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Ryder Blunt

‘’’Ryder Blunt’’’ is a billionaire and owner of the Empress of the Sea. He was born in 1958 or 1958. JDS Chapter 5

## Bio

He is from Australia. By the time of events of the Judas Strain in 2007, he had accumulated billionaires in wealth and had the construction of the cruise shipt ‘’Mistress of the Seas’’.

The Guild took over the ship and repurposed it for their experiments regarding legends and stories. He and Grey, and Lisa, had made an attempt but had to go overboard to protect themselves. They swam across the oceans to the island of Pusat, and meeting the indigenous population. He then had gotten some local cannibals to join them to take back the ship, which they did. They manage to get to the ground floor of the ship wh ere they had taken off a boat back to Pusat. There, eh flew the ship away to safety so that he can call for help.

## Personality

He was a lifetime bachelor who was renowned in his maverick ways. He had swam with great white sharkes, helo skiing to remote parts of the world, base jumping off buildings in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Despite this, he was known for his generosity; he had participated in multiple ventures that were philantropic ventures.

It is mentioned he is 48 years old, meaning he is either born in 1958 or 1959.
He made his own fortune during the during the silicon boom, developing encryption software for downloading copyrighted material. He used the profits into a series of wildly successful real estate and commercial ventures, including the cruise line. It generated plenty of money.
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Richard Graff

**Richard Graff** is a scientist.

He worked for the World Health Organization.

In 2007, he was in Indonesia near Christmas Island investigating the outbreak. He knew nothing o the real identities and work of Monk Kokkalis and Lisa Cummings.

He is a salt-hardened oceanic resarcher from the University of Queensland. He is very knowledgable of of oceanography and biology and said that the ecosystem is greatly affected by the anthropological impacts.

## Career

He was on a WHO trip with Grayson Pierce when they were attacked by pirates.

During the crisis, he had shown Painter and Sigma Force comand that many things changed. He used a crab to show them that their behaviour had changed. The toxic exposure of the crabs had rewired their nervous system, making them point like a compass. After the conversation, he continued to work.
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Isaac and Ischke Waalenberg

Isaak and and Ischke Waalenberg are the youngest heirs of the Waalenberg family. They are Sonneknige. Like Gunther.

In *Black Order*, they followed Gray and his team, they were called by their grandfather to eliminate the team.

They were on the eye sight of the Sigma Force team.

They were genetically spliced with hyena DNA. Their grandfather was interested in eugenics and had tested so many changes for embry os. He had produced a pair, them, that was considered perfect. He had added DNA from hyenas, an act compared to cross-poollination. This explained the ability to communicate with hyenas. This ability was used to kindap Marcia Fairfield while maintaining the cover of a lion attack. In addition, while Gray made an attempt to escape, he had kicked her down into the wils while a eugenics-grown-hyena, grown to 5 times a nomral size, was able to stop on command and gleefully listen to Ischke, behaviour Gray compared to how a dog reacted to a human.
Roberto

**Roberto** is an Italian who was caught in artifact trafficking.

He was a student with Professor when he was excavating a chapel below the Saint Clemente Cathedral with co-student Tia. He later was caught by rachel Verona for engaging in artifact trafficking. Within the past two days, he was able to use a hacksaw to cut up a statue, phallyic in nature, and take most of it to people who are engaged in black market stuff.

He put his face in his hands because he knew his career was over. The police took him away.

He was never seen again.
Logan Gregory

'***Logan Gregory'*** was an ex-military officer who worked in Sigma Force, as the second-in-command.

He was the second-in-command to Sean McKnight and later Painter Crowe.

## Map of Bones

At this time, he was the operations manager for the time being. He had been the tipping point for the Dragon Court, as he was a mole, all the while keeping a low profile. He was caught after painter Crow pieced together the evidence and determined it was him. Although it was not directly mentioned, it is implied that he was the mole. However, he was cleared.

## Black Order

In *Black Order*, it was not him and he still worked in Sigma Force. He had called Grayson Pierce early in the morning, for Grey, and told them they need something.

He was the center point of contact for people to information. Painter was in the Himalayas and received the distress signal Painter had sent out. There, he had sent airplanes and men to deal with any threats and had Painter Crowe evacuated.

Later, during the missions, he was sent with Kat Bryant to visit the Ambassador of South Africa in washington D.C. To glean any sort of information about the Waalenberg family. The ambassador showed them information about the Waalenberg family and how they they are prosperous in the world. He also shows them one thing, a bell that was gifted to all embassies around the world. One of them was a bell. A moment after the bell was introduced to Logan, the specialized technician came in from the elevator and opened fire with a firearm, killing Logan on scene.

A few days later, a military funeral was held for Logan with every member of Sigma Force in attendance.
He was mentioned a few times in later books.

## Appearance

He appeared more a California surfer than a leading strategist: blond hair, tanned, fit but going a bit soft in the belly.
Vincent DeGracia

## Biographical information

### Marital status

Sofia Genovesi m. 1975 div. 1976 Rosa Beneventi m. 1980 div. 1990 m. 2009 Karla Bermúdez

## Physical description

### **Early Life**

Vincent was born in New York City, America in February of 1955 to Fedro 'Macello' DeGracia the famed boss of the DeGracia family mafia and Amara DeGracia (Esposito) a line cook for a small restaurant. Not much is known about DeGracia's early life.

