These were some of the characters that were introduced in stories from Advent.
Sayyid was raised in Morocco, whose family had been Chosen Ones for the Medjai and Integridad. His family was influential in helping Jews and Moors flee persecution out of Spain.
In one of the raids into Spain, he was mortally wounded. Only for his family to seek out help from Azeem asking him to save their only son.
Sayyid accepted the blessing, and knew Allah had a reason for him to live.
(Note: Here are some of the characters mentioned in stories during Advent!)
Constanza was the only child, and loved dearly by her parents. She lost her mother to illness when she was a young child, her father though devastated from the loss of his wife, made sure his girl was loved and raised well.
He encouraged her to try new things, let her be what she wanted to be.
Constanza loved the outdoors, testing her limits, and soon found her running parkour around the city.
She met Ysabel one of her more trickier runs, that ended up bring the police into the situation. The two ended up becoming friends, and it upset her greatly when Ysabel disappeared for a few years. During that time she lost her father, and with the money he left, she was able to open her own Parkour School.
Her life changed when Ysabel came back into her life.
Hippocrates was born around the year 460 BC.
Soranus of Ephesus, a 2nd-century Greek gynecologist, was Hippocrates’ first biographer and is the source of most personal information about him. Later biographies are in the Suda of the 10th century AD, and in the works of John Tzetzes, which date from the 12th century AD. Hippocrates is mentioned in passing in the writings of two contemporaries: Plato, in “Protagoras” and “Phaedrus”, and, Aristotle’s “Politics”, which date from the 4th century BC Soranus wrote that Hippocrates’ father was Heraclides, a physician, and his mother was Praxitela, daughter of Tizane. The two sons of Hippocrates, Thessalus and Draco, and his son-in-law, Polybus, were his students. According to Galen, a later physician, Polybus was Hippocrates’ true successor, while Thessalus and Draco each had a son named Hippocrates.
Soranus said that Hippocrates learned medicine from his father and grandfather, and studied other subjects with Democritus and Gorgias. Hippocrates was probably trained at the asklepieion of Kos, and took lessons from the Thracian physician Herodicus of Selymbria. Plato mentions Hippocrates in two of his dialogues: in Protagoras, Plato describes Hippocrates as “Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad”; while in Phaedrus, Plato suggests that “Hippocrates the Asclepiad” thought that a complete knowledge of the nature of the body was necessary for medicine. Hippocrates taught and practiced medicine throughout his life, traveling at least as far as Thessaly, Thrace, and the Sea of Marmara. Several different accounts of his death exist. He died, probably in Larissa, at the age of 83, 85 or 90, though some say he lived to be well over 100.
Hippocrates is credited with being the first person to believe that diseases were caused naturally, not because of superstition and gods. Hippocrates was credited by the disciples of Pythagoras of allying philosophy and medicine. He separated the discipline of medicine from religion, believing and arguing that disease was not a punishment inflicted by the gods but rather the product of environmental factors, diet, and living habits. Indeed there is not a single mention of a mystical illness in the entirety of the Hippocratic Corpus. However, Hippocrates did work with many convictions that were based on what is now known to be incorrect anatomy and physiology, such as Humorism.
Ancient Greek schools of medicine were split (into the Knidian and Koan) on how to deal with disease. The Knidian school of medicine focused on diagnosis. Medicine at the time of Hippocrates knew almost nothing of human anatomy and physiology because of the Greek taboo forbidding the dissection of humans. The Knidian school consequently failed to distinguish when one disease caused many possible series of symptoms. The Hippocratic school or Koan school achieved greater success by applying general diagnoses and passive treatments. Its focus was on patient care and prognosis, not diagnosis. It could effectively treat diseases and allowed for a great development in clinical practice.
Hippocratic medicine and its philosophy are far removed from that of modern medicine. Now, the physician focuses on specific diagnosis and specialized treatment, both of which were espoused by the Knidian school. This shift in medical thought since Hippocrates’ day has caused serious criticism over the past two millennia, with the passivity of Hippocratic treatment being the subject of particularly strong denunciations; for example, the French doctor M. S. Houdart called the Hippocratic treatment a “meditation upon death”.
