Damien Whitweather

Official Art by TofuSlaw

## History

### 1892 - 1894

Damien Whitweather was born to a poor family in the south of England. After losing his parents to illness, an 11 year old Damien headed to London to try and find what was left of his extended family. When he arrived he discovered members of his family were involved in less than legal activities. He started working for his uncle 'Darmouth' doing various jobs. Most importantly he was to go around to the shops in the local area to collect protection money and told to "deal with it" if any problems arose.

Two years passed and Damien's capacity for violence and intimidation only increased so much so that he started to fight in the pits for extra money. After a very public street brawl occurred, between Darmouth's lads and a new gang on the block the local authorities decided enough was enough. The constabulary went to the local Inquisition station to request aid in cleaning up the streets in their area. The Inquisition agreed and sent in several agents as well as an outside contractor, Dante Feu'Coeur.

After the raid, the key players in the gang, including Darmouth, were taken into custody. The authorities decided that the children related to the gang would be taken into care by the inquisition to be given the opportunity to train as operatives for the inquisition themselves, justified by "Getting Britain's Youth Off The Streets!".

### 1900 - April

After training and operating under various mentors in the inquisition for several years Damien was given his first assignment with his friend and fellow trainee Nicholas Kober.

The assignment was simple, investigate John Goltz and find out any information on his connection to the Boer forces in South Africa. Nicholas and Damien decided that the most effective way to do this was to build a working relationship with John Goltz.

After a few weeks John Goltz, Damien Whitweather, Nicholas Kober and Othor Mannerson decided to open a private investigation agency together.

### 1900 - May

The Agency's first job came in from The Linton Family, their son had Edgar had gone missing and they needed to find him. After making enquiries the team found a connection between Edgar and Meinhard & Sons. Looking into this further the team discovered that students were going missing at a nearby Orphic academy upon failing their exams. The detectives eventually discovered that the students were being kidnapped by the local Meinhard factory, which would then kill them and use their natural magic to create surplus artificial magic. After meeting Rain Meinhard, she explained that revealing their findings would cause modern life to collapse due its reliance on artificial magic.

Even with the explanation from Rain, the team decided that the world had to know. After a hard fought battle they left the factory to reveal this unpleasant truth to the world.

### 1900 - June

Upon their return to London, John Goltz attempted to publish the truth about artificial magic. During their time at the Meinhard & Sons factory Damien discovered links between the company and The Inquisition. Rather than going to his superiors Damien decided to look into this himself and go through the archives trying to find any connection or justification about why the Inquisition would condone Meinhard & Sons actions. Before he could find much information he was contacted by John Goltz who was tasked by Parthenon to join the 'Gaselee' Expedition to China to help handle the Boxer Rebellion.

Once he learned of this, Damien rushed to his handler to request permission to accompany the Gaselee Expedition. Damien was granted permission to go, but was to report all his findings on John Goltz as well as any further information on Parthenon.

### 1900 - August

After boarding a skyship and heading east, the expedition took its first big hit at Yangcun where the airship that was transporting John Goltz, Damien Whitweather, Nicholas Kober and Othor Mannerson was shot down. Injured and cut off, the group gathered what survivors they could and retreated to a cave, making a temporary hideout. After a few days a contingent of Boxers discovered their location, seeing their vulnerability caused the Boxers to rush in. During the conflict John Goltz was captured, as he was being dragged away he saw Damien get shot in the chest.

Damien was found a few days later by some German forces of the Eight Nation Alliance. although he was laying amongst the dead he was not one of them. taken back to their main base and nursed to health he reported what happened to the superiors at the base.

### Battle of Beitang

Back with allied forces Damien was given a recon mission at the fortress of Beitang, his job was to get inside and report back on how many civilians were located in the fort. This was vital as high command needed the fortress levelled as soon as possible. After a few days of skulking around Beitang Damien had decided that he had gathered enough intel and was planning his route to escape the fort and report back. Before he could begin his journey the first shells hit the fort panicking Damien grabbed his kit and ran for his escape route. before he made it the room he was in got hit igniting the room and blowing Damien up.

Two hours passed and Damien was once again found this time with severe burns and destroyed limbs. He was put onto a priority ambulance ship to be taken back to Germany for intensive care.

### Ingolstadt

Arriving in Ingolstadt in poor health Damien was put into intensive care for several weeks, after he regained consciousness he told the doctors who he was as his injuries had left him unrecognisable. Once the hospital staff realised who he was they prioritised his recovery by putting him through the best care available. However the damage was done Damien Whitwether would never be an operational operative again.

The doctor tasked with telling Damien this news was a man named Richard Kramer. Kramer informed Damien that he was to be taken out of intensive care and moved to a new wing owned by the British Government. Whilst being taken to the new wing Damien noticed heavy duty security and a distinct lack of patients. Finally taken through the final set of security he saw the Inquisitorial seal as well as "The Lazarus Institute" across the main floor.

After seeing this Damien turned to Kramer just as he injected Whitweather with a sedative. The last words he heard "Hopefully this one will work".

## Relationships

* John Goltz - initially a mission for Damien, Goltz made a transformation into a mentor and father figure to him.
* Dante Feu'Coeur - The first authority Damien had ever seen outside of local police, Damien idolised Dante and viewed him as the perfect representation of law and authority
* Nickolaus Kober - A fellow gang member and then colleague of Damien, often working together they formed a bond that can only be formed through hardship.
* Othor Mannerson - He mostly just hung around Goltz, but if he's good enough for Goltz hes good enough for me attitude was taken.
* Frederick Harding - Initially an ally turned into an enemy, Frederick Harding is the perfect representation of greed and self interest that Damien learnt to loathe.

## Trivia

* Damien Whitwether, along with John Goltz were the first two player characters created for Of Gods And Machines.

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