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Vivian

Feyhollow
11

Relieved it was all over, Vivian gratefully thanked her friends and their Pokemon, ensuring them she was fine even though she could feel the large bruise on her butt swelling as she talked. The time to rejoice was short lived though, Vivian knew the pokemon she found down in the pit was it bad shape.
"I wasn't the first to fall into that trap." she informs her friends who might not have seen the other Pokemon. Viv holds out the pokeball in her hand. "I gotta get this poor little thing to the poke'center as soon as possible!" her voice rung with a tense urgency. 
"Thanks! Come meet me later." she calls out with full sincerity as she turns and once again runs away disappearing into the shrubbery like only moments ago. Flabebe calls out to its trainer with a little squeak as it quickly follows her, struggling not to get left behind.

( Vivian dashes off to the Pokemon center.)

Vivian (HHG) +1
@Dusksong@LuckyBlackCat

Azerus Jr

Feyhollow
7

Azerus got all manner of odd looks as he very slowly dragged a 250lbs dazed Rhyhorn through the simple quiet streets of feyhollow. It was quite the site, the battered shabby looking teen with tattered clothes and twigs in his hair, hauling the massive grey Pokemon behind him while a little Roggenrola lead the way in front. 
But Azerus was way too tired to care or even imagine what these simpleton townsfolk may have thought.
Through out the journey he had stumbled and crashed multiple times, once even falling asleep until his Roggenrola woke him. His stomach groaned, his muscles  quivered, but he made it. 
He dropped the heavy Rhyhorn tail the moment he stood infront of the center. Stumbling inside he pointed out the injured Pokemon to the nurse then slid over his pokedex to pay for the much needed pokeball. 

The rest is beyond his recollection. He would awake a few hours later in a nice bed, greeted by a nurse informing him he had passed out.

(Azerus arrives at the Pokemon center with an injured Rhyhorn. Buys a pokeball before passing out.)

Azerus
-5 TP (new pokeball)
Caught a Rhyhorn
@balthazar007

Reincarnation

Jon Lytton

-the first, the founder, the father-


Info.
Full Name: Jon Astrolabe Lytton
Born: Petrus Astralabius
Nicknames/Alias/AKA: The first, the founder, father. 
Gender: Male

Age.
Apparent: 29
Actual: 899   
Born: 21/01/1117
Reborn: 30/10/1146

Appearance.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Hazel
Height/Build: 5'9" 

Bio:
Parents: Peter Abelard & Héloïse d'Argenteuil
In 1115, Peter Abelard "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century" a medieval French scholasticphilosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. Son of knight Berengar, moved in with a canon in Paris named Fulbert and his ward and niece young Héloïse d'Argenteuil who he tutored in exchange for the accommodation. Like Fulbert he himself became a canon. Despite all this an affair took place behind Fulberts back and beneath his roof, the results of the illicit affair was baby Petrus Astralabius, who would later be known as Jon Lytton.

Abelard had to move Héloïse away from Fulbert and sent her to his own sister in Brittany when she showed signs of pregnancy.
Ongoing situations eventually caused Abélard to place Héloïse for her own safety in the convent of Argenteuil where she became prioress. After some grisly affairs Abélard himself eventually became a monk in the Abbey of St Denis in Paris. Neither parent around to raise their young son.

It wouldn't be until his later teens that Jon would formally meet his parents and continue to on occasions for moral guidance. In the meantime and to their death, letters under secret aliases kept them connected.

Early years:
Jon Astrolabe Lytton was raised by the Guardians in which his family had close ties. He trained with his grandfather and travelled with his aunt. Growing up with the descendants they became his extended family, but they were something more. Crown Jewels of humanity carrying the greatest gift of God. Deserving of protection and preservation they were the ones with the ability to lead humanity to a new golden age. He was a good kid who studied and trained hard, always being at the ready to help the guardians change the world for the better. This was his purpose, this was his call.

From teen to war
At the age of 18 Jon became caught up in England's civil war later known as The Anarchy It was a messy lawless time. Jon did things and witnessed events that at the time he would rather forget. But   now such petty things no longer weighed on his soul. 
He never saw the war to the very end. He fought heart and soul with his life to support whatever cause the guardians saw fit to give him. Believing in the wisdom of the descendants reincarnation. 

After King Henries passing The guardians supported the deceased's nephew Stephen of Blois, for political reasons and their ties to Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester. 
Meanwhile the king's daughter Empress Matilda had ties to the covern and had her own interests in immortality. While history claims it a war of succession it was much more than that. 
A personal vendetta between two ancient organisations. Both side petitioned for the innocent to rally behind their false fronts, recruiting others to their will through means of coin or intimidation if required.
It was a bloody and horrible time, the weak and poor the first to suffer the travesties of war as both sides tried to limit the supplies of the other. Chroniclers described the period as one in which "Christ and his saints were asleep"

Love, death, betrayal and order.
1141 Jon first met Matilda as she was on the verge of being crowned queen, where he and the order forced her to retreat from London as a hostile crowd.
It was the following year 1142, Jon now 27 and a fierce grown man, did he start to question everything. He had read all the books of his father, specially those of morals and logic. He had been at war for 9 years and the chaos consumed his heart, worst of all, in Matilda's brief presence her words had poisoned his ear.

Jon was a romantic deep at heart just like his father but his continual rebuffed affection towards Swanhild de Deoraby drove him to a moment of madness. One war torn day, with blood already on his hands, he killed her. That singular action altering his fate immensely as it expunged him from the guardians and made him an enemy of his former family. 
The same year the war almost ended during the siege of Oxford, but just as the Empress was almost captured Jon aided her to escape from Oxford Castle across the frozen River Thames to safety. 

