The Wolfman

**IN PROGRESS**

Current Source: http://monstaah.angelfire.com/children-of-the-night-timeline-intro.html

## **History**

Rex Rufus was a young Englishman, a member of the Third Hawkins expedition to the New World. . Sir John Hawkins would eventually become the architect of the Elizabethean navy, however in 1567, he was a slave trader and had a fleet which sold slaves to the Spanish colonists in the West Indies  and New Spain (New Mexico). One of his fleet captain's was Sir Francis Drake. The third expedition was not a successful one. Most of the ships were captured by the Spanish. Rex Rufus as a member of one of the ships was captured and sold as a bond servant to a plantation owner in Mexico. He escaped and made his way into the Mexican jungle where he was once again captured, this time by a group of Aztec Vampire women.

The Aztec Vampire women satiated their bloodlust on him and then took him to their master. Their Master focused his powers through magic dagger and transformed Rex Rufus into a were-wolf. The ceremonial dagger was to all outward appearances an obsidian knife used by Aztec Priests when they cut out the beating hearts of victims. It was however more than that, it was derived from a recent meteorite fall, the Blanco Verde meteorite of 1519. Now you may find it odd that the these vampire Aztecs transformed Rex Rufus into a were-wolf rather than a were-jaguar which was common in the mythology of the area. This was because the Aztec Vampire women's Master was in reality a soul clone of Dracula. A soul clone is a human body which has become a recepticle for the soul and mind of Dracula, the original personality has been destroyed, crushed to dormancy or incorporated into Dracula's memories.

The transformation of Rex Rufus was not without a hitch for unbeknownst to the Vampire Master or even to Rex Rufus himself, he carried a dormant strain of therioanthropy. There seem to be several methods in which one becomes infected with the thieroanthropy "curse". The most well known is of course to be bittened by such a creature during its animal state. The changes that occur then seem to be genetic since the trait can be passed on through the generations. Although since, most films aside, not everyone who is bitten becomes a Were it may be that the bit merely activates dormant genes. Another well known method is inheritance, a Were begins undergoing changes at puberty and it is usually revealed that this is an ancestral curse. One of the lesser known methods of a person becoming a Were is through a curse put on them by  powerful magics. This method is not as "natural" as the previous two and its manifestation can variate in terms of duration, abilities, liabilities and how pervasive the change to the victim's body the curse was.That is did it affect only the victim or generations to come.

Rex Rufus was a latent theriomorph through his descent from Bodvar Bjarki. Bjarki was a berserker featured in Hrolf Kraki's saga. The Berserkers were devotees of Odin, who some accounts attribute the ability to skin turn, change into an animal form. The two common forms were wolves or bears. Bjarki was a were-bear who turned into a bear at the height of battle. Bjarki descendants married into the family of Eric the Red. Rex Rufus was a direct descendent of the Eric the Red, although of a branch which had returned to the Norse domains, gone a-viking in Eirie and eventually ended up in England. Rex Rufus means King Red which was in honor of his famous ancestor.

It was the curse of  lycanthropy magically imposed over Rufus' latent were-bear traits that caused him to become a blend of both, a sort of humanoid looking wolf with bearish looking ears. Normally once therioanthropy becomes a family trait both parents must have the traits of one or more of the animals. In some rare cases, some theiroanthropes inherit double or triple traits and they can switch between the various forms, however they do not become a blend of the animals as Rex Rufus did. His descendants inherited this unique form of shape-changing.

Rex Rufus spent two years as a slave and demi-god to the Aztec Vampire Women. The Dracula clone came to regard him, possibly because of his European heritage, as something of  a companion. Seen as a deity, Rex Rufus was given his choice of comely women from the nearby villages. Many of these died as a result of his bestial lusts, at this stage in his career he suffered from a common Were problem, preventing sexual lust from changing into bloodlust. However a few of these women not only survived their encounters with Rex Rufus but bore his children. Rex Rufus and the Dracula clone were eventually "killed" by the Wizard named Cristaldi who stabbed them with the magic dagger. The dagger absorbed their essences. A descendent of Rufus' Eric the Hunchback, released the essences of Dracula soul clone and Rex Rufus from the magic dagger in 1971 (*Santo y Blue Demon vs. Drácula y el Hombre Lobo*).