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His research caught the attention Immutef, who traveled to Greece to visit him. Liking the man’s ideas and philosophies, he told him about Vampires. Hippocrates agreed instantly to be Turned.
Imhotep also spelled Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep meaning “the one who comes in peace, is with peace”) was an Egyptian polymath who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra (or Re) at Heliopolis. He is considered by some to be the earliest known architect and engineer and physician in early history, though two other physicians, Hesy-Ra and Merit-Ptah, lived around the same time.
Imhotep was one of the chief officials of the Pharaoh Djoser. Egyptologists ascribe to him the design of the Pyramid of Djoser (the Step Pyramid) at Saqqara in Egypt in 2630 – 2611 BC. He may have been responsible for the first known use of columns to support a building. As an instigator of Egyptian culture, Imhotep’s idealized image lasted well into the Ptolemaic period. The Egyptian historian Manetho credited him with inventing the method of a stone-dressed building during Djoser’s reign, though he was not the first to actually build with stone. Stone walling, flooring, lintels, and jambs had appeared sporadically during the Archaic Period, though it is true that a building of the Step Pyramid’s size and made entirely out of stone had never before been constructed. Before Djoser, pharaohs were buried in mastaba tombs.
According to the encyclopedia Britannica, “The evidence afforded by Egyptian and Greek texts support the view that Imhotep’s reputation was very respected in early times … His prestige increased with the lapse of centuries and his temples in Greek times were the centers of medical teachings.”
It is Imhotep, says Sir William Osler, who was the real “Father of Medicine”, “the first figure of a physician to stand out clearly from the mists of antiquity.”
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Immutef or Imhotep depending on the mood, was well known in the Medjai as a healer. When Ardeth approached him about being Turned, he accepted it, finding true immortality where he could continue studying medicine.
John Carter came from a wealthy family, never had to work a day in his life, and was content to live in his Chicago family home and attend social parties.
All that changed when his cousin died in his arms, from a drug overdose.
He decided to go to school, become a doctor and help people. His family was inspired by his new lease in life, but were dismayed when he started to work in city clinics and not private institutions.
When he joined the Army in World War One as a medic, his father had considered disowning him, but when returned a hero, his family showed him off in society. They were disappointed again when he didn’t take a job at a prestige’s clinic.
He met Jessica Fletcher while working at the clinic, and they quickly became friends. He spent many hours with her and Amos, enjoying a simple family life. The day he called her mom without thought – he paused and looked at her, seeing a different time and different life.
She told him the truth about who she was, and whose soul he carried.
He came to her later and asked to be Turned, knowing how much good he could do over the next decades as medical science advanced.
Éowyn was a daughter of the House of Eorl and the niece of Chieftain Theoden; the daughter of Theodwyn (sister to Theoden) and Eomund, and the twin sister of Éomer. When she was only seven years old,when her father was killed in battle and her mother died of grief.
Éowyn and Éomer were raised in her uncle’s household as if they were his own children.
Morgana sent her spies to Theoden’s court, the most famous of them only known as Wormtongue, who tried to persuade Theoden not to send his famed Horsemen to Arthur’s aid. Éowyn exposed his lies and accused of him of inappropriate behavior. Éomer threw him off the castle battlements, killing him instantly.
When Chieftain Theoden discovered the deception, he sent the famed Riders of Rohan under the leadership of his nephew Éomer, to help Arthur Pendragon in his struggle with Mordred. Not be left behind, Éowyn disguised herself as a soldier and rode with her brother into the fight at the Battle of Camlann.
During the battle, she killed Morgana for crimes against her family. When Mordred saw his mother’s death he attacked Éowyn, only to be slain by Éomer in defense of his sister.
After the battle and the subsequent ‘Death of Arthur’, Éomer encourages Éowyn to go to the Queen’s side, to help her with the loss of the King, only to discover Severus attending Arthur’s wound. She was taken into Guinevere’s confidence and becomes one of her trusted servants.