### **Business Life**

DeGracia received over $20,000,000 at the age of 22 from his fathers will. He moved to Staten Island in 1976 and started investing in small, growing companies he'd hear about on his commute to work.

In 1979, DeGracia was shot in the chest on the subway by an unknown assailant, the assailant jumped off the train and was never identified by coroners. DeGracia was bleeding out badly, until a chef also on his commute dabbed his wound with is kerchief and had the train halted. The conductor had called the paramedics and DeGracia was rushed to the hospital. When he recovered he asked if he could thank the chef that saved his life, Marco Williamson, the chef that saved Vincent DeGracia had shot himself after not being able to handle the post traumatic stress from the incident. DeGracia promised he'd pay compensation to his family and invest in his small line of restaurants. DeGracia then became owner of Seashore Eats after buying out the business 3 years later.

In 2001, Vincent began investing in Canadian businesses with potential, he paid $5,000,000 to Clark Ewing. See page for story.

By 2010, Seashore Eats became the largest waterfront chain in both seaboards of the United States with 442 locations presently.
Castle of Raoul

The castle was a historic castle built in the country side of Switzerland.

## Information

The Chateau sat on mountains.
For centuries, it belonged to the Sauvage family that used it as a homebase. It came into the possession of the Verona family after the events of ‘’Map of Bones’’.
Raoul had been the caretaker for a while and had it be the headquarters of a secret organization called the Dragon’s Court. It served as a base of operations until 2003 when The organization was brought down.

During the time, Alberto Menardi, a Vatican priest who secretly worked for the Dragon Court, had been here conspiring with others to work on things.

Due to the death of Raoul, the possession of the castle passed to the closest relative, Vigor and Rachel Verona. They had planned to sell it.
When the police processed it and allowed the Verona family to come onto the scene, they discovered the entire library was gone, stolen by the Guild.

## Sourcing

* TJS Chapter 7
* Map of Bones
Ubar

**Ubar** was a lost city in Oman.

## History

The city was founded around 900 B.C., the same period during which the historical Queen of Sheba lived. It prospered until its collapse by a sinkhole that destroyed the city in A.D. 300. King Shadad was the first rule, the grandson of N oah. There was a reclusive clan that claim to be descendants of the same king.
The hodja, the elder of the Rahim, revealed that they were administrators only. The line of [[Biliqis, were trhe true rules, a secret hidden from the most trusted.

The collapse of Ubar was explained by the continual drop of the land's water table. A natural limestone cistern lay underneath the city. As the water inside it dropped from drought and overuse, it left behind a hollow subterranean cavern that eventually collapsed in on itself, taking out half the city.

## Modern Day

The city lay at the bottom of a huge cavern. The vast cavern arched 30 stories overhead, stretching a mile out. The lake filled the cavern to an unknown depth.
Across the ceiling, scintillations of cobalt electricity arced in jagged displays while gaseous clouds swirled with an inner fire, edges indistinct, ghostly, ebbing and flowing. The entire cavern was a giant glass bubble buried under the sands. She even spotted a scattering of glass stalactites dripping down from the roof. Blue arcs glistened up and down their lengths, like electric spiders.

It was destroyed when Cassandra led an attack that destabilized the ruins. In its place was Eden, which was remade by the aquifers created.
Chronos

Project Chronos was a highly secretive project by the Nazis to delve into Zero point energy.

The project was holed up in an abandoned mine outside of Breaslau, Poland. It prusued knowledge and experimentation with quantum relativity.
They used something called the Bell, also known as the Black sun.

## Experimentation

The Bell emitted a pale glow. Electrical equipment in a huge radius short-circuited. Deaths were reported. During a series of follow-up experiments, they refined the device and built shielding. Experiments were done deep within an abandoned mine. No further deaths occurred, but villagers a kilometer away from the mine reported insomnia, vertigo, and muscle spasms. Something was being radiated by the Bell. Interest grew.

Little knowledge is known as mny of the records were destroyed by the head researcher. But we do know the original team exposed all sorts of biologics to the Bell: ferns, molds, eggs, meat, milk. And an entire spectrum of animal life. Invertebrates and vertebrates. Cockroaches, snails, chameleons, toads, and of course mice and rats.

The fuel they ended up employing was a byproduct called Xerum 525 and the Bell was the engine.

## Results

Scientists noted exposure lead to enhancements.

Initial mice experiments yielded positive results and resulted in quite a few positive results, and scientists quickly went to human experimentation. In adults, the effects were still detrimental. Especially at higher settings. But the research did not stop there. When a fetus was exposed in utero, one in six children born of such exposure showed remarkable improvements. Alterations in the gene for myostatin produced children with more well-developed muscles. Other enhancements arose, too. Keener eyesight, improved hand-eye coordination, and amazing IQ scores.

A supposedly perfect child. Prior to this, all the children born under the Bell bore slight imperfections. Patches of pigment loss, organ asymmetry, different colored eyes. The head researcher's daughter had a child that was flawless, but at the end of the war, she drowned herself and the baby.

