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Harriet Pierce

**Harriett Pierce** had a degree in biology and taught undergraduate students in pre-med. She herself had taught a person named Michael Corrin]], who was willing to help her in the middle of the night in curing Seichan. He attended medical school due to her recommendation.

### Personality

She is a kind and understanding woman who is smart. She cared for her husband’s condition as he suffered from Alzheimer’s.

### The Judas Strain

In the Judas Strain, she was enjoying her time on July 4 when Seichan tried to take refuge. As a result, they had to flee the house in an attempt to avoid the Guild. They fled and went to a dentistry wing where she had to call her friend Michael Corrin to patch them up. They fled a few times, before being caught in a motel by Annishen. They were taken captive. They were shuffled around. AT a hotel, she tried to withhold her husband’s medication so that he would act out and someone would notice. She was taken to Cambodia, specifically the Angkora Wat complex, to ensure compliance by her son Grayson Pierce with the demands of the Guild.

She was held somewhere by annishen but she and Jack set themselves free. They fled into the warehouse with guns, running away from people with dogs. They went to the roof.
Pusat

**Pusat** is an island in Indonesia. It was feared by the locals, who avoided it when they are on their boats. Supposedly, the Balinese witch queen Rangda was born out of this navel, and the demons of hers still protect the birthplace, beasts who rose out of the deep to drag the unsuspecting down to her watery underworld,
The island was really an old volcanic cone with a large lagoon at the center. Jagged walls circled all around and up the crown of the island. The cliffs were steep, lush with jungles, threaded with silver waterfalls, and lined by sandy beaches. The wide lagoon was litterd with palm-thatched buildings and cardboard homes. Scores of wooden docks and stone jetties prickled from the small town. This was a home for pirates.

Gray made an escape to the island, with Susan Tunis and Ryder Blunt. They secured support from multiple cannibals, who joined forced with them to get onto the ship. Later, Grey, Lisa, and the Ryder escape. Susan stayed behind and was sued as bait by Rakao, who died in the encounter. Ryder’s plane escaped with Gray disappearing in the waters.
Cassandra Sanchez

**Cassandra Sanchez** served as a member of Darpa and later a member of the Guild.

## Biography

When she was 11, her father…sneaking into her bed at night, starting when she was eleven, high on crack, promising, threatening. On her 17th birthday, her father was found in dead. She had used potassium to kill him, hurts the heart. No one would suspect 1 extra needle puncture in an arm full of them.

She was a champion sprinter in high school and college. When she was 18, she joined the army, and she became better and improved when she joined the Army Rangers, the first woman to do so. She joined and hardened, treating it much like a sport. Then the offer, to enter a Special Forces marksman program. It was an honor, but not everyone thought of it that way. At Fort Bragg, an enlisted man pushed her into an alley, intending to correct her. He held her down, ripped open her shirt. “Who’s your daddy now, bitch?” A mistake. Both the man’s legs were broken. They were never able to repair his genitalia. She was allowed to leave the service as long as she kept her mouth shut.

## Sandstorm

She was assigned to Painter Crowe to find Zhang. However, she didn't do what was she supposed to do so. That is, plant the bug in their quarry. She was arrested.

Cassandra 2 days later was broken out of the police van.

She was later spying at the Kensington Estate in Oman when she notices another assassin. She moved to pursue.

She lead a team of ex-mercenaries to attack the Shabab Oman to kindpa Safia. They attacked at night and destroyed the vessel, kidnapping her.

Smart, she realized she need security to ensure compliance, thus she implanted a microtransmitter, something designed by Painter Crowe that would explode if a trigger was pushed.

Safia lead her to places, and out to the desert. Soon, she finds Ubar and launches an assault. This causes the city and the surrounding antimatter to destabilize. Unfortunately, Cassandra did not have much luck.
She died in the city of Ubar after falling into a pool of antimatter. At the moment of her death, she regret and told Painter that she wished he saved her at Foxwood.

## Personality

Cold, practical, and smart, Cassandra proved to be a worthy fighter in the military. Time in the military proved her to be a fiercesome person as assertive and independent. She was never afraid to stand up for herself. Never one to stay lazy, Cassandra learned multiple arts of marital arts, going up to black-belt in all of them.
Fresh out of the military, she joined the DARPA, further to hone her skills. There, Cassandra proved herself an egnamtic figure as loyal cause to find the ends to mystery and fortune.
Hormuz

Hormuz is a location in *The Judas Strain*.
It is the location of where Marco Polo and Kokejin were buried. It was a major trading port, trafficking in jewels, spices, and slaves. Important enough that the Portuguese invaded during the sixteenth century and built their castle. But during Marco’s time, it was also important enough for Kublai Khan to send a young woman of his household here to be married off.

During this time, the king had died and Kokejin was married off to the man's son, but he died as well. Kokejin probably killed him as a result of her love for Marco Polo.

## Geography

Its center was rocky and hilly, with sparse veins of green. Most of its coastlines were cliffs and isolated jagged bays, home to many smugglers’ coves. But to the north, the higher slopes fell more gently toward the sea. Here, the land turned greener with date palms and tilled fields, nestling a small township of thatched huts.

