The Updates

The News

Eternity

OOC Note

Please note that after we receive your eternity, we'll need to discuss it, write up the obituary, and we might have to wait to see what other people decide to do in their eternity before we release your obituary - all this while planning game 2. Furthermore, not all GMs are going to be as quick about writing eternities for their PCs as others, due to holidays and whatnot. Please be patient with us.

The Obituaries

The Beggars

The Cartel

Theatrically speaking, Joakhim thrived both on stage and in the aerial circus. His greatest achievement in the former is I, Tucous (written by, directed by and starring himself), the tragedy of an ancient Lasinian noble who murdered his way to the throne, only to be finally cast down by the son of his victim and a faithful retainer. Children remember him most fondly for his Nick Nastily character from the flying circus, although his "Captain Animal" - an affectionate parody of the late Captain Animo - also became popular.

In 4010 HR, Joakhim was found injured at the scene of a clash between Inmack's Boys and the Dockyard Rats; his lawyers threatened to sue the Horizon Illuminator for suggesting that Joakhim participanted in the battle in disguise on the side of the Boys, but settled out of court. Somewhat unwisely, after being treated for his injuries Joakhim engaged in a week-long narcotic-and-alcohol fuelled romp with his favourite whores, and was found dead on the seventh day - whether this was due to exhaustion or his prior injuries, the ghouls have never specified.

James Ridgway (Joe Crawford)
James Ridgeway took an extended sabbatical from Horizon around the end of the Year of Chaos, acting as the Post's first (and to date last) Irgarim correspondent. This was suspected by many to be related to Ridgeway's involvement in bloody internal politics of the Cartel. Upon returning to Horizon in late 4001 HR, Ridgeway resumed his activites at the DCH with greater vigour than ever. Indeed, by late 4003, Ridgeway was boasting to friends that he had prepared a perfect program to take Horizon to democracy within a decade, and that problems caused by the Versinya plague would only help. Unforunately, the plan was never written down, and even as Ridgeway took the speaker's podium to explain it to the assembled DCH, he collapsed and died, the victim of poisoning. The assassination was blamed by the DCH on Reactionary Forces within the army or government, and by Ridgeway's employers, the Horizon Post, on Verachtlich - worshipping Lizard Sorcerers from beyond the Wall, acting on behalf of the Emperor. The truth, as revealed some years later, was that an Unregistered Spy of Lasinia had poisoned him using a clockwork device concealed in an umberella, in retribution for his intervention in the Revolution.

The Ridgeway Plan, never publicly revealed, was never publicly demonised, and to this day many in the DCH remain convinced that it is the solution to all Horizon's political problems.

Eric Tuco (Julian Lynch)
Was last seen alive in the Riverview Inn on the night of Horizon's Day, when broke the Moon Truce by shooting his successor Azrar Hazar with a gun-cane. Quickly dispatched by underworld justice, his body rotted at the bottom of the Wallspring River, whilst his reputation was torn to shreds by the thinly-veiled satire of I, Tucous.

The Dockyard Rats

Inmack's Boys

Kade Southers (Tamsin Mehew)
Was seen to have lept from a window in the Riverview Tavern on the night of Horizon’s Day into the river below. She could, of course, have not possibly survived, unless she was some kind of fish...

Mrs Hudson (Helen Walter)
The matriarch of the Butcher Street Irregulars continued to work for Inmack's Boys for five years, and died of the Versinya Plague in 4005 HR. A new Hudson was chosen from amongst the ranks of the Boys, and the tradition of the Irregulars and their information broker guardian continues to this day.

Three Families

Rosie de Montague (Nickey Barnard)
The tragic loss of Rosie De Montague was a blow to the whole community. Rosie De Montague, founder of Horizon's first charitable school, had done much in her lifetime for the poor and disadvantaged orphans of Horizon, eventually finding happiness in marriage to Baron de Montague. However, tragedy struck not more than a year after her marriage; Rosie came down with the Versinya Plague due to an outbreak in the Slums, home of many of her students, where she had been using her skills as a physician and her resources as a Baroness of the city to help the plague victims. The Baron swore he would find a cure and departed to the Treacherous Lands in search of one; however, Rosie died alone in the Baron's mansion before he could return.

Watchdogs

No Known Mob Affiliation

Her appearance at the Riverview was later hushed up by the Arcanum Guard, and her official obituary states that she was killed in the explosion caused by the Star-Tower's appearance.

Mia Delan (Lucie Foulston)
Mia's brutal death at the hands of Imperialist bombers was a public tragedy and the funeral of Horizon's brightest young star, held after the Tower Disaster, was attended by all levels of society. Only her brother, Frost, remained conspicuously absent. The death became a common symbol for the cruelty and savagery of the Imperialists, and became a major factor in the slow collapse of the Emperor's Front.

