Arkham:Tristan Edward Westmoreland Vandervort: Difference between revisions

* Discover if there is an Elder Thing located around Arkham, and if so offer his services to it.

  * And then learn if there is any remedy he can use to aid the Elder Thing that his family cares for in England.

| '''Money''': $1

It was during the late Middle Ages, soon after his ancestor Andrew earned the title of Earl of Carlisle and took over Naworth Castle, that a coterie of ghouls began to plague his lands. It was to be the first major challenge for the newly appointed Earl, and one that almost broke him and the family. Not wanting to appear weak to his liege, nor to scare the common folk, Andrew and his family had to wage a "silent war" against them. The family suffered severe casulaties, and it was only the discovery of an Elder Thing deep in the cave system under Naworth Castle that finally changed the tide of the war. In their exploration and mapping of the cave system they discovered Gallu-Dingir, a severely weakened and ill Elder Thing. While their first instinct was to consider it a ghoul-created abomination, they refrained from trying to kill it when it tried to converse with them. It had much knowledge of Ancient Ones and their minions, and they learned of the ancient war the Elder Things fought against Ancient Ones.

The Elder Thing Dingir-Abba told them of a small group of lycanthropes which might aid them in their fight against the ghouls. Their first encounter did not go well, and Thomas the second-born son of Andrew perished under the terrible claws of a hot-headed lycanthrope. It was only the action of Hludawiga One-Eye, a mystic of their pack, that led to a stop in what was going to be a massacre. She knew of the Elder Thing, whom she called a minion of the Weaver, and convinced their leader that they now owed the familly a grave debt. It was to be later discovered that the pack was also hard-pressed by the ghouls, despite their impressive individual fighting capabilities, and needed allies. The leader agreed only on condition that at least one family member would be able to beat a series of tests, the last being a chilling test of enduring unspeakable horror. It was surprisingly Andrew's daughter, Eleanor, who succeeded where everyone else failed. She was able to join the lycanthropes as an equal, and their joint forces were able to finally repulse the ghouls from their lands.

* The family has long ties with an Elder Thing they call Gallu-Dingir, which exists in the cave system under their ancestral castle.

* The Elder Thing is ill, though apparently immortal or very long-lived, and no one is quite sure how to heal it.