The island had a residential population and a long abandoned castle. The island was considered a nice place to stay for a short bit.

The castle had a chapel. The chapel had a lot of crosses.
Episode 2

**Episode 2** was the second episode of *See*, although it debuted on the same night as epsidoes 1 and 3.

## Synopsis

The Alkenny tribe settle into their new village. Maghra discovers what she thinks are books. Queen Kane ruthlessly consolidates her power in Payan,

## Plot

As the Alkenny settle into their new village, Baba Voss encounters Jerlamarel during a dangerous fight with a bear in the woods. Jerlamarel gives Baba Voss a key to a box and tells him to open it when the children, Kofun and Haniwa, are 12-years-old. Baba Voss, Maghra, and Paris open the box to find a carved wooden boat and many books. Paris has heard legends that books hold the knowledge of the ancient ones, but she believed that all had been burnt.

Maghra confirms that her children have sight and works to keep their ability hidden from the rest of the tribe. Still vying for revenge, Gether Bax places a message in a water bottle and sends it downstream each day in the hopes that Tamacti Jun’s army will discover it.

In Payan, Queen Kane kills Lord Sak and other courtiers after learning that they lied to her. When Kofun and Haniwa turn 12, Maghra decides to keep the books buried—but Paris gives them to the children anyway and tells them about their birth father. In a letter to his children, Jerlamarel explains that they are chosen and meant to help him rebuild the world. He will be waiting for them when they are strong enough to leave the village. Baba Voss finds out that Paris defied Maghra but agrees to a silent pact. Kofun and Haniwa read and learn as they grow older. Far downstream, a child discovers Gether Bax’s water bottle message and takes it to his mother.

## Interesting details

* Gether Bax' method of sending messages downstream in bottles furthers his desire to seek revenge against Paris and Baba Voss. It potentially gives the Witchfinders a path to discover the otherwise hidden New Alkenny. Still, it's an extremely slow method of delivery; Gether's message is found 17 years after the main events of this episode.
* The Holy Festival is a ritual even held every ten years.
* The Court of the Holy Cascade is the ruling council of Payan, but are under Queen Kane.
* PAris reveals the twins' true parentage to them. Baba Voss also finds out, but the children's mother, Maghra, is kept in the dark.
John Kane

**John Kane** was a mercenary.

He served as part of the Guild lead by Cassandra Sanchez in order to retrieve the best technology.

During the trip to Ubar, Kane was able to fight and perform well. However, in one moment, he was attacked by a cougar and greatly injured. H e was rescued and helped to recover at Thumrait Air Base, where he received a splint and heals from scratches on his face, neck, and body.

As he slowly recovered, he still was able to knock down Painter Crowe, although he was not able to over come him. Painter hijacked a truck he was in, although, pushed gun out of hand. Painter drove the drunk into a sinkhole, where he died in the subsequent explosion.
Safia al-Maaz

**Safia Al-Maaz** is an archeologist with the British Museum.

## Biography

She was born to Al-Maaz, although it was Almaaz, a member of the Rahim. When Safia was four years old, Al-Maaz died and she was placed in an orphanage. She was later found by Reginald Kensington and adopted to be a sister to Kara Kensington, although the two did not know it at a time.

She graduated very early and got her degree from Oxford University at age 22 and worked with Kara Kensington. She was a curator for the British Museum when an explosion destroyed the Kensington Gallery. This lead to an expedition to Ubar and finally learned of the truth of her heritage. It turns out Reginald Kensington is the father of the pair, making Kara and Safia half-sisters.

## Personality

Smart and highly adept, Safia is highly efficient and loves knowledge. Passion flows through her in her expression as a curator in the British Museum. A highly thin person, she learned a lot and was optimistic about everything.

## Traits

Due to her heritage, she was half-English, half Rahim. This allowed h er to inherit the buckyballs from the blood of Al-Maaz, her mother. This enabled hybrid vigor to take hold and allow numerous buckyballs to be formed in her blood, about 10x the amount of the average Rahim.

## Family

* Reginald Kensington is her father
* Kara Kensington is her half-sister
Bauxite

Bauxite was a material found in Avignon. It is an aluminum hydroxide ore, a thermal conductor. It was useful for a fireplace.

It was seen in *Map of Bones* when Kat Bryant and Vigor Verona traveled to Avignon to search for clues of the Magi.
Bauxite was mined in the region of Avignon and was named after the Lords of Baux, who claimed to be descended from a magi Balthazar.
Benjamin Miller

*Benjamin Miller* is an expert on infectious diseases.

## Bio

Benjamin Miller attended and earned a degree from Oxford University.
He had thick auburn h air and green eyes. His height was barely over five feet and appeared shorter due to his roll of his shoulders and hunched posture, possible earned from decades of having crouched over a microscope.

He was taken prisoner when the Guild raided The Mistress of the Seas. He did work. When Monk and Lisa tried to escape, he went to the lower dock with them but decided to stay behind to work and care for the patients.
Khamisi Taylor

**Khamisi Taylor** is the game warden of the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Preserve, He had to follow protocol.

