Reverend Theodore Gromely (Parish)

Weight: 190

Apparent Age: 60

Archetype: Mercenary

Preferred Weapon: Cougar Fine Blade

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Bio: Well here we go again, This is another Original that joined the Deaths Hand shortly after his time in shadows was up, and with this man it was a perfect fit. Monsters should play with monsters. Parish may dress like a clergy man and carry a very nice cross and bible. Ya don’t let that fool you, this is where his humanity and niceties end. That Bible conceals a DAOD Needler and that cross conceals a Cougar Fine Blade. Parish is as evil as they come and fitting that he worked almost exclusively with the Professor, Seven, Samael and the Dictator. Parish believes he is a messenger from God sent here