Many super children were born and raised like princes in the castle. They were given titles *Knights of the Sun King*. This was a recognition that their births were the result from the Black Sun projet.
Tola Hirszfeld

**Tola Hirszfeld** was a researcher who worked on a project during the t ime of Nazi Germany.
Her father had worked in the project and knew of the Thule Society and Black Order projects to make the perfect person.
During the collapse of the Naxi Germany, she was forced to accompany [[Jakob Sporrenberg in an evacutation, along with a baby. She made an attempt to escape, but later died, barely reaching the doors of a local monastery. The baby survived.

Years later, letters addressed to her were declassified and allowed to be returned to the Herszfeld family, and it was seen by Hugo Hirszfeld and his son Ryan Hirszfeld. They were of interest to the Sigma Force team that visited Wewelsburg Castle.
Grand Hotel d'Angkor

The Grand Hotel d’Angkor is a hotel in Siem Reap in Cambodia. It was a three-story colonial hotel. It was beside a river.
It has yellow wings of plaster and timber, with red stone roofs, and manicured French gardens, It was 75 years old and had the prior name of Grand Hotel des Ruines and had provided accommodations for French and British tourists wishing to visit the nearby complex of Angkor Wat. The hotel is only five miles away.

The hotel fell into ruin during the years of the Khmer Roug. When the Khmer Rouge fell, it was massively renovated to removal all its colonial charm and renamed.

The lobby was bright with marble and polished woods, perfumed by large flowering displays of roses, orchids, jasmine, and lotus. An antique elevator cage, wrapped in intricately twined wrought iron stood beside an inviting curve of stairs. The Elephant Bar exists.

In 2003, it was visited by Sigma Force operatives Grasyon Pierce, Joe Kowalski, their partners partners Seichan, Vigor Verona, and Guild operative Amen Nassar.

They had played poker in the Diamond Bar. During this, Joe walked to the bathroom, where he found a Guild pistol that Sigma Force had hid there, intended for Grey.
Alexander the Great

**Alexander the Grea**t was a great leader of Greece. He had conquered most of the known world, during his life.

In *Map of Bones*, he was a person of mystery. He was a man of many contradictions. Prone to drunken rages, but thoughtful in his strategy. He dabbled with homosexuality, but married both a Persian dancer and the daughter of a Persian king, this last in an attempt to unite Persia and Greece. But back to his parentage. It was well known that his mother and father hated each other. Some historians believe Olympias may have had a hand in assassinating King Philip. And what’s interesting is that one writer, Pseudo-Callisthenes, claimed Alexander was not the son of Philip, but instead was the son of an Egyptian magician to the court, named Nectanebo.

## Mythology

He was claimed to be the son of an Egyptian magician to the court named Nectanebo.

## Tomb

He was buried in Alexandria.The tomb was supposedly a massive sarcophagus made of gold. But in other references, including the major historian of the time, Strabo, the tomb is described as being made of glass.

Septimus Severus closed the tomb off from visitors for viewing. He also put in a lot of books.
Yaqut

**Yaqut** was a small child and descendant of the Queen of Sheba. Her only appearance was the book *Sandstorm*. Because she was a member of the Rahim tribe, she was a genetic clone of the people. She was standing in a cavern holding a lamp when Lu'lu and Kara arrived at the cavern. She wore a cloak too large for her. She lit a small stack of wood in the chamber.
Her name Yaqut in Arabic means Ruby.

She is one of 7 children of the Rahim tribe.
Blood Skyscraper

### Plot

Terror in the tower, Ella Smith (Joan Grant) an accountant for a big company is about to receive the biggest paycheck of her life until a bomb explodes on the bottom floor of the building trapping everyone inside. Until Dennis McDowell (Alexander Paige) lands his USSA chopper on top of the building and rushes to save the day until his chopper is exploded by an RPG shot from terrorist Husain al-Taha (Bruce Hampton). The building has 60 mins before it will collapse Dennis recruits all the workers and hands them all safety guns from the weapon room in the hidden room. Swarms of terrorists and swarms of eager to leave workers. What could happen? How will the workers leave?

### Production

Blood Skyscraper was filmed in in the Secrecy: Determined sound stage in Los Angeles, California. Director Gordon Lake actually collapsed the three storey set with stuntmen in the building to achieve the most realistic result. The script was written in five months and was inspired by Ruben Cole's spy series Secrecy.

### Reception

The film underachieved and made less in the theater box office then was actually spent making the movie. Online sales were high with 100,000 streams on WatchIt.
Hagia Sophia

The Hagia Sophia is a building in Instanbul.

It was a place where Marco Polo had visited once during his voyage home from China. Vigor Verona once remarked itt was once the largest Christian church in all the world. Marco himself commented on the wonders of its airy spaces. Some people mistake Hagia Sophia to mean ‘Saint Sophia,’ but in fact, the true name of the structure is the Church of Divine Wisdom, which can also be interpreted as the Church of Angelic Wisdom.”
It was visited by Sigma Force, Vigor Verona, and the Guild in search of clues surrounding Marco Polo.

