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Mike Awolowo

**Mike Awolowo** was the Manuscript delegation president.

## Biography

### Early Life

Mike Awolowo is an international studies major. In his senior year, he was tapped to join Manuscript and become its delegation president.

### Ninth House

Alex Stern first meets Mike at the Manuscript Halloween gathering in the aftermath of Darlington's public drugging. Mike Awolowo dressed up as Batman for the party.

Along with Kate Masters, Mike follows Alex and Darlington down the street to the Hutch, entreating Alex to not report the incident to the Lethe board. Mike explains desperately that Darlington getting drugged wasn't sanctioned by the delegation but was the result of a Manuscript alumna who had ill will towards Darlington and wanted to play a prank. Alex eventually agrees to say the drugging was an accident and in exchange, Mike as the delegation's president owed her a favor. As a result, Manuscript had faced nothing but a fine, when otherwise they would have been suspended. Mike assumes that Alex did it for Darlington's pride more than anything else.

Alex calls on her favor in the winter quarter. Mike has Alex meet him at Manuscript and finds out that Alex wants a video to be erased. Mike is originally reluctant to comply, knowing that erasing a video from people's awareness is a big ritual. Alex argues that Manuscript is only running because of her as well as the fact that Merity, the drug of service associated with Manuscript, is implicated in the video. More concerned now, Mike tells Alex that the society's supply of Merity is on strict lockdown and obtaining it is incredibly difficult, as it only has one supplier from the Greater Khingan Mountains. Alex promises to look into the matter, but makes clear of her priorities in erasing this video.

Agreeing to the terms, Mike explains that he can possibly gather enough people to perform a ritual to reverse the Full Cup. Alex gives her approval of the ritual, which is in violation of Lethe protocols surrounding society rituals. Wanting to ensure she finds out where Blake Keely got Merity, Mike turns to Manuscript's wall of urns and gifts Alex some Astrumsalinas, or Starpower. He would later regret giving Alex Starpower, however. Mike would react in anger through text message after she uses Starpower to record Blake Keely enthusiastically eating feces out of a toilet and spread it across campus.

Since members of Manuscript, including Kate Masters, were colluding to secretly grow their own supply of Merity in Yale's greenhouses, it is unclear whether Mike's concern over where Blake Keely received Merity was real. While its possible, he didn't know what Kate and other Manuscript members were up to, it's also possible he could have feigned his concern, confident that Keely wouldn't be able to say where he got Merity and unaware Alex would use the Starpower the way she did.

## Personal Attributes

### Personality

Mike Awolowo is described as having the intense, friendly poise of a daytime talk-show host.

## Reference

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ninth House Chapter 15 (Winter)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ninth House Chapter 10 (Last Fall)
3. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 16 (Winter)
Captain America

## Captain America

### Voice Actor

Trev Broudy

**Captain America**is a playable character in *Marvel Ultimate Alliance*.

## Abilities

* Shield Throw (Projectile)
* Shield Bash (Melee)
* Energy Shield (Radial)
* Shield Charge (Charge)
* Reserve Shield (Boost)
* Heroism (Boost)
* Avenger's Shield (Xtreme)

## Costumes

* Ultimate
* Classic
* US Agent
* WW2

## Conversations

### Act 1:-

* Nick Fury (minor)

* Winter Soldier (before fighting him)
* Nick Fury (minor)
* Nick Fury (minor)
* Nick Fury (minor)

### Act 2:-

* Black Widow (minor)
* Arcade (after battle)
Wolverine

## Wolverine

### Voice Actor

Steve Blum

**Wolverine**is a playable character in *Marvel Ultimate Alliance*.

## Abilities

* Claw Slash (Melee)
* Claw Frenzy (Melee) (Replaces claw slash during berserk rage)
* Lethal Lunge (Charge)
* Certain Death (Melee) (Replaces lethal lunge during berserk rage)
* Eviscerate (Melee)
* Spin Attack (Melee) (Replaces eviscerate during berserk rage)
* Fury (Boost)
* Taunt (Debuff)
* Feral Rage (Xtreme)

