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Parallel World

A **Parallel World** in **Worlds' Apocalypse Online** refers to the different worlds created by The Art of Parallel Worlds using the Fundamental Void as the source.

While The Art of Parallel Worlds created most of the parallel worlds, there are also instances known, where other techniques were able to create parallel worlds, like the Sacrificial Dance.

While the parallel worlds are connected through the Reality Gates, one is also able to travel between them using some techniques. Using the power of the twin swords Heaven and Earth Gu Qing Shan was temporarily able to travel though them and recruit help from the other parallel worlds.

The Dragon God was also able to easily travel through parallel worlds and use them offensively using the Pendant of Flame.

Additionally in the Water Tribulation a Cultivator has to face multiple versions of himself of different parallel worlds.
Kate Taylor

**Katherine ‘Kate’ Taylor née Horton** (d. 2000) was a resident of Hadleigh, Essex, a descendent of James Murrell and wife of Seth Taylor.

Kate was related to cunning man, James Murrell, on her mother’s side of the family. Murrell died decades before Kate was born but, either by design or happenstance, she and her husband ended up living in Murrell’s old house.

Kate was introduced to her future husband by her brother, Lance - she approached Seth and told him that her brother had said Seth would buy her a drink. Kate was more socially confident than her husband and, by Seth’s reckoning, was certainly his intellectual superior.

They were married at some point before 1950. Unfortunately, the couple’s family life was marred by tragedy when their only son, 7-year-old Ronald, drowned while playing close to a local river in 1957. Despite this, they enjoyed a long and stable marriage until her death in 2000 from a terminal illness.

Many years after her death, her husband was bequeathed Neboad's Book of Spells, something the wizard had gifted James Murrell in the 1800s and had then been passed down the Murrell family line to Seth, by virtue of his marriage to Kate.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Mythos: "Mythos"
Blackout

## Synopsis

Blackout is a 15 minute audio short story part of the 4-part "Dark Vignettes" series, which again was part of a broad series of BBC content called "Dangerous Visions" (broadly a series about weird future dystopian stuff). This is essentially Nicola Walker reading a log of what happens to her character following a complete failure of technology.
900 Million World Layers

The **900 Million World Layers**, also known as **Outer Plane**, is an area of the universe that contains countless worlds. It lies outside the Inner Plane. Beyond the 900 Million World Layers is the Eternal Abyss.

## Information

The 900 Million World Layers consist of millions of spatial layers full of worlds. It also has different zones.

* **Fallen Zones:** Originally named 'Prosperous Zone', it was renamed after being occupied by the Demon King Order.
* **Mystic Zones:** The area closest to the innermost area of the Outer Plane, any item from those areas are obscenely valuable outside. It is an incomprehensible magic world with all kinds of incredible existences. However, it is also incredibly deadly, so it is difficult for anyone to venture there.
* **Super Dimensional Zones:** The Super Dimensional Zones are individual Super Dimensional worlds themselves. These worlds surpass the limit of space and time coordinates, giving people the ability to quickly travel to countless other worlds using them as a travel hub. The Super Dimensional worlds themselves also have other mysterious uses.
* **Strife Zones:** Constant battle and strife between demons and living beings take place here, or even between living beings themselves.
* **Scattered Worlds:** These worlds, oftentimes incomparably weak and isolated compared to the rest of the universe, lie far beyond the majority of the 900 Million World Layers and are difficult to reach. These are considered distant, barbaric, uncivilized places by the majority of the 900 Million World Layers.

Next to the 900 Million World Layers is the Eternal Abyss. Apocalypses often drift out from the Eternal Abyss towards the worlds on the edge of the 900 Million World Layers, and it is also often plagued by [Order] and [Chaos]. From the perspective of many races in the void, the 900 Million World Layers are not only weak and poor, but also have no benefits.

## History

Created by the first Four Saint Pillars, it gradually weakened due to the departure of the four. In the Bygone Era, after the humans of a parallel world fled to the void, for the continuation of life, the world was built on the basis of 900 million layers of the world, but for some reason, they had to flee to the Reality Gate before it was completed.

Later, the Divinities imitated the Bygone Era humans to create 9.9 billion worlds. However, the Divinities' power could not exceed the power level they were created with, and they were unable to perfect the artificial Laws of the 900 Million World Layers. The Divinities limited the growth of living beings within the 900 Million World Layers so that their power could not exceed the Divinities, and they destroyed all knowledge and inheritances that might allow these sentient beings to overtake them in power. The Divinities used these 9.9 billion worlds as a delaying tactic to stall the Apocalypse while they themselves escapes. Nine billion world layers were then destroyed and fell into the Doomsday Necropolis, leaving behind only the 900 Million World Layers.
Miranda Hyde

**Miranda Hyde** is a senior bureaucrat and magic user who works for the Department of Works. During Johnson’s disappearance during the Albion event at Blackfriars, Hyde became de facto head of the Department.

In Lairre and Parker’s estimation, Hyde is a force to be reckoned with as they see her as being “extra scary”. She is a senior manager within the Department and Johnson’s second-in-command. While clearly competent in her job, she is also loyal to her colleagues. While preparing the Department for the worst-case scenario during the Blackfriars event, she broke protocol and assigned Lairre and Parker to attempt an officially unauthorised rescue of Johnson from the sinkhole that his car fell into.

