To finish the month off – we’ve been working through Integridad for images!
Azeem’s family were Chosen Ones for as long as he could remember. He grew up in Trujillo, working on Maximus’ land. He learned a lot from Maximus and Quintus and when the time was right he went to them asking to be Turned.
Most of Harry’s life has sucked. He was always told he kinda looked like Stark, but more messy and pathetic.
When trying to escape a burglary gone wrong he ended up in a casting session, winning over the producers who wanted to screen test him for a role.
At a Hollywood party he met Perry.
The rest of the story is a sad Hollywood plot that even he couldn’t get his head around. By the end of it, he discovered the role went to Kirk Lazarus. The bastard.
Perry showed up, kidnapped him, and took him to Spain to explain about past lives and Vampires. Harry wished he had told him before he lost his fingers! He agreed to be Turned and the two Mated soon after.
Walter Crow Horse was born and raised on his tribe’s reservation. When he was able, he became a police officer on the reservation. His work is rather mundane until the murder that happens in their territory in 1973, which brings an FBI agent named Ray Levoi to the reservation.
Crow Horse finds himself alternately drawn to and annoyed by the man, but he aids him and they discover a conspiracy involving strip mining uranium on reservation land and destroying the water supply in the process, an act which was the cause of several political problems the tribe was having. They manage to capture the ones responsible, and Levoi goes on his way. Crow Horse thinks its the last he would see of the man, but he was proven wrong when he returned to continue their hard-earned friendship.
On one of those return visits, Levoi came back different. He explained about Vampires and how he was certain that Crow Horse was his Mate. Crow Horse agreed to be Turned.
*Figured would showcase the Mates 🙂
John Peters Ringo was born to Martin and Mary Ringo on May 3, 1850 in Washington, Indiana. John was the eldest of five children. He had one brother, Martin, and three sisters: Fanny, Mary, and Mattie.
The family moved from Indiana to Missouri, where the three girls were born, and then in 1864 they began making their way out West, toward San Jose, California. While traveling to California, Martin Ringo Sr. died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound, witnessed by his family.
The family continued on to San Jose, where John Ringo remained until around 1871. While in California, he worked the farm for his family.
After leaving California, he went back East to visit family in both Indiana and Missouri before ending up in Burnet, Texas in 1874, where he committed his first criminal act: shooting a gun in a public square.
In 1875, in Mason County, John was involved in the HooDoo, or Mason County War, where much of his reputation was created, though he did not have nearly as much to do with the killings as rumor reported. He was originally charged for the murder of a man, but since no witnesses would testify against him, he was free to go. He remained in Texas until 1878, when he began traveling West, through New Mexico and ending up in Arizona in late 1879.
In December of 1879, Ringo shot a man in a saloon in Safford, Arizona. In 1880, Ringo met Joseph Isaac “Ike” Clanton, and they began traveling together. He was having fun wreaking havoc with Ike and his men, but when things began to heat up and become too much, he decided to leave.
However, Ike Clanton did not want him to leave the gang. In order to keep him there, Clanton Turned him without consent and made Ringo dependent on him for information and threatened the lives of his brother’s family, who lived on the California-Arizona border, should he try to leave. Since Clanton wasn’t the only Rogue in the Cowboys gang, which numbered over 300 members, Ringo decided to stay and bide his time before escaping.
Raymond Levoi, of Irish and Native American descent, was born and raised in Sioux City. He decided to train to become an FBI agent after getting his four-year degree. He rose through the ranks fairly quickly, due to his exceptional skill at his job and his analytical mind.
His life would change with a murder on a reservation. There he met Walter Crow Horse and the two worked together to solve the murder and uncover corruption that even reached to the FBI itself. He became friends with a man who he would come to know as Chief Joseph, and took the offer of being Turned.
John Henry Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia on August 14, 1851 to Henry Burroughs and Alice Jane Holliday. His father was known to have fought in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.
When he was fourteen, his mother died of “consumption” (the most common name for tuberculosis), and this is where Holliday picked up the disease that plagued him for all of his human life. His father remarried soon after and they moved to Valdosta, GA where he went to the Valdosta Institute and received a classical education. Holliday went to Philadelphia and got his degree, becoming a doctor of dentistry. He then opened a dental office in Atlanta.
It was in adulthood that he was finally diagnosed with tuberculosis, which prevented him from having a successful dental practice, both in Atlanta and in Dallas, Texas. In Dallas he discovered that gambling was far more lucrative, and so he left Dallas after being convicted of illegal gambling and headed West. Because of the disease that would eventually take his life, he became hot-tempered and reckless.
In 1877 he met Wyatt Earp through a mutual friend. The two became close friends, particularly after the events in Dodge City, Kansas, where Holliday came to Earp’s defense and kept him from getting killed. It was here he also met his longtime lover, Mary Katharine Horony. This wasn’t the only time he saved Earp’s life, and it was in Dodge City where his legend began to grow.
