on his left hand. He jokingly remarked to friends never to have really known what to do with so many fingers when he still had all of them. For his injuries, Stauffenberg was awarded the Wound Badge in Gold on 14 April and for his courage the German Cross in Gold on 8 May.
For rehabilitation, Stauffenberg was sent to his home, Schloss Lautlingen (today a museum), then still one of the Stauffenberg castles in southern Germany. Initially, he felt frustrated not to be in a position to stage a coup himself. But by the beginning of September 1943, after a somewhat slow recovery from his wounds, he was propositioned by the conspirators and was introduced to Henning von Tresckow as a staff officer to the headquarters of the Ersatzheer (“Replacement Army” – charged with training soldiers to reinforce first line divisions at the front), located on the Bendlerstrasse (later Stauffenbergstrasse) in Berlin.
There, one of Stauffenberg’s superiors was General Friedrich Olbricht, a committed member of the resistance movement. The Ersatzheer had a unique opportunity to launch a coup, as one of its functions was to have Operation Valkyrie in place. This was a contingency measure which would let it assume control of the Reich in the event that internal disturbances blocked communications to the military high command. Ironically, the Valkyrie plan had been agreed to by Hitler but was now secretly changed to sweep the rest of his regime from power in the event of his death.
A detailed military plan was developed not only to occupy Berlin, but also to take the different headquarters of the German army and of Hitler in East Prussia by military force after the suicide assassination attempt by Axel von dem Bussche in late November 1943. Stauffenberg had von dem Bussche transmit these written orders personally to Major Kuhn once he had arrived at Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair) near Rastenburg, East Prussia. However, von dem Bussche had left the Wolfsschanze for the eastern front, after the meeting with Hitler was cancelled, and the attempt could not be made. Kuhn hid these compromising documents under a watch tower of the OKW, located not far from the Wolfsschanze.
Kuhn became a prisoner of war of the Soviets after the 20 July plot. He led the Soviets to the hiding place of the documents in February 1945. In 1989, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev presented these documents to then-German chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl. These documents, produced by Stauffenberg and his fellow officers in 1943 in Berlin, evince the idealistic motivation of the resistance group. This had been doubted and was a matter of discussion for years in Germany after the war. Some thought the plotters wanted to kill Hitler in order to end the war and to avoid the loss of their privileges as professional officers and members of the nobility.
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies had landed in France. Stauffenberg, like most other German professional military officers, had absolutely no doubt that the war was lost. Only an immediate armistice could avoid more unnecessary bloodshed and further damage to Germany, its people, and other European nations. However, in late 1943, he had written out demands with which he felt the Allies had to comply in order for Germany to agree to an immediate peace. These demands included Germany retaining its 1914 eastern borders, including the Polish territories of Wielkopolska and Poznań. Other demands included keeping such territorial gains as Austria and the Sudetenland within the Reich, giving autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine, and even expansion of the current wartime borders of Germany in the south by annexing Tyrol as far as Bolzano and Merano. Non-territorial demands included such points as refusal of any occupation of Germany by the Allies, as well as refusal to hand over war criminals by demanding the right of “nations to deal with its own criminals”. These proposals were only directed to the Western Allies – Stauffenberg wanted Germany only to retreat from western, southern and northern positions, while demanding the right to continue military occupation of German territorial gains in the east.
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Hamlet had been working inside Hitler’s government, saving a descendant by taking over his name and position. He got close to Stauffenberg, realizing he was family from Ethan Hunt and approached him about being Turned.
Stauffenberg took the opportunity.
Jacob Stone was born and raised in a small town in Oklahoma. His father, grandfather, great grandfather were all oil riggers, and he had decided he would do something with his life. After his father died, he ended up staying in Oklahoma as an oil rigger, to take care of his siblings and mother. After his mother died, he made sure his sister and brother got through college and a life of their own.
His sister finally got him out of Oklahoma by putting in his application into NYU for Art History, a love he had since a child. He moved to New York, got his degree, got his Masters and then set to travel the world. He traveled through Europe, moving between museums and art galleries.
He ended up working at the Moulin Rouge on a special project. He had set up the nightclub’s first art gallery for Toulouse’s art of the Moulin Rouge. It was there he met Christian and learned about Vampires. In a week’s time he was wooed by the Vampire, and was ready to be Turned and Mated.
Only to have the past show back up in the form of The Duke.
Taking the strength from Satine, the soul he carried, he set out to save his future Mate.
After the death of The Duke, he finally got what he wanted: Christian.
David Stern Crockett was the fifth child born to John and Rebecca Crockett on August 17, 1786 in modern day Greene County, Tennessee. Four more children would come after him, giving him eight siblings. His family, who descended from a captain in the Royal Guard of France’s King Louis XIV, fled first to Ireland, and then later on to America, where his great-grandfather was born in New Rochelle in 1709. His name comes from his father’s father, who was killed by Native Americans.
During the 1790s his family moved to Morristown, Tennessee, where they owned a tavern. In 1794, in an attempt to show his father how much he was ready for a rifle, he began hunting with his brothers, learning to use the guns. A little while later, when his father began trading goods for an education for David, David immediately dropped out after being embarrassed by a bully. When his father found out, he was livid with David, who ran away and spent the next few years exploring Tennessee, which is how he got much of his frontier training.
He returns home when he’s fifteen, and his family is happy to see him. A couple of years later, he became contracted to marry a woman named Margaret Elder, who decided she didn’t want to marry him (he was 19 at this time). A year later he married Mary ‘Polly’ Finley and had two children with her, and after she died, he married Elizabeth Patton, with whom he had three children.
In 1813 he was part of the Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen and eventually was made a Lieutenant Colonel in the Tennessee Militia (1818).
In early 1821, Crockett was in Washington, DC, just visiting the area and getting a feel for the political climate, already thinking of a run for Congressman in a few years, where he came face to face with Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Santa Anna recognized him as a recently returned enemy and shot him and left him for dead. Diego de la Vega, however, sees Santa Anna commit this crime and knowing who the man was, rushed to Crockett’s side.
Knowing Crockett was important enough to Santa Anna for him to risk exposure by killing him in the open, Diego offers Crockett the chance to be Turned, for vengeance and for his family, and Crockett consents.