In addition to her managerial skills, Hyde is also a highly competent magical user having a particular speciality in magic influencing memory and perception. In 2017, after Libby Ward’s failed attempt to capture Mary Lairre, Hyde wiped the short-term memory of Carlton Murray and inserted some nightmares into his subconscious on the orders of Johnson as a punishment for his deception. The following year, Hyde mesmerised everyone at the briefing to forget Parker and Lairre had attended so they had the freedom to effect a rescue of Johnson. Later, while attempting to stop a possessed Johnson from detonating a nuclear bomb in London, she employed magic to cloud the minds of the Department’s emergency command and control team.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mythos: “Albion”
2. ↑ Mythos: “Glamis”
Suspended World

The **Suspended World** was a Cultivation-type world located in the Outermost Layer of the 900 Million Layer World.

## Information

As one of the stronger worlds in the Outermost Layer of the 900 Million Layer World, the cultivators were able to absorb many worlds into their own and increase their highest realm of cultivation to the Cryptic Realm.

1000 years ago the world was attacked by the Realm Demon, which began to devour the sun, moon and the stars in the sky. After the Realm Demon also devoured the ground the Cultivators used formations to create the floating islands. But because there was no way to replenish spirit stones anymore, which resulted in their very advanced in formation techniques to reduce the spirit stones consumption, many sects used up their spirit stones and the cultivators were either discarded or killed and only formation users and top-level cultivator were kept and absorbed by other sects.

The Suspended World was later completely destroyed by the Realm Demon.

### Danger Hour

The time when the Realm Demon is awake is called **Danger Hour**. During Danger Hour so called unconscious offshoots are roaming around, which can sense a cultivator spirit energy. Due to that they have to either stay in a quarantine formation during Danger Hour or use other Presence Concealment Techniques to ensure that not even a single bit of spirit energy escapes. Because of that many of them use the brim hats, which had the ability to conceal their presence.

Due to the fear of the slave rioting at that time and taking them down together, the cultivator are using restraint shackles that automatically bind the slaves tighter during Danger Hour, ensuring that they weren't able to use any power at all.

## History

1000 years ago the world was at the peak of its prosperity. They conquered and absorbed every world they could find in order to advance their own world and civilization to greater heights. But one day, a girl came to the Suspended World.

When they realized that she was stronger than anyone else in the world the cultivators wanted to find out the girl's secrets. Thus, under the cooperation of all the cultivators from the world, Tian Shan Ye began to court her. After he succeeded he laid a trap and 44 Cryptic realm cultivators attacked her together at her weakest moment of giving birth.

As revenge the girl cursed them and 'summoned' the realm demon, which later devoured all the resources. Later someone invented a certain technique, which could help the floating islands to directly fly out of the world's orbit and escape, but it was later revealed that that was also a plan of the realm demon to absorb the souls of the fleeing cultivators.

The Suspended World was later completely destroyed by the Realm Demon and the souls were absorbed by it.

## Notable Sects

* Guang Yang Sect
* Rakshasa Peak

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 433
2. ↑ Chapter 467
3. ↑ Chapter 495
Saint Realm

In the era of the raging Apocalypse, aside from the Dusty World, there is another mysterious place that has not been found by the Apocalypse: the **Saint Realm.**

A sacred place outside the Void, in countless world systems, there are endless conspiracies, competitions, wars, and killings every day, but the sun rises as usual, and the Saint Realm is the sun that rises as usual.

The existence of the Saint Realm will not descend into any world except the world where the contractor of the River of Life and Death is.

## Notable Members

* **Gu Qing Shan:** The God of Death, and therefore a contractor of the River of Life and Death.
* **Shroud:** The Lord of Radiance, and therefore a contractor of the River of Life and Death.
* **Overlooker of Myriad Realms:** a powerful entity that resides in the Saint Realm and occasionally answers Gu Qing Shan's call.
Daniel Martin

**Daniel Martin** (d. 2006) was the husband of Samantha Martin née Gibson and father of Theo Martin. He died of a drug overdose in 2006 when his son was two years old and his passing left his wife to raise Theo by herself. According to his sister-in-law, Laura Gibson, he was "*a nasty bastard*" and his death "*wasn't much of a loss*".

1. ↑ THoTD: "Episode 1"
Channing Investments

**Channing Investments** is an investment company that counts Sir Christopher on its board of directors. Investigations by the Themis Group revealed that Channing's investment patterns matched very closely to trading they had already linked to the Black Windmill. Further investigation revealed this same pattern in Sir Christopher's personal portfolio, indicating that he was advising Channing based on stock tips he was getting from Conrad Spijker.

1. ↑ WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
Dusk

## Background

One of the twin fruits of the Twin Tree of Fate. In the Age of Immemorial she was unable to grow and was dying, because of her sister Reneedol, who took all the power of law and has taken on the wings of fate. She was rescued by Gu Qing Shan with the Wings of the Angel of Condemnation and obtained the power of fate to become the Angel of Condemnation.

Due to the conflict of beliefs with Reneedol, who was completely opposed, she was put into a deep sleep by Reneedol and the goddess' of fate and lost all her memories. She awakened in the ancient age and was deceived by the Reality Gate to fight for them. She was sealed again by the Reality Gate after awakening some emotions.