In one of the covered up items was a paitzu, hidden. It was discovered and retrieved. When the item was retrieved, Grey took custody of it. Soon enough, it was the site where Seichan killed Balthazar Pinosso.
Catacombs of Saint Callistus

This catacomb is one of Rome’s oldest. It was once a private Christian cemetery, but it spread out when some of the popes chose to be buried at this site. It now covers ninety acres and descends in four levels.
The air grew danker as they descended, rich with the smell of loam and seeping rain-water. At the foot of the stairs, they reached a vestibule with loculi cut into the walls, horizontal niches for bodies to be laid to rest. Graffiti etched the walls, but it was not the work of modern vandals. Some of the inscriptions dated back from the fifteenth century: prayers, laments, testimonials.

From about the fifth century, the outskirts of Rome were plundered by a series of forces. Goths, Vandals, Lombards. Many of the most important personages buried here were moved into churches and chapels inside the city. In fact, the catacombs were so emptied out and abandoned that by the twelfth century they were completely forgotten, and were not rediscovered until the sixteenth century.”

Papal Crypt
Ahead, a chamber opened. Its walls were pocked with larger loculi and elaborate arcsololia, arched gravesites.
Shahra

The **Shahra** clan is a clan of bedouin who lived in the mountains. They were a reclusive group of peoples who lived in an almost stone age in technological terms. Their languages had been studied at length; it was unlike modern Arabic, almost a reedy singsong, and had eight additional phonetic syllables. With the syllables, it was considered to be one of the most ancient in all of Arabia.

They considered themselves the Peope pf 'Ad, named after King Shaddad, the first rule of Ubar. Oral traditions say they are descendants of the original inhabitants of Ubar, who had fled its destruction in 300 A.D.

During their time in Ubar, they were the administrators of the City of Ubar. However, he true power was held by the Rahim, who were the secret powers behind the throne. They had diverged from the original Queen of Sheba, having one secret to hide; the Vale of Rememberance.

## Language

The language is a pure form of Arabic. It is the oldest form of arabic langauge heard. It has 8 sounds as opposed to the less today.
Devesh Patanjali

Dr. Devesh Patanjal is a Guild scientist who was the chief acquisition officer.

He was first introduced in The Judas Strain when he made his way on to the ship ‘’Mistress of the Seas’’ after the Guild took it. He boarded the presidential suite and introduced himself to the assembled scientists.
He forced the scientists to start working. When one of the scientists finished, he had that scientist killed due to the lack of use.

He had been very intend on causing pain.

When Lisa had tried to escape, he had Rakao come back and tie her up in a room. He left for an hour to deal with trouble. He returned, and heard people shooting. He ha d went out again to deal with it. Devesh managed to get to the docks and such before he had decided to go back to the theater to unleash the horrors within, to unleash one more painful fight, with the plan to retake the ship and kill all the attackers. The person died on the cruise. He and his own body guard had freed the cannibals and intended the ship to burn and suffer while he escaped. However, his hamstrings were cut by Surina, and fell to the ground. He was dragged to his death by the cannibals.

## Characteristics

He had refined social skills and was very tact and polite when needed. This indicates that he had some sort of privileged background. This lead to a rather calming and disarming charisma that was defined by force and strength.
Stefano Gallo

*Stefano Gallo* was a resident in Venice.

## Biography

Gallo worked at the Museo Archeologico (Museum of Archeology) as a curator of antiquity and items. He had received a letter with newspaper clipping show the washing up of a body from a grave of a colleague. He had previously been approached by the Egyptian for an offer of a small looking obelisk that he wanted. To him, this was not unfounded as the Egyptian government had purchased plenty of items from abroad. This convinced Gallo to not be above the bribe as his wife's medical bills threatened to evict them from their apartment. Clutching the item, he walked across places.

He later entered the Palace of the Dukes in Venice and went to the basement, where he met Seichan. He gave over the items and showed it to be the best. Despite doing what he was asked, he was shot dead by Seichan, with his last thought to be “Maria Forgive me”.(JDS)
Seeking Projectile

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A spell by KibblesTasty

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*1st-level transmutation (Artificer)*

**Casting Time:** 1 action

**Range:** Touch

**Components:** V, S

**Duration:** Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You touch a piece of ammunition or weapon with the thrown property imbuing it with the property of seeking its target. When an ranged attack roll is made with that weapon, the attack roll can add your spell casting modifier to the value on the dice. If that makes the value on the die a 20 or more, the attack is a critical hit as if a 20 was rolled. After making the attack roll, the spell ends.
Fort of Qait Bey

**Fort of Qait Bey** is a fort in Alexandria, Egypt.
Built soley of White limestone and marble, it shone it shone starkly against the deep-blue waters of the bay. The main citadel was built atop a foundation of stone, raised twenty feet. There, towering walls, topped with arched parapets, were guarded by four towers and circled a central higher keep. A flagpole jutted from the inner castle, flapping the Egyptian colors, striped bands of red, white, and black, along with the golden eagle of Saladin.
Previously stood on the rock was the *Pharos Lighthouse.*
Fee'az

***Fee’az*** is an Iranian boy who lives on an island in the Strait of Hormuz. In 2004, he was hired to be a tour guide to several Sigma Force operatives who were on the trail of a mystery. He led them to the tombs under neath the ruins of a castle there.

He is Muslim and was 12 or 13 when he led the tour. He was super friendly to the group and talked a lot to tell them.
Golden Sarcophagus

The **golden sarcophagus** is a sarcophagus that was important to Christianity.