## Costumes

* Modern

* Classic

* Astonishing

* Ultimate
Ms. Marvel

## Ms. Marvel

### Voice Actor

April Stewart

**Ms. Marvel**is a playable character in *Marvel Ultimate Alliance*.

## Abilities

* Luminous (Projectile)
* Photon Burst (Projectile)
* Explosive Touch (Special)
* Mega Blast (Radial)
* Prism (Projectile)
* Binary Boost (Boost)
* Cosmic Awareness (Boost)
* Warbird's Wrath (Xtreme)

## Costumes

* Warbird
* Original
* Ventura
* Binary
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Minki

Minki lives in California and works as a stripper at Club Joy. She is a friend of Alex Stern.

## Biography

Minki is employed at Club Joy, one of the worst strip clubs for strippers as they got substandard tips and exploitative treatment from its owner, a man named King King. Minki was the one girl at Club Joy who King King never messed with on account of her self-defense skills.

When Alex was briefly employed at Club Joy, Minki would instruct Alex on how to fight, in particular how to wrap someone taller than you into a chokehold.
Basso Belladonna

## Basso Belladonna

### Effects

energy stimulant

**Basso belladonna** is a potion consumed as eye drops. Acts as a strong stimulant, much like a magical Adderall as it generally makes a person ready to act and productive, and has the notable effect of making one's senses stronger and thus more observant of details. Not to be used as a pain reliever.

## Power and Purpose

Basso belladonna is consumed as one would use eye-drops. With only two drops into each eye, this potion can acts as a strong energy stimulant. Once it kicks in, the person becomes wide-awake—like someone cracking an ice-cold egg on the nape of your neck—and lasts about a couple of hours. Generally makes a person ready to act and productive, and has the notable effect of making one's senses stronger and thus more observant of details.

The positive effects can last hours, however the crash from using Basso Belladonna, is described as brutal—requiring the person to eventually sleep it off.

Basso belladonna does nothing to relieve pain, but actually can almost drive one mad as their brain simultaneously signals that everything was okay and that one can do anything easily but also making one extremely aware of their pain and injury. It also has more of a drugged high effect when taken in an injured state.

## History

Basso belladonna was used by the old boys of Lethe as a hack to get through the day. Alex Stern discovers basso belladonna after Darlington's disappearance in the Lethe Days Diaries. She takes it the morning after she spends the night investigating the scene of Tara Hutchins' murder and again hours later before the crash hits.

When injured at Tara Hutchins' apartment, Alex uses basso belladonna in order to walk out of the apartment with Detective Turner. This was a mistake, as she could feel where her bones were broken, where the blood vessels had burst, and how her capillaries were ruptured.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 5 (Winter).
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 21 (Winter)
Demon

Demons are beings of Hell, a dimension beyond the mortal world and the Veil. Demons torture human souls in Hell, feeding on their emotions; there are demons who feed on human's shame, hopelessness, even joy.

## Overview

### Nature & Behavior

Demons loved puzzles and games in the sense that they have a very strong tendency to operate by presenting a puzzle to their opponents as well as be consumed by puzzles that are presented to them in turn. The reason for their apparent weakness in puzzles is that while they are immensely powerful in what they could accomplish, they are more constrained in their understanding. This causes them to become relentlessly engaged in puzzles and why, although they could create the relatively structurally simple element of gold, they would struggle to even create a complex clock.

Demons are highly manipulative.

When a demon has a specific target they wish to consume, they usually take on a form of someone that they know would psychologically unnerve the victim. This mimic is usually highly effective, even against those who are aware that the demon is not the actual the person being portrayed.

## Abilities

* Strength
* Speed
* Mimicry

## Protective Measures

### Banishing, Harming, Misleading or Trapping

* **Solomon's Knot salt circle**: would keep a demon occupied long enough to banish or entrap further
* **Chains of Silver:** chains of pure silver can entrap a demon
* **Salt:** salt can be used as wards. These wards are weak, but can be strengthened further with one's blood.

## Named Demons

* Golgarot
* Linus Reiter
Sterling Memorial Library

**Sterling Library**, also known as Sterling Memorial Library, is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut. Built in 1931, the library was designed by James Gamble Rogers and funded by Yale alum and lawyer representing Standard Oil, John W. Sterling.

