Ichabod Crane

Despite the iconic literary character made famous by Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hallow, the real Ichabod Crane was a colonel serving in the US Army during the War of 1812. Irving met the colonel who was residing in New York in 1814 and it was from this fateful encounter that Irving first learned of the New England Gothic Society, and the deadly spectre responsible for the group's formation. 
== Facts: ==
-The real Ichabod Crane was, in fact, tall and comically skinny, but this was in large part due to his frequent discipline of fasting. Crane was a Reaper, and his mystical devotion to Death was particularly strong. Crane had served in the Sons of Liberty first as a scout and then moved his way up the ranks with his excellent performance in the field. 
-Part of Crane's success was his ability to summon local ghosts to him who he could interrogate for information on the terrain and enemy positions. 
-Unafraid of dying, Crane was a good soldier and competent fighter. However, his real passion was history and the study of old mysteries. At some point before or during the war, Crane visited Sleepy Hollow, posing as an itinerant school teacher in order to settle down and study the area. 
-Crane at first studied the particularly powerful Headless Hessian of Sleepy Hallow, but, being a Resurrectionist, he eventually decided to try and control it. Crane's attempt failed miserably and he was actually driven from the region by the Hessian rider. To this day, no one knows who the Hessian's real master is?
-For more info on Crane's attempt to control the Hessian, see the Legend of Sleepy Hallow. 
-Following his rapid exodus from far up the Hudson, Crane returned to New York where he disappears from history, being lost in the chaotic machinery of early New York politics.
Category:Death
Category:Sons Of Liberty
Category:Gothic
Category:Spirit