Lars Keswick

Lars Keswick was the former heir to the Keswick family fortune and a member of the Order of the Argent Pyramid. He was passed over as heir in favor of his younger brother, Howard Keswick. 
== Appearance ==
Lars Keswick was a tall, elegant looking man with sandy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes.
Keswick performed as a clown at the Sangrin West Circus in London while dressed in a pinstripe suit and wearing grease paint.
== Background ==
Lars Keswick was being groomed to become the heir to the vast Keswick shipping concern, but abandoned that life to pursue the secrets of the occult.
Keswick was very informed of the goings on in the occult world of 1890s London, with connections in both high society and the criminal underworld. 
=== Interregnum ===
Keswick approached Granville Moore and offered information about vampirism and the London occult community in exchange for assistance in acquiring the Henry Colfax book used by Freya Benton and Sir Alfred Spencer in the summoning of Kiera Jackson in Out of Time.
Keswick is suggested to have leveraged the power of the Mnemophage to absorb the memories of Sir Alfred Spencer.
=== Foundation ===
Howard Keswick visited his dying father and was told that the Keswick empire would be his, but only if he killed Lars Keswick. Howard is warned that Lars is no longer human.
Lars, in collaboration with his co-conspirators in Sol Invictus, planned to steal a priceless occult artifact from the British Museum: the rune-etched stones that would come to encircle the stones around the reflecting pool at the Braddock House. 
After his robbery is nearly interrupted, Lars made his escape by train, accompanied by a cult-like following that referred to him reverently as Brother Lars. He was pursued by Howard Keswick, Freya Benton, and Seamus Fenian, who ultimately cornered Lars in the engine of the train and discovered he had been subsumed by the Mnemophage, which seemed to climb out of his body. It used its powers to confuse its pursuers, but Seamus maintained enough focus to derail the train, causing the entity to flee without the stones.
After this incident, Lars Keswick was presumed dead, although Howard Keswick knew he lived on as Long-Legged Larry. Howard was later contacted by Tezcatlipoca, who offered a plan to harm the entity.
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