Canticle of the End
In-Game October 9, 1814Sessions 23
Latest Session — August 27, 2026
The morning after their arrival in Calcutta, the party attended Sunday services at St. John's Church, where the rigid social hierarchy of the city made itself immediately apparent. The congregation was seated strictly by rank, with Magistrate Charles Ashworth and the senior families occupying the front pews, while the party sat in the middle alongside their hosts, Hugh and Meg Cavendish. Outside, Havildar Pratap Singh waited with the carriages and other non-Christian servants, where he was…
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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, Mania: theatre, Mania: music, Phobia: children (from ciimba, Chapter 2)
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
Havildar Pratap Singh
Havildar (Sergeant), 67th Bengal Native Infantry
Excellent English, Impeccable military bearing, Patient beyond reason, Endlessly obliging, The man who carried their bags
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
In Memoriam
NPCs in Play
Charles Ashworth
District Magistrate, East India Company
Hawthorne Surlish
Free merchant, warehouse operator
Hugh Cavendish
Senior East India Company factor, opium division
Margaret Cavendish
Wife and household manager
Sophia Surlish
Wife
Alastair Glennie
EIC writer, shipping office
Anne Pelham
Memsahib; wife of the Sudder Dewani Adalat judge
Arabella Fitch
None — out with the fishing fleet, husband-hunting season
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Latest Events
Anglo Nepalese War
British victory at ruinous cost. Treaty of Sugauli — Nepal cedes Sikkim, Kumaon, Garhwal and the western Terai, accepts a Resident at Kathmandu, and the British begin recruiting Gurkhas into their own service.
Ashworth Dinner Garden Reach
Ashworth named Devendra Ghosh a personal friend and one of the finest men he knows, and invited Adrien to break the journey to Chandernagore at Ghosh's house in Baranagar. The cult's leader now sits behind the Magistrate's own credit. Surlish snubbed the host by proxy; Freddy planted the seed of Cartwright's defection; Emma saved Georgiana's gloves from becoming a scandal. The dinner was interrupted mid-service and has not yet reached its final course.
Renwick Located at Baranagar
Renwick is stationed eight miles north of Calcutta at Baranagar, overseeing an embankment project on the Hooghly. He is not yet posted to the Gurkha campaign, but the window before reassignment is narrow. The party registered that Renwick's post and the Mandir Mahakali temple are the same village.
St Johns Churchyard Hour
The party was catalogued by Calcutta society in a single hour and met most of the season's principal players. Freddy made first contact with Surlish and got a sneer, a warning to audit his own cousin, and confirmation that the merchant fears nothing. Sophia Surlish was silenced in public in front of witnesses. Pratap Singh was solicited for a Company position by a Pelham servant, refused him, swung at him and missed, then bought him.
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