A year later, she was Turned on the same day as her brother.
Advisor: Sylum
Born Timothy Quinn in 1312 AD, near Donegal, Eire, the youngest son of Callum and Lavena Quinn.
His two older brothers, Gregory and Aaron, followed their father into a living on the land and developing their farm. His older sister Lorain was betrothed to Fearghus O’Niel, eldest son of a neighboring family.
At a young age his curiosity and inquisitive nature got the best of him when he stole the local Priest’s Bible trying to understand what was being said in the pages. The Priest taught him to read, a rarity for someone of his social class during that time, and with a thirst for knowledge he learned quickly from local wisdoms, soon becoming the clan’s Healer.
At the age of sixteen, British soldiers attacked outlying farms near Donegal, killing Timothy’s entire family. Lord Sean, the Clan’s Leader took him into the O’Gairmledaig family, and for the next few years Timothy helped with the household, and repaid their kindness by teaching Lord Sean’s children, Aden and Collin, to read and write.
Timothy and Eleina – wife to Lord Sean – were attacked while traveling to another Clan. The subsequent chase caused her to go into early labor. The baby was born safely but at the cost of his mother’s life. Before her death, she named the child Quinn to make sure he had a strong start in life.
Six years later, Timothy found his place in the family when he became Sean’s lover. Tragically, Timothy and his Lord only had six months together before the O’Gairmledaig Clan was destroyed by a rival. Timothy escaped with Quinn, fleeing to Lord Caine’s Castle near Derry. The young Quinn was taken in, to be raised as a Caine.
Timothy rode away, prepared to die from the wounds he had sustained, and grief stricken at Lord Sean’s death, only to then be offered a new life by Nick Maoilriain.
Leonardo was youngest son of a small Patrician family. He was educated by the finest tutors, and had shown his gift in art and mathematics. His father encouraged his inventions and artistic endeavors.
He was apprenticed to an architect who worked for Caesar to build new buildings for the glory of Rome. He watched in horror as many of them burned in 64 AD. In the following years he started to work on rebuilding areas that were destroyed.
It wasn’t until he started working on the Colosseum that he felt for once he was helping something grand for Rome.
He met Archimedes during this time, who had come to see the new constructions. The two became friends easily, though Leonardo’s frantic work and inability to rest had the older Greek worried. When he found Leonardo collapsed on his workshop floor, he nursed him back to health then gave him an option to be Turned.
Carl Elias had a rough childhood.
His mother was murdered when he was eight years old, stabbed to death in their own home. It was ordered by his father Mob Boss Don Gianni Moretti.
Elias was sent to a boy’s home where he met Anthony Marconi, the two became instant friends. And as time went on partners, and then lovers.
Carl never forgot his mother, and even though he had gone straight he plotted. It wasn’t until his number came up, and he ended up saved by John Reese, that his true identity and plans were revealed.
Carl was determined to destroy the Russian Mob and take back Brighton Beach as his own territory. Over the next year, he kept running into John Reese. He grew to admire the man, and his own persistence to help those in need.
He knew something was different when he watched Reese jump an impossible distance between buildings to get to Harold Finch, who was being held by a small criminal organization Elias wanted destroyed. He knew if they touched Finch, Reese would finish them.
Elias was determined to figure out how Reese made that jump. Anthony brought him the information about Vampires, and in time he was introduced to Lucien La Croix.
The only Vampire Clan that didn’t mind his side business.
He requested to be Turned.
Born Dean Devlin in 1961 AD, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the product of an affair between Siobhan Devlin and Henry Caine while she was married to William Devlin.
William, never accepting the bastard child, took his anger and frustrations out on the boy he never wanted, until Dean was old enough to start hitting back.
At age 18 Dean, choosing to be known as Dino, left home and joined the US Army. While in bootcamp, he met William Tecumseh Sherman who later recommended him for more specific additional training, his profile indicating he would be good in Special Ops. Consequently, Dino soon found himself moving up the ranks as part of Delta Force.
While on an operation in the Congo he ran into an Australian Army unit, and through what became the mother of all the FUBAR operations, he developed a close friendship with Terry Thorne.