Once Rex Rufus and the Dracula soul Clone were gone the Aztec Vampire Women had a falling out amongst themselves. A portion of them traveled north and took over an abandoned Aztec pyramid which had shifted down the side of a mountain during one of the many earthquakes that plagued the area.  They transformed the upper section into a bordello. The bordello was later transformed into a bar whose staff preyed on unwary travelers. The bar featured exotic dancers, the headliner of whom was Santanico Pandemonium. Sadly, she has apparently retired(*From Dusk Till Dawn* series).

The Aztec Vampire Women who remained in their original location transformed a Spanish nobleman into a vampire to serve as a figurehead, he took the name Baron Brakola(*El Baron Brakola*),

We can trace the path of two of Rex Rufus children by the handmaidens of the Aztec Vampire.  A male child named Jose by his Aztec-Spanish mother and a female named Maria. Both of the mothers married Spanish soldiers Maria's mother went  to Spain  with her husband. Jose's family stayed in Mexico. Jose grew up and eventually became a soldier, loyal to the king of Spain. He had two children, Pablo and Angelique.

Pablo's descendants gradually migrated northwards into the United States.

One of his descendants Pedro Rojas, was an unfortunate who suffered irreversible brain damage during birth, making him slightly slow and almost child-like. A life long inhabitant of Bonaport he was found work by charitable organizations as a handyman and gardner at several of the older  homes near the swamps of Bonaport.

Pedro became the handyman and gardener of Dr. Lorenzo Cameron in early 1942. Dr. Cameron was ostensibly working on a secret project which would help the allied cause, to this end he used his own funds and received some monies from Project M through the auspices of Dr. Peter Drury. Cameron was grateful for Drury's assistance and encouragement.

Dr. Lorenzo Cameron had been removed from his position of Professor and researcher from a prestigious college by a board of inquiry who found his theories outlandish and his research techniques suspect. He had been fired without receiving tenure or pension and his theories had been ridiculed in scientific journals.

His main theory as regards to the work that he did for the war department was that you could take the blood of animals, especially carnivores and transfuse them into a human being and thus create an efficient predator who would kill without conscience or qualm. His previous attempts in doing this had been unsuccessful, either his subjects had no effect, they had suffered some illness and in one case had died. That one was quickly dragged out into the swamp and buried. Dr. Peter Drury however encouraged Sullivan to continue his experiments certain that a man of Sullivan's intellect and skill would have a break through at any time

Lorenzo Cameron decided to use his slow witted handyman as his next test subject. Little did he know that he had chosen right but for the wrong reasons. He injected Pedro with the blood of a wolf. After so many failures, Lorenzo Cameron had finally achieved success, Pedro became a humanoid looking wolf. This was not due to any success on Lorenzo Cameron's part but rather because the combination of wolf's blood and moonlight triggered Pedro's latent lycanthropy.

To test the effectiveness of the bestial state, Lorenzo Cameron sent the wolf man out to hunt. Pedro killed some of the swamp dwellers. Having achieved success, should have informed the War Department if he was actually as driven to produce a weapon as he stated, however Lorenzo Cameron decided to use the wolf man to eke out revenge on the former colleagues that had blackballed him from academia.

After changing Pedro into his Wolfman form Lorenzo Cameron had him kill two of the former colleagues. This was done in a clumsy fashion that blazed a trail right to Cameron's doorstep. The continued injections of wolf's blood had instilled in Pedro a true lycanthropy so eventually he no longer needed the injections to change form and would do so when angered or from moonlight.

The normally kind and child-like Pedro found it hard to control his emotions during his human state, a thirst for violence and a strong lust for Sullivan's daughter disturbed him.

Although Cameron and Pedro would have been captured by a mob converging on the house anyway, a lightning bolt  started a fire in the mansion. Lorenzo Cameron and Pedro were caught in a fire and presumed to have perished.

Pablo's descendant, Carlos Riveria, (anglicized to Charles Rivers) married Molly Caine. Molly was the granddaughter of Joseph Cartwrigh. Their son Anthony Rivers, possibly because of his Rufus heritage had a higher than normal sexual drive which was repressed and so manifested itself in anger. An unscrupulous hypnotherapist triggered Anthony's bestial drive, unleashing the dormant beast. Anthony's tale was portrayed in the film*I Was A Teenage Werewolf(*1957)*.*Oddly enough a younger cousin of Anthony's, although without any trace of the theiroanthropic traits, was something of a predator herself. Erica Caine continues to this day to prey on the inhabitants of Pine Valley. Thinly veiled accounts of her life, spell her family name slightly differently.