## History

### Development and Reception

John W. Sterling gifted Yale University a 7 million dollar bequest which would not only pay for the Sterling Memorial Library, but the Sterling Hall of Medicine, the Sterling Law Building, and the Divinity school.

The building's original architect was Bertram Goodhue, who set out to continue the Gothic tradition set by the rest of the campus. When Goodhue died suddenly in 1924, the project passed to James Gamble Rogers, the university's consulting architect and former Locksmith.

The building's reception after its opening was mixed, with many people disliking how much the library looked like a church. Some used the term, "cathedral orgy."

## Hell Bent

Alex and Dawes investigate the library using Darlington's encrypted cues to find the secret passage to hell.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Hell Bent* Chapter 10
2. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 12
Conversations

**Conversations** are easter eggs found in *Marvel Ultimate Alliance*. Sometimes a specific hero can have a conversation with Nick Fury, Black widow, etc... There are also conversations between heroes and villains (example: Captain America & Winter Soldier)

## Act 1

### S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier

#### The bridge

* Nick Fury & Captain America
* Nick Fury & Spider Man
* Nick Fury & Wolverine
* Nick Fury & Thor

#### Command Deck

* Bullseye & Elektra
* Bullseye & Daredevil (Without elektra)
Rete Mirabile

Rete Mirabile is a magical net kept in the Lethe armory in Il Bastone. Donated by Book and Snake, the net was used to summon bodies lost at sea. The net was catalogued by Pamela Dawes as Oculus of Lethe House.

## Background

The Rete Mirabile, Latin for "wonderful net," has its origins from the 18th century, when oral history records its creation from Celtic song magics or seidh (specifically the Norse sea giantess Rán). The Rete Mirabile was procured by Book and Snake in 1922.

The net itself is made of ordinary cotton and braided with human tendon.

## Power and Purpose

The rete mirabile was used when a loved one was lost at sea. After being tied to a stake on the shore and thrown into the ocean, a body will appear in the net the next morning. Book and Snake would attempt and fail to use the net to recall specific corpses.
Hell Bent

**Hell Bent** is the second book in the dark fantasy adult Alex Stern series by American author Leigh Bardugo published by Flatiron Books.

## Summary

**Alex Stern returns in another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite…**

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell—even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if Alex is going to survive, she'll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university's very walls.

## Trivia

* The second book of the *Alex Stern* series was originally planned to be entitled, "Gentleman Demon." On her Facebook, author Leigh Bardugo states,

> "This sequel was originally called Gentleman Demon. But once the story was written, the book turned out to be a lot less civilized than that. So, what can you expect from Hell Bent? Dead languages, dead people, dark magic, big grudges, bad behavior, lust, love, literal and figurative demons, and some quality architecture."
>
>

## External Links

 Hell Bent on Wikipedia

 Hell Bent on Goodreads

## References

1. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLeighBardugo (April 25, 2022
Starpower

**Starpower** also known as **Astrumsalinas**, is a silver powdery salt with which only a small amount is needed to ingest in order to become very convincing to people. A part of Manuscript's magical repertoire.

## Power and Purpose

### Origins

A silver powder kept in Manuscript's many urns inside its tomb, Starpower is a salt harvested from a cursed lake, in which the lake bed is covered in the bones of countless men who drowned because they were in love with their own reflections.

### Effects

With only a tiny portion of powder, Starpower makes those who swallow it very convincing for 25 to 40 minutes. For its influence to take hold, the person has to ensure the people they come in contact with hear their voice. People affected by Starpower seek the attention and approval of the person with Starpower, becoming highly suggestible.

When used on an unsuspecting person, Starpower works to greater effect with less of a chance said person will try and find a loop hole around the compulsion.

### Side effects

The taste of Astrumsalinas is extremely fetid and salty. When the effect of the powder starts to wear off, both the user and those subject to the effects of Starpower experience brutal headaches.