## History

After awakening again, in order to escape from the chase, she turned into a fugitive deck, met Gu Qing Shan, became comrades, turned him into a card and made him the Envoy of Condemnation. in the Drifting Sand World she was then snatched away by the Lin, who turned into the Abyssal Fate Weaver. After Lin left she was then taken away by the Demon Dragon, who took her strength letting her fall asleep again. After several twists and turns, she finally returned to Gu Qing Shan.

## Status Window

* ▴
* 702

### Chapter 702

[Lapis Card: Angel of Condemnation – Dusk]

[Grade: Lapis 5 stars]

[Partner: Sword cultivator Gu Qing Shan]

[Resident deck: Fugitive Deck]

[Description: Due to losing most of her power, Angel of Condemnation – Dusk's grade has been lowered to Lapis]
Inner Plane

The **Inner Plane,** also known as the **Realm of Myriad Gods,** is a unique location within the infinite parallel universes that exists to manage the order of parallel worlds. It ensures that parallel worlds will never meet and allows the void to separate parallel worlds from each other. As such, while there may be countless parallel worlds, there is only ever one single Inner Plane across the infinite worlds.

## Background

The Inner Plane was once full of Deities and Deific Kings that managed its order. However, the Inner Plane was destroyed. Parallel worlds and the space vortex slowly became chaotic, which led to ever-increasing conflicts and corrosion between parallel worlds. This, in turn, enabled the spread of the Apocalypse.
Armor of Gods’ Protection

## **Ancient Artifact, Armor of Gods’ Protection**

[Item name: Ancient Artifact, Armor of Gods’ Protection]

[Grade: Ancient Divine Armament]

[This armor was carefully forged by the Gods, originally meant to be granted to heroic figures among living beings, but because of how powerful its defensive capabilities turned out to be, the Gods dismissed the idea]

[This armor has the following abilities:]

[Elemental Erasure: After you receive elemental damage, the armor will activate Elemental Erasure to negate the very next elemental damage]

[Immunity: After you receive physical damage, the armor will activate Immunity to negate the very next physical damage]

[God’s Order: When you are about to receive fatal damage, when the armor sense your fate of death, it will immediately activate [Time Stop] once]

[The following is the War God UI’s details]

[War God Skills: This armor is an ancient divine artifact, it contains untold divinity, but has no skills that you can learn]

[Doomsday Chronicles: This armor was carefully forged by the Gods, in the past life, when the Bramble Bird royal family were all killed, it came into the Light of Dawn, Triste’s hand. She then dedicated it to the Lord of True Demons, where it became known as the True Overlord Armor]

[Note: You can pay 1000 Soul Points to check the historical event related to this armor]

“I’ll pay it”

[Related historical event unlocked]

[Historical event: Defeat of the Lord of True Demons]

[Defeat of the Lord of True Demons: During a crucial decisive battle, the True Overlord Armor suddenly left the Lord of True Demons as he was about to be struck by all-out attacks from all sides, heavily wounding him]

[Afterwards, the Lord of True Demons did everything in his power to destroy this armor that betrayed him]
Pure Love Gang

## 原初纯爱组

A Titled group that Ye Fei Li inadvertently formed during the Samsara Clash for Supremacy, when he suggested to Gu Qing Shan that they come up with a team name.

Because the members belong to the same group, when Gu Qing Shan uses the Reincarnation Orchid, he is almost certainly going to call upon a member of this group rather than anyone else.

The Pure Love Gang comes with a **Title Skill,** although it is unknown whether the title skill is the same for all members or not. The title skill is as follows: Once a day, a member of the Pure Love Gang can use an ability that a different member has demonstrated before. Once it has been used, they must see the skill demonstrated again before it is available for use within the Pure Love Gang.
Anna

**Anna** is the eldest princess of the St. Orlank Holy Empire, the Thorned Rose of the Holy Church and the owner of the Death Flame.

## Appearance and Personality

She has long, fiery red hair and a slender body; she has a fiery personality and loves to drink. She also had a habit of liking to stay clean so she hates other people touching her directly.

## Background

The eldest princess of the St. Orlank Holy Empire and one of the last members of the Medici clan, besides her aunt, the Queen of the Fuxi Empire Varona.

As her Empire was taken over by the Pope and her father was replaced, it is her mission to reclaim her country.

## History

### Previous Life

In her previous life she was known as the genius girl **Scarlet** from the World Valley in the Age of Immemorial. Originally she intended to assist the team, but later obtained the power of the Law of Death and became a being of the Six Paths of Reincarnation with the help of Gu Qing Shan's Sacrificial Dance, who assumed the role of Rhode. Due to him she also began to drink alcohol to strengthen her power of Death, but quickly became an alcoholic.

At the end of the events in the Age of Immemorial she died at the hands of Reneedol while saving Gu Qing Shan. Her soul stayed at the edge of the Forgetting River, waiting until Gu Qing Shan was born before she reincarnated as Anna.

### Previous Timeline

She was imprisoned by the fake King of the Holy Church and tortured as sustenance for monsters, and after being rescued, she spent her life trying to regain her country.

While fighting against the Demons she happened to save Gu Qing Shan's life. In exchange for rescuing him, Gu Qing Shan promised her to get her the "strongest, most delicious wine in the world" in return.