Without the interference of his hypnotherapist, Anthony Rivers was able to eventually conquer his bloodlust and control his transformations. However the stigma attached to his name prevented him from having any sort of normal life or career so he moved to another town and took another name successfully hiding his dual nature until his son, Scott also began to manifest the wolfish traits. Scott Howard was able to control his rage and used his abilities to become something a high school athletic champion(*Teen Wolf*).

From among Angelique's descendants are the aforementioned Eric, whose forebears were mostly Spanish peasants although in the mid 1700's a pair fo brothers by the name of Talbot came to New Spain. These Talbots were descendants of John Talbot, the Earl of Shrewsbury. They were the second and third sons of the Talbot in Llanwelley, Wales. They thought that they could make a goodly fortune by trading with the citizens of New Spain. They soon discovered that the Spanish Crown had pretty much a lock on trade in New Spain through high tariffs, costly licenses and discouraged trade with foreigners, especially Godless Englishmen.

The Talbot brothers were about to depart for an empty-handed return to Wales when they were informed of a an abandoned silver mine that still had enough wealth to meet their requirements. This silver mine was near the outskirts of an abandoned Aztec city overgrown with jungle. The Talbots found the silver mine and they also found a small community of Nuns. A couple of the serving girls were quite friendly with the Talbot brothers. Right before they were to return to Wales the youngest brother disappeared. The second Talbot brother searched for his brother but to no avail. The single Talbot brother returned to Wales  with both shares of silver and a new bride, Lupe. Lupe was a descendant of Rex Rufus. Upon his return to Wales, Robert Talbot discovered that his eldest brother had broken his neck while horse riding and that he was the heir to the Lordship of Talbot Castle.

The youngest Talbot brother who had disappeared had been in fact hidden from his brother by the Nuns, who were in fact, the Aztec Vampire Women. They held him captive, ready to sacrifice him when the time was right. He escaped and was chased down by two of Rex Rufus' descendants. One of them inadvertantly bit the younger brother, infecting him with the strange form of lyncanthropy that many of Rufus' descendants possessed. Their ultimate plans stymied by misfortune, the Aztec Women nourished themselves on most of his blood and then mummified him, creating an Aztec Mummy with Wolfman tendencies.

Robert Talbot's child Martin, unknowningly carried a dormant form of the Rufus wolfman lycanthropy in his genes. This was passed onto his children Martin and Mary. Martin was the ancestor of the unfortunate Talbot men whose wolfman tendencies were brought to the fore:  Lawrence Milo Talbot whose dormant tendencies were activated by a curse from Bela Blasko , Dracula's "son", John Talbot Jr. whose lycanthropy was activated by means as yet unknown, and the tragic Lawrence Stewart Talbot. Robert Talbot's daughter Mary married Wallace Glendon, through her the Rufus Wolfman traits were passed on down. They manifested themselves in Wilfred Glendon, a great-grandson and in Henry Lane aka Jekyll(albeit as influences such as fur in his Hyde form). Glendon's traits were manifested when he was bit by a distant relative, Dr. Yogami while in Tibet. Yogami was looking for a rare flower which could be used to control his transformations. Glendon acquired the flower but was unable to use it(*Werewolf of London, 1935*).

Yogami was the descendant of Andres Rojas, sometimes called the Wanderer. Andres Rojas was the ironically named son of Maria Rufus ( the daughter of Rex Rufus and an Aztec maiden) and the Spanish soldier who took her back to Spain with her. The soldier married Maria giving her his last name of Rameriz. He went on another expedition to New Spain and never returned, his ship sunk by English Pirates. Maria's son Andres was nicknamed Rojas because he had been born with a startling shock of red hair. Eventually the hair darkened to brown but the nickname stuck. When his mother took up with another man, Andres ran away, becoming a sailor. He knocked about the Spanish main for several decades, working as a sailor and pirate. He had to quite that profession because  Andres Rojas for some inexplicable reason, related to his heritage, stopped aging at about the age of 35. He also was able to survive wounds that would have killed a normal man. The traits of the beast ran strong in Andres, he had a quick violent temper and a strong sexual drive yet this was tempered by a devout Catholicism and a strong moral conscience.