## Ninth House

Manuscript delegation president Mike Awolowo lends Alex Stern some Starpower in order to get information as to where Blake Keely got Merity. Alex then compulsed 3 fraternity brothers, one of which was Blake Keely, who revealed after some questioning that he didn't kill Tara Hutchins and that he regularly used Merity to sexually assault women. Alex, in a breach of Lethe House protocols, used Starpower to make Keely literally eat shit out of a clogged toilet in the fraternity house, recording it on his phone and sending it to his numerous contacts.

Blake Keely would attack Pamela and Alex at Il Bastone using Starpower. It was only until later that Alex would find out that it was Dean Elliot Sandow who gave Keely the Astrumsalinas to attack her and Dawes.

In her confrontation of Sandow, Alex would notice too late that Sandow kept filled his tobacco pipe with Astrumsalinas. Dumping the pipe's contents within his mouth, he attempted to halt Alex's movement. However, Alex had the strength of North with her, and was able to resist due to Grays not being affected by Starpower.

## Etymology

Astrum, from the Ancient Greek singular "star"

Salina, from Medieval Latin, "salt pit."
Leigh Bardugo

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**Leigh Bardugo** is the author of the Alex Stern series. She was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Los Angeles. She attended and graduated from Yale University.

## About the Author

Leigh Bardugo is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of fantasy novels and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone Trilogy, the Six of Crows Duology, The Language of Thorns, and King of Scars—with more to come. Her short stories can be found in multiple anthologies, including the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. Her other works include Wonder Woman: Warbringer and Ninth House (Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Fantasy 2019) which is being developed for television by Amazon Studios.

Leigh grew up in Southern California and graduated from Yale University. These days she lives and writes in Los Angeles.

## Bibliography

### Alex Stearns series

1. *Ninth House* (2019)
2. *Hell Bent* (2023)

## Grishaverse series

### Shadow and Bone Trilogy

1. *Shadow and Bone* (2012)
2. *Siege and Storm* (2013)
3. *Ruin and Rising* (2013)

### Six of Crows duology

1. *Six of Crows* (2015)
2. *Crooked Kingdom* (2016)

### King of Scars Duology

1. *King of Scars* (2019)
2. *Rule of Wolves* (2021)

### Shorts & Companion Books

* *The Demon in the Wood* (Shadow & Bone Trilogy, #0.1) (2015)
* *The Tailor* (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1.5) (2013)
* *The Language of Thorns* (Grishaverse, #0.5, 2.5, 2.6) (2017)
* *The Lives of Saints* (Grishaverse) (2020)

## External links

 Leigh Bardugo's Official Site

 Leigh Bardugo on Instagram

 Leigh Bardugo on Twitter (@LBardugo)

 Leigh Bardugo on Goodreads

 Leigh Bardugo on Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ Leigh Bardugo website
2. ↑ Leigh Bardugo Bio
Michael Reyes

**Michael Reyes** was a patient of Yale New Haven Hospital and a former *victima* of a Skull and Bones prognostication.

## Biography

### Early Life

At some point in his life, Michael Reyes was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He has a brother who lives in New Jersey, who is listed as his next of kin.

### Ninth House

During the winter semester, Skull and Bones found Reyes at Yale New Haven Hospital and chose him to be the next victima for this prognostication ritual due to his status as a mentally ill, unhoused man. His brother had signed off on what was supposed to be a routine medical procedure for the treatment of a scarred bowel.

For three days of his stay at Yale New Haven, Reyes was cared for solely by Nurse Jean Gatdula. In that time, he was fed a dove’s heart, geranium root, and a dish of bitter herbs to 'prepare' him for the ritual. Five days after the rite, Nurse Jean Gatdula confirms to Alex that Reyes was recovering well and would be sent to the Columbus House in the next two days. The Columbus House was a shelter far away from Yale's campus.

## References

1. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 1 (Winter)
2. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 23 (Winter)
Robbie Kendall

Robbie Kendall is a student at Yale University and delegation president of Scroll and Key during the events of *Hell Bent*.

## Biography

Robbie Kendall was tapped to Scroll & Key in his second semester of junior year. He would serve as delegation president in his senior year.