Years later after finishing the Scorpion Palace, he wanted to fulfill his promise with Anna, but Anna's position at camp No. 571 was discovered by the Demon Lord. She died, using the last bit of her power to bring an almost endless horde of demons with her to her grave, while Gu Qing Shan could only see her die, after rushing for two days and nights to her position.

### Current Timeline

She came to know Gu Qing Shan soon after he returned through time and quickly became fascinated by his strength and cocktail skills.

After winning the favor of Black Hound and restoring her country, she was brought to the Strife Zones and became a believer of the Holy Church of Death. With the help of Lin she later obtained the complete inheritance of the God of Death and became one herself. She then fought against the Chaos (Sequence) with Gu Qing Shan and the others.

In the Battle of the Six Paths she later became the Saint of the Huang Quan realm and helped Gu Qing Shan with his battle against the Wicked Spirits

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 974
2. ↑ Chapter 23
3. ↑ Ch.1534
4. ↑ Ch.1535
Kingsport Diner

The **Kingsport Diner** is a restaurant/diner in Providence, Rhode Island. Ezra Weeden and Kennedy Fisher met here in 2018 to discuss Barbara Sayers's history between the Pawtuxet siege in 1980 and becoming a school librarian in Providence in 2003.

## Notes

* The diner is named after the fictional town of Kingsport which featured in a number of H. P. Lovecraft's stories.
Leonard Price

**Leonard 'Lenny' Price** (d. 2008) was software engineer and associate of Charles 'Charlie' Dylan and Mia Warren.

Lenny lived with Charlie and appears to have been the only one of the two bringing in an income to their household. Lenny appears to have been involved with Warren's terrorist activities likely in his capacity as a computer engineer. He had a prior conviction for computer fraud before his association with Warren led to his flat being put under surveillance by the SD1 counter-terrorism unit.

Both Lenny and Charlie were murdered by Warren who slit their throats to guarantee a quiet kill - Lenny was likely killed in his sleep. As she was aware of SD1's surveillance, Warren arranged for at least a day of conversation in Lenny and Charlie's flat to be recorded beforehand and then played on a loop to fool Yuri Kerchenko and Martin Willis. The underlying reason for Lenny and Charlie's execution is unclear as Warren was later shot dead by SD1 officers before she could be questioned.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Listener"
Elaine of Corbenic

**Elaine of Corbenic** is a subject of Lady Viviane's court in the folkloric dimension of Avalon.

Elaine and her companion, Sir Miles of the Laundes, came upon members of the Department of Works during their patrols of Lady Viviane's land. They escorted Johnson, 'Lord of the White Hall', Cinderella Parker and Mary Lairre to Lady Viviane's court.

At court, Elaine, Sir Miles and Lady Viviane took great pleasure at the misapprehension that the Ogilvy family were blood-thirsty monsters who might pose a risk to two Americans, Libby Ward and Carlton Murray, who had found their way into Avalon. This was very humorous as the court knew full well that the Ogilvies were vegetarian.

## External Links

Elaine of Corbenic at Wikipedia

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: "Glamis"
Tian Shan Ye

Old ancestor of Guang Yang Sect, 🆒 a នƜ០Ʀᖱ and 🇸 🇦 🇧 🇪 🇷 (Ᏼℓαᖱε) Cultivator. He is the master of Great Elder Wang Hong Dao. His soul stayed in a Jade Slip that has sword skills on it, waiting for Gu Qing Shan to learn it and possessed his body.

This Bastard's is Such a Cruel & Heartless M\*\*\*\*\*F\*\*\*\*\*😡😡🤬🤬🤬
Al-Qayyarah

**Al-Qayyarah** is a town on the west bank of the Tigris River in Iraq, located about an hour south of the city of Mosul.

In 2019, the body of Barbara Sayers was discovered in Al-Qayyarah in a shallow grave next to the river. A British military intelligence officer, 'Jasper', working in the area at the time, soon uncovered evidence linking the murder to American investigative journalist, Kennedy Fisher. When Fisher's partner and Jasper's friend, Matthew Heawood travelled out to Iraq to investigate the matter for himself, he and Jasper travelled down to Al Qayyarah to see the scene of the grave. Jasper deemed the location a terrible place to bury a body on account of the loose topsoil and high winds.

## References

1. ↑ TWiD: "Episode 7"
2. ↑ TSoI: "Footsteps"
Brandfield

**Brandfield** is an American collector of folkloric objects and creatures. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

In 2017 he hired Libby Ward to capture the Borley Rectory ghost, Mary Lairre, to add to his collection. However, Ward was unsuccessful due to being outsmarted by Lairre and her colleagues, Johnson and Cinderella Parker.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mythos: “Glamis”
Sequence

The term **Sequence** refers to the different system-like UIs.

When loaded by an user, they appear as a screen for the user, give different missions and can strengthen the user.

There are many different Sequences. While the original Sequences originated from Chaos, different beings were able to understand some parts of it and borrow its power, also known as Apocalypse.