Jon believed all this drama and trouble was the results of the descendants immortality. The witches pursuit would never end and innocents would continue to die. It was then he decided they had to die. Secretly aligned with Empress Matilda (closer than he should be with a married woman) he used his connections with the churches and the rebel Barron's he had mustered and sought out a new faction to bring order amongst the chaos. Simply known as the 'Order'.

For the next few years the order secretly grew and integrated itself  more strongly into the church. The six were hunted as demons. Innocent people were burned as witches and chaos was the result, but the order had its mission. The battle for England no longer their concern they focused their attacks towards the guardians where ever they could. With Jon's knowledge of their workings he weakened and exploited their shortcomings. 

By early 1147 the order had gained enough influence to lead a holy crusade against the guardians. 
During it Jon and his order sidetracked for their own personal agenda. Jon lured out his old friend Alexandros into a trap and murdered him. Soon after he led skirmishes that killed many guardians. With the full support of the church and the holy roman empress Matilda behind him. Jon took his forces and broke into a guardian hideout where he was able to kidnap Xanthippe. He also almost had Korinna too but she was defiant and almost caused him to be apprehended, instead he assaulted her with an alchemical concoction, permanently blinding her, and escaped just as guardian reinforcements arrived.

On his own with a trusted few Xanthippe was the subject of much experimentation, bordering torture. Jon acted independently to his benefactors, keeping the results and experiments to himself. There his greed broke him, he was occasionally torn in his ways of treating her. Sometime being nurturing and apologetic as he tried to rationalise his actions, other times he was empty and hateful, committing himself to the path he had chosen and deliberately pushing himself beyond necessity to be cold and empty as he shrugged of compassion and empathy. Regardless of his mood, this was still his sister. There was no turning back. At times he hoped to find an easy answer to immortality and be free and able to let her on her way. But as days turned into weeks and those weeks into months, he knew he would never be the same again. In the end, enraged and spiteful, he delicately opened her chest and ate her still beating heart...

Born again he was now something more. Eager to share and test his findings they captured Korinna a few months later and she underwent a similar yet shorter ordeal to Xanthippe, this time his loyal follower Agnes bearing the gift of the supposedly stolen immortality. 

Now they were some of the very abominations to god that the order swore to rid. So they left and travelled to Ireland.

After death - grudges
The guardians begin to investigate ways to defend themselves.
The blast furnace for the smelting of cast iron is imported from China, appearing around Lapphyttan, Sweden, as early as 1150.

Betrayed, Empress Matilda refocuses her attention to the vampires and consults with the remaining England guardians.
* 1153: The Treaty of Wallingford (Treaty of Winchester, Treaty of Westminster), effectively ends the civil war between Empress Matilda and her cousin King Stephen of England fought over the English crown. Stephen acknowledges Matilda's son Henry of Anjou as his heir.
* 1154: On December 27, Henry II is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
* 1155: Pope Adrian IV grants overlordship of Ireland to Henry II of England in the bull Laudabiliter. He continues his mothers wrathful pursuit of the vampires.

* 1168: The vampires retaliate through King Valdemar I of Denmark who conquers Arkona on the Island of Rügen, the strongest pagan fortress and temple in northern Europe.

* 1169: On May 1, the Norman invasion of Ireland begins. Richard fitzGilbert de Clare ('Strongbow') makes an alliance with the exiled Irish chief, Dermot MacMurrough, to help him recover his kingdom of Leinster. The vampires the driving force behind it trying to push out Matilda's influence.

* 1170—The Christian notion of Purgatory is defined as described by Jon.

* 1171: On November 11, Henry II of England lands in Ireland to assert his claim as Lord of Ireland and continue his mothers search for Jon.
The vampires are forced to flea and eventually settled back down, but it didn't last long.

* 1189–1192: The Third Crusade is an attempt by European leaders to wrest the Holy Land from Saladin.

Tired of the crusading army.
* 1190: On June 10, Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowns (with assistance) in the River Salef, leaving the Crusader army under the command of the rivals Philip II of Franceand Richard I of England, which ultimately leads to the dissolution of the army.

The long chase
For the next 5 centuries the vampires play a giant game of cat and mouse all over the globe with all of the different factions, the order, the church, the guardians, the witches, whilst simultaneously hunting down the reincarnated descendants and growing their small circle death by death.

Separation  
The originals had since learnt how to make their own vampires and eventually split into 3 groups and spread throughout different parts of the world. Jon had taught them discretion and how to influence the world from the shadows. How to pass on their gift and to worry of the strength of united enemies. 

Jon and Agnes were in France where they had become a bit careless and indulgent. Not living to his own lessons. Eventually the French Revolution drove them from their large extravagant lifestyles of France, and they slipped into Britain where he capitalised on the early industrial revolution.

After that
After that the world quickly grew smaller. Borders became harder to cross, proof of identity a constant requirement, the 'order' through means of the church took a powerful role in the influence of future things and it made the world a very difficult place for immortals. 

The originals eventually further split and lived through their puppets. Each stealing as much influence as they could, building networks and infiltrating society through lawyers, politicians, businessmen, thugs & mobsters. Anything they could get their hands on. As for Jon, he disappeared completely, while the other covern were attacked, moved and rebuilt, nothing was ever heard of Jon. Until now.

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