Thranduil is not a Vampire, but as he’s been around for a long while, so he has some form of immortality. At this moment he’s very secretive of where he’s from.
Rumors have it that he close friends with Thorin Durin, who knows more about his history, but also isn’t talking.
It is know that he’s tied to Sauron, who is a known enemy to Mod Clan.
(Dilios Note: I received a note that he has no ties to Sauron except a deep seated hatred and that I needed to update my books)
Dwalin was the first born son of the King’s Advisor Balin. His father raised him to learn the difference between a King of the people and greedy bastard. When he was six years old, Thorin was born. He took one look at the baby and knew what his father meant. From that moment on he dedicated his life to his king.
He taught the kid to fight.
He got the kid out of trouble.
He cursed the day Thorin grew bigger and taller than him, and he was one of the biggest in Erebor.
He stood by and watched as Thorin made a deal with the dragon, then challenged Thror. He smiled when the old bastard realized the dragon wasn’t coming to save him, and Thorin was going to kill him.
He smiled brightly when Thorin married, mourned with him when she died giving him two beautiful strong sons.
Thorin had laughed when Dori had yelled at him, ready to deny his offer of marriage to her youngest sister Ori. Mainly because every one knew Nori the middle brother, and him were ‘close’.
He loved his wife, was deathly afraid of his sister in law and ignored Nori’s ability to get in and out of trouble.
His world shattered when some warlord showed up demanding tribute, and without hesitation killed Thorin in front of them. He swore to Fili he would seek vegence, only to be shocked when the young new king told him Thorin was alive … in a way.
Before they could even figure out what was going on, the warlord was back and the village was destroyed. There were thirteen of them, he was the lucky one that had his whole family. Thorin held him as they buried Balin on the road. When they met Bilbo Baggins he knew the look on his friends face, something he hadn’t seen in decades.
Once they got to Builwyf, and everything was explained about Vampires, he had contemplated getting Turned as Thorin would need him, but then the warlord showed up with his horde. He still ended up Turned, but lost everyone in the process.
Mushu is a different dragon that Draco or Tiny Terror. He has the ability to talk like Draco, but not nearly as big. Mushu is about 8ft long, and stands about 3 ft high on his four legs. He can if concentrates sit up, balancing on his back legs which makes him about 6ft high. He can wind himself around trees, and as the ability to camouflage. He can also mimic statues, making him a good spy.
No one knows how old Mushu is, just one day he showed up to Katsumoto, and ended up art of the clan. When Nathan appeared, Mushu declared that Nathan was his human and he takes care of him.
There are running bets in Shogun on when Nathan will be able to walk across the large open field without tripping over Mushu, who slides in and around his feet while he does it. There has only been one moment in history where it almost happened. Nathan was recovering from the concentration camp and was stalking across the field – everyone watched holding their breath as he was only a few feet from the forest line – when he went down.
Katsumoto had found his Mate curled up with Mushu.
He helped Nathan deal with his ordeal. It’s the only reason he keeps the snarky annoying dragon around.
Brisco County Jr. is the son of the famed US Marshal, Brisco County, Sr. Growing up, all he wanted to do was follow in his father’s footsteps. After he was shot and almost killed on a mission his father sent him on, his family decided to send him to Harvard.
At Harvard, Brisco earned his law degree, but realized that being a lawyer wasn’t what he wanted to do. While traveling back to his home, he learned that his father had been killed by the Blythe Gang.
He vowed to carry out his father’s last job and bring in John Blythe, so he teamed up with two of his father’s US Marshal friends, James Hickok and Noah Dixon.
During a standoff with Blythe, Brisco was injured and subsequently Turned.
Stanley Raymond Kowalski was born in Chicago, the youngest son of Damian and Barbara Kowalski, and was named after Marlon Brando’s character in A Streetcar Named Desire, but prefers ‘Ray’ to ‘Stanley’. Ray and his father were close when he was growing up,and restored old cars together including Ray’s black 1967 GTO. He became estranged from his father when he dropped out of college to become a police officer.
Ray met his wife, Stella, a Gold Coast girl who attended private school, when they were 13. They married in college, and were happy for many years before Ray’s undercover work, and Stella’s job at the State’s Attorneys office began to put pressure on the marriage. Of all the factors that led to the end of their marriage, their arguments over starting a family was the deal breaker. Ray wanted children, but Stella didn’t want to take time from her successful law career as a State’s Attorney.