It previously was in Rome, but was smuggled out in 1162 by am unknown courier. It was hidden in hay. A second caravan was sent out to draw out the Saracen Fierabas and his men. The real sarcophagus left rome a day earlier than the diversion and safely reached Germany.
While only the size of a large trunk and constructed in the shape of a miniature church, the reliquary was the centerpiece of the cathedral, the reason for the construction of such a massive house of worship, the focal point of faith and art. It protected the church's most holy relics. Constructed of solid gold, the reliquary had been forged before the cathedral had even broken ground. Designed by Nicolas of Verdun in the thirteenth century, the sarcophagus was considered to be the best example of medieval goldwork in existence.
Marco Polo

**Marco Polo** is an explorer.

## Biography

Marco and his two uncles traveled to China for a trip. They were in the service of the Kublai Khan.

Marco Polo left China in 1293. He left with numerous ships and Kokejin, yet one ship made it back to Venice. During his return journey, the khan had granted him 14 ships with over 600 men. During their trip, they had they had only 2 ships and 18 men.

## The Judas Strain

He had went with Friar Agreer to visit a temple in the jungles of Cambodia, now known as Angkor wat. He was told by Agreer that he should return to the ships without the priest because he was not infected unlike the priest, taking the corss around the neck. The disease at the place had spread and he, his father, and uncle, had to burn a ton of material, including a few ships. [Prologue] When they docked at Persia, they had only two ships and 18 men.
At one time, he had travelled through Constantinople, standing in awe of the Hagia Sophia
When he returned to Venice, he dictated his travels to another person named Rusticello, who was the one who wrote the information down. His book became named *The Description of the World* and becaue an instant hit in Europe. The book had tales of the lonely deserts in Persia, China’s teeming cities, far-off lands populated by naked idolaters and sorcerers, and islands fraught with cannibals and strange beasts. This book even made it to the hands of Christopher Columbus while his voyage of the New World.

The tales of Marco Polo are regarded as embellishment and no original text exist but copies of copies. Marked differences occurred over translations.

Later after death, he was buried at the church of San Lorenzo. Later, his body was moved out of the church with 0 records.

He had prayed for forgiveness for an illness that spread on his ships.

After his death, people have wondered where he was buried. He was reburied in another place with kokejin by his side, holding arms. This was considered unusual. One of the things discovered in his possession was a Golden passport.

## ’’The Description of the World’’

Marco Polo wrote the book ‘’The Description of the World’’. This book had been edited to remove references to Friar Greer. This led to Vatican records being removed.
Based

A day one recruit to AlolaGA, Based was the main hacker of the group, along with editing most of the pictures used in the RGTSes done by the account. She was the one who forcibly edited The Frosty Chemist's Lycanroc, Sonic, into having perfect stats. One he was finished, she gave the mon to Pip to break to news to Chem. During the length of the original AlolaGA giveaway account, he was always there with several mons ready to give away. Eventually leaving the rest of the group to go find herself, he returned in May of 2018. Going with a Chaotic Neutral mindset, you can never really know what she will do next. Originally confirmed as gay, eventually he accepted that she was, in actuality, bisexual.
Rakao

‘’’Rakao’’’ is the leader of the pirates. He is a Maori leader of gunmen who stormed the ‘’Mistress of the Seas’’. He is a Maori man. He did his job with energy.

He was part of the leader of pirates that boarded a cruise ship *Mistress of the Seas*. He was assigned to guard Lisa Cummings when she was imprisoned in a room on the ship.

She escaped and he had to follow them. He had ended up catching her and sending her back. He then later had to hide in secret wait for a trap to work.
He escaped the ship and arrived onto Pusat. He saw Susan Tunis had stayed behind in the firefight and used as bait to fight Grey when he and Lisa and Ryder came to the island using a plane. He saw them and tried to fight, but he was overpowered and died on the island.
Castel Sant Angelo

Atop its roof, a mammoth bronze statue of the Archangel Michael bore aloft an unsheathed sword. The sculpture blazed in the sun. The stone structure beneath was blackened soot, stained in rivulets, like a flow of black tears.
The place had been built in the second century as a mausoleum to Emperor Hadrian, but shortly thereafter, it had been taken over by the papacy. Still, the castle had developed an illustrious and ignoble history. Under Vatican rule, it had served as a fortress, a prison, a library, even as a brothel. It had also been a secret rendezvous spot for some of the more notorious popes, who kept concubines and mistresses within its walls, often imprisoned there.
Rende

**Rende** is a former Cabinieri officer and secretly the Imperator of the Dragon Court. He was the direct boss of Rachel Verona.

## *Map of Bones*

For a while, Rende had remained secretive and nameless as the Imperator, all the while maintaining his role as a police officer in Rome.

Later, he heads to Avignon with the rest of the Dragon Court to get to the bottom of the mystery of the Bones of the Magi.
He maintained contacts everywhere. He was able to head there and wait for the arrival of Raoul and team.

Rended had killed Cardinal Spera, claiming he had no more use of him.

When he met with Gray and the team, he was wearing a suit and tie and it was evident he had been in discussion with Alberto Menardi. He tells them that they have to tmake peace with whatever they have to and then have them killed, something they want.
He was wealthy enough to have weapons transported by the truckload, all demolition experts for the upcoming projects.

