Harker, Jonathan

Born in 1870 and educated in London, Jonathan Harker is every inch a proper Englishman. He was not an outstanding student, but his driven, hardworking nature, together with his obsession with time and punctuality, quickly propelled his success in business. After receiving his degree, he began as an apprentice solicitor's clerk for Edgegate & Waterson (a shipping firm), but quickly took a position in the Exeter offices of Peter Hawkins. Hawkins encouraged Harker's innate determination, and the young man soon passed his Solicitor's examination, which was a source of pride for his fiancée, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray. Harker later became a junior partner in the firm

In 1889, Jonathan left Mina behind in England for what he believed would be a routine business trip to the continent. Deputed by Hawkins to act as an estate agent for a foreign client who wished to move to England, Harker had discovered in Carfax (near Purfleet, Essex) a dwelling which suited the client's requirements. In order to assist the client, a wealthy count, with the transaction, Harker travelled by train to Transylvania. His harrowing experience there included a violent brain fever, and he spent many months in a sanitorium. Mina came to find him, nursing him back to health with the aid of an order of nuns and marrying him before their return to England. However, he has never completely recovered from his time on the continent.

Upon their return, Harker discovered that Hawkins had passed away and left him the whole of their business, as well as a substantial sum of money. Today, Harker continues to run the firm, and is known as a wealthy businessman, while Mina is a noted educator and suffragist. In 1890, the couple had a son, giving him bundle of names that link together a handful of close associates. In practice, however, they call the child Quincey, after their a departed friend Quincey Morris, an American who died a year before on the same day.

### ***Forbidden Lore***

Harker's journey to Transylvania and near-fatal encounter with the powerful vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula is known to many as a fictional story, thanks to the pen of Bram Stoker. However, most who oppose the Red Death, including all the major qabals, know that the account published by Stoker is a heavily redacted compilation of real correspondence written or collected by Jonathan and Mina's comrades in a brave fellowship, centered around the Dutch metaphysician Abraham van Helsing, that eventually dealt Dracula a meaningful defeat.

What few know is that Mina and Jonathan Harker have been recruited to van Helsing’s qabal, Die Wächtern. Few qabalists anywhere can be said to have had more direct confrontations with the Red Death’s lieutenants, nor to have won more astonishing victories. In fact, Mina has recently been made the overall leader of the qabal’s London cell, while Jonathan works primarily as an archivist, compiling materials for the use of Die Wächtern qabalists and their most trusted allies around the globe. He obsessively seeks new information regarding Dracula's fate. Though Quincey and Harker dealt the vampire severe blows and thought him dead once more and finally, folklore declares that their measures were insufficient to permanently separate the Count from his wretched unlife.