Conrad Spijker

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> ### Affiliation
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> The Themis Group (ex-member)
> The Black Windmill (co-founder)
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> ### Relationships
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> Dr. David Hazlitt (ex-colleague)
> Lilith Tregowan (ex-boss)
> Moses Foe (associate)
> De Jong (associate)
> Margot Benoit (associate)
> Sir Christopher (associate)
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> ### Occupation
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> Criminal Mastermind
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> Biographical information
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> ### Date of death
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> 2022
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> ### Place of death
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> Kholat Syakhl
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> Physical description
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> ### Species
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> Human
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> Portrayal
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> ### Portrayed by
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> Steven Mackintosh
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> ### Series
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> Who is Aldrich Kemp?
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> ### First Appearance
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> "Chapter Three: The Black Windmill"
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> ### Last Appearance
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> "Chapter Five: Kholat Syakhl"
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> "*This is Conrad Spijker speaking through a speaker.*"
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**Conrad Spijker** (d. 2022) was a Dutch scientist and neo-Nazi who was involved with a number of criminal organisations including The Themis Group and The Black Windmill.

## The Themis Group

During Lilith Tregowan's tenure as head of the Themis Group, Spijker worked as an assistant to Dr. David Hazlitt on research around infrasound. However, at some point in the late 1980s, Spijker betrayed Themis and tried to steal Hazlitt's research for himself. This proved unsuccessful but Spijker was judged to be enough of a threat that he would likely try again. In light of Hazlitt's importance in infrasound research, Tregowan predicted that he would try to get to Hazlitt himself, or if not him, then his pregnant partner, Abigail Dankworth. Both Hazlitt and Dankworth agreed to undergo a mindwipe and personality reprogramming using the Kaleidoscope process for the sake of their unborn child.

## The Black Windmill

Upon leaving Themis, Spijker partnered with another far-right extremist, Moses Foe, in setting up a new neo-Nazi organisation. In 1988, Foe bought The Black Windmill (location) near Schiphol Airport and this provided the organisation with both its headquarters and its name: The Black Windmill. Spijker then proceeded to build a reputation for himself as a devotee of far-right nationalist causes around the world. He was also involved in drug trafficking, sex slavery and illegal arms dealing. Spijker also managed to convince another of Hazlitt's assistants, a Dutch man called De Jong, to defect from the Themis Group and join the Black Windmill to continue the infrasound research with Spijker.

During the 1990s, Foe and Spijker appear to have parted ways and Foe restarted the Vril Society in Antarctica. It's probably in light of this split that Spijker chose to move the Black Windmill's headquarters from the Netherlands to the Urals in Russia, to a mountain called Kholat Syakhl.

In the 2000s, the Themis Group, now led by Aldrich Kemp, conducted a secret war on Foe and Spijker's organisations. They infiltrated and blew up the Vril's Antarctic headquarters and, in 2010, Alice Boone got close enough to Spijker to shoot him in the back of the head with a Batavian half-stuiver. This is understood to have directly led to the collapse of the Black Windmill organisation.

## Life After Death

While it was believed that Spijker died as a result of Boone's assassination attempt, this turned out not to be the case. Instead, Spijker was condemned to a physical vegetative state. However, the Black Windmill was able to use technology to connect his mind to a computer through which he could speak, continue to run his organisation, and plan his return.

Keen to undo the damage done to him by Mrs. Boone, Spijker brought to fruition a plan in 2022 to take his revenge on the inner circle of Themis while at the same time reversing the effects of Kaleidoscope on Dr. Hazlitt so that they may find a way to alter reality using infrasound in order for Spijker's body to be repaired. This involved taking advantage of a British intelligence investigation into the death of Guillaume Benoit, who had discovered the location of Spijker's new headquarters. Allying with Clara Page's boss, Mr. Bartholomew, Spijker surmised that Clara was in fact Hazlitt and Dankworth's child and that, putting her in danger, might well draw Hazlitt back out from his mind wipe.

Spijker went to some trouble to capture Page, which included killing his former associate, De Jong, and blowing up his organisation's previous headquarters in the Netherlands. Spijker also managed to collaborate with members of the British aristocracy in return for lucrative stock market tips and then successfully kidnapped nearly all of the Themis Group's inner circle: Nakesha Kemp, Sebastian Harcourt, Lilith Tregowan and Alice Boone. After Clara Page accidently managed to retrieve her father's personality from the man she'd known as Uncle Dave, Spijker left her to drown in an Albanian dungeon but not before Aldrich Kemp and the Underwood sisters were able to affect a rescue.

Kemp and Page assaulted Spijker's headquarters in Russia while the rest of Themis escaped their captors and made their own way to Spijker's personal hospital room - where Spijker lay comatose, as he had been since 2010. Not willing to believe his threats of his body being a kill switch, Mrs. Boone finished the job she started 12 years earlier and unplugged Spijker's life support. This did, in fact, lead to the Kholat Syakhl facility's self-destruction, but not before the Themis Group were able to reach a safe distance.

## Appearances

* Who is Aldrich Kemp?
	+ "The Black Windmill"
	+ "The Spirit of the Age"
	+ "Kholat Syakhl"

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WiAK: "The Spirit of the Age"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 WiAK: "Kholat Syakhl"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 WiAK: "The Black Windmill"
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 WiAK: "Themis House"