## *Black Order*

He took Doctor Marcia Fairfield into the game preserve for anti poaching. At 28 now, he worked as a warden here. He was working very efficiently and very seriously.

## Bio

He is a Zulu. He was nicknamed “Fat Boy” because he took a man's job, living fat off of others.
He had been taken by his father to Australia to live in Darwin in Australia. He was friends with Marcia Fairfield.
Agreer

Friar **Agreer** is a priest.

## Bio

At a young age, he had joined the Vatican.

## Career

He was sent out to join the trip by the Polo Family. He was one of three priests who was sent to accompany them to China.

On a return trip home, he accompanied Marco Polo on a trip to find a lost city in the jungles of Cambodia. Agreer never made it back. He and Marco made a dark pact to stay in the city, sacrificing his own life. With this, he left his necklace cross with Marco. Prologue

## The Judas Strain

He was mentioned when Seichan and Grayson Pierce find his cross in an obelisk when Gray smashed it. It was his silver cross. He had stayed behind in places.

## Last Testament

This was record in a slab in Banyon underground. It srad

Lin the year of the incarnation of the Son of God 1296, I set to stone this final prayer. The curse was set upon me when I first arrived and caused me great suffering, but I arose like Lazarus from a deadly slumber. I do not understand what bedeveilment has befallen me, but I was preserved, marked in some strange manne,r feverihs bright of skin. For such succor, I ministered to those few who survived the great pestilience. But now a strange compunction has come over me. The water sbelow already being to boil with the fires from Hell. I know its to my death that I am drive. With great effort I di dconvince and oversee the construction of this seal. And I go with only one prayyver on my ips. More than my own soul's salvation, I pray this door to be forever sealed with the Lord's Cross. Let nly one strong in the spriit of the Lord dare open it.
Black Order/Chapter 10

Chapter 9 Saboteur
12:32 P.M.

They want to know the signal origin.
It came from a region that included the Helipad. They had to tell Klaus to close it off.

They arrive somewhere close and Painter uses his satellite to realize Klaus is the sabetour. Gunther actually demands answers, and he got little before Klaus tries to kill, but gets killed in the attempt. They realize that there is a second sabeteour and she now can access the supposed Xerum 525 after the group is lured away from Anna's study.

Lisa was in the study when a lady comes into the room and finds her, telling her to come down.

9:18
Buren Germany
Everyone gets in the car when Ryan Hirszfeld comes down. He joins in, hoping to provide some answers. The intended location was rebuilt.

As the group travelled, Ryan spills secrets. H e tells how Wewelsburg was reconstructed in 1979 and the government requested the archives of information back after they were declassified.

He was part of a project.

As they drove, Gray notices the same car followed them. He thought of them as fellow tourits, but it was quickly dismissed.

Meanwhile in the Mercedes, the people discuss. They had to decide whether to do. They want to flush them into the trap they have set. They decide its time to end it.

1:22 P.M.
Lisa comes down but lies to the woman about the Xerus 525. The woman imimediately realizes its a lie and attacks Lisa, attempting to kill her.
9:30 A.M.
WEWELSBURG, GERMANY

Gray parks the car near a blue Woldters tour bus, hiding it from the street. Gray gets out, leaving the others behind. He stands near the bus, hidden behind an umbrella. He sees the mercedes come and leaevs the parking lot. He was suspicious that the car is followijjng them and is confident they are following them.

1:31: P.M.
Lisa sees the sword of the lady comet o her, but it would never reach its intended target. Bullets fly and shoots her down. Painter had come. AS they look for any sort of identification, she carried none. Painter looks at them, and determines she is one of the Sonnekonige.
This one was different. Anna realizes this one was way too young and too perfect, and employed the latest techniques, ones that were recently finessed over the past decades. Iti would have taken more energy to activate the Bell and would have been known. Thus, she surmises it was created somewhere else and someone else has an operable bell, someone who wants to shut her down.

Painter then hears a small tiny chime that came from the woman. It was a digital readout that said 0:1:32. He quickly realizes it is a timer connected to her heartbeat and it is a transmitter. They had to get out of there now.

## Chronology

* Previous - Chapter 9
* Next - Chapter 11
Black Order/Chapter 12

Chapter 12 Demon in the Machine

## 12:33 A.M.  Airbone over the Indian Ocean

Painter Crowe was flying over the Indian Ocean while in contact with Logan Gregory and Kat Bryant. He was reading the mountains of information that Logan had faxed over about the Waalenbergs. This included a picture of twins Isaak and Ischke Waalenberg, the youngest heirs to the family fortune, a fortune that rivaled most countries' gross national product.
The jet carried Painter, Lisa Cummings, Anna Sporrenberg, Gunther, and Majo Brooks with two U.S. Rangers.

Anna needed Painter's connections and Painter needed Anna's knowledge of the Bell. Painter picks up a picure of the family. A family of Sonnekonige. There could be only one answer: They had a Bell somewhere on the estate.
Logan tells them that they will meet a British operative from MI5 who has been observing the family, as MI5 had been tracking them for years due to unusual transactions but were never able to penetrate due to their secrecy and privacy.