Early in his senior year, he would greet Alex Stern and Pamela Dawes on the steps of Scroll and Key, recognizing their positions as Virgil and Oculus of Lethe House. Robbie was reluctant to allow them entrance into the tomb alone, even with Alex's excuse of needing to perform an inspection. After being intimidated, Robbie let them in. He would soon regret that decision when, after hearing an enormous boom, he entered the ritual room to discover everything covered in dark soot and the Scroll & Key ritual table said to be made from the Arthurian round table broken in half.

## Personal Attributes

### Physical Description

Robbie Kendall has blonde hair that's long enough to be surfer-like without being entirely disreputable.
Cosmo

**Cosmo** is Darlington's pet cat. Before living with Darlington, Cosmo would prowl around the grounds of Black Elm. After Darlington's grandfather died, Darlington took in Cosmo officially. During the events of *Ninth House*, Cosmo was cared for by Pamela Dawes and Alex Stern.

In *Hell Bent*, it is revealed that Cosmo inhabited Black Elm at least since the Daniel Arlington III's childhood.

## Physical Appearance

Cosmo is a white cat with streaks of fur. He has mismatched eyes, the pupil of the left marked and described as an inkblot.

## Biography

After Darlington's grandfather died when he was fifteen and Black Elm was signed to his name, Darlington would feed the 'white cat' when Darlington came upon him on the grounds. It is unknown at what point Darlington named Cosmo or when Cosmo began living at Black Elm mansion.

### Hell Bent

When Darlington returned to Black Elm, entrapped in the chalk circle which also guarded him, Cosmo attempted to cross the circle to get to him only for Cosmo's fur to be burned by the shimmering golden wall that encircled Darlington. Cosmo would run downstairs, screeching past and startling Alex and Pamela as they opened the kitchen door and provided an exit to the yard.

## Personality and Traits

Cosmo, despite living as an outside cat, adapted well to living as an inside cat and always desires pets, attention, and company from surrounding humans. Alex describes Cosmo as stupid affectionate. Cosmo is protective of Darlington, as well as Alex and Pamela.

Cosmo enjoys prowling the hedge maze, always returning to the inhabitants of Black Elm with a new scar or a mouse in his mouth with brambles covering his fur.

## Trivia

* Alex internally thinks of him as a Bowie cat, referencing David Bowie's anisocoria and the white wigs he wore in *Labyrinth.*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Ninth House* Chapter 9 (Winter)
2. ↑ Hell Bent Chapter 15
3. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 13 (Last Fall)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Hell Bent* Chapter 7
5. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 2 (Last Fall)
Alex Stern series

**Alex Stern series** is a series of (new) adult science fantasy books by author Leigh Bardugo. The series consists of three main novels as well as one short story (with more expected in the future).

The series follows Galaxy 'Alex' Stern as she begins her first year at Yale University as the incoming "Dante" of the House of Lethe.

## **The Books**

* Ninth House (Book #1) (2019)
* Hell Bent (Book #2) (2023)
* Ninth House (Book #3) (TBA)
Zeb Yarrowman

Zeb Yarrowman is a graduate of Yale University. In *Ninth House*, Zeb Yarrowman commissions Aurelian to conduct an inspiration spell so that Zeb could cure his severe case of writer's block.

## Biography

### Pre-Series

In his junior year at Yale University, Zeb wrote a novel entitled, *The King of Small Places,* a Bildungsroman, or a novel centered with one person's formative years, set against the context of Zeb working at his uncle's failing dairy farm.

*The King of Small Places* was published before Zeb graduated and was considered a hit, particularly garnering praise for its prose. Zeb was considered a prodigious young writer in the New York literary scene for several years.

### Ninth House

It is unknown how Zeb became aware of Aurelian and their magic, whether he was an alumni or one of the many persons who commission for the society's services. In any case, when Zeb paid for an inspiration rite, it had been eight years since he published *The King of Small Places* and he hadn't written anything of note since. He was desperate enough to endure the gore of the ritual, which fortunately for him, was successful despite Grays almost breaching the protection circle and potentially killing everyone in the room.

