1811 Incident

The '1811 Incident' refers to the moment, in Bethlem Hospital in 1811, where Agent Sarah Cunnington and Mary Bowman came into physical contact, resulting in a massive surge of Paradox.
Agent Cunnington was undercover in the hospital with the objective of locating Mary Bowman and finding out what information she had to the phrase "the crimson emerald", and to the Reclaimers; both had been inferred by Donald MacKenzie as being linked to Bowman.
For reasons as yet unknown, the moment that Agent Cunnington touched Mary's hand with her own, a huge force presented itself, hurling Agent Cunnington backwards and causing drastic changes to Mary: the patient's right hand underwent a gruesome transformation and became imbued with the power to melt solid metal into fine black powder almost instantaneously. 
The incident also caused a quantum infraction, changing history and effectively sentencing Sarah to death. Ironically, the incident may have been caused by Sarah being there twice as a result of Jonas Gessner's experiments on her, which were designed to uncover the cause of the incident in the first place. ("Geneva")
The incident was reported as having a Paradox Infraction rating of 79.371.
Category:Major Events