Unable to deal with the failure of his marriage, Ray delved deeper into his undercover work wanting to live someone else’s live instead of his own. Beginning to suffer from burnout, he was assigned to the 18th precinct. He meets Benoit Franciscus in his guise of Benton Fraser, RCMP, in 1997 while canvassing the area around the Canadian Consulate. Benoit and Diefenbaker befriended Ray and began consulting on Ray’s cases.
When Ray is kidnapped by Rogue Vampire, Victoria Metcalf, looking for Benoit. He’s taken to the home of goth nightclub owner, Jeremiah Parks where Park’s convinces his Sire that he will hold on to Ray, and look for information on Benoit. They try to keep Ray ignorant about the existence of Vampires until Jeremiah saves Ray’s life. With no other Chosen Ones available, Ray is told about Vampires, and becomes a Chosen One for Tallikut Clan.
His kidnapping makes Ray realize he’s still living his life undercover. He retires from the police force, digs out his leather, jewelry and head kicker boots, goes to find Jeremiah at Lost Children of the Blood newest location in Chicago, and asks his new friend for a job. He becomes the General Manager, and though the two men don’t get to spend a lot of time together because Jeremiah is doing undercover jobs for Javier Esposito in New York City.
While working at the club, Benoit still comes to him asking he help people that come to Benoit with their problems. Ray, exhausted by working cases and at the club, directs Benoit to Lt. Walsh at the 27th precinct where Benoit meets his Mate, Ray Vecchio.<
After six years, Tallikut suffers through the latest round of Victoria trying to kill Ray (she still hasn’t realized Ray K is not Benoit’s Mate), Lying in a hospital bed after twice stepping between Ray and bullets, Jeremiah realizes Ray Kowalski is his Mate. Ray is Turned and Claimed before the new year.
Patrick Jane was raised by a swindler father who included his young son in his carnival psychic act, touting Jane as “the boy wonder”.
He married Angela Ruskin, who was from a similar background, her family being members of a traveling carnival and “carnival royalty”. The couple had a daughter, Charlotte. They left the Carnival, determined to have a better life. Jane himself became a celebrity, making a very comfortable living working as a psychic, and he lived in comfortable celebrity until he criticized and openly mocked the serial killer Red John in a televised interview.
In retribution Red John killed Jane’s wife and daughter, leaving Patrick Jane a changed man.
Jeremiah doesn’t talk much about his childhood. He will tell you it was typical, nothing special, and he was prepared to have a normal typical life. Then while at one of the underground clubs, he went to get away from his normal life, he was seduced by a beautiful dark haired beauty.
Storm hasn’t talked much about her life before she met Charles. Her family is from Africa, where Charles had found her, and she left them behind to come with him to the United States.
He helped her with her Mutant powers, and in turn she teaches at his school to help other children. She was exposed to the Vampire world when Charles introduced his ‘son’ Nicolaus to them and the fact they were there to help stand against Magneto.
It took her some time to figure out why Brisco County Jr, one of the Vampire Hunters, was staying at the school. She found him sweet, and when he told her about Mates and Vampires she sat down with Charles.
After many discussion and assurances she wouldn’t loose her Mutation, she agreed to be Turned.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer’s cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to “a Bostonian”.
Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his thirteen-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem, “The Raven”, to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced.
On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown. The story has yet to be told, but the few that have heard the tale, have kept it secret.
What is known is that Timothy Quinn and Diego León Montoya Sánchez had set out to find the legendary Poet, only to find him dying on a park bench. The only word spoken with his dying breath was that of Reynolds.
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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.
Bilbo Baggins was the only child of Belladonna and Bungo Baggins. He learned his adventuring skills from his mother and farming skills from his father.
He inherited Bags End when he was sixteen, after a horrible winter that had killed almost a third of the small village of the Shire. Instead of selling it or worse marrying the neighbors daughter Lobelia, so they could get their hands on his farm, he made it prosper.
He knew he was the talk of the village as he decided not to marry, and had plans to give the land to his neighbors the Hamgees.