## Physical Description

Zeb looked young, he was scrawny and had pale skin.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 6 (Last Fall)
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Reveal Harm Ritual

**Reveal Harm Ritual** is a ritual used for diagnosis or for when a person was unable to speak, allowing caster to assess a person's past or current injuries or illness.

## Overview

### Ritual

First, a scarab is placed on the person's tongue. Then, using a wax balm, trace the wax in patterns from the feet, to the shins and thighs, to the stomach and then breasts, to the collarbone, and then to both of the arms, ending at the middle fingers. With more wax, draw a line bisecting the torso to the throat and chin all the way to the crown of the head. Next, with a fire source such as a lighter, hold the flame just above the places where the balm is applied, retracing the paths of wax throughout the body.

The ritual requires the body be alive or recently dead. It is ineffective once rigor mortis has taken place.

### Effects

The ritual results in a faint haze appearing over the skin of the body, in which the effect was denser in certain spots where the body sustained injury. The haze, which was described to "wave and shimmer," served as a map of all the harm done to a person's body.

These denser spots of haze occurs along injuries but also relatively mundane instances of harm, such as tattoos or piercings. When one touches the denser spots of haze, an induced vision occurs in which the observer is placed in the perspective of the person when they sustained an injury.

## History

### Invention

The reveal harm ritual was invented by Girolamo Fracastoro. Fracastoro sought to discover who had poisoned an Italian countess after she had collapsed, foaming at the mouth, at her wedding feast.

### Ninth House

After Tara Hutchins' murder, Alex Stern found the ritual in the Il Bastone library. She used the ritual to try and see who killed Tara Hutchins, whose body was at the morgue.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Ninth House Chapter 8 (Winter)
2. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 7 (Winter)
Gladys O'Donaghue

**Gladys O'Donaghue** is the former maid of Daisy Fanning Whitlock.

## Biography

Gladys was born in the early 19th century to an Irish family in New Haven, Connecticut. She was still young when she was employed by the Whitlock family as a personal maid of Daisy Fanning Whitlock.

Gladys accompanied Daisy when she and Bertram Boyce North visited the new and thriving North & Sons Carriage factory. Although engaged, Daisy was still obliged to have a chaperone. Gladys gave the couple their privacy in the office of the factory, stepping out into the hallway and eventually making her way to stroll among the dogwood trees on the nearby green.

Likely hearing the gunshots, Gladys would return to the office to see the horrific sight of Daisy and North shot dead. Gladys was possessed by Daisy's spirit and she ran screaming up Chapel Street in her stubborn resistance. Gladys' soul was then consumed at the corner of Chapel and High Street, where Skull and Bones would take advantage of the presence of a nexus and construct their tomb at that site later that year.

### Ninth House

Gladys' soul itself was entrapped within Daisy, unable to move on to the afterlife. Her body was used as a vessel by Daisy in her disguise as Marguerite Belbalm, a French woman who as of the 21st century, was employed at Yale University as the Women's Studies professor.

Alex Stern would release Gladys' soul as well as the souls of the other lost girls consumed by Daisy. When Alex summoned forth Daisy's soul out of Gladys' body, the spirit of Gladys and the girls were able to get the revenge and effectively eradicate Daisy's soul.

## Physical Description

Gladys had shining white-blonde hair. She was slender and had a sharp-featured face.

## Trivia

* Gladys' soul tasted sweet.
* Gladys was likely an immigrant or born to an immigrant family.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 *Ninth House* Chapter 31 (Early Spring)
2. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 21 (Winter)
3. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 14 (Winter)
Berzelius

**Berzelius** is the fourth oldest society at Yale University and one of the Houses of the Veil. Berzelius has no specific teachings and was in fact established in protest to the magical emphasis of the other Ancient Eight societies.

## Book Information

* *Motto*:
* *Teachings*: No specific teachings, house was founded in the tradition of its namesake, Jön Jacod Berzelius, the Swedish chemist who created a new system of chemical notation that left the secrecy of alchemists in the past." - Leigh Bardugo

## History

Berzlius, established in 1848, founded their society in direct response to the growing magical presence in New Haven. They claimed the other Houses were charlatans and superstitious and dedicated themselves to investments in new technologies, adhering to the philosophy that the only true magic was science. As such, their tomb does not rest on a nexus.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 2 (Last Fall)
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Marjorie Stephen

Marjorie Stephen was a tenured psychology professor at Yale University.

