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Journal of Daniel Greggory
« on: July 29, 2011, 04:22:08 PM »


Name: Daniel H. Greggory
Birthplace: London, England
Birth: 5/22/1630 AD
Taken: 7/10/1650 AD
Religious Views: Calvinism
Social Class: Merchant
Occupation: Doctor
 Package: Scholarly Mage
Languages: English, Dutch, Latin

Theme Song: The Winter King

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This man is Daniel Hamish Greggory. Medical practitioner, surgeon, and knowledge seeker. Born in London, England in the Lord's year of 1630AD.  He was the fourth son of a Merchant family, which thrived under the East India Trade Company. Along with the coming of the Modern age of the new world.

 His life growing up was rather chaotic, thanks to his siblings. Yet it was a prosperous one, to say the least. When he came to age Daniel enlisted into the New Model Army during the first English Civil War. Where he fought in  the Battle of Torrington, assigned as a Dragoon under Oliver Cromwell. The parliamentarians approached from the east on the evening of 16 February 1646.

In heavy rain and with night falling, they ran into Royalist dragoons and fighting broken out to the east of Torrington. Farifax decided to wait until morning to reconnoiter the Royalist defenses. However, Cromwell's dragoons were sent forward to test the defences and came under fire. Farifax pushed more troops forward in support and a general fight developed. The fighting at the barricades lasted two hours at push of pike.

 At last the Cornish infantry gave way and retreated into the town, where bitter fighting continued. A stray spark ignited the Royalist magazine in Torrington church, where eighty barrels of gunpowder were stored. The explosion destroyed the church, killed all the prisoners held there and narrowly missed killing the General Fairfax. Years later, Daniel's superior Oliver Cromwell would be one of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant and was a member of the Rump Parliament, which selected him to take command of the English campaign in Ireland during 1649–50. The First English civil war left Daniel wonder about the world, and the purpose of humanity in the eyes of god.

 Two years after the war, he would become a medical student. He would study the magic arts thanks to the works of Henrich Agrippa, instead of just medicine. All in a quest to better understand life, and himself. Managing to get his degree, he opened a pharmacy to keep people from prying into his research. Preferring to keep his magical researches and powers secret.

 Many people cannot understand the difference, or refuse to recognize the difference, between scholarly magic and black magic. While the progressive, enlightened thinkers no longer believe in magic at all. Because his power is based entirely on external accouterments, the scholarly mage's soul is free of dealings with evil. What he really seeks is knowledge, not power. Without his books and wands, he is nothing but a scholar.

The night the mist took Daniel, and his familiar Avalon was bitter. England had been under a mysterious fog for almost a week. Rumors of strange killings, and beast about spread like wild fire. Daniel was in his study that night, looking over medical notes, and magic scrolls. The mist rolled into the room via an opened window, snatching him and the cat into it's transparent grasp.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2011, 11:15:02 PM »
                                                                   
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2011, 01:02:52 AM »
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2011, 12:01:53 PM »
                                                                    

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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2011, 03:18:38 PM »
                                                                  

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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2011, 08:11:31 PM »
                                                                  

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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2011, 01:52:15 PM »
                                                                   

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« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2011, 11:31:41 AM »
                                                                     

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« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2011, 01:21:11 PM »
                                                                       

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« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2011, 12:10:13 AM »
                                                                 

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« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2011, 11:09:00 AM »
                                                                  

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« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2011, 04:32:04 PM »
                                                                          

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« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2011, 03:10:16 PM »
                                                                     

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« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2011, 11:16:14 AM »
                                                             

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« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2011, 12:36:01 AM »
                                                                   

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« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2011, 07:15:22 PM »
                                                               

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« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2011, 07:28:48 PM »
                                                           

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« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2011, 11:20:24 AM »
                                                                     

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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2011, 03:05:18 PM »
                                                                             

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