Painter and Lisa are interested in what Anna knows.

```
Anna tells them a lot of information. One important thing is quantum evolution, which is an accelerated evolution, something that is changed due to a quantum-mreasuring tool that forced the DNA to change. Anna says that human cells pushed the evolution of cells and DNA, allowing natural selection to kick in and preserve the modifications.  The Bell is the ultimate quantum-measuring device. It holds a lot of power to evovle DNA in its perfect form and change mankind. It also had the power to conduct  the reverse – de evolution.

```

5:05 A.M.

Gray, and Monk wake up in an estate by sounds of monkeys, in a cell of course. They had been moved to South Africa, the estate of the Waalenberg estate.
A group of guards came and marched them to the grandfather, who is the patriarch of the family.
They were Issak and Ischke, the twins.

5:18 A.M.

Painter learned a lot. Afterwards, he needed sleep. Unable to, he had to learn a lot about his nemey, trying to gain as much intel as possible. The Walalenbergs was a massive family stretching back to the 17th century and earned their wealthy from stakes in companies. Their income was supplemented by the massive mineral wealth on the massive estate. They embedded themselves in the political machinations of modern day South Africa. The family is lead by Sir Baldric Waalenberg. It was the power of the family that Painter suspected them to be behind the recent destruction of the castle in the Himalayas.

He connects to the fact that the two sonnekoige he saw are connected to the Waalenberg family. They were nazis if symbols are to be belived.

## 6:04 A.M.  South Africa

Gray stepped into a glass conservatory. He meets a white-haried person. It was Baldrive Waalenberg and he wanted to talk. He had the runes

    and he knew that the Darwin Bible had nothing more when Gray m ade his bluff. Then, Baldric reveals he had Fiona and monk in cages, and he releases one, but he hides.

Now, he demands to know information on everything, particularly Painter Crowe.

## Chronology

* Previous – Chapter 12
* Next – Chapter 13
Alexandria

Alexandria is a city that appears in the book *Map of Bones*.

## History

There were many attacks upon Alexandria from the first through third centuries. They grew worse and worse. Julius Caesar himself burned a large portion of the Alexandrian library to ward off attack at the harbor. These attacks would continue, leading to the eventual destruction and dissolution of the library by the seventh century. I can understand why Septimus would want to protect a portion of the library by hiding it. He must have hidden the most important scrolls there A series of plagues struck. Frequent earthquakes damaged significant parts of Alexandria. A whole section of the city fell into the bay in the fourth century, destroying the Ptolemaic Royal Quarters, including Cleopatra’s palace, and much of the Royal Cemetery. In 1996, a French explorer, Franck Goddio, discovered sections of this lost city in the East Harbor of Alexandria. Another archaeologist, Honor Frost, believes that perhaps this might be the fate of Alexander’s tomb, sunk into a watery grave.
Rumors abound on the location of that tomb, but most historical documents place the tomb in the center of the city, away from the coastline

Alexandria and its vicinity. A few years before 2005, the events of the book *Map of Bones*, years ago, a German geophysics team used ground-penetrating radar to show that the subsoil throughout Alexandria is riddled with anomalies and cavities. There are plenty of places to hide a tomb. It could take decades to search them all.There is a reference back in the ninth century, testimony from the emperor of Constantinople, that some, and I quote, ‘fabulous treasure’ was hidden within or under the Pharos Lighthouse. In fact, the caliph who ruled Alexandria at the time dismantled half of the lighthouse searching for it.
Brant Milford

**Brant Millford** is an employee of Sigma Force.

## Career

He was a service member in the U.S. military.
Sometiime previously, he had served in a security post in Bosnia. He was a victim of a car bombing and shrapnel landed into his spine, severing it. This forced him to use a wheelchair. He was sent back to the US and was assigned to desk duty in Sigma Force headquarters.

## The Judas Strain

Millford was introduced in the Judas Strain. When Painter Crow walks into the headquarters, Brant tells Crowe that a call is coming in to him from Lisa Cummings.
Stephen Reiss

Stephen Reiss was an engineer and geologist who proposed such new water is regularly formed within the Earth by the elemental combination of hydrogen and oxygen, generated in magma. That a cubic kilometer of granite, subjected to the right pressures and temperatures, has the capability of yielding eight billion gallons of water. And that such reservoirs of magmatic or Earth-generated waters are abundant under the crust, interconnected in a vast aquifer system, circling the globe. Reiss, up until he died in 1985, had over fifty years of success finding water at sites other geologists flatly predicted were impossible. Including the Eilat Wells in Israel that continue to produce enough water for a city of a hundred thousand. He did the same in Saudia Arabia and Egypt.

He does not appear in *Sandstorm*, but he is mentioned by Coral Novak in the book when the team is sailing on a *dhor* to Ubar.
Gene Lindholm

**Gene Lindholm** is a scientist and doctor.

Some time after getting his medical degree from Harvard, he joined the World Health Organization. He was assigned to work over the crises ion Christmas Island. His team of scientists were practically forced to accept Monk and Lisa in the crisis.