## Known Sequences

* Highest Sequence
* The low-level Apocalypse Sequences created by the Awaitings to imitate the Apocalypse Sequences:
	+ Order Sequence
	+ Chaos Sequence
* Sequences created by the The Art of One Man's Ten Thousand Lives:
	+ War Sequence
	+ Rotation Sequence
	+ Obscurity Sequence
	+ Authority Sequence
	+ Fallen Sequence
	+ Corruption Sequence
* Living being Sequences, such as the Samsara.
	+ Living beings are the most foundational type of Sequences, within which any and every Sequence would be able to obtain treasures from.
* Apocalypse Sequences used by the different Apocalypses.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1781
2. ↑ Chapter 1765
Dean Perry

**Dean Perry** is an American ufologist and author based in Suffolk, England.

## Early Life

Perry was raised as a military brat as his parents were stationed on various US Air Force bases across Europe during the 1980s. Perry attended high school at RAF Woodbridge but not at the same time as the famous Rendlesham Forest Incident. However, being in proximity to the location of such an event, and having family friends who were there at the time, meant Perry developed an interest in UFOs that would follow him to adulthood.

## Ufology

After his education, Perry travelled the world extensively but the events at Rendlesham Forest proved of such a draw to him that he eventually settled in Suffolk and set himself up as a professional ufologist. With the Rendlesham incident as a key focus, Perry ended up writing extensively about the event and was also known to provide guided tours of the area, as he did for Matthew Heawood in 2019.

## Second Incident at Rendlesham

While Perry provided useful background information about the Rendlesham Forest Incident near the beginning of The Whisperer in Darkness, he would later be called on by Heawood to provide essential, practical support in searching the forest in 2019 for Heawood’s colleague, Kennedy Fisher. Working with Albert Wilmarth and Parker, Heawood and Perry entered the forest and headed for the site of the original event 39 years earlier. Perry stuck to a set of rules that he’d developed over the years of “chasing weird stuff down in the woods in the middle of the night”: he made sure that Heawood could navigate his way to safety by the stars should they get separated, and Perry also insisted that he and Heawood synchronise their watches in case of experiencing any lost time.

It was not long into their search that Perry and Heawood did indeed lose time. First of all, the Mystery Woman tried to warn Heawood against trying to rescue Fisher, something which Perry had no experience of as his watch was two minutes behind Heawood’s. Soon afterwards, both men encountered something in the sky that Perry immediately identified as being a UFO, although Heawood was more sceptical. They split up and ran away from the object in the sky, only to reunite in an area of the woods that immediately made no sense to Perry. He noted that the trees around them were ancient woodland, but his experience of the forest told him they were standing in an area that was replanted after the storm of 1987. While Heawood acknowledged the strangeness, he didn’t accept Perry's conclusion that they had somehow left 2019 and travelled back in time.

Soon after this, Perry and Heawood identified that they were experiencing a time loop of around an hour. Kennedy Fisher found them and Perry aided their escape from the forest and drove them back to the Rendlesham Church. The following day in 2019, when played the audio recordings taken by Heawood, Perry admitted to not remembering large parts of the previous evening.

## Appearances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- Episode 2
		- Episode 7 (mentioned)
		- Episode 8

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TWiD: “Episode 2”
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 TWiD: “Episode 8”
Location of Haumea

The first instance of the audio artefact containing the location of Haumea occurs in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Episode 1. It sounds like a burst of static and occurs during the recording of the conversation between Dr. Willett and Charles Dexter Ward that Matt plays at the beginning of the episode.

Slide decodes the message in the episode Haumea by playing it into a ZX Spectrum.
Moorehead

**Moorehead** is member of staff at Glamis Castle and a trusted asset of the Department of Works.

It was Mr. Moorehead who alerted Mr. Johnson to the disappearance of Carlton Murray and Libby Ward and the appearance of a secret room in the castle at the end of a corridor that had become five times longer than it had been before the disappearance of the Americans. After Johnson, Lairre and Parker resolved the situation, Moorehead was curious for answers but Johnson explained he had inadequate security clearance for any to be shared with him.

## References

1. ↑ Mythos: "Glamis"
Dr. Mark Lyman

**Mark Lyman** (d. 2018) was an American psychiatrist who was a friend and colleague of Dr. Jonathan Willett. Lyman provided cover for Willett at the psychiatric hospital in Providence, Rhode Island when Willett was unavailable, and it was Lyman who was entrusted with all of Willett’s case notes after his friend was imprisoned for the murder of Lucy Hawthorne.

In 2018, Lyman was interviewed by Kennedy Fisher while she was investigating the Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Lyman was initially reluctant to speak with Fisher but changed his mind when Fisher assured him that she was interested in better understanding Willett’s side of the story. Lyman subsequently bent ethical rules to allow Fisher to see Willett’s case files pertaining to Ward.

Soon after this, Lyman shared further information with the Mystery Machine podcast - specifically a recording made by Willett of his attack and murder of Lucy Hawthorne. Lyman managed to send this to Matthew Heawood mere seconds before he and his assistant, Elizabeth, were murdered by Dr. Allen.

## Appearances

* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
		- "Episode 5"
		- "Episode 8"

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCoCDW: "Episode 5"
2. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 8"
Key of the Wind

The **Key of the Wind**, also known as the **Traveler's Proof,** is one of the Four Saint Pillar Soul Artifacts, representing the Wind Pillar. It is able to travel anywhere, including through time and space, and can even tamper with history.

Gu Qing Shan obtained it after he recast the body of the Key of the Wind.