In about 1755, Andreas Rojas had returned to Spain, planning on looking up what family he could find. He became involved in a bordello fight which ended with him being shot in the head and dumped outside of town. When he awoke he was suffering from amnesia and some brain damage. Although his brain would eventually recover from his injury in 1761 he was little more than a simpleton, drawn for some inexplicable reason towards Santa Vera. Reduced to begging, he stopped at a tavern in Santa Vera and was told jokingly to go ask the Marques at his wedding feast for some food.

The Marques may have unconsciously recognized something of Andreas' nature because as jest he made him act like a dog for his supper. Andres became intoxicated and danced at the Marques direction. Andres sold himself to the Marques. When the Marques tired of his antics, he was going to have Andres killed but the kind hearted Marquessa intervened and Andres was imprisoned and forgotten about by the Marques. Andres' only contact with the outside world was with the Marquis jailer and his young daughter. The jailer and his daughter were Andres great nephew and great-great niece, although none of them were aware of the fact. Andres' brain healed from its serious injury but the isolation affected his mind. His wolfish traits manifested as extreme hirusteness, thick matted hair grew on his head, chest and arm. Because of of malnutrition his hair also grew gray, this helped hide the fact that he was not really aging.

In twenty years time, the Marquesa had died, the Marques had become mad and syphilitic and the jailer's daughter had grown into an extremely buxom and beautiful, if mute young woman. The Marques attempted to rape her but she bit his hand. As a punishment the Marques had her tossed into the same cell as Andres. Despite his affection for this young woman, Andres could not control his bestial nature. Although she fought him off, he raped her. At the end he appeared dead but in reality his overwhelming remorse had put him into a state of catatonia. The serving girl was let out of the cell with the dead man and taken to the Marques who believed she was properly softened. She promptly stabbed him to death in vengeance of her ordeal.

She escaped from the Marques' mansion, traveling through the woods for months. She was eventually found half drowned by Don Alfredo Corledo. The jailer's daughter gave birth on Christmas day to a son. She died from complications of the birth and the boy was raised by Don Alfredo as a son named Leon. Because he had two parents who had the Rufian traits, Leon's abilities manifested at an early age. Usually the weir traits come upon an individual at puberty, the changes being triggered by hormones as well certain forms of lunar radiation. Leon, like his father had a very early puberty and began manifesting the change at about the age of eight. He eventually came to control his transformations and kept his sexuality in check. However when he left home to work in a winery, drink and loose women made him lose control. Eventually he had to be put down with a silver bulllet(*Curse of the Werewolf,* Hammer Horror Films, 1971).

Andres Rojas was dragged out of the jail cell and dumped amidst the castle garbage. He wandered the hills of  a mindless near animal for years. He was found and brought back to sanity by the efforts of a devoted hermit cleric. Andres Rojas  was "cured" of his extreme passions, he wandered back to civilization only to discover that Spain had been invaded and conquered by the French. He became involved in the Peninsular(1808-1814) War, fighting against the French invaders. When the French were driven out of  by the allied forces of Spain, Neutralia(Portugal), England and the Netherlands, Andres Rojas traveled with the English interested in seeing the tyrant Napoleon get his come uppence. He was at Waterloo and saw Napoleon's great defeat. He had been attached a Prussian regiment and stayed on becoming part of the Prussian Militia which was stationed in the former nation of Arstotzka. His unaging nature caught attention again and he had to move on. Living as a traveling laborer in the Prussian and Russian controlled areas of Arstotzka, he grew to see how oppressed the Arstotzkan people were. His action of saving a woman from being beaten and being beaten himself brought him to the attention of the widowed Countess Wolfstein (Her husband had had the good sense to get himself killed in a duel), The Countess was an Arstotzkan noblewoman forced into an arranged marriage with a Prussian nobleman. She nursed Andreas back to health and they became lovers. Her passion for a free Arstotzka inspired Andres Rojas to take part in the disastrous Revolution of 1830. He was captured by Russian soldiers and deported to Siberia.

Countess Wolfstein gave birth to a son, whom she named Andrzej, although later accounts shorten the name to Inre Wolfstein. Inre would later exhibit the wolfish humanoid traits of the Rufus taint. His descendant Waldemar Daninsky also exhibited these same traits. The Daninsky family  also has a history of werewolves but from a different source(*El Hombre Lobo*).