Frost (Chris Venus)
After his arrest at the Riverview Inn, the adventurer known as Frost was later announced to have been exiled beyond the Wall. This was a puzzling result, given that most other individuals associated with the Prime Emergency were "disappeared" or released, having been found innocent. Rumour abounded that Frost had in fact escaped from the maximum security prison, taking with him Gerald Montgomery, and fled beyond the Wall of his own accord. He has not been seen since, though the Dark Avenger is still occasionally "sighted" by newspapers and is thought to have had a part in the assassination of Count Alric Columna.

Kaiya Tanlow (NPC Dependant of Frost and Mia)
With nobody left to watch over her, Kaiya Tanlow found herself once again under the protection of Jeremiah, the family physician. But Jeremiah by now was an old man, and when he died of the Versinya Plague Kaiya found herself out on the streets with the other waifs and strays. There she would have died, had she not been taken in by the Del Orto orphanage. Today she is a mild-mannered air-taxi pilot who only sometimes thinks about her turbulent past.

Janus Voorash (Joe d'Artois)
By Horizon's Day of the Year of Chaos, the true identity of Victor Autoris had become widely known: the assassin and clockworker Janus Voorash, also identified as an Enemy of the Revolution in Lasinia. Voorash had apparently perished horribly in a clockwork wing crash/explosion shortly before Horizon's Day, but rumours persisted for more than a decade of someone matching his description, first in Horizon, then in his native Lasinia. Certainly, his family disappeared from Horizon early in 4001 HR. Such rumours were dramatically substantiated in 4012 HR when reports were received from Lasinia that someone answering to Voorash's description had been killed in a battle with the police. It further emerged that Voorash was one and the same as the Good Reactionary, a Dark Avenger-style figure who had for more than a decade been fighting a one-man campaign against the worst excesses of the revolutionary government. The most puzzling aspect of Voorash's death was that his fatal encounter with the police occurred after the building in which he kept a secret lair was burnt by a mob, each of whom had dreamed that "something awful" lay within.

James Bisley (Mark Jenkins)
After the mysterious disappearance of Rosalind Joyce, a Tyler of the Guild, Bisley stepped in to fill her shoes and became instrumental in orchestrating peace between the Clockwork Guild and the Grey Order. The first member of the Guild to publically join the Grey Order, Bisley came up against violent opposition from assorted cliques in the Guild and the Order, but eventually was able to create a compromise that, while not pleasing everybody, at least managed to annoy both sides little enough to succeed.

As a clockworker, Bisley continued to flourish, producing such innovations as the Pitch Tuner before being seduced, like so many other clockworkers before him, by the goal of a clockwork simulacrum of a human being. His work on this began to absorb his life, causing him to gradually withdraw from the Guild, the Order and eventually all of society, retiring to a remote house in the Treacherous Lands to concentrate all his efforts into the project. He was never seen again.

Danny Trevithick (Mark Booth)
Danny, now a minor celebrity after his pioneering of the air-taxi, continued to operate and promote Grey Technology in general and the flying taxi in particular until, several years later, papers were put into circulation revealing him to be a high-ranking member of the Grey Order.

He was forced to abandon his "undercover" job as a taxi driver, though he still kept the prototype model for his own private use. Trevithick instead turned to political means to promote Grey Technology, using his working-class background to attempt to bridge the gap between the Steam Union and the Grey Order, his greatest achievement in these years being the brokering of the 4010 HR contract leasing a fleet of flying taxis to the Irgarim capital of Uthelm. In 4015 he retired comfortably into obscurity and passed away peacefully in his sleep several years later.

Baron Hieronymous Caius Frederick de Montague (Francis Travers)
The Baron, having restored his title, quickly became a hero of the people and was mobbed by fans wherever he went. He married his true love, Rosie Del Orto, the disgraced daughter of Duke del Orto and all would have gone on happily ever after if Rosie had not caught the Versinya Plague. As she lay on her deathbed the Baron left the city and went to the Treacherous Lands in search of a cure; however, Rosie died before he found one. On hearing of her death the Baron declared he would not return and began to explore the Treacherous Lands, sending letters back to the Imperial University's cartography department detailing his discoveries and enclosing maps of the areas he explored. Over the years these letters became less and less frequent, until they eventually stopped coming. The Baron is presumed dead, but that presumption has been made before...

Professor Merriman Atten (Andrew Currall)
Professor Atten was arrested on the charge of high treason on Horizon's Day at the end of the Year of Chaos. He shortly after that proved his innocence, and was released, although he was kept under close scrutiny for several years afterwards. He repeatedly applied for an Alchemist's Licence, but kept being rejected owing to the government's suspicions. However, Professor Atten eventually acquired his licence with the aid of his peers in the alchemical faculty of the Imperial University. After this, Professor Atten retired to the quiet life of an intellectual, attending high table and giving lectures less and less until he eventually stopped appearing in public altogether. He is presumed dead but nobody has really put much effort into trying to determine if this is so or not.