## Appearance

The Key of the Wind is a multicolored metallic key. It has a bronze handle, a black connective piece, a crimson and grey key body, and a light golden key head. These portions were forged out of the Three Coins of Space-Time, the Holy Relic of the Dusty World's Gloomy City world, the pocket watch of the Dusty World's Clock Tower, the pentagonal polyhedron of the Dusty World's Ruined World, as well as the three world essence relics of the Dusty World's Grand Evil World.

## History

The Key of the Wind was once held by the Wind God of the Four Evil Gods, before they were defeated by the Four Pillar Gods and it passed into their hands instead. In order to keep the secrets in Gu Qing Shan's Reality Gate, it destroyed its body, leaving only the spirit behind.

Part of its body was cast into the Three Coins of Space-Time.

Gu Qing Shan used the casting mold left behind for him by his parents to recast the Key of Wind's body, using the Time and Space Coins and multiple world essence artifacts to complete it.

At Gu Qing Shan's request the Key of the Wind observed Xie Dao Ling, found that she was suitable, and agreed to sign a partnership contract with her. Later, it helped Xie Dao Ling explore the mystery of the defeat of the previous Strife of the Six Paths.

Later it was again returned to Gu Qing Shan.

## Abilities

When movement comes into existence, it is called "wind." Therefore, as long as movement exists somewhere, the Key can reach it. It can travel through time and space, even allowing the user to tamper with history. When invoked, the key manifests a door for the wielder to go through.

This key has the ability to open the Reality Gate.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1700
2. ↑ Chapter 1694
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1760
4. ↑ Chapter 1702
Alice Price

**Alice Price** is a negotiator who works with the Counter-Terrorist Unit (CTU). She was the lead negotiator during the 2013 Kokomo cyberattack and the Newman kidnapping. Price has a reputation as rubbing people up the wrong way according to Steven Daguero, a colleague who doesn't like her willingness to abandon protocol and bend the rules when she wants.

## The Newman Kidnapping Case

Before Price transferred over to the CTU, she was brought in as the lead negotiator in a kidnapping case. The Newmans were a well-off couple and, when the wife was kidnapped, Price was responsible for delivering the ransom. However, upon seeing that the ransom would indeed be paid, chose to increase the ransom. When this happened, Price's strategy was to breach protocol and try to befriend them and make them think she was on their side.

While the strategy was successful in revealing the location of Mrs. Newman - Price and the kidnappers talked long enough for them to become careless with their words and reveal key clues - this was ultimately a hollow victory because Newman had already been murdered and all that Price uncovered was the location of her body. Price was pragmatic about the overall outcome, labelling the perpetrators as "nutters".

## Kokomo cyberattack

In 2013, a cyberattack was launched worldwide using a computer virus called Kokomo. When those responsible, a group called the Harlequinade, requested to speak to a representative of the counter-terrorist unit, they specifically request Price. Daguero voiced his concerns about Price to their boss, Philip Levine, but he acknowledged that they didn't have a choice in the matter.

Price's approach with the Harlequinade was immediately argumentative, sensing that their use of characters from the *commedia dell'arte* indicated a certain dangerous playfulness that needed a serious counterpoint. Learning from the Newman case, she avoided becoming friendly with the group and explicitly did *not* choose to accept the premise of their world-view. When a possible schism between the cyber-terrorists emerged - Harlequin surreptitiously tapped out a request for help in Morse code - she immediately used that to drive a wedge between the group, much to the surprise of her colleagues in CTU.

Unfortunately, the schism was fake, deliberately used to get the trust of Price and the CTU so they would let Kokomo onto the government servers under the mistaken impression that they had the decryption key to kill the virus. Price, realising she had been played, was distraught upon realising she'd helped facilitate the further spreading of the cyberattack.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Kokomo"
L. R. Weston

**L. R. Weston** was the owner of 23 Olney Street in Providence, Rhode Island. Weston bought the property in 1985 after it had been vacant for around five years after having been abandoned by Barbara Sayers. Weston's motives for buying the property are unclear as he appeared to have done no work to the property and never lived in it. Weston eventually sold the property to the city in order for the entire street to be demolished in 2008.

1. ↑ TCoCDW: "Episode 2"
Caroline Hughes

**Caroline Tillinghast née Hughes** is an occultist, follower of the cult of Ipqu-Aya, and member of the Tillinghast family by marriage to Sir Godfrey Tillinghast.

## Early Life

Hughes met Eliza Tillinghast when they were attending finishing school in Switzerland and they appear to have become good friends. Eliza introduced Hughes to her brother, Godfrey, at some point in the early 1960s.

## The New Forest Coven

It is unclear whether Hughes had always had an interest in the occult or had indeed been a follower of Ipqu-Aya before meeting Eliza. However, what is known is that her belief in Ipqu-Aya and commitment to the Tillinghasts was strong enough that, in 1962, she and Eliza joined Joseph Curwen’s New Forest Coven. Both women, as well as Godfrey, engaged in sex magic rituals with Curwen, the living vessel of Ipqu-Aya at the time. Both Hughes and Eliza were successful in their goal of becoming pregnant by Curwen and thus taking control of the Ipqu-Aya bloodline. However, soon after this Curwen’s temper led him to physically beat one of them, it’s not clear which one. This led Godfrey to take them away from the coven and use his government contacts to have Curwen driven out of the New Forest and separated from his coven.