## Biography

Marjorie Stephen worked in Yale's psychology department for nearly twelve years. She runs a lab at the Yale Department of Psychiatry. In her career, Stephen earned her tenured position at Yale. At some point, Marjorie got married to her husband and raised three grown children. Marjorie liked to hike at Eagle Rock and Sleeping Giant, and she ran every morning.

### Hell Bent

Between 8 and 10 pm on Saturday in October, Marjorie was killed by Golgarot in her small office in Yale's medical library. Golgarot fed on her, and his killing made her corpse look like an 80 year old woman rather than her physically healthy 55 years of age. A night cleaner found the body and called Detective Turner to the scene.

## Physical Appearance

Marjorie had dark brown or black hair she wore in a long braid. She wore glasses that hung from a colorful chain on her neck.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Hell Bent* Chapter 8
Sample Character Article

### Status

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## Trivia

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Dean Beekman

Dean Beekman was an American Studies professor at Yale University.

## Biography

At some point in his life, Dean Beekman married Mariah LeClerc, a professor of French Literature at Yale. The couple had two grown daughters, one a professional and talent cellist and another being a psychiatrist.

## Physical Description

Beekman was known throughout campus for wearing a tweed bucket hat and a Morse scarf.
Address moths

**Address Moths** is a Lethe House tool that is used to absorb and reapply ink. Kept in the second-floor armory of Il Bastone, address moths were originally used to transport classified information. When placed on a document or surface, the address moths, originally white in color, darken as the ink vanishes from the surface until they are all black. Their effect on said surface can be reversed when it comes into contact with human saliva.

## Power and Purpose

### Power

Addresss moths are used to absorb ink. They are placed all across a surface. A person then chants the incantation *'Chabash. Uverat. Memash.*' With each beat of their wings, the ink starts to fade and then entirely vanish from said surface or document. In doing so, the moths turn gray and then darken until they were black and fall from the surface, no longer beating their wings. Filled with the contents of said surface, the address moths are considered 'ink drunk.'

### Purpose

Address moths were originally used for transporting classified material. Once they absorbed the contents of a document, the moths could be transported anywhere in a coat pocket or a box of antiques, blending in with its surroundings. When the contents the moths held were ready to be assessed, the moths were to be placed on a fresh sheet of paper and, after the recipient recited the right incantation, the moths would recreate the original document.

### Limitations

The contents of a paper or surface that were treated with address moths can be recovered and effects reversed when said surface comes into contact with human saliva. Also, when transporting its inky contents, not having the right size surface area can lead to the contents not fitting exactly the same, potentially causing the contents to appear distorted.

Furthermore, there are some limits to how deep the address moths can absorb ink from. When address moths are used to absorb the ink from Alex's tattoos, a person looking very closely would be able to discern the faintest of ridges where the tattooing needle had gone deep into the skin.

## History

Lethe House keeps the address moths in one of the many cabinets of the second-floor armory. They rest in a box that is described as heavy, with gleaming black wood and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Inside the box, one could see the address moths perched in even rows in the box, soft white wings fluttering.
Isabel Andrews

**Isabel Andrews** was a student at Yale University. She was one of the two assistants to Professor Marguerite Belbalm.

## Alex Stern Series

### Ninth House

As her assistant, Isabel organized Professor Belbam's files and calendar and worked Belbalm's salons as kitchen staff. When Alex Stern arrives for her first salon, she assists Isabel in preparing the desserts. Isabel expresses her jealousy that Colin Khatri, Belbalm's other assistant, got to take a break and do a reading. She complains that has worked under Belbalm longer than Colin and that she aced her Women and Industrialism seminar.