Then one day his world changed, when a group of refuges landed on his doorstep. He heard them asking for help at the town center but no one wanted anything to do with them. Bilbo refused to let them wander off without food and rest. He would tell you he fell for Kili and Fili first, and then young Gimli. When they stated their father couldn’t enter his home as he was to tall, he couldn’t believe it so made a plate of food and marched to the barn to give the inconsiderate bastard a piece of his mind on being a gracious guest! Only to realize that yes Thorin couldn’t enter his house as he was huge! Bilbo wasn’t small but he felt tiny compared to him.
They ended up staying a week, and Bilbo spent all the time with Thorin. He hated the idea of them leaving, and contemplating running off with them, but new his duty was his farm. Only for fate to step in, and they all had to flee as the Shire was destroyed.
It was on the trip he learned about Erebor, the dragon Smaug, and the fact Thorin was technically dead. Once they arrived and met Builwyf so many of his questions were answered. He knew he belonged to Thorin, so took Gran’s offer to be Turned.
Kili was the second born son of Thorin Durin. He was born 15 mins after his brother, and is the reason his mother didn’t survive. His father never held it against him, never made him feel anything but love. But when some of the older lords didn’t like what Thorin was doing they made sure to hit home on Kili. Though usually it didn’t end well for them.
As he wasn’t the first born, he had a tiny bit of leeway. And used every inch he could get, including getting his brother into trouble and always out of it. He took up archery, and became a hunter after a while, able to track reindeer for miles and drag it back home for the village.
He met Tauriel when he was sixteen, everyone considered it fate as Thorin had married their mother at the same age. They had waited for a couple of years, before getting married. It was a cause of celebration for the village, and one of the happiest days of his life.
Six months later his world was destroyed when a Warload came into Erebor demanding tribute. Kili was sure he screamed when his father fell, and hadn’t stopped until Gloin dragged him out of the throne room. He pulled away from the warrior and ran down the corridors not wanting to believe his father was gone.
It was Fili who found him stating their dad was alive but something was different. Kili was the one who had no doubts that the man in front of them was their father. His eyes were warm and filled with love when he looked at his sons, it was their father and he would face off with anyone who didn’t believe him.
And just when he thought his world was righted, the warlord attacked the village. One of the first to fall was Tauriel, she fought like the warrior she was, trying to save as many woman and children as she could. Fili pulled Kili away when she fell, but it was Thorin who lifted him up and fled the village.
There were thirteen of them who survived. Eleven by the time they met Bilbo. Kili thought maybe they would finally find rest when got to Builwyf but they were followed. In the end, there was five left. He had thought to embrace death, but while lying there next to his brother, he realized he didn’t want to leave his family behind. So when his father asked – he said yes.
Fili is the first born son of Thorin, he’s older than his brother by 15 mins. He knows his mother died when they were born, and that he has her coloring and smile. His father also says her temperament, slow to anger but get out of the way when it happens.
He remembers always following their father around, learning about taking care of the people. He was told stories of his great grandfather, and knew that he never wanted to be like him.
As he was the oldest he was expected to take over, it wasn’t something he wanted but knew his duty. Kili teased him but always supported him, even backed him when he argued with Thorin about finding a wife. Fili had figured out early on that he wasn’t interested in woman, but knew at one point he was going to have to marry. He just hoped Kili popped out grandkids first.
Then one day a warlord came through demanded tribute. Thorin had refused, the warlord attacked, but was shocked at how well Thorin fought. His father was a formidable warrior, and well huge.
Fili watched in horror when the warlord killed his father. Fili was held back by Dwalin as he screamed and lurched for the murdering bastard. They moved their father’s body to his chambers, Fili refused to leave his side. He was the first to notice that the wound was healing and his father was waking up.
Fili was relieved and terrified. They soon figured out that Thorin wasn’t different just well ‘dead’. They didn’t have time to contemplate it when the village was attacked and they barely escaped the destruction.
There were thirteen of them who survived, and that was the first time Fili was introduced to Smaug, and had first idea of what his father had become.
They travelled south, coming onto a small village when they asked for help they were denied, but Bilbo Baggins still took them in, it was obvious the farmer had been smitten with their father. What had shocked Fili & Kili was that their father was smitten in return.