He was caught by Painter Crowe, who took him into custody after using a Taser.
Rende was immediately questioned, and he answered all the questions, leading to the secrets of the Dragon Court.
Ryan Fleming

**Ryan Fleming** is the head of security for the British Museum. He is a man who served as a security guard for a long time.

He grew to be friends with Safia al-Maaz and Kara Kensington, having them watched them grow up.

In the eventss of Sandstorm, he comes by to the museum after the explosion and provides footage to people who know.

Later a few days later, he shows the Americans Painter Crowe and Coral Novak to the to the Kensington Gallery, ahving no time ot waste as the head of the museum insisted they do so. He felt the people are a little too hasty. Unfortunately, three masked gunman entered the museum and killed Ryan with a shot to the head. Painter Crowe apparently to check up upon him.
The Judas Strain/Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Dark Madonna

### JULY 1, 10:34 A.M. Venice, Italy

Stefano Gallo hurried across the plazza square, knowing he is being hunted. He knew he might live the day because the item, obelisk, was demanded by Nassar, the Egyptian buyer. They had offered a large sum of money, which he needed to pay the medical bills of his wife so they do not get evicted from their apartment.
He entered the Palazzo Ducal, the resident of the Dukes of Venice since the fourteenth century.
Entering the place, he stepped down to the palace's deepest dungeons, the Pozzi.
He goes down and meets a woman so that they can get it done. He puts it down to the ground, and it glowed in the flashlight, and showed characters.

Gallo turns around after hearing steps and words coming down the stairs, and the woman turns off her flashlight. He turns on his own, and finds a pistol pointed his head, and receives a thanks.

As he tells himself “Maria, forgive me”, he dies.

### JULY 3, 1:16 P.M.  Vatican City

Two days later, Vigor climbed up the stairs of Tower of Winds. He was reminded of the attack on the tower 2 years prior. Reaching there, he is greeted by his student Claudio. An hour before, Vigor had been summoned by the head of the restoration team.
Claudio led him to the place. He met Balthazar Pinosso, overseer of the restoration project of the Meridian Room. Baltazar brings Vigor into a small side closet. The historian said that one thing of this closet was important. As they had used the room before, the place had protected secrets and it was used for tools temporary storage of tools of the restoration. They had scared off a potential thief who was interested in it, and posted a second guard. Then an ultraviolet light revealed something. Bathazar shown a light on the ground, revealing a curled dragon. Vigor immediately recognized it as the symbol of the Dragon’s Court. Bathlasazar futher mentions that he found something else as well. He points to somethng and Vigor feels it to be a script he knew. Something old.

   . Vigor realizes that he would need help in solving the script and knew he had to call Sigma Force.

### July 4, 11:44 P.M.  Takoma Park, Maryland

Gray was at his parents house, celebrating the July 4 with a party. ents. He had some people over.
People slowly left the party, and only very people remained. Painter Crowe remained as well. Despite having a drink, he still was attentive, keeping a thumb on world events.

The two talk. Painter maintains that he keeps updates to people. They had sent Drs. Lisa Cummings]] and Monk Kokkalis to investigate a medical cirsis among the Indonesian Islands. They departed that morning as adjuncts of the World Helath Organization.
Grey and his father sit on the porch.

A motorcycle, running without lights, attempt to make a turn onto their driveway but crashes. Gray gets up and approaches. He notices the person had a bullet wound in her back and it was someone he was familiar with. Seichan.

## Chronology

* Previous: Prologue
* Next: Chapter 2
Siem Reap

‘’’Siem Reap’’’ is a location in Cambodia. It is near Angkor Wat.

In 2003, it was visited by Grayson Pierce, Seichan, Vigor Verona, Nassar Amon, Joe Kowalski, and several others.

It is a small riverside hamlet, nestled between rice paddies and a great expanse of an island lake. It had a lot of gas lamps, buzzed with mosquitoes.
The Judas Strain/Epilogue

The Judas Strain

Epilogue

August 11, 8:32 A.M.
 Takoma Park, Maryland

“The Restoration job looks great” Gray had said.

His father was happy Thunderbird was restored well.
Painter had the T-bird repaired at the best classic restoration shop, it having been fixed the week prior.
His father tells Gray to stay with Sigma and should see what his mother is cooking in the kitchen.

The funeral for Monk Kokkalis was planned in two days. The prosthetic hand was returned by Ryder Blunt
Looking through the contents of Monk’s worldly possessions, Monk hears a sound. It was Monk’s hand through the foam. Thinking it was something of a mistake, Gray wants to report to Sigma, saying it was a colossal mistake.
As he dialed Sigma, he listens to the hand tap the foam covering in a familiar pattern. Morse Code. S.O.S.

## 2:45 P.M.

Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia

Sustan Tunis climbed the steep ravine of the jngle shoruded mountains. She moved through the forests. She had seen numerous a nimals here, including the Royal Turtle, river terrapinns and several other monkeys.
She walked into a cavern, a palce where she had to go. She had seen figures on the ground,. She reached one, and telepathically talked to the person. Suddently, she was in a tropical place where she saw her husband Greg Tunis, and her dog Oscar. She knew she was home.
Georgetown University

George Washington University is a university.

