Thread: Abandon All Hope.... (Casket and Victorian Virtue)

Little is known about the figure of Henry Ebeneezer Blachemere before his his ascension into the public eye at at the age of 26, in the year of our Lord 1901, but not from the lack of trying. Media of the time have done extensive research only to come up with variations of the same basic facts which have been repeated in countless news publications of the time. Although several have dug deeper into this mysterious figure's past, interviewing adolescent peers, neighbors and teachers many don't recollect him at all in any great detail. His parents are no more than middle class Viscounts, a father, Magistrate and 33 degree Freemason Philip Blachemere and mother, Viscountess Marian Blachemere were socialites and staples of their community of Hertfordshire. Researchers have contested the natural birth of their only son, Henry in 1875, saying 'no witnesses to Marian ever being pregnant nor delivering child could be produced', many believe he was adopted through private measures. Good and honest people by all accounts until their untimely death in 1887. The death was ruled suspicious by authorities because their carriage horse was spooked and they crashed and died, supposedly still on their own property. Their only male child, Henry inherited their estate and was a wealthy aristocrat-in-coming by the age of 15. He attended the prestigious Bishopsgate Institute for several years before his expulsion in 1897 for disciplinary issues. When asked for some elaboration, the headmaster refused as did many of the noted scholars that taught his classes. At the age of 26 though, his true notoriety was achieved in the form of several 'seminars' he gave to those whom could afford to pay the exorbitant amounts asked for admission to these exclusive conclaves. Not much is known about the happenings wherein but participants came away content with new knowledge about how life as a philosophy should be viewed. Soon after many of which, became industrial giants whom held the keys to economic freedom in the newer modern age. Papers clamored to interview these new powers that be but many were silent in when asked about their success. Only one dare mutter any comment insinuating Blachemere's tutelage, but his statement was damning. He said '...there is no god, there is only a man's will and how you impress yours upon the world...' that is the truth of this world, so say the ancient deities that came before. Was the statement that ran across every major publication's headlines the day it came out. Of course the church, still quite powerful politically would have nothing to do with it and ran a campaign to smear the young man's name and reputation. It wasn't long before they'd levied enough public discourse to get a warrant of search and seizure upon the Blachemere estate, fortunately he was not at home at the time.This of course only served to interest more of the up and coming young aristocrats whom had been raised in the moralistic oppressive times of Queen Victoria's era and they clamored for more of his rogue exploits. Abroad and doing studies in the Middle East he was absent for the public invasion of his home and only heard of it several weeks later. The papers all read about the debauchery that they'd found during their search, much of the contents was censored due to public standards. Upon reading of this, he publicly vowed never to return to a country so academically repressed as to excommunicate a truly 'forward thinking man'. Lord Blachemere took up residence in a former Cistercian foundation in Trino, Italy called Lucedio Abbey . He has since restarted his studies in occult esoterism. He is known to have a small staff of locals to attend the estate as well as atleast two women who claim him as their husband although no official marriage certificate exists in either Italy or England. This year though Blachemere claims to reached the culmination of his studies and wishes to put on one final seminar, after which he will put on no more. With an astronomical admission price of 1,000 pounds sterling a very few can afford it.