## Career

In 2007, he was on the ‘’Mistress of the Seas’’ when it was hijacked by the Guild. He was called to the bridge along with Lisa Cummings.
Annishen

**Annishen** is a member of the Guild.

## Biography

She is of Asian heritage, and had plainly sought to downplay it. She shaved her hahir to a crew cut and bleached her remaining hair to an ice blond. She preferred tattoos on her writs in a Celtic pattern. All of this suggested she downplayed her Asian heritage. Her eyes were emerald in colour.

## Career

She was part of a team to catch Seichan after she went rogue.  TJS cp 3  They traveled to Maryland, the U.S. and killed a medical team and impersonated them, traveling to the safe house. They managed to escape and get hurt, but she rushed back to the stolen van, and grabbed a rocket launcher, and shot it, but missed. She had been able to capture Grayson Pierce’s parents in a hotel. With them, she took them to Angkor Wat, hoping to keep them as leverage.

They moved a few times in the van and at one point allowed Harriett Pierce to give mesd to her husband. In a warehouse, she kept them captive. However, they managed to escape. Annishen pursued them but was killed by Jack Pierce.
Tower of the Winds

The **Tower of the Winds** is a section of the Vatican.

It held a copy of the book A Description of the World from the sixteenth century resides.

The spiral stair wound round and round. They continued in silence until at last the stairs emptied into one of the Vatican’s most unique and historic chambers.

## Rooms

The Meridian Room.
There were frescoes adorning the circular walls and ceilings, depicting scenes from the Bible with cherubs and clouds above. A single spear of light, admitted through a quarter-sized hole in the wall, pierced the dusty air and spiked down atop the room’s marble slab floor, which was carved with the signs of the zodiac. A line marking the meridian cut across the floor. The room was the sixteenth-century solar observatory used to establish the Gregorian calendar and where Galileo had attempted to prove his case that the Earth revolved around the sun.

## Sigma Force

It was here where an assassination attempt occurred on monsignor Vigor, only to kill his student Jacob.

The tower was later repaired after damage.

Inscribed on the floor at one point was angelic script. It led people to search for Marco Polo.
Dieter Ulmstrom

Dieter Ulmstrom is the director of the Wewelsburg Castle.

He showed around the castle to Grayson Pierce, Monk Kokkalis, Ryan Hirszfeld, and Fiona of the castle. He later led them to the basement of the castle. There, he locked them inside and let gas knock them out. He was annoyed that a lot of neo-Nazis came and wanted their knowledge. Therefore, he wanted to do things that would keep the interests of the castle within the confines of the castle.
Susan Tunis

Susan Tunis was a research.

## Prior history

She had a successful career, and married a good man. By the time of the Judas Strain, she had been married for 5 years.

## The Judas Strain

When she was vacationing in Indonesia on a raft with her husband Gregg Tunis and Applegate, she took a swim in gear. When she returend to the boat, she discovered a part of her body was showing glowing luminescence.
She was found on her yacht with her husband on their yacht, near death by the Guild. They were both taken to a research facility on the Princess of the Seas where she was examined by the scientific arm of the Guild.
When she was analyzed by Lisa Cummings, Lisa had seen a lot of information due to blood-test results. She had been in a coma, a catatonic stupid, with waxy flexibility. The disease had been inside her incubating.
After the strain had done some damage to the bacteria population inside her, it started he arling her, repairing some of the damage done, but some had stayed within her head, as it wanted to incubate there, by flushing out the plasmids it had put in the bacteria. Lisa Cummings reasoned that it was to cross the barrier protecting the brain. It was meant to do something.

She was rescued by Monk, Ryder, and Lisa and taken off the ship and onto the island of Pusat, where she rested. She told them they had to head to Cambodia, which they did. They walked into the Bayon temple complex.

In the end, she trekked through the forests of Cambodia to find information. She reached a point where she saw a room where she was familiar with. In the room ,was her husband. They embraced.

## Characteristics

She was white, standing at 5 ft 4 inches, weighted 110 pounds, had blond hair, blue yees, an appendectomy scar on her left side. She had an old healed break on her left forearm.
Habit al-Haffi

**Habib al-Haffi** was a soldier in the Desert Phantoms.

He was a special forces soldier in the Omani military.

He reveals to Kara Kensington and her expidition that he he is a member of the Shushra clan that guarded Ubar as the Rahim. They were given this burden by the last Queen before the two lines parted ways. They divided the keys and the royal lines, each with its own secrets. They were trusted with the old path into Ubar, the one walked by the first queen and forbidden to open it until Ubar was tread again.

## Early years

Years before, as a young boy, he was a volunteer to help her and her father. He was the giude on the day of the hunt. He was to attend to him because of his interest in Ubar. Fear had kept him from following them into the forbidden sands. He followed later, but it was too late. He took her from the sands and returned to the Thumbrait base. He feels it was a personal debt.
Cathedral of Cologne

The **Cathedral of Cologne** is a thirteenth century cathedral.

The corner stone was laid down in the 13th century. The long central nave stretched four hundred feet, bisected by a three-hundred-foot transept, forming a cross with the altar at the center.

everywhere the art became as much a part of the ceremony as the participants. A wooden sculpture of Mary and baby Jesus, called the Milan Madonna, glowed with age and grace. And across the way, a marble statue of Saint Christopher bore a small child in his arms with a beatific smile. And overlooking all were the massive Bavarian stained-glass windows, dark now, but still resplendent with reflected candlelight, creating jewels out of ordinary glass.