## Family

Godfrey and Caroline quickly married later that same year ahead of her giving birth to Emma Tillinghast in 1963. Godfrey acknowledged Emma as his own child and there was no official record indicating Emma’s true parentage. Godfrey and Caroline became grandparents in 1990 when Emma gave birth to a daughter, Lucy.

However, Lucy, who became the living vessel to Ipqu-Aya after the death of her cousin, Charles Dexter Ward, was murdered by her cousin’s killer, Dr Jonathan Willett.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TCoCDW: ”Episode 4”
2. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 3”
3. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 9”
Kitty

Second in command of the Justice Iron Fist Club, Barry's sister and the strongest space warlock of the 900 Million Layer World. She writes novels in order to help her family earn money.

## History

After the fight against the Demon King Order she and her brother Barry watched over the Original World for Gu Qing Shan.

In the war against Chaos she later united the entire 900 million layers and fought against it.
Ferdinand Kingsley

### Series

Standalones, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Who is Aldrich Kemp?, Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?, The Haunter of The Dark

## External Links

**Ferdinand James M. Kingsley** (born 13 February 1988) is a British actor who played Simon in “Fugue State”, 'Slide' in episodes of The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow over Innsmouth and The Haunter of The Dark, and the titular character of Aldrich Kemp in Who is Aldrich Kemp? and Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?. He also played the background characters of a male voice in “Episode 4” and a newsreader in “Episode 5” of The Whisperer in Darkness.

## Performances

* "Fugue State" (as Simon)
* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- “Episode 3”, “Episode 6” and “Episode 7” (as 'Slide')
		- “Episode 4” (as Male voice)
		- “Episode 5” (as Newsreader)
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- “Haumea”, “Saint Germain” and “Rubaiyat” (as 'Slide')
	+ The Haunter of The Dark
		- "Episode 9" (as 'Slide')
* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
	+ All episodes (as Aldrich Kemp)
* Who Killed Aldrich Kemp?
	+ All episodes (as Aldrich Kemp)
Elvis Presley

**Elvis Presley** (8 January 1935 – 16 August 1977) was an superstar singer and actor.

According to Parker, it was Presley who assassinated John F. Kennedy by using a ballistic serendipity charm to create lucky bullets.

In presenting himself as someone who everyone incorrectly thought was dead, Conrad Spijker likened himself to Elvis Presley but Clara Page was not convinced.

## External Links

* Elvis sightings at Wikipedia
* Assassination of John F. Kennedy at Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ Elvis Presley at Wikipedia
2. ↑ Mythos: "Albion"
3. ↑ WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
Beowulf Fund

The **Beowulf Fund** was one of the largest hedge funds in Europe. The fund was established around 2021 by Remington Schofield who was its principal manager.

However, further investigation from British intelligence indicated that the no record of Schofield could be found before the starting of the Beowulf Fund. Sebastian Harcourt surmised that Schofield was really just an alias for nihilistic psychopath, Vladimir North, suggesting that North's criminally acquired wealth was given a new identity through the fund, just as he was reimagined through the Schofield persona.

1. ↑ WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
2. ↑ WKAK: "The Murder Clowns"
Four Saint Pillars

The four Void Saint Pillars of earth, water, fire, and wind. The earth represents life, water represents growth, fire represents extinction, and wind represents death.

Of all the Reality Gates, only the one Gu Qing Shan resided in was able to manifest the complete Pillar Soul Artifacts of the Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, because only this Boundless Void houses four complete Saint Pillars. The Soul Artifacts of these Saint Pillars are jointly hailed as the greatest artifacts of the void.

## Four Saint Pillar Soul Artifacts

The Law manifestation Soul Artifacts of the Four Saint Pillars. When one of the Saint Pillars forms a covenant, the Law manifestation Soul Artifacts of the other three Saint Pillars will arrive to bear witness.

If the four artifacts exist in more than one Boundless Void at a time, their power will no longer be concealed and will be felt across the billions of Boundless Voids.

### Coin of the Earth

Representing the Earth Pillar, its power being True Luck.

### Book of the Sea

Representing the Water Pillar, its power was to record all knowledge.

### Pendant of Fire

Representing the Fire Pillar, its power was to turn miracles and near-impossible events into reality.

### Key of the Wind

Representing the Wind Pillar, its power was to open all doors and arrive at any location.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1693
2. ↑ Chapter 1703
3. ↑ Chapter 1704
4. ↑ Chapter 887
David Calder

Calder at the National Theatre Studio on 3 November 2009

## External Links

**David Calder** (born 1 August 1946) is a British actor who played Seth Taylor in the opening *Mythos* story, “Mythos”, and Henry Akeley in the second *Lovecraft Investigations* season, The Whisperer in Darkness. Archive audio from his performance in The Whisperer in Darkness was later re-used for The Shadow over Innsmouth episodes “Apartment 6” and “Rubaiyat”.

## Performances

* *Mythos*
	+ Mythos (as Seth Taylor)
* *The Lovecraft Investigations*
	+ The Whisperer in Darkness
		- All episodes except “Episode 9” and “Urgent Update” (as Henry Akeley)
	+ The Shadow over Innsmouth
		- “Apartment 6” and “Rubaiyat” (as Henry Akeley)
Guillaume Benoit

**Guillaume Benoit** (d. 2022) was a French DGSE agent who went missing in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2014 and was presumed dead until he was recovered from Lake Tanganyika in 2022 and died shortly thereafter.