Years later, both men chose to leave the military life behind and built their own K&R (Kidnap and Rescue) organization in London following strategic errors at the hands of private organizations with little or no understanding of operational needs on the ground.
When Terry went missing on a purely social visit to old friends in Brazil, Dino left the warm bed of his latest girlfriend in London, and went into the South American jungle searching for him – finding way more than he expected.
Robert Leroy Parker was born April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah, the first of 13 children born to British immigrants Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies. The Parker and Gillies families had converted in England and Scotland to the Mormon faith and immigrated to Utah. Maximilian Parker was 12 when his family arrived in Salt Lake in 1856; Ann Gillies arrived with her family in 1859, aged 14. The two were married in July 1865.
Robert Leroy Parker, named for his paternal grandfather, was the first of the 13 children of Maximillian and Ann Parker. He grew up on their ranch near Circleville, Utah,215 miles south of Salt Lake City. He left home during his early teens. While working at a dairy farm, he formed a close relationship with his mentor, a cowboy and cattle rustler who called himself Mike Cassidy (an alias for John Tolliver “J. T.” McClammy). Parker subsequently worked at several ranches, in addition to a brief stint as a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming, when he acquired the nickname “Butch”, to which he soon appended the surname Cassidy in honor of his old friend.
He associated with a circle of criminals, most notably his closest friend Elzy Lay, Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan, Ben Kilpatrick, Harry Tracy, Will “News” Carver, Laura Bullion, and George Curry, who became the nucleus of the Wild Bunch.
On August 13, 1896, Cassidy, Lay, Harvey Logan and Bob Meeks robbed the bank at Montpelier, Idaho, escaping with approximately $7,000. Shortly thereafter he[clarification needed] recruited Harry Longabaugh, alias “The Sundance Kid”, a native of Pennsylvania, into the Wild Bunch.
In early 1897, Cassidy was joined at Robbers Roost by Ann Bassett, Elzy Lay, and Lay’s girlfriend Maude Davis. The four hid there until early April, when Lay and Cassidy sent the women home so that they could plan their next robbery. On April 21, 1897, in the mining town of Castle Gate, Utah, Cassidy and Lay ambushed a small group of men carrying the payroll of the Pleasant Valley Coal Company, stealing a sack containing $7,000 in gold, with which they fled to the Robbers Roost.
On June 2, 1899, the gang robbed a Union Pacific Overland Flyer near Wilcox, Wyoming, a robbery that became famous and which resulted in a massive man hunt. Many notable lawmen of the day took part in the hunt for the robbers, but they were not found.
During a shootout with lawmen following that robbery, both Kid Curry and George Curry shot and killed Sheriff Joe Hazen. Tom Horn, a killer for hire employed by the Pinkerton Agency, obtained information from explosives expert Bill Speck about the Hazen shooting, and Horn passed this information to Pinkerton detective Charlie Siringo. The gang escaped into the Hole-In-The-Wall. Siringo was assigned the task of capturing the outlaw gang. He became friends with Elfie Landusky, who was using the last name Curry after allegedly becoming pregnant by Kid Curry’s brother, Lonny. Through her, Siringo intended to locate the gang.
On July 11, 1899, Lay and others were involved in a Colorado and Southern Railroad train robbery near Folsom, New Mexico, which Cassidy may have planned and personally directed. A shootout ensued with local law enforcement in which Lay killed Sheriff Edward Farr and Henry Love; Lay was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment at New Mexico State Penitentiary.
The Wild Bunch would separate following a robbery and flee in different directions, reuniting at a predetermined location, such as the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout, Robbers Roost, or Madame Fannie Porter’s brothel, in San Antonio, Texas.
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It was 1902 when Butch and Sundance ended up robbing a bank that happened to have Will and Sparrow inside. It went wrong from the moment they stepped into the building. In the end Sundance and Butch escaped with the two Vampires’ help, and ended up Turned.
No one was surprised they were Mates.