During mass, it was a majestic place. At the center was a golden sarcophagus, locked inside glass and metal.
Images of the Three Kings were found throughout the cathedral, done in stone, glass, and gold. In one panel, the Wise Men led camels across a desert, guided by the Star of Bethlehem. In another, the adoration of the Christ child was depicted, showing kneeling figures offering of the gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

## Appearances

It appears in the first chapter of *Map of Bones*.
List of minor characters

This page covers a lot of characters that make a brief appearance in the Sigma Force series.

## Map of Bones

* *Joachim* (d. 1162) was a young priest who was tasked with taking 3 sarcophagus out of Italy. They had to reach the German border. On the way, he was afraid of the Saracen known as Fierabas. He was presumed killed with his colleague Franz, a way to Fierabas's men.

* Jacob was an student of Vigor.

## The Judas Strain

*Peter* was a butler who was in the service of Australian billionaire Ryder Blunt.

* Curator of the Hagia Sophia
	+ He was friends with Balthasar. His office was at the bottom of the museum at the Hagia Sophia. When Grey fell off the scaffolding, he let them stay in their office.
* Henri Barnhardt was a Dutch toxic scientist who helped work on the crisis in Indonesia. He had worked with Guild after being forced to do so.
* Unnamed Guild guard – He was an African soldier from Somalia who worked for the Guild.
Applegate

**Applegate** is a retired geologist.

## Bio

He appears in *The Judas Strain*. He was on a boat in Indonesia with Gregg Tunis and his wife Susan Tunis. There, they observed bio luminescent bacteria and algae, red ones. Susan got some on her arm as she had been swimming into the same waters in her wet suit.

He later contracted a bacteria and died, being a test subject.
Tony Rector

Vice Admiral Tony Rector is a US military officer who served as the head of Sigma Force. By the time of the book *Sandstorm*, he had been the head of DARPA for some time. As he had been there since Painter Crowe was there.

## Biography

He previously served as head of the Office of Information Awareness, the intellegence gathering wing of DARPA. His intelligence, expertise, and evenhanded management had own him directorship of DARPA.

Rector someday developed the habit of smoking tobacco as Crowe, in their first ever meeting, smelled vaguely of tobacco.

## Career

Rector was important.

In Sandstorm, he had to call the director of the National Security Agency about the explosion at the British Museum because it was something to be interested in.

He had called Painter Crower back to DARPA headquarters after the ultimately unsuccessful mission to capture Zhang and retrieve stolen data.

He later sent Painter on a mission to the lost city of Ubar.

Tony Rector was later revealed to be the head of the mysterious Guild. Painter had survived Cassandra's attempts to kill them and brought back information from Oman. Rather than face the consequences, he committed suicide.

## Description

He once was well muscled, but plentiful of office work softened the muscle. He was in his sixties when he became head of DARPA.
Pheonix Hotel

The **Phoenix hotel** is a hotel in Washington D.C.

The Ggrey family stayed here when they had to flee their house. The parents checked in under the name Fred and Ginger Rogers. Despite this, Fraknlin pierce had health issues and needed medication, so they ordered from a pharmacy. However, this triggered an alert that was traced by the Guild team hunting them, and thus was traced by Annishen. She walked in to their room, and tasered them.
Later, Painter Crowe had walked in, looked at the surveillance tapes, and took them. He to ld the male manager and female clerk that nothing was allowed to be told to anyone, even the FBI and police.
Ryan Hirszfeld

**Ryan Hirszfeld** is the son and clerk of the Hirszfeld family. He was the receptionist of the hotel that existed for two decades on the property.

He had travelved with Grayson Perice, Fiona , and Monk Kokkalis to [Weselberg Castle]] in search of information. There, he was knocked out with gas and transported out of Germany and to the Waalenberg estate in South Africa. He was used as bait to coerce information out of Gray, but he was saved.
Spera

**Spera** was a cardinal in the Roman catholic Churgch. He served as the Secretary of State.

Spera was Sicilian, dark haired, and complexioned. He was young for such an esteemed position, at fifty years old.

He had met Monsignor Vernoa and his neice and told them about someone who had survived the attack on the cathedral.

## Career

Spera worked for the intelligence service of the Vatican City for numerous years. He serves as the Secetary of State and as a cardinal. This puts him in a powerful position.
He is privy to many things in the world, and sees things.

In *Map of Bones*, he had misgivings of recent activity of the Guild. He had contacted the Guild and hired Seichan to help combat the growing influence of the shadowy organiztion. He was able to help Monk and team.
He is a member of the Thomas Church, who has been trying to stop the Court in secret.

## Personality

He is a kind man who seeks to protect the greater good. He had misgivings of the Dragon Court and is helpful to those he appreciates. Spera is a rather diligent person who knows when to use things efficiently.
He wears two rings: one for his position as cardinal and one as his position as Secretary of State for the Vatican.
Obelisk

A ‘’’Obelisk’’’ is an item that was important. It was antiquity that interested The Guild.