Once they arrived at the sanctuary, they learned about Vampires. Fili wasn’t surprised Bilbo was his father’s Mate. It gave him hope that his father wouldn’t be upset about his own inclinations. Then the warlord showed up and everything went to shit.
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence), Italy, in 1564, the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a famous lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a healthy scepticism for established authority, the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation, an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm, as well as the illuminative progeny to expect from a marriage of mathematics and experiment. Three of Galileo’s five siblings survived infancy. The youngest, Michelangelo (or Michelagnolo), also became a noted lutenist and composer although he contributed to financial burdens during Galileo’s young adulthood. Michelangelo was unable to contribute his fair share of their father’s promised dowries to their brothers-in-law, who would later attempt to seek legal remedies for payments due. Michelangelo would also occasionally have to borrow funds from Galileo to support his musical endeavours and excursions. These financial burdens may have contributed to Galileo’s early fire to develop inventions that would bring him additional income.
Galileo was named after an ancestor, Galileo Bonaiuti, a physician, university teacher and politician who lived in Florence from 1370 to 1450; at that time in the late 14th century, the family’s surname shifted from Bonaiuti (or Buonaiuti) to Galilei. Galileo Bonaiuti was buried in the same church, the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, where about 200 years later his more famous descendant Galileo Galilei was also buried. When Galileo Galilei was eight, his family moved to Florence, but he was left with Jacopo Borghini for two years. He then was educated in the Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa, 35 km southeast of Florence.
Although a genuinely pious Roman Catholic, Galileo fathered three children out of wedlock with Marina Gamba. They had two daughters, Virginia in 1600 and Livia in 1601, and one son, Vincenzo, in 1606. Because of their illegitimate birth, their father considered the girls unmarriageable, if not posing problems of prohibitively expensive support or dowries, which would have been similar to Galileo’s previous extensive financial problems with two of his sisters. Their only worthy alternative was the religious life. Both girls were accepted by the convent of San Matteo in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives. Virginia took the name Maria Celeste upon entering the convent. She died on 2 April 1634, and is buried with Galileo at the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. Livia took the name Sister Arcangela and was ill for most of her life. Vincenzo was later legitimised as the legal heir of Galileo and married Sestilia Bocchineri.
Although Galileo seriously considered the priesthood as a young man, at his father’s urging he instead enrolled at the University of Pisa for a medical degree. In 1581, when he was studying medicine, he noticed a swinging chandelier, which air currents shifted about to swing in larger and smaller arcs. To him it seemed, by comparison with his heartbeat, that the chandelier took the same amount of time to swing back and forth, no matter how far it was swinging. When he returned home, he set up two pendulums of equal length and swung one with a large sweep and the other with a small sweep and found that they kept time together. It was not until Christiaan Huygens almost one hundred years later that the tautochrone nature of a swinging pendulum was used to create an accurate timepiece. Up to this point, Galileo had deliberately been kept away from mathematics, since a physician earned a higher income than a mathematician. However, after accidentally attending a lecture on geometry, he talked his reluctant father into letting him study mathematics and natural philosophy instead of medicine. He created a thermoscope, a forerunner of the thermometer, and in 1586 published a small book on the design of a hydrostatic balance he had invented (which first brought him to the attention of the scholarly world). Galileo also studied disegno, a term encompassing fine art, and in 1588 obtained the position of instructor in the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence, teaching perspective and chiaroscuro. Being inspired by the artistic tradition of the city and the works of the Renaissance artists, Galileo acquired an aesthetic mentality. While a young teacher at the Accademia, he began a lifelong friendship with the Florentine painter Cigoli, who included Galileo’s lunar observations in one of his paintings.
In 1589, he was appointed to the chair of mathematics in Pisa. In 1591, his father died, and he was entrusted with the care of his younger brother Michelagnolo. In 1592, he moved to the University of Padua where he taught geometry, mechanics, and astronomy until 1610. During this period, Galileo made significant discoveries in both pure fundamental science (for example, kinematics of motion and astronomy) as well as practical applied science (for example, strength of materials and improvement of the telescope). His multiple interests included the study of astrology, which at the time was a discipline tied to the studies of mathematics and astronomy.
It was his work in mathematics that had caught Leonardo’s attention. He approached the Scientist, asking if he wanted to be Turned.