Holliday stayed behind when the Earps moved to Tombstone, Arizona in 1879, but when the Earps asked for his assistance there because of the Clanton Gang, he became embroiled in the problems of the area, which escalated with the incident of the Gunfight at the OK Corral and peaked with the murder of Morgan Earp.
While in Tombstone, he met one of Clanton’s men, John Ringo. Holliday disliked the man on sight, though after further investigation and conversation with Ringo, they discovered they had much in common. He wasn’t all that surprised when Ringo refused to fight them and fled the area.
After the Gunfight at the OK Corral, fighting with the Clanton’s Cowboys continued to escalate, and after Virgil Earp sustained a permanent injury and Morgan Earp was killed, Holliday and the Earps fled the area in early 1882. Holliday and the Earps fled to Tuscon, and shortly thereafter they became involved in what would be known as the Earp Vendetta, in which they went after those who killed Morgan Earp.
After they hunted down those responsible for Morgan’s death, Holliday moved to Colorado. In 1884, as his health continued to deteriorate, Holliday found himself once again faced with John Ringo. John explained his Vampirism and their destiny as a Mated pair, and offered him a way to ease the suffering of his illness. Holliday agreed and was Turned.
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Patterson was born in 1867 in Forgney, Ballymahon, County Westmeath, Ireland, to a Protestant father and Roman Catholic mother. He joined the British Army at the age of seventeen and eventually attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
In 1898, Patterson was commissioned by the Uganda Railway committee in London to oversee the construction of a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in present-day Kenya. He arrived at the site in March of that year.
Almost immediately after Patterson’s arrival, lion attacks began to take place on the workforce, with the lions dragging men out of their tents at night and feeding on their victims. Despite the building of thorn barriers (bomas) around the camps, bonfires at night, and strict after-dark curfews, the attacks escalated dramatically, to the point where the bridge construction eventually ceased due to a fearful, mass departure by the workers. Along with the obvious financial consequences of the work stoppage, Patterson faced the challenge of maintaining his authority and even his personal safety at this remote site against the increasingly hostile and superstitious workers, many of whom were convinced that the lions were in fact evil spirits, come to punish those who worked at Tsavo, and that he was the cause of the misfortune because the attacks had coincided with his arrival.
With his reputation, livelihood, and safety at stake, Patterson, an experienced tiger hunter from his military service in India, undertook an extensive effort to deal with the crisis. After months of attempts and near misses, he finally killed the first lion on the night of 9 December 1898 and the second one on the morning of 29 December (narrowly escaping death when the wounded animal charged him). The lions were maneless like many others in the Tsavo area, and both were exceptionally large. Each lion was over nine feet long from nose to tip of tail and required at least eight men to carry it back to the camp.
With the man-eater threat finally eliminated, the workforce returned and the Tsavo railway bridge was completed on 7 February 1899. Although the rails were destroyed by German soldiers during the First World War, the stone foundations were left standing and the bridge was subsequently repaired. The workers, who in earlier months had all but threatened to kill him, presented Patterson with a silver bowl in appreciation for the risks he had undertaken on their behalf, with the following inscription:
“SIR, – We, your Overseer, Timekeepers, Mistaris and Workmen, present you with this bowl as a token of our gratitude to you for your bravery in killing two-man-eating lions at great risk to your own life, thereby saving us from the fate of being devoured by these terrible monsters who nightly broke into our tents and took our fellow-workers from our side. In presenting you with this bowl, we all add our prayers for your long life, happiness and prosperity. We shall ever remain, Sir, Your grateful servants,
Baboo PURSHOTAM HURJEE PURMAR, Overseer and Clerk of Works, on behalf of your Workmen. Dated at Tsavo, January 30, 1899.”
Patterson considered the bowl to be his most highly prized and hardest won trophy. It was soon after this he met John Chard. Anyone who was anyone in the British Military knew who John Chard was, John was honored to meet a fellow engineer. The two became fast friends, and soon John told him about Vampires. He was offering Patterson a new life.
John had to think about it, and even sat down to discuss with his wife. The both met with other Ghost/Darkness Clan Members. Patterson finding in a dry humor that the Clan carried the nick names given to the two lions he had just killed.
His wife saw it as a sign.
He was Turned.
Madmartigan was the son of a noble family of Galladoorn. He was given impeccable schooling, so that someday would ascend to administrative duties of the kingdom.
However, he was far too restless, reckless and truant as a child. He would escape his lessons in the palace to visit the bazaars and became friends with a group of Eastern horsemen who taught him horseback riding and archery. At age ten, he was able to save his friends from bloodthirsty bandits by slaying them. The famed swordsman Roniro noticed his raw talent and took the boy as an apprentice and taught the lost art of sushin, but died shortly after Madmartigan reached knighthood. Madmartigan befriended Airk Thaughbaer, but never spent time with his fellow knights, preferring the company of caravan drivers.