When the Guild approached Stefano Gallo for the Obelisk, he happily obliges. They promised him to pay off his wife’s medical bills and their own financial situation for obelisk in exchange. He gave it to someone.

Seichan took it to Grey and they used it to decode things.

## Description

The black stone was ancient, pitted and scored, but otherwise nondescript. Gray h ad remarked it as Egyptian. The Judas Strain One thing stood out as not natural; pm the bottom was a bar of silver. Something was hidden at the obelisk, as it was really two pieces of marble craftily glued together.
There were content there and it was written on all four pages.

They compared it and it was a location of an old Portuguese castle, built about a century before the keys were hidden.
Baldric Waalenberg

**Baldric Waalenberg** is the patriarch of the Waalenberg family.

## Biography

He received a bonsai tree from Emperor Hirohito in 1941.

He was in his 80s when he met Gray.
At the time, he was breeding orchids, although the black orchid eluded him.
He knew a lot of things, including the runes that were on the Darwin Bible. He also knew of Sigma Force and its operatives.

He had brought a partial team to his own place in South Africa. He had made experiments on himself and his daughter, splicing DNA of apes with his granddaughter. He tried to get things done in an attempt to expand his tests, but he died in the experiement.
Black Order/Prologue

1945

May 4

6:22A.M.

Fortress City of Breslawu, Poland

SS Obreguppenfuhrer Jakob Sporrenberg nudged past a corps. They had to fight in the streets from the Russian artillery. He and his troops had to hold out. It was Gaufefter Hanke's final command.

It was, in his eyes, what the Third Reich depended on. And him as well. The Russians attacked this city because of something. The city sat in the mountains and people in the concentration camps were forced to dig 100 km of tunnels for a project.
Die Riese. The Giant.

Word had spread. If only they had time to complete the research. The scientists had to do so. He had killed most of the scientists, except one Doctor Tola Hirzfeld.
She was dragged by people.

Her father Hugo Hirszfeld was the overseer of the project, but had his heritage, half Jewish, revealed. This lead to his death.

They take her and her child to the docks for the boats. They had to reach transport out of the place. In the boat, Tola, flips into the water. Jakob was not happy about this.
Tola had escaped.

However, a bullet had hit her, andSshaw was reminded there was light beyond the current darkness. She pushed, allowing the current to take her to a place. Barely moving, she collapses by a church. Father Varick hears the child and opens the door. He opens the door, seeing the woman. She was dead. Her baby was barely alive, taking him in. On the baby was a tattoo of a crow's foot. It was a Norse Rune, having learned of it from his time in Finland. He didn't care. The sins of the father were not of the son's to bear. He tucked the baby into his robes, and proclaimed “Poor Junge such a hard welcome to this world”.
Projection Discipline

Psion Discipline

Projection is the ability to project what is in your mind to the outside world with your Psionic power.

## Project Item

When you gain this feature, as an action, you can use your powers to project an inanimate object you imagine into your hands. It cannot be larger than 3 feet on any side or weigh more than 10 pounds, and is clearly ethereal in nature. This item behaves as a solid object.

Projected items fade after 1 minute, and you can have no more than 3 projected items at a time.

## Astral Construct

*Psionic Power*

**Casting Time:** 1 Action

**Range:** 60 feet

**Components:** S

**Duration:** Concentration, Up to 1 minute

You project an ethereal creation from your mind taking the shape of a medium or smaller creature, weapon, or other object. This object is clearly ethereal in nature. When you create it, and on subsequent turns using your action to mentally control it, you can move it up to 30 feet in any direction and attack. To attack with it, make a melee spell attack, on a hit, the target takes 1d8 force damage.

While the Astral Construct is active, you can spend Psi Points up to your per use limit to issue commands that effect and empower your construct. Commands require no action, but you cannot exceed your psi point limit in total commands issued.

* **Strike** *(2 psi point)*: The construct makes an attack (even if it has already attacked).
* **Relocate** *(1 psi point)*: The construct disappears and reappears anywhere within 60 feet of you.
* **Solidify** *(1 psi point)*: You construct becomes solid, blocking its space until the start of your next turn. You can only use this command if it is not in another creatures space. It has an armor class of 16. If something does damage to it equal to your Psion level, it becomes ethereal again.
* **Grab** *(1 psi point)*: Can only be used while your construct is Solidified. A target creature within 5 feet of your construct must make a Strength saving throw or be restrained by your construct until the construct becomes ethereal again.
* **Grow** *(2 psi points)*: Your construct by a size, and its damage increased by one die. It returns to its normal size at the end of your turn unless you use Sustain. You can only add one damage die (for example, up to 2d8).
* **Replicate** *(3 psi points)*: You use Relocate, but the original does not disappear. Until the end of your turn, you have another constructs and control both with the same action (commands only effect one of your choice). Pick one construct to fade at the end of your turn or use Sustain.
* **Sustain** *(1+ psi point)*: You can sustain the effect of a Solidify, Grow or Replicate command an additional round. This costs 1 psi point for each effect sustained.
Black Order/Chapter 2

