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  Nobility & Middle Class 
  Disowned French Noble: Your family 
  supported Napoleon III but with the rise of 
  the 3rd Republic, you had to flee to Eng-
  land. You hate the Republicans for disown-
  ing you and the Germans for ousting Napo-
  leon. For the time being, you have decided 
  to build up connections with the Rippers to 
  gain the power to topple the French gov-
  ernment. 
  Samurai Traveller: The Daimyo of the 
  Kyoto lodge sent you to England to learn 
  more about the ways of the Gaijin. You are 
  eager to work with others and are quite 
  fascinated by the modern ways of the Eng-
  lish. 
  Swiss Doctor: When your friend Henri 
  Durant asked your help in founding an 
  international organization dedicated to 
  tending the wounded on the battlefield, you 
  did not hesitate. For several years, you 
  travelled the war zones around the world 
  until you had an almost-deadly encounter 
  with a werewolf. Saved by a Ripper, you 
  have decided to join that organization and 
  heal soldiers on that clandestine battlefield. 
  Your humanistic ethos makes you a valu-
  able anchor of sanity in any lodge.  
  Scottish Alienist: The human psyche has 
  always fascinated you and when you heard 
  that there are supernatural creatures, you 
  jumped at the chance to have a look at that 
  new phenomenon. A researcher to the 
  heart, you are always willing to explore 
  new things and to gain hidden knowledge.  
  Men of Action 
  Southern Plantation Owner: You were 
  25, when the defeat of General Lee ended 
  the Confederate lifestyle. Your family lost 
  their ancestral home and you became a 
  gunman in the slowly dying West. When 
  an old friend of the family, the Scottish 
  Lord Illingsworth offered you a chance to 
  use your old soldering skills for a worthy 
  cause, it took you little time to sign up. 
  Papal Soldier: When Rome was finally 
  invaded in 1870 by the Piedmont-led 
  forces which had united the rest of Italy, 
  your battalion fought to the last man to 
  defend the pope. However, the war was 
  lost and Italy finally united. Seeing no fu-
  ture in a secular state, you left Italy. Years 
  later, a Jesuit approached you and asked 
  you to join the Order of St. George to bat-
  tle supernatural threats. As a loyal servant 
  of the Pope, you accepted immediately.  
  Young British Soldier: You were there, at 
  the Battle of Maiwand (1880). You were 
  only 16 and full of vigor but the battle 
  ended in a serious defeat of the British 
  Army. Seriously wounded, you were dis-
  charged from the army due to your bad leg. 
  As you are still young, you have pledged 
  your saber to the service of Lord 
  Illingsworth, a fatherly figure and also a 
  veteran of Afghanistan (although of an-
  other war). 
  Big Game Hunter: Most of your life, you 
  have traveled from one exotic country to 
  the other, always hunting for bigger and 
  more dangerous beasts. After years, you 
  thought there was no new challenge. This 
  opinion changed, when your father’s old 
  school friend Lord Illingsworth offered 
  you an interesting employment opportu-
  nity… 
  Victims of Fate 
  Saucy Jack: Jack the Ripper abducted you 
  in the streets and implanted you with Rip-
  pertech as well as a tiny piece of his brain. 
  This turned you into a monster until the 
  London lodge was able to capture you and 
  remove the brain tissue. You are now eager 
  to get your revenge and track down Jack, 
  who did all this to you. While the patho-
  logical hatred for women is gone, you still 
  feel a bit uneasy around the fair sex. 
  
   
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  Occult Researcher: All your life you have 
  been fascinated by the occult. However, 
  this hobby turned into serious business 
  when you accidentally conjured a demon 
  from Hell. You were able to flee but ever 
  since you have heard tales of the foul mon-
  sters evil deeds. Driven by guilt, you have 
  decided to join the Rippers in their fight 
  against the supernatural always hoping to 
  catch up with you botched experiment. 
  Vampire Hunter: You were a young and 
  promising merchant in the company of 
  your father. Everything looked great and 
  you were about to marry, when business 
  brought and your fiancée to Istanbul. 
  There, entranced by the charms of a for-
  eign nobleman, your loved one turned into 
  a hedonistic woman of ill repute and fi-
  nally into a Vampire Concubine. Ever 
  since, you have hated the undead. You 
  have learned everything you could about 
  Vampires and your wooden stake is ready 
  to destroy this menace once and for all. 
  Naïve Monk: For years you lived in a 
  monastery near Prague. Your life consisted 
  of prayer and study of the bible. It took 
  you 30 years to realize that your brothers 
  were not so pious. While you kept vigil in 
  the scriptorium, others committed foul rites 
  in the name of Satan, consorting with de-
  mons and women from the worst quarters 
  of Prague. Driven into holy rage, you burnt 
  the monastery to the ground and fled. 
  However, even after a year, you still won-
  der why they had you in the same order 
  and what the strange rune tattoo on the 
  palm of your hand means. 
  Haunted Dandy: You had the good life of 
  a dandy, until the dreams started. Dreams 
  in which you committed unspeakable 
  crimes. At first you thought they were hor-
  rible nightmares, but soon the papers told 
  you differently. In your dreams, you ex-
  perienced fragments of the waking life of a 
  Vampire. You soon found out that appar-
  ently, the Count in turn experiences parts 
  of your idle existence. Gifted and cursed at 
  the same time, you joined up with a local 
  Ripper lodge, always complaining about 
  the exhausting lifestyle. 
  Warlocks and Holy Men 
  Yoga Master: Out of boredom, you joined 
  a circle of British Gentlemen in your club 
  that took up the art of Yoga. Exploring 
  more and more esoteric texts, you gained 
  an impressive level of control over body 
  and mind. One day, you even had a vision 
  of a dark future, where man was the slave 
  of foul creatures of darkness. As a patriot 
  and upright Gentleman, you took it upon 
  you to seek others that wish to prevent this 
  future. After two years of searching, you 
  joined a Ripper lodge. 
  Reluctant Mage: When your uncle, a 
  Rosicrucian, approached you at the age of 
  15 and told you that you had a great gift 
  for magic, you were scared. Even though 
  you took up the family tradition, the use of 
  magic has always been frightening for you. 
  Unwilling to use it in the form of spells or 
  relics, circumstances tend you force you to 
  use it nevertheless, especially now that you 
  have joined the Rippers. 
  Rabbi: Being a Jew has never been easy in 
  Eastern Europe. Gifted with a great sense 
  of responsibility, you took it upon you to 
  act as a shepherd for your people. As a 
  way to relax, you studied the Kabala and 
  learned many supernatural secrets. It came 
  as a great surprise to you, when, one day, a 
  Jesuit knocked at your door and invited 
  you to join the Order of St. George. Reluc-
  tant at first to throw your lot with the Go-
  jim, you have come to appreciate your new 
  friend and now put your skills at the ser-
  vice of the Rippers. 
   
   
  
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