When Benoit was dragged out of the water by local fisherman on the Democratic Republic of Congo side of the Lake Tanganyika, he was still alive, barely. He was taken to hospital and died shortly after, but not before managing to say the words "Kholat Syakhl" to a British intelligence agent who rushed to his bedside. These words were later understood to be Benoit revealing the location of neo-Nazi, Conrad Spijker's new headquarters.

It's possible that Benoit's disappearance in 2014 was part of a cover operation to let him infiltrate Spijker's organisation, The Black Windmill. However, according to Aldrich Kemp, these efforts were foiled by Benoit's own sister, Margot, who was working with Spijker.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WiAK: "Clara Page"
2. ↑ WiAK: "Kholat Syakhl"
3. ↑ WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
James Murrell

**James “Cunning” Murrell** (c. 1785 - 1860) was a professional folk magician, or ‘Cunning Man’. He is generally known as the last of England’s cunning men.

Born in Canewdon, Essex, Murrell was the seventh son of a seventh son, which is significant in some occult circles. Murrell moved to Hadleigh, Essex in 1812 and initially earned a living as a shoemaker. However, it was here that Murrell met the 300-year-old wizard, Neboad, and from this association, Murrell was taught magic and was given Neboad's Book of Spells. Murrell used this knowledge to become a cunning man.

Murrell died on the date he allegedly predicted - December 16, 1860. However, having foreknowledge of this date meant he had time enough to use clay tablets he’d come into possession of that outlined the ritual to release the spirit of Ipqu-Aya. Also having possession of the Ipqu-Aya artefact that contained the ancient Mesopotamian spirit, Murrell successfully placed Ipqu-Aya into the body of his apprentice, George Pickingill.

During the 2017 Hadleigh Fracture Event, Mary Lairre eventually bested Neboad by establishing an alternate reality wherein Neboad never had a book of spells to give Murrell and, therefore, he never became the last cunning man of England.

Murrell’s house in Hadleigh was demolished in the 1960s. Its last occupants were Seth and Kate Taylor, who was a granddaughter (or great-granddaughter) of James Murrell.

## External Links

* James Murrell at Wikipedia

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James\_Murrell
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mythos: "Mythos"
3. ↑ TCoCDW: ”Episode 7”
Mozambique

**Mozambique** is a country in south-eastern Africa. In 1985, the Aldrich and Nakesha Kemp and their parents flew from Mozambique to Istanbul, Turkey. Over the course of the flight, their private plane developed engine problems and they crashed in Sudan with Aldrich and Nakesha being the only survivors. Several years later, Nakesha discovered that the plane crash was an intentional assassination of their parents.

## External Links

Mozambique at Wikipedia

1. ↑ WiAK: "Themis House"
Nadir Abdulrahman

**Nadir Abdulrahman** (d. 2023) was a high-ranking Yemeni official who use to run his country's intelligence service. He was generally rated as being not particularly effective in this role.

Around 2022, Abdulrahman was approached by Vladimir North who was keen to utilise Adbulrahman's logistical skills to collaborate in manufacturing a world-wide measles pandemic that would kill millions of people. However, it's unclear whether Adbulrahman supported this of his own will; it is possible that he, like Aldrich Kemp, was subjected to mind control to guarantee his compliance.

Abdulrahman's role in North's project was to to establish transport networks and timetables that would allow materials and human test subjects to be delivered from Heidi Mundt's human trafficking network to Dr. Scott Alvarez in Uruguay so that he could test and refine as virulent and lethal strain of measles as possible. Abdulrahman, along with Mundt, Alverez, North and Kemp, were also directors on the board of the freight company, Liberty Flights, which had been acquired specifically for the purpose of releasing the virus through an air-crash in a major European city.

Once Abdulrahman had served his purpose, North tied up this perceived 'loose end' by killing the Yemeni in the supposedly accidental plane crash of a commercial flight from Aden to Istanbul that Abdulrahman was on.

1. ↑ WKAK: "Liberty Flights"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 WKAK: "The Murder Clowns"
3. ↑ WKAK: "Bogota"
4. ↑ WKAK: "The Man Who Sold the World"
Clive (guard)

**Clive** is a security guard who was on duty at the Department of Works when Jonathan Hicks was invited to the building to be forcibly recruited. When Mary Lairre spotted that Hicks was using an audio recorder she berated Clive for such relaxing of security measures, only for him to explain that he was following orders from Johnson that Hicks was to go "unmolested". Lairre happily ignored these orders and smashed Hicks's Dictaphone.

## References

1. ↑ Mythos: "Mythos"
Mr Ely

**Mr Ely** was a 17th-century magical practitioner in England and later in the Americas. He was the first cunning man to travel from Europe to the New World when he crossed on the Mayflower in 1620.

While he didn’t appear on the ship’s official passenger manifest, he was mentioned in the diary of another passenger, William Bradford, who explained that Ely disappeared as soon as the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. It’s speculated that Ely was responsible for spreading the teachings of Abdul Alhazred amongst the early English settlers in the Americas.

Research by Dr. Eleanor Peck also suggests that Ely is a distant ancestor of Charles Dexter Ward, through his father’s side.