Andres eventually escaped from Siberia and made his way to Japan. He left Japan in the mid 1850's when his unaging status became noticeable. He was fortunately ended up in a secluded place and did not cause much attention, beyond being Caucasian, until it was noticed that he did not age while his wife did. He managed to convince an American crew that he was a stranded sailor. His descendant from the Japanese stay was Dr. Yogami.

Andres Rojas wandered through the Americas and finally ended up in England circa 1918. He ran afoul of a soul clone of Dracula named Armand Tesla. Tesla managed to bring Andres latent were-wolf nature into full bloom and made him a virtual slave. When Tesla was staked by Lady Jane Ainsley, Andreas was taken in by Lady Ainsley and became a medical researcher. When Tesla was revived in 1944, Andres fell under his domination again. However in the end, Andres sacrificed his life to destroy Tesla and to save London from Tesla's reign of terror. Even Andres great stamina and longevity could not withstand the battle against Dracula's supreme will. Dracula's energy sapped the very life out of Andrea's as the sun drained the life from Dracula's clone(*Return of the Vampire*).

## **Timeline**

**1770-** Birth of Sir Martin Talbot, Lord of Talbot Castle in Llanwely, Wales.

**1779-** Birth of Peter Talbot, younger brother of Sir Martin.

**1810-** Birth of the gypsy woman, Melava Blasko

**1834-**Birth of Lawrence Milo Talbot to Sir Martin and Elizabeth Talbot.

**1837-**Llanwelly, England. Upon the death of Sir Martin Talbot, his son Lawrence Milo Talbot is raised by his Uncle Peter. This year also marks the death of Elizabeth Talbot.

**1867-**Llanwelly, Wales. Lawrence Milo Talbot and his friend Albert La Forge Graduate "Summa Cum Laude" from the University of Paris. Lawrence Milo returns to Llanwely and opens a medical practice, but finds many of the villagers put more faith in superstition. One of the causes of the villagers fear is a gypsy named Vorcla, (who is really Dracula-Lugosi’s son, Bela who plans on founding a town of werewolves by isolating Llanwely from the rest of England by terrorizing the town and nearby environs. Talbot exposes Vorcla’s plans. Vorcla (Bela) curses Talbot with lycanthropy. When Talbot and his fiancée, Ann (also called Lyana) and his friend Albert believe they have killed Vorcla, they reason that the curse is over. Lawrence and Ann soon marry. Bela flees Llanwely in haste, leaving the Wolf's Head scepter behind. (Information derived mostly from "The Wolfman" file. Not to be confused with reports of the same title.)

Bela Blasco, is born to Dracula-Lugosi, and Melava. Dracula’s plans are to make Bela, the leader of a pack of werewolves. When Bela reaches a certain age, he is given the Wolf's head scepter. The rod is made of ordinary wood, but the head of the wolf is made of a mixture of Silver, melded with bits of the star stone. This scepter, is believed to give one control of lycanthropes, even at their most beast like state.

**1868-**Transylvania. Bela returns to Castle Dracula in defeat and reports his Failure to his father. Dracula-Lugosi is so enraged that he thrashes both Bela and Maleva. Bela tries to defend his mother and attacks Dracula. For this defiance Dracula curses Bela with uncontrollable lycanthropy. Bela is now one of those hapless souls that it had once been his birthright to rule. Maleva flees with her son and they rejoin the Gypsy tribe that Dracula had taken her from. Dracula-Lejos seems to take the attitude of good riddance.

**1878-**Birth of Sir John Talbot to Lawrence Milo and Anne Talbot. Soon after his son's birth, Lawrence Milo Talbot’s lycanthropy returns. Unlike his namesake Grandson, who will be afflicted with the same curse, Talbot does not try to end his life. To protect his loved ones he hunts Vorcla (Bela) having heard he was still alive. When Talbot finds that Vorcla (Bela) was the son of Dracula he hunts the Lord of the Vampires as well. Talbot battles Dracula at some point, the details of which are unknown. It is confirmed however that Talbot traveled to the United States to seek a cure from his curse from a tribe of native Americans who were rumored to be Lycanthropes.

There was a Larry Talbot who was seen in very interesting company during a particular Lonesome October in England  but I have been unable to confirm at this point whether or not this Talbot was Lawrence Milo.