Maxwell Turner

Maxwell Turner is an English lawyer and former business partner of Henry Reid.

Maxwell in 1866

## Biography

Maxwell Turner was born on May 9th, 1835, in York, England. His mother was a nurse and his father was a sailer. He also had an older half-brother named Michael, who was a half-pricolici. His abusive, murderous criminal and pricolici father had passed it down to Michael genetically. Luckily, Maxwell was able to avoid this fate because he had a different father than his half-brother. However, Michael was very different from his genetic father. He was flawed, but he was still noble and moral.

As a child, Maxwell was very cunning, intellegent, and close with his brother, as their father Samuel was often away sailing for work. He would retain these characteristics for his entire life.

Maxwell was also the very first person to learn of Michael's pricolici nature, aside from Michael himself. He was even the one to piece together exactly what creature Michael's father had been, and consequently Michael himself. On October 31st, 1843, Michael transformed for the first time. The two had been playing outside all evening, but the two went to a nearby hill together to watch the sunset as its time neared.

The very second the moon poked its head over the horizen, Michael suddenly started convulsing violently next to him for several minutes, his eyes tightly closed. The only eight-year-old Maxwell was terrified, and did his best to try and help his brother, to wake him up, but there was nothing he could do. Eventually, Michael's seizing stopped, and Michael awoke, quickly getting to his hand and knees and breathing heavily. Maxwell, still very afraid, asked Michael if he was okay, his voice barely above a whisper. Michael turned back to look at him, but Michael's eyes weren't their usual brown. They were fading to vivid orange. Maxwell gasped from terror and crawled backwards away. Michael thought that there was something was behind them, so he got to his feet to fight off the threat. But then, Michael's head snapped back and forth twice. Then, Michael screamed and Maxwell instantly knew why. He could see the bones through his skin shifting unnaturally, and watched, horrified, as Michael transformed for several minutes. But he wasn't terrified of Michael, he was scared for him.

As soon as the transformation was complete, Michael howled, and Maxwell recognized it to be one of anguish. He knew that Michael hadn't chosen it, desired it, or even known about it. He approached Michael, and when Michael wrote a message in the dirt, saying, "I'm still here," Maxwell's fear vanished entirely. From that point on, Maxwell knew that no harm would befall him while Michael was in this new form. Only moments later, the terrifying-looking creature morphed back into the body of Michael Turner.

When Michael explained everything to Maxwell, he understood. He then brought him back home and showed him pages from some old books that had once belonged to his real father. For years, they both had thought the books were simply storybooks, but that night they finally knew the truth. Together, they learned that the creature both Michael was is called a pricolici, a werewolf and vampire hybrid.

Afterwards, Maxwell never treated Michael any differently, and even helped him to keep his secret.

In 1860, he went to college at the University of Cambridge, where he met another young man named Henry Reid, who was studying accounting. The two originally disliked each other, but grew closer over time before becoming friends.

After their graduation in 1864, the two opened an office together and became partners. However, he never told Henry about his brother.

In 1867, Maxwell was faced with a difficult choice. He needed money to help his brother, and was forced to use a significant amount of their money to save him. He lied to Henry to protect Michael, saying that he lost it in the stock market. In reality, Maxwell was much too smart for this to have happened. This forced Henry to join Thomas Shaw's Hunting Group for a share of the bounty out of desperation.

After Reid returned, he paid off their debts, dissolved his partnership with Locke, and the two went their seperate ways. However, they remained in contact through letters.