It appeared in ‘’The Judas Strain’’.
It is located in Washington D.C. and has a dental annex.
Seichan had been injured and Gray, had to take her to a place to treat them on July 5. 2007. It was over night and they snuck into the dental annex of the hospital attached to the university. They had to wait for a while before someone came. This hospital sat next to Glover-Archibold Park. A medical team came and treated Seichan, all the way at night.
Paitzu

**Paitzu** is a term that refers to golden passports featured in ‘’The Judas Strain’’’.
There were three of them mentioned. In ancient times in the Mongol empire, they were given to important people and allowed people to demand supplies from local rules. The supplier can give anything requested.

There were three that had existed by the time of 2003. One was in the Vatican, another in the Hagia Sophia, and another in the tomb of Kokejin and Marco Polo. All three were collected by Sigma Force over the course of their journey.

### Third paitzu

On the 3rd paitzu had text.

These strange apparitions held forth the crude chalice; and in plain and rigorous method inststed we drink. In such a mannner, we would be preserved against the dread pestilience that has truned the City of Death into a vision of Hell, as man consumed the flesh of his brother.

With such a promise, we each partook of the drink, which upon closer sight and taste was found to b eblood. We also were urged to eat a bit of raw meat upon a palm leaf, which upon closer sight and taste was some form of sweetbread. Only after such a consumption did I think to inquire as to the source of such offerings. The kaan’s man answered; and thus proved ourselves to be cannibals, already; for it was blood and sweetbread drained and cut from a man.

Thus were we treated in such ill manner, which would later prove virtuous as it did indeed protect us from a great pestilence. But there was a cost forf such a cure. Friar Agreer was not allowed to partake the blood and sweetbread. There was much murmuring nad pointing toward his cross and to the man who bore it. In the end, we were allowed to depart if we left Friar Agreer behind.

In his Grace and Blessed countenance, Friar Agreer insisted we escape. I wept hard, but obeyed the confessor. With his last word, he left me with his crucifix, so as to return it to the Holy See. The final sight of the noble man had him being led in the opposite direction; and I guesssed their direction. Lit by the fullness of the moon, a great mountain towered above the forest, carved with a thousand faces of demons.

May the Lord forgive my soul for disobeying a promise to my father, now dead. I must make one final confession. In that dread place, I discovered a map of the city, a chart that I destroyed upon the will of my father; but set to mind not to forget. I’ve recorded it here anew, so as to keep such knowledge from being lost forever. May whoever reads this ta ke good warning: the gateway to Hell was opened in that city; but I know not if it was ever closed.
Black Order/Chapter 9

Chapter 8 Mixed Blood.

6:54 A.M.

Paderborn, Germany

Gray and Fiona, and Monk escape. They all were getting ready. They were in the main cabin of a challenger.
They get into a car and move.

At a parking garage, two people watch. They had put a tracking device on it. Their intent was to get the Darwin Bible. They get their car out of the plac eand begin the hunt.

11:08 A.M.

Himalayas

Painter tested a few guns. He and Gunther tested a few. They were in a maintenance room. Painter realizes the saboteur of the place had been super sneaky and destroyed the Bell effortlessly. He gets some items he had engineered at Sigma and uses it to broadcast a fake signal saying a secret trove of Xerum 525 had been saved in hopes of drawing out the sabateour.
Painter attempts to get to know Gunther, only to not get a lot of information. Gunther reveals Anna is her sister.

Meanwhile, Anna and Lisa are discussing things. They discuss evolution and that Anna suggests evolution is all natural, but also coul dhave had some bit of intelligent design. In addition, the building blocks of life were very unique. And comes back to quantum evolution.

Before anything more could be said, Gunther calls on the radio saying they have a trace of the sabeteour.

## 7:37 A.M.

Gray drove the BMW. Into Alme Valley.
They reach the Hirszfeld estate. Entering, they talk to the clerk, who tells them it was a hotel for the past two decades as their family had turned it into a hotel.

