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Wakefield’s JournalCharactersPinupsBrother Jakob
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BROTHER JAKOB (b. 1837 Constanţa, Romania; monk) Jakob is the head of the Sofia-based Order of the Luminous Dawn, a branch of the Catholic Church devoted solely to affairs categorized as “occult.” He and Francis Wakefield are old friends. |
OverviewWakefield’s JournalCharactersPinupsGrigor Zhelov
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GRIGOR ZHELOV (b. 1818, Sofia, Bulgaria; antiquarian) An antiques dealer who inherited a curiosity shop from his late father, Grigor spent the majority of his adult life studying the Seal of Solomon, a magical ring he found as a boy on the grounds of an abandoned estate. He later purchased a page of the fabled Black Pullet, a grimoire that supposedly teaches how to use magical talismans, such as the Seal, and devoted himself to wielding its power. Discovering he could not only control birds, but also summon low-caste demons to do his bidding, he began a reign of terror on those who tarnished his family’s name and drove his father to suicide. Grigor was eventually subdued by Wakefield and Hollander and turned over to the custody of the Order of the Luminous Dawn, a sect of monks who rehabilitate those seduced by the Dark Arts. His current whereabouts are unknown. |
OverviewWakefield’s JournalCharactersPinupsMarko Savanović
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SAVANOVIC, MARKO ( b. ????; aristocrat, supposed heir to King Solomon’s fortune). A mysterious liaison who hires Wakefield and Hollander to retrieve the Seal of Solomon, Marko claims to be the last living descendant of King Solomon, the bastard son of a bastard son. He discovers the existence of the Seal of Solomon and wishes to have it in his possession, so that he may use it to climb the “social ladder,” bringing his family name back into the good graces of high society. He seems to have motives unknown to Wakefield and Hollander. |
OverviewWakefield’s JournalCharactersPinupsConall Langavat
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LANGAVAT, CONALL (b. 1650, Outer Hebrides, Scotland; d. 1864, Island of Benbecula, Langavat Manor; werewolf). He and his family were noble lords who, after attempting to steal the bride of a powerful Druid, were killed and cursed so that if their graves were ever disturbed, they would rise again as werewolves. Once this happened (1864), the Langavats began stealing children from local villages with the hopes of sacrificing them to Pagan gods in order to regain their humanity. Local occult hunter Fergus Duff and acquaintance Francis Wakefield discovered the plot and destroyed the Langavat clan, breaking their curse and giving them peace. |
OverviewWakefield’s JournalCharactersPinupsFergus Duff
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DUFF, FERGUS (b. 1817, Dundee, Scotland, UK; MacPhee clan affiliation; alchemist, occult hunter). Born into a family of alchemists and occult hunters going back for centuries, he and his brother Mungo were influential in many occult happenings within Scottish borders, experts in herbology and folklore. He was drafted by Queen Victoria (1845) to hunt down an assassin with ties to the occult in Edinburgh where he first met Francis Wakefield. He later called upon Wakefield (1864) to help rescue missing children taken by the cursed Langavat family who had been turned to werewolves, during which his left hand was bitten off. |