Alex subtly asks her questions on Colin's and Dean Elliot Sandow's attendance to Belbalm's salon the night of Tara Hutchins' murder and Isabel confirms that they were at Belbalm's house until well after midnight. She then admits Colin totally deserves to read considering he had to clean up Sandow's drunken mess Belbalm's restroom. She wryly says that Alex has much to look forward to as Belbalm's assistant.

## References

1. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 5 (Winter)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 23 (Winter)
Ellison Nownes

Ellison Nownes was a student at Yale University. He was a divinity student and was known to be a devout Christian. Nownes participated in a series of debates on hell that was featured in *Kittscher’s Daemonologie*. His arguments opposed those presented by atheist and member of Lethe House, Rudolph Kittscher.
Holy Hand

*Evocation cantrip – Homebrew Spell*

* **Casting Time:** 1 action
* **Range:** 120 feet
* **Components:** S
* **Duration:** Concentration, up to 1 hour

A radiant hand springs forth from the folds of your robes grasping at a creature of your choice within range. Make a melee spell attack against the creature's AC. On a hit, the creature is visibly marked by you with a white hand print and once, as a bonus action, you can appear by their side dealing 1d4 radiant damage when you do. This effect ends if the mark is exposed to magical darkness or if you and the creature are no longer on the same plane together.

This spell’s damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
Sveta Myers

Sveta Myers is a graduate student at Yale University. She was a partner of Tara Hutchins and Lance Gressang in the growing of illicit drugs in the greenhouses of the forestry school.

## Biography

### Pre-Series

Sveta Myers is a graduate student at Yale University. Two years before the events of *Ninth House*, Sveta met Tara Hutchins at the forestry school for a plant sale. According to Tara's boyfriend Lance, the pair got on well, both with an interest in community gardening. The pair had sold weed to her for a while, before partnering with her to grow their product, giving her a cut of the sales.

### Ninth House

Sveta frequently snuck Tara into the greenhouse, telling fellow graduates that Tara was a relative. The trio would use a little greenhouse that, after being approached by Kate Masters, was glamoured by Manuscript. Kate approached them for a deal—monetary compensation in exchange for growing Merity. She gave them specific rules about moisture levels and the conditions that would let Merity thrive, however, she would tell them that while Merity was medicinal, it was poisonous, in an attempt to warn them off from touching it. Sveta and Tara worked on creating these optimum conditions, and though it took a while, they Merity started thriving in the greenhouse.

After which, Colin Khatri would approach Tara to grow mushrooms in their greenhouse. Tara would be able to distill the mushrooms to create portal tags. A few days after Tara gets murdered, Sveta would take the rest of the semester off. Before leaving, she cleaned the greenhouse out, destroying any evidence of their illicit activities.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Ninth House* Chapter 23 (Winter)
Josh Zelinski

## John Zelinski

****Josh Zelinski**** was a student at Yale University and president of the Aurelian delegation.

## Biography

### Ninth House

Darlington recognizes Josh from several American studies seminars they took together. Like Darlington, Josh is a senior at Yale University. As delegation president, Josh leads Aurelian rites along with the assigned Emperor, an Aurelian alumna. He participated in the first Aurelian rite of the fall semester, consisting of a inspiration spell for Zeb Yarrowman. There, he would meet Alex Stern. He would later help Lethe House perform a hound dog ritual at Black Elm to summon Darlington back.

## Personal Attributes

### Personality

Josh is described to be a talkative person. He easily gets swept up into what people say.

### Physical Description

Josh Zelinski has a Mohawk, is described as gawky-looking, and favors oversized overalls.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 6 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 25 (Winter)
Yale University

Established in 1701

Motto

**Yale University** is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. The university administration of Yale, specifically the university president, works in conjunction with Lethe House to facilitate the use of magic by the Houses of the Veil in a manner which doesn't harm university interests.

## History

Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Yale is organized into fourteen residential colleges, all named after various well-known alumni.

> *Berkeley, Branford, Davenport, Ezra Stiles, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Grace Hopper, Morse, Pauli Murray, Pierson, Saybrook, Silliman, Timothy, Trumbull.*
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## Real World Information

### History

Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The Collegiate School was renamed Yale College in 1718 to honor the school's largest private benefactor for the first century of its existence, Elihu Yale.