The clerk brings them to his father Johann Hirszfeld. He tells them that the old library became of interest to some people. He had been the owner of the Bible before and the library. He admits his grandfather Hugo worked for the Nazis and the aunt Tola had worked for some research project.

```
It was revealed Hugo had worked on a supermen project and part of the Thule society, an ultranationalist German party. Johann refers them to a different person, a curator of a museum. Hugo was fascinated with Runes, and thus was spared by Himmler for use.

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They head out, and Gray notices a new car parked beside theirs. Empty.

## Chronology

* Previous - Black Order/Chapter 8
* Next - Black Order/Chapter 10
Sandstorm

***Sandstorm*** is the first book in the Sigma Force series.

## Synopsis

*From www.jamesrollins.com:*

An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington; her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery’s brilliant and beautiful curator; and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never dreamed existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert. But others are being drawn there as well, some with dark and sinister purposes. And the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare waiting to be unearthed at journey's end: an ageless and awesome power that could create a utopia...or destroy everything humankind has built over countless millennia.

## Plot

### Part 1

#### Chapter 1 Fire and Rain

November 14 01:33 AM
British Museum
London, England
It is a stormy night at the British Museum. Harry Masterson works as a security guard in the British Museum. He makes his rounds. As he patrols the night shift, Masterson is shocked at the sight of a glow. As he confronts it, the glow reveals to be, what seems to be, a lightning ball. The lightning ball explodes, killing Harry Masterson.

01:53 AM

Safia Al-Mazz wakes up to the sound of emergency serves. Realizing they head over to the British Library, she reels from shock. Picking up a call, she recieves knowledge from a person called Captain Hogan telling her the museum curator requests to converse with her regarding the issue.

02:13 AM Fort Meade, Maryland

Thomas Hardey is hard at work in his effort to solve the Sunday New York Times cross puzzle.

His phone rings.

Realize its his fifth line blinking, he remembers that only few people have access to that line: the president, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the second-in-command at the National Security Agency. He is the Director of the National Security Agency.

He picks up and receives the call from Vice Admiral Thomas Rector, a man associated with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Jason

**Jason** (d. July 22, 2005) was a college student of Boston College. He makes an appearance in the book *Map of Bones*.

He was accompanying Mandy on a backpacking tour in Europe. Both were on summer holiday from Boston College, backpacking through Germany and Austria. He was raised Protestant, but decided to accompany Mandy for mass attended by the Archbishop of Cologne for the Feat of the Three Kings as she did not want to miss it.
He owns an Ipod.

His Protestant faith was what helped him during the initial Attack during Mass. He did not partake in Communion, allowing the effects to not apply to him when soldiers infiltrated mass in Cologne. He ran and prayed, and ran. In the confessional room, he prayed for saviour and his own life. He sobbed. This attracted the attention of someone, who marched up to the room.

## Personality

Growing up as a christianity faith member, he w as kind and caring. Despite cross wiki beliefs, Jason cared for his friend Mandy. He was smart and polite.
Black Order/Chapter 6

Chapter 6 Something Rotten

6:12 P.M.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Gray checked his watch to see if the aution would start.
Earlier that day, he checked out of his original hotel, and checked into a new one.

He was sitting in the auction room and was using his computer to search information. A lot of people had came out of fanciness.
His call with rachel had to be resecheduled. He still had to work for the auction and any leisure had to be stayed.

10:22 p.m. Himalayas

Painter says they had to stay in place to stay calm.
The ghost lights continued to flare and subside.
The hours couldn't be wasted by the pair. They had to wait out the storm around them.
As the night came, they saw the Milky Way arch over the wintry valley.

A new light came. Gunfire came and a bullhorn demanded he come out and show himself. Five vehicles had shown with multiple figures. He slowly walked out the One was a woman and another was the same assassin from the monastery.

The woman introduces herself.
Her name is Anna Sporrenberg and she wants both of them wants to go with them.

6:38 p.m.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Gray was at the auction house. Fiona had to come to the auction.
As he walks to the auction house, he sees it is a scandinavian design. He pulls out the invitation to the doorman and enters through the seucirty. A lot of people came to the auction.

He noticed a lot of things. A dowdy woman greeted him and gave him an envelope that wrote “Even the guild knows better than to stray too near this flame. Watch your back. Kisses”. Seichan had left a message. Fiona joins him. The auction starts and paddles rose and fell.
When the Darwin Bible was put up for auction, The price went up past the 2.5 million limit set by Gray's superiors.
Gray and Fiona leaves, defeated. Fiona is kind of glad that the person had been pushed to 3 million. Fiona grins and reveals that she swiped the real bible from the backroom and replaced it with a a normal printed Bible with the size and shape, a two-pence fake that was paid for 3 million. When they discover the fake is a fake, she would be long gone.
Their conversation was cut short as an explosion, Gray's hotel room, suffered an explosion.

11:47 p.m.

Painter and Lisa went on the snowmobiles by the Germans.
They traveled far.

Anna talks to the assassin, named Gunther, and sa they need them, something that overrides Gunther's desire to kill them.
They reach into a cliff and enter through a place. It was a part of a carbed facade. A castle in the Underworld.

8:15 p.m.

Copenhagen, Denmark

The hotel explosion rocked the place and Gray and Fiona had to leave.
Someone had fired a shot: the white blond woman from the auction.
Fiona hotwired a biked and escaped. Someone else joined the lady and fired a shotgun. Getting off the bike, they search for ways to escape. They ran through several places and fled into the Tivoli Gardens.

## CHronology

* Previous - Black Order/Chapter 5
* Next - Black Order/Chapter 7
Bones of the Magi

The **Bones of Magi** are bones of the wisemen who visited the baby Jesus.

They were taken from Rome to Germany in 1162 to avoid the pope. They were on display behind security in the cathedral of Cologne. In 2005, armed gunmen led by strange people and seized them. Some where held in Milan and they were also taken.
Delphi

‘’’Delphi’’’ was a city in Greece.

## Sigma Force

For a century prior to 398, Delphi had been attacked by invading Gauls, plundering Thracians, and more of all, neglect. Slowly, less and less people came to the Orcle: a goat herder questioning the fidelity of his wife, a sailor seeking good omens for a voyage across the Gulf of Corinth. The Oracle died in 398 AD, the last of the Oracle.
Gerard Kellogg

**Gerald Kellogg** is the warden of Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Preserve in South Africa. His family had ties to the old Afrikaner government had risen through the ranks mainly due to his connections and ties.

He belonged to the Oldavi country club, which is exclusively white. Economic power was still brokered despite barriers erased. Change would be slow.