The Rogues Gallery

Being a listing of the various strange creatures and people whom the Club have encountered in their long history

 

Abyssal Greye, the King of the Scholar Ghouls of Notre-Dame: the Abyssal and his colleagues devour the brains of learned men who have died to preserve their knowledge and insights for all time. They also tend an ancient library in the secret tunnels beneath Notre Dame de Paris. The Club have remarkably cordial relations with these undead and last met them at the Christmas Party at Dame Edith Chanterness’ house. There is virtually no difference between them and Selkirk except a pulse.

Amnizu Tallivi, Lord of Memory, Guardian of the River Styx: diabolic ambassador from the Nine Hells, first encountered trying to break open a mysterious and very sealed Astral portal, most recently thwarted from establishing embassies of Hell on Earth. Unregenerate PH I players might recognise him as a Styx Devil.

Assassins of the Mountain of the Everlasting, a powerful secret society led by grandfather Marwan al-Jabal al-Hiyali, the Caliph of Shadows. Aida al-Irrahman al Qudra is a female holy slayer of the order who has exiled from the Order and is now freelance. She has worked alongside the Club on occasion.

Baba Yaga, the "Old Woman of the Woods" of Slavonic myth and fairy tale, an iron-taloned hag who devours children but teaches certain young girls to fulfil their destinies. In the modern age she is running a finishing school for young ladies in Hungary. These young ladies tend to develop magical prowess and go on to marry some of the brightest and most powerful men of Europe. The D’Aosta twins spent two years under her tyrannical tutelage.

The Black Librarian: former keeper of the Library of Unwritten Books, who betrayed his commission by releasing the Necronomicon into the waking world and now dwells in Pandemonium’s Library of Bone, from which he extends his influence to absorb mortal libraries of interest. He is served by many former librarians, now Crypt Things. He is very keen to add Meridian and Albrecht to his collection.

La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Mirror Queen, Chia Caranques los Llanos, mistress of the demiplane of dread Ravenloft, and one of the more significant villainesses to plague the Club in times past. Chia was once a Faerie, but was given by them as part of the Tiend, the slave sacrifice of the best of the fey to the Devil in exchange for their independence. After millennia of torment as a larva she eventually clawed her way up the hierarchy of evil to become an Erynes (beautiful female temptress), setting up operations from her luxury yacht and becoming a specialist in gathering and selling information. Amongst her many ex-husbands she counts Jimmy Maxtible, whose former fiancée she ordered murdered. However, Chia finally fell and was dragged back to Hell to be cast for three years into the Pit of Pain to be remade as her deeds deserved. She has now returned in a new incarnation as the Dweller Behind Mirrors, and is doubtless plotting new devilment. For more detail see The Case of the Deadly Deposit

Osgood Chessard, degenerate debauched arch-sybarite movie mogul, a satyr able to appear human. A former minion of Chia Caraques los Llanos (see below), last heard of consumed by the mists of the dread demi-plane Ravenloft after using her yacht for his own private use.

Gaston leClaire: international jewel, art, and literary thief and con-man, infamous with every police agency in Europe. He recently managed to get all thieves everywhere level-related magic resistance to detection spells. He never uses violence and has never harmed any of his "marks". He is the father of Emmanuelle leClair. His relationship to Genevieve Fauçonburg remains unexplained.

The Doomguard, an extraplanar faction dedicated to promoting entropy. They are led by the cunning weretiger Commander Eril Dust.

Faris Shalamar ab-Nezis, fanatical asura (an order of angel) zealot for the cause of good who fell from grace in the upper planes to become a desert wanderer on Earth.

Sterling Ferroni, mafia godfather in Sicily.

Christopher Gent, leader of the London racketeers. His legal mouthpiece is the attorney Newby Stubbs.

Robyn Goodfellow, the Puck: the trickster of ancient Faerie power, the Jack-in-the Green, a spy, a messenger, a herald, a bloody psychopath with a cruel sense of humour. The Puck has all the powers of a pooka – time-slipping etc., and all the powers of a greater Faerie – including the possibility of making his magics endure beyond midnight etc. He was last seen running from several annoyed Pantheons after his last little joke…

The Kaluk, once Nagasaki gangster Miura Kamako, now the Oriental manifestation of greed and avarice. The Kaluk’s traditional form is that of a bipedal elephant-headed spirit dressed in a cloak of golden-scaled joss paper. The Kaluk can make amazing supernatural bargains for mortals – if the price is right.

Katrina (Katya) Natalia Katinova, charming and engaging KGB agent specialising in occult matters.

Inspector Lespadon, senior torturer of the fourth plane of Hell.

The Morrigan, the Queen of Air and Darkness: a manifestation of the ancient triple-goddess, lunar deity of fertility, was, and mystery, a fey entity of immense power and subtlety. The Club have promised to do her a thirteen-part quest in exchange for Angherad’s release from the being her Herald.

Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, messenger of the Elder Gods, heart and soul of the Beings for Old Time who manifests in a thousand different incarnations, including that of the fairies’ and witches’ Black Man. He has previously failed to get on fairly severely with the Lych (see below).

Qualius, King over Atlantis, a Ptomaic Revenant Lych: the villain who first gathered the monster Hunters together, who intends to rule the world for its own good, who is set on a cosmic plan of revenge against the higher powers that forced him to destroy Atlantis. A very powerful mage, a quite powerful cleric and academic, and a puissant weaver of plots. Q has recently taken a more active role in the London Necropolis Company once again, and has been revealed as the hidden manipulator behind the Special Operations Executive of Grey Operations (The psionic Casseopeia was working directly for him). Undead black priest Anton Caradoc is now bound to serve the Lych as his herald.

Shadow Fiends, a race of powerful and evil denizens of the Demiplane of Shadow who have territorial ambitions on Earth. Under the rule of Ligea, the Shadow Emperess, Lord Ashlazar of the Diplomatic Service, Praetor Krador Nesh, General of the Shadow Host, and head of intelligence gathering Jasperdine vie for power. The Shadow Archmage remains in the background.

StJohn Ercildoune, knight errant of the Faerie hosts of the Upper Planes. He is not really a villain (in fact he was a member of the short-lived League of Good), merely… very elvish. The bad news is that Qayrawun still owes him and the Seelie Court a favour.

Time Elementals: natives of the realms of time, able to impinge upon human experience for brief periods. As their name implies they have time-manipulating abilities which grow stronger the more of them are present. Recently they have not been very happy with the Monster Hunters.

Maharani Vasuki, the Ultimate Rakshasa, is now mistress of the empire of the late Wu-Jen Ssu-Chen, which is presumed by the Club to include ogre magi Mistress Millennium (a.k.a. Episuko the Outcast), the unnamed origami-mage (from the Case of the Awful Origami), and possibly the missing occult researcher Vlastimil Gabchik.

Galeili Worldsedge, the Nymph of Lammermuir: sylvan denizen of the overgrown and dangerous area of Lammermuir, which was modified by a powerful druid a decade ago. Galeili remains of quite good terms with some of the Club, especially the high-charisma males.

There. I hope that’s a comfort to you all to know who’s out there.

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