Darwin's Bible

May 16 6:05 A.M.
Copenhagen, Denmark

Commander Gray was chewing on a Claritin tablet as he left Hotel Nyhavn.
He was engaged in research that lead him to a half dozen of the city's literary establishments.
He walked outside in the early morning of the streets of Copenhagen. He received a call from Rachel Verona. He was on an assignment on behalf of her. Her flight was delayed. They end up catching up a bit. Another call came in. It was Logan Gregory, second in command of Sigma Force.
As Grey crossed bridges, he recalls stuff, databases at the National Security Agency had flagged a series of black market trades, all pertaining to historical documents that once belonged to Victorian-era scientists. Someone was collecting manuscripts, transcripts, legal documents, letters, and diaries from that era, many with shady trails of ownership. Normally, it had little interest with Sigma Force, but it had sales to factions within terrorist resignations.

Made no sense.

Sigma was tapped to investigate. Gray was on his mission to get as much background on the by-invitation-only sale that was to occur later this afternoon, including research on the items as much as possible. This meant traveling to run down bookstores in Copenhagen. He had found the most help by a expat ex-laywer from Georgia in a store on Hojbro Plads.

This particular auction was a bid on an old Bible owned by Charles Darwin.
While he talked, he notices a young woman following him. He gets the address sent by Logan, while not trying to notice the person.
He walks. He notes down multiple items of interest.

## Chronology

* Previous Black Order/Chapter 1
* Next Black Order/Chapter 3
Tides of Fire

RELEASED ON: Aug 15, 2023
In the latest riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it’s up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet.

The Titan Project—an international research station off the coast of Australia—discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion a geological disaster that destabilizes an entire region.

Massive quakes, volcanic eruptions, and deadly tsunamis herald a greater cataclysm to come—for something is stirring miles under the ocean, a threat hidden for millennia.

As seas turn toxic and coastlines burn, can Sigma Force stop what has been let loose—especially as an old adversary returns, hunting them and thwarting their every move? For any hope of success, Commander Gray Pierce must search for a key buried in the past, hidden deep in Aboriginal mythology. But what Sigma could uncover is even more frightening—something that will shake the very foundations of humanity.
Anne Sporrenberg

Anna Sporrenberg is a black ops worker.

## Background

She is of German ancestry and speaks German. Formerly a Nazi, she abandoned it in favour of purely working in science.
She lead a team to find Painter Crowe while he was on his mission to Nepal. She had heard about his presence over communications in the Himalayas. She maintains a castle in the Himalayan mountains called Granitschloß. It was inherited from her grandfather, who had taken over it after the second world war.
Her grandfather was part of a unit in the military called the Sicherheitsdienst, which was created to evacuate German treasures: art, gold, antiquities, and technologies.
In the final days of the war, he received orders from Heinrich Himmler, before his suicide. IT was to remove, safeguard, and destroy all evidence to a project code-named Chronos, which had a device at the heart of the project called die Glocke – the “bell”. It was buried in an abandoned mine in the Sudeten Mountains.

The bell was needed. It was perfection.

## *Black Order*

She was introduced when she went looking for Painter Crowe.
Amen Nassar

Amen Nassar was an operative for the Guild.

## Early Life

He was born in Cairo, Egypt. When he was 8 years old, his father left and went to Afghanistan to fight the Russian soldiers, along with those who had sought a purer form of Islam. The eve night before he departed, his father strangled his mother with Nassar’s school scarf. She had complained to the wrong people, wishing to stay in Cairo and disappear behind a burqa. It was a lesson Nassar had learned, and he kept it with him for his life.

## Career

The person is known as an Egyptian.

According to files from Sigma Force, his background is unknown, but he was an elite assassin in Sigma. He had posed in the past as Indian, Pakistani, Iraqu, Egyptian, and Libyan. He was considered a male counterpart to Seichan.

### The Judas Strain

He had contacted a priest named Stephan Gallo about obtaining an obelisk. He knew this priest would be suceptible to the task as he was in need of money due to his wife’s medical bills and was at risk of being evicted. The man was able to get the obelisk to him to meet in the basement of a palace in Venice, but was too late. Seichan had gotten to him first and taken the obelisk before Nassar could.

Entering the promised meeting place, he was surprised that Seichan obtained it. She fled to the United States, and he pursued her. The family temporarily was held hostage but he managed to escape fromt oheir home, and he was forced to pursue them, but first, they torched the house and place the blame on Gray.

He captured a doctor, and got information out of him of a safe house where Gray’s parents stayed. After that, he killed Dr Corrin and went on his way to capture the parents.

He had threatened them unless Gray cooperates and he got the information when Gray told him the information is at Angkor Wat. He manages to get reservations at the Grand Hotel d’Angkor and books a private room. After arrival in a suit, they play poker in the Elephant Bar. While they play poker, he demanded information. After he was told information, he told Annishen to kill one of Gray’s parents but was convinced not to because of information from Vigor Verona. He then retracted the kill order and took them all in cars to Angkor Wat.

There, he forced them to do stuff, but was foiled when they escaped. H e followed them into the catacombs below, where he was killed by Grayson.
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