Nothing is True. Everything is Connected.
Author: <span>Nicolaus Meridius</span>
Clan War - 10th Anniversary Edition / Sylum Stories5

Coming Soon: 10th Anniversary Clan War (Finale)

For those who clicked on this – thinking OMG it’s the Final Chapter – sorry about that.

Yes as mentioned earlier, Clan War has been finished!  It will be posted during Advent, along with the video and fanmix that will go with it.

Now for a few things about the finale.

This wasn’t an easy chapter.  Every word was painfully put down onto paper.

Matter of fact the final version, you’ll read at Advent, was the 4th version of this story!

Some of you are going – wait what about Going Home and Loved One Lost?

As the 10th Anniversary worked it’s way through the story, a lot of things were changed.  We took out many of the ‘fanfiction’ moments, and worked to incorporate the storyline that was built over the past ten years.  By removing some of these elements, much of Going Home became void, which contributed to the difficultly on how to wrap up the series.

As for Loved One Lost, it was decided early on that it would be pulled from Clan War as in fact it’s a separate story and will center on ‘Grave Danger’.

Aftermath is not quite what you’ll expect, but it’s the perfect wrap up of Clan War: 10th Anniversary Edition.

 

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Character Introduction / Enemies0

Sylum Inspiration: Alan Rikkin

 

Alan Rikkin came from a powerful wealthy family in England.  He had the best education in the finest schools, and was given everything he needed to make something of his life.

He took over his father’s businesses and expanded them globally.

He like his father, was a Templar and believed everything they had taught him.  His goals in life were matched to advance to the Templar cause.

He fell in love with and married Ellen Kaye, the only thing he ever did against the Templars, and they had one daughter – Sofia Rikkin.  When the pressure against them became too much, the two divorced and Alan raised their daughter, telling her that Assassins had killed her mother.

It was his daughter’s theories about inherent memories, that gave him the idea about trying to find the legendary ‘Apple’ by putting descendants of famed Assassins into a Simulator.

It failed until they met Callum Lynch … then everything changed.

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Character Introduction / Sanguen Clan0

Sylum Inspiration: Arthur

Sanguen: Hunter

 

Arthur is from California. He can’t surf, hates wine, loves bacon, and adores coffee. He was raised Jewish –the bacon-thing was problematic. Though, thankfully not looked unkindly upon in Reform Judaism. He slowly stopped attending synagogue during college; and even less throughout his time in the Army. Though, he has still managed to keep his faith.

Throughout middle and high school, Arthur took varying martial arts from Tai Chi to Aikido to Escrima.

He started college before his seventeenth birthday on scholarships earned both by his grades and through JROTC. In college he stays with ROTC and graduates with honors and two Masters degrees –one in Mathematics and the other in Research and Data Analytics.

He specialized in hand to hand combat, information gathering and mission planning (he’s very good at organizing chaos), and field operations. He has excellent legal and illegal computer skills; and while he’s pretty good with a rifle, he prefers his Glock 17. He’s sent through Special Forces training and then straight into an international team charged with among other things, fighting terrorism. Somewhere along the way he developed a taste for well tailored suits –if it fit well he could move  and fight better and if the tailor knew he was going to carry a gun it hid it better while giving easy access.

His identity was scrubbed when he became part of the international team. He liked the work, he was good at it. Too bad politics, blackmail, the death of two team members, and a loon left in charge caused it crumbled. The team was compromised and they were left to fend for themselves.

Arthur took the excellently forged documents from the only team member he truly trusted and disappeared.

He dies in Geneva at the age of 28.

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