Associates

Gustav & Gretchen

Employment

• 2003-: Tantric sex slaves, Exham Priory.

Personal Notes

• Androgenous twins.
• Sexual submissives.
• They serve their Dominus as participants in tantric sex rituals, and are aware of the necessary occult procedures for 'reviving' him in the event of his death.

William McKenzie

Employment

• -1737: "A thief and a drunkard and a sinner from Leith".
• 1737: Died of the plague in Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh
• 1737: Brought back to life by Mister Raven to serve as a medium.
• 2003: Drug addict, Amsterdam.
• 2003: Medium, Exham Priory.

Personal Notes

• Has some sort of medium ability which includes speaking with the dead and seeing past events in distant places.
• Enjoys a "special medicine" that only Ravne can produce.
• Transported from Amsterdam to Exham Priory in a large crate.
• Wants to die & has been promised this when Ravne "finds what he's looking for".

Inspector Absolam

Employment

• A special branch of the Home Office.

Assets

• Absolam's "Lads": Several be-suited be-shaded men who are abnormally strong and verbally objectified by Absolam (when he refers to the time and money it costs to make them). One of them is called Trevor.

Personal Notes

• 1990-: Terminal cancer. He's being kept alive somehow and will be allowed to die when he's allowed to retire.
• Drinks liquid morphine from a hip flask to help with the pain.
• Part of his remit is to uphold The Accord, a "diplomatic treaty between the throne of England and the powers of Hell".
• Part of Article the Fifth of The Accord explains that "no denizen of ... hell shall trespass within ... London without consent".
• 2005: With the help of his lads, he has managed to subdue Jennifer Simmons (guilty of murders in Pimlico & Muswell Hill, referred to by Absolam as a "D-Case job").
• Has proposed an undefined deal with Jennifer Simmons.

Sir Alex Nestor

Employment

• 1934: Paranormal Investigator (working with the police)
• 1941: Joined Department Q (possibly as leader)
• 2003-: Enjoying retirement in Oxfordshire

Personal Notes

• 1934: Shot & killed (physically) Malcolm Critchley at Exham Priory.
• WWII: Ordered bombing of Peenemunde (estimate 1000s of prisoners killed) and (remotely) Coventry (1400 dead): both in combating the efforts of Sonderkommando Thule and their Operation Doppelganger.
• 1946: Interrogated Ravne (& other members of Sonderkommando Thule) at Nuremburg.
• 2003: Appears to have a female assistant with very pointy teeth.

Michael Magister

Employment

• WWII: Department Q
• 1952- : Imprisoned on 'Smallpox Island', Scotland.

Personal Notes

• Has psi-talents: telepathy (including forced mind-reading, which can prove fatal for the recipient) and pyrokinesis.
• 1952: Destroyed as many of the Department Q archives as he could, along with 3 of his colleagues (possibly including Farralay) and 2 platoons of royal marine commandos.
• 1952-: Prison is 100 feet below ground in a nuclear bunker, 30 miles off the coast of Scotland. He is kept constantly monitored with TK counters and surrounded by a 24-hour SAS guard who have orders to shoot him dead if he uses his powers above a given level.
• 2005: developed ability to communicate and channel occult energy through ley-lines (from his prison) without breaking the TK limit. He used this to influence The Children of Crom Cruach, but their plan was thwarted by Caballistics, Inc.

Emmanuel Konterman [deceased]

Employment

• WWII: Department Q [occasional]

Personal Notes

• Worked only occasionally with Sir Alex of Department Q.
• Dropped out of sight shortly after the end of the war.
• 1960, London: Some kind of spirit leaves his mummified body & enters Ethan Kostabi. It is unclear whether this is the spirit of Emmanuel Konterman, or something else that had previously resided within him (possibly Nyarlahotep).
• 2005, London: His mummified corpse is accidentally burnt to ashes.

Winston Bey [status unknown]

Employment

• WWII: Department Q

Personal Notes

• Can manifest a giant free-floating serpent to attack his enemies, or an illusion of said.

Cecilia Bird [deceased]

Employment

• WWII: Department Q

Personal Notes

• Psi-talents: medium, prophecy, divination, geomancy and the ability to summon The Kraken.
• WWII: Helped hunt The Bismarck and combat Sonderkommando Thule.
• Aunt of Miss Temple (murdered in 2003 by Jennifer Simmons).
• Conjecture: Miss Temple was Cecilia Bird.

Professor Augustus Farralay [status unknown]

Employment

• WWII: Department Q

Personal Notes

• 3 PHDs.
• Amateur boxing champion & close combat specialist.
• WWII: Attacked Michael Magister for killing a prisoner during an interrogation.
• Possibly killed in 1952 by Michael Magister.

Lord Randolph Rothchester [status unknown]

Employment

• WWI: Active in The Somme.
• WWII: Department Q

Assets

• Mask covering face.
• Flight helmet & goggles.
• Greatcoat.
• Two machine pistols.

Personal Notes

• "Lost most of his face and even more of his mind in some piece of occult beastliness in The Somme."
    - Michael Magister
• Circa WWII: taken to reckless acts of unnecessary bravery such as swinging through windows on a rope and charging headlong into battle.

Detective-Sergeant Jack 'Bulldog' Strummer [status unknown]

Employment

• 1920s: Black & Tans, Ireland.
• WWII: Department Q / Special Branch

Assets

• Truncheon
• Pistol
• Cut-throat razor

Personal Notes

• Brutal.
• Skilled in surveillance, interrogation and close combat.

George [status unknown]

Employment

• WWII: Department Q

Personal Notes

• Not much is known about the enigmatic George or Harriet. Why has George got a woman's haircut? Is that actually George, or is it the other way around? Perhaps it's Georgina & Harry.

Harriet [status unknown]

Employment

• WWII: Department Q

Personal Notes

• Not much is known about the enigmatic George or Harriet. Why has George got a woman's haircut? Is that actually George, or is it the other way around? Perhaps it's Georgina & Harry.