Kellan The Vampire
The son of German immigrants, Kellan came into employment at the Maramec Iron Works, enjoying its most prosperous days when founder Thomas James’ son William overtook operations during the American Civil War. During his tenure, Kellan was tragically cursed in the springtime of his life, surviving the attack of a French vampire, Gérard, who was traveling up from the Confederate South, for which Emperor Napoleon III was sympathetic.
Before Kellan was able to kill Gérard, his condition was exposed by a fellow Iron Works employee. Fleeing from a lynch mob that had assembled to kill him, Kellan swam beneath the Spring to evade pursuit, mistakenly swimming through the open portal to arrive in the present day and unable to return and end his curse by killing Gerard.
Stepping out of the first North American Industrial Revolution into the Modern age of quantum computers, Kellan can hardly blend with the local citizenry due to his ghastly countenance and reckless behavior- desperate to return and avenge the curse of his tormentor. The monster ruthlessly begins terrorizing the surrounding townships, leaving a trail of blood in his wake!
-The Night Watchman, CM Shaw 2024
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