Canticle of the End
In-Game September 16, 1814Sessions 18
Latest Session — July 2, 2026
The morning after their raucous first night in Alexandria, the party gathered for breakfast at the Locanda del Leone to the competing sounds of mosque calls, church bells, and the distant bray of camels. Freddy and Thomas were in a sorry state, nursing severe hangovers from the previous evening's lion's milk, and the landlady mercifully produced a bottle of Mrs. Gray Purse's hangover remedy to help them along. Over flatbread, white cheese, dates, and cold lamb, the group divided their plans for…
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The Team
Adrien de Montferrand
Viscount of Montferrand / Former Cavalry Officer / Naturalist
Hosts Palais Kinsky, Order of St. Aelfric member, Delivered killing blow to Nightgaunt, Led charge to Polizeidirektion, Trautmannsdorff extraction
Emma Wentworth
Gentlewoman (Tarryford, Wiltshire)
Theatre-obsessed, Brave in combat, Bit Nightgaunt's neck in Session 6, Subject of Graf Sternberg's pursuit, Phobia: children (from ciimba, Chapter 2), Phobia: theatre (from Drury Lane, Chapter 0.5)
Freddy Cavendish
Gentleman (Second Son)
Socially connected, Produced Masquerade invitations, Witnessed Nightgaunt attack, Fire doctrine (improvised torch), Order of St Aelfric member, Board of Control for India appointment
Georgiana Wentworth
Gentlewoman Researcher (Tarryford, Wiltshire)
Sharp-minded, Tactical combatant, Phobias of theatre and fish, Identified Nightgaunt from Revelations of Gla'aki
Katherine Ward
Spy / Order operative / Companion-Chaperone (cover)
Invisible by training, Reads rooms before entering them, Moral code — no innocents, no children, violence only in self-defence, Contained a Hound of Tindalos by disrupting angles, Professional restraint under pressure
Nathaniel Holt
Lieutenant, Royal Navy (assigned to La Speranza as ship's doctor — actually an officer, not a doctor)
Direct, Competent sailor, Unhurried under pressure, Keeps busy to avoid thinking, The man who knows ships
In Memoriam
NPCs in Play
Thomas Wyndham
British Army Officer (Light Dragoons)
Madame Rosa Vukovich
Widow; dealer in information, introductions, and discreet arrangements
Yusuf al Maghribi
Dragoman (interpreter-fixer-guide)
Aziza
Maid, Locanda del Leone
Capitano Niccolo Zanier
Master, merchant brig La Speranza
Mansour
Veteran (formerly Armée d'Orient, water-carrier)
Latest Locations
Latest Events
Nightgaunt Attack Palais Kinsky
Nightgaunt killed (Adrien delivers killing blow). Charlotte Thorne too severely wounded to continue — retires as Juel's PC. Mythos horror confirmed as physical reality for the entire party.
Assault Sealed Anatomical Theatre
Vienna ritual defeated; Harmonic Engine destroyed; Herzfeld captured; Caroline rescued
Forbidden Texts Study Aug 11
Counter-ritual possibility identified; both researchers suffered mental breaks
Wachter Ambush Heuriger Aug 11
Resolved — Session 13. Creature killed by Andrei, Nikolai, and Freddy. No coalition casualties.
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