Hugo Hawkins

### Relatives

Alys Hawkins (wife), Millicent Hawkins (daughter), Jean-Luc Dufort (son-in-law), Matthias Abel (father-in-law)

### Affiliation

St. Franz's College, (previously Illuminated)

## The Silver Fox

*“There is no religion higher then truth, but bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.”*

-Hugo Hawkins

## History

I’m a washed up “Old” professor with a secret. No one except my old team, the Provost, and my dead wife, knew who I was, and I intend to keep it that way.  I'm done with my old life; that's why I'm teaching now, I left it behind. I am serving my pact and protecting my daughter who is now 26. I am still able to fight, however, and if need be I will go to any cost to protect my students, my family, and my College, especially from this new threat.

Before working at St. Franz's College, I was a in covert ops special forces unit under a different name. I worked for the government as an Eldritch Sniper. My codename was, “Silver  Fox” because my hair grayed at an early age.

## Personality

I am aloof and spend much of my time with my face buried in a good book. I am kind and open to all of my students; they know where to find me. No one should be barred from pursuits of the mind. Knowledge should be made available to anyone who wants it. I will go to any and all costs to protect my students and the good reputation of my college and family. I have a habit (which I'm insistent is not an addiction) of drinking.

## War of the Philosopher-Kings

Under this alias I did dangerous secret missions for the Illuminated with my team.

## After the War

But now, I work as an Instructor of Magic Arts at St. Franz’s University with a special focus on the Spellweave and the History of Magic. But before that I married the love of my life, Alys. We had a wonderful daughter together. My wife was a sorceress and because both her parents had arcane magic in their veins, Millie was born with innate magical powers. We hid her powers from the world, but Alys didn't want our daughter’s magic to be suppressed so she trained her until Millie was about 6. But there was an accident, like there always seems to be with magic. Since arcane magic was outlawed in those days (and still is), and my wife insisted on training Millie, she used her magical powers often and had already raised suspicion. Millie didn't know how to control her powers, and Alys took the fall for her. Shortly after she was outed as a “witch” and killed in a lynch mob in Forester's Town. Shortly after there was an official government investigation which was quickly shut down by the Provost, Arthur Renwick. After that I became a Senior Resident at the College and raised my daughter in the tumultuous solitude of university life. When she was of age she officially became a “student” and registered in the college, but never went to class. She stays shut-up in our home on campus studying her mother's notes about magic and witchcraft, or wanders through the nearby woods. But some people in the college are still suspicious of Millie which makes it hard for her to practice, and therefore control, her *Magic*. But I must do what I can to protect her while also fostering a healthy controlled relationship with her magic.

## Return from the Dead

After he died, Hugo Hawkins’ soul entered the astral plane at around the same time as Gwendolyn Emerson’s, who died in the same battle within the same minute. The two will appear in a river, and a silent boatman will ferry them to the other side. He will see assembled spirits, starting with the faces of the newly dead: Emily Rawlings and Arlon Candor sneering contemptuously, Elouise and Bastian Sauvage scowling fiercely, Walter Pembroke and Ralph Kruckel looking upon him with pride, the Crow inscruitible behind her mask, Ian Garland looking shocked and dismayed, and Anthony Montgomery seeming to polish a glass.

He will see older souls. He will see the spirits of the executed Illuminated: Tan Blackhand, Grundelthum Sunder, Voidwatcher, and other mages who died in battle, staring at him with cold, judgemental eyes. He will see his wife, smiling sadly.

The boatman will take him and Gwendolyn Emerson to “the place where Arendurians go,” to the threshold of a great gate. Emerson, faced will regret, will decide not to repent her life, and will explain herself when she tells Hugo her last words:

“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair... death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...”

The two will face the King in Yellow, who will envelop Emerson in his tatters.

Her soul will dissipate into luminescent dust. The King will turn to Hugo next, but stay his hand upon the arrival of Tsathoggua, who calls him Hastur, and states that Hugo “is not his.”

He will devour Hugo but not digest him, and carry his soul back to the Caverns of N’kai. He will allow Hugo’s spirit to stay a while, and observe the world through Millie’s eyes. When looking at New Arendur, he will see the King in Yellow:

The Formless Spawn will allow Arthur Renwick’s spirit to visit. Arthur will tell Hugo that, among other things, he lied to everyone about the covenant with the King in Yellow, and about how the Dreamlands worked. He will express particular regret that he lied to Tilani. Renwick’s spirit will wake Tsathoggua up and sternly tell the god that Hugo’s work in the world is not done. Tsathoggua will sleepily reply that Hugo’s work will be carried out by his daughter.

After Millie dies, Tsathoggua will have fallen asleep, and the Formless Spawn will grow tired of keeping Hugo around and threaten to feed him to Tsathoggua when he next wakes up. When Sertrous appears in the ruins of Valusia, however, Tsathoggua will wake up and grow concerned, and ask Hugo whether he wishes to return to the world. If Hugo agrees, Tsathoggua will allow him to rise as a Revenant and finish his daughter’s mission. Tsathoggua will tell him about each god’s “Reve,” and his own part in it. In the waking world, Hugo will stand up from one of the pools of slime. The Voormis will attend to him, bringing him clothes and guiding him through the Caverns of N’kai to the Northern Administrative Zone Outpost. Hugo will walk through cold and lightless passages where no living creature could survive, to which the Voormis can only show him the way.

## The Third Northern Expedition

Hugo Hawkins allows Mark Patenaude to claim the Northern Throne. His quest finished, he turns to dust and his soul returns to Tsathoggua.