Born Terrence Maxwell Thorne in 1962 AD, Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, to sheep farmers John and Sheila Thorne. He worked his way through school, earning money on the ranch, before deciding the quit the land and join the army, wanting to see the rest of the world before it was too late and he got too old to experience it without being jaded.
Based in England for a while, he met Bridgette Taylor-Smythe, daughter of Brigadier General Taylor-Smythe, marrying her after a whirlwind romance on the discovery that she was pregnant, although Terry always suspected her desire to marry him was more out of rebellion against her father than in making sure their son was born in wedlock.
Henry Thorne was born in 1983 AD, but his parents soon divorced due to separation enforced by army life.
Pressure from his father-in-law forced Terry into leaving the life he best enjoyed before he could be caught up in a manufactured situation that would lead to a dishonorable discharge.
Seconded to the SAS on a mission to the Congo he had previously met Dean Devlin, the two men having saved each other’s asses several times over. They struck up a quick friendship that remained despite their cultural and military differences and after finding himself back as a civvie, he ran into Dino again working in K&R.
Terry approached him about going into business together after a disastrous mission that was made worse by their respective employers in London failing to fully appreciate the situations they were expected to handle on the ground.
On a social visit to Brazil, Terry was snatched, and later Turned Without Consent.
Longabaugh was born in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania in 1867, the son of Pennsylvania natives Josiah and Annie G. (née Place) Longabaugh. He was the youngest of five children (his older siblings were Ellwood, Samanna, Emma and Harvey). Longabaugh was of mostly English and German ancestry and was also part Welsh. At age 15, Longabaugh traveled westward on a covered wagon with his cousin George. In 1887, Longabaugh stole a gun, horse and saddle from a ranch in Sundance, Wyoming. While attempting to flee, he was captured by authorities and was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail by Judge William L. Maginnis. During this jail time, he adopted the nickname of the Sundance Kid. After his release, he went back to working as a ranch hand, and in 1891, as a 25-year-old, he worked at the Bar U Ranch in what is today Alberta, Canada, which was one of the largest commercial ranches of the time.
Longabaugh was suspected in 1892 in a train robbery, then again in 1897 in a bank robbery along with five other men. He became associated with a group known as the “Wild Bunch,” which included his famous partner Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy.
Longabaugh likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) after Parker was released from prison around 1896. Together with the other members of “The Wild Bunch” gang, they performed the longest string of successful train and bank robberies in American history.
After pursuing a career in crime for several years in the United States, the pressures of being pursued, notably by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, forced Longabaugh, his girlfriend Etta Place, and Cassidy to abandon the United States. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where Parker and Longabaugh were probably killed in a shootout in November 1908.
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It was 1902 when Butch and Sundance ended up robbing a bank that happened to have Will and Sparrow inside. It went wrong from the moment they stepped into the building. In the end Sundance and Butch escaped with the two Vampires’ help, and ended up Turned.
No one was surprised they were Mates.
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Ysabel was the third daughter of a Merchant family. She was nothing like her sisters, had no interest in being a wife or mother. She spoke her mind, drank with the boys, and had no problem finding a solution to her problems.
Which was what led her to Nerha Silks looking for Máximo, trying to make a deal with him to marry her, as she wasn’t happy her father promised her hand in marriage to an Don, whose granddaughter was five years younger than Ysabel. Instead Aguilar offered her the title of widow.
She instantly forced her way into the small family. It didn’t take her long to learn about Assassins, which she demanded to be trained, and when she learned about Vampires she just gave Máximo a look. He sighed and Turned her.
Trevor was born into an upper middle class family, and raised just outside San Francisco, California. Had a good education, played baseball in high school, got a scholarship to attended Berkley.
It was from there he was recruited into IMF.
He was an exceptional agent, his knowledge and language skills made him an expert in Eastern Europe.
No one knows for sure when his relationship with Jane Carter started, but the two were an exceptional team despite being lovers.
It was a mission in Budapest, when everything went south.
As Trevor laid on the cold ground dying he regretted his fuck up was going to put his love in harms way.
When Benji offered him a chance to live, he took it.