When he fell in love with a princess and was forced to choose between breaking the knight’s code or his own heart. Not happy with a mere Knight courting his daughter, her father convinced her that Madmartigan had been cheating on her, the princess accused him for revealing court secrets to her. Thus Madmartigan lost all honor along with the armor and stature of knighthood.
As a punishment Madmartigan was led to the crow’s cage at the Crossroads where he was left to die. He was freed by Willow Ufgood, who was seeking someone to watch over baby Elora, the heir to the throne.
Madmartigan took the infant to one of his many women acquaintances but the baby was kidnapped. Willow found the baby and Madmartigan, only for the two to barely escape the tavern with their lives and the baby.
Those looking for the infant, to secure the throne for themselves. Captured the small group, while again escaping Madmartigan kidnapped Sorsha, the daughter of the reigning Queen. Through the events, the two fell in love. She turned against her mother to help him in the final battle, only to loose her life defending him.
The battle against the Queen was defeated, giving the kingdom to those worth, and in time Elora would take the thrown.
Pedro and Nasir were traveling in the small area, hearing of the small war. When they arrived in the kingdom, they found Madmartigan, head of the new Knights protecting Elora. Pedro picked up the cough that wracked his body despite the fact he hid it well.
When he confronted him, he admitted the battle would be his death, just taking a lot longer. After he got the whole story from him, Pedro gave him a new opportunity.
Richard Beauregard comes from a long line of Beauregards, that date back to the famous Confederate General. The family has always been based in New Orleans, and because of this he’s known about Vampires most of his life.
Richard ran the family Shrimp Business. But after Hurricane Katrina, then the oil spill, he was losing money fast. He invested in a crab boat, and headed up to Bering Sea. He knew Nico had contacted Mal to let him knw about the rookie Captain.
Rookie Captain was right.
Richard ended up in a dangerous situation and if it wasn’t for Liefr he wouldn’t have made it out of it alive. He was so thankful the other Captain was everything all the rumors had said and should up to pull his crew off the ice flow.
Hurley was the third of five children born to parents Edward and Margaret Hurley and was raised in Glebe, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. He ran away from home at the age of 13 to work on the Lithgow steel mill, returning home two years later to study at the local technical school and attend science lectures at the University of Sydney. When he was 17 he bought his first camera, a 15 shilling Kodak Box Brownie which he paid for at the rate of a shilling per week. He taught himself photography and set himself up in the postcard business, where he gained a reputation for putting himself in danger in order to produce stunning images, including placing himself in front of an oncoming train to capture it on film.
At the age of 25, in 1908, Hurley learned that Australian explorer Douglas Mawson was planning an expedition to Antarctica; fellow Sydney-sider Henri Mallard, in 1911, recommended Hurley for the position of official photographer to Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition, ahead of himself. Hurley asserts in his biography that he then cornered Mawson as he was making his way to their interview on a train, using the advantage to talk his way into the job. Mawson was persuaded, while Mallard, who was the manager of Harringtons (a local Kodak franchise) to which Hurley was in debt, provided photographic equipment. The Expedition departed in 1911, returning in 1914. On his return, he edited and released a documentary ‘Home of the Blizzard,’ using his footage from the expedition.
Hurley was also the official photographer on Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set out in 1914 and was marooned until August 1916.
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Hurley had to fight with Shackleton on keeping the images he had taken during the expedition. In the end the two compromised and he kept 1/4 of the glass plates. He found this a hard earned reward, considering he had dived into freezing waters to save a portion of them.
It was this act that had him being Turned by Shackleton.
James has been a fisherman his entire life. Born and bred, it’s in his blood and he’s brought his family into the fishing business with him. But fishing in the Bering Sea is rough, and it can be costly-not only for your boat, but for your life.
He lost his wife to cancer, six months after she gave birth to their son, Stephen. James spread her ashes at Sea, then took his six month old out crab fishing. James raised his son on the Calico Sky, educated him with a unique style and teaching him to be a fisherman.
James became fast friends with fellow fisherman Liefr Nordman and Randolph Andrews. It wasn’t long before he figured out both of their secrets. The introduction to Captain Jack Aubrey confirmed all of James’ suspicions.
James was approached by Wayne Studios to work on a new show, featuring their life Crab Hunting. At first he was hesitant, but after meeting the producer Frank Hurley, he agreed to allow them on board the Calico Sky.
A strong friendship was struck with Frank Hurley over many hours in the Wheel House, and when a Rogue wave broadsided the Calico Sky, injuring James, there was no doubt in James’ mind the answer he would give Hurley.
Norðmaðr was raised in a small fishing village on the coast of Norway. His family were fishermen and he was expected to be the same.
While at sea everything had changed.
He doesn’t remember what happened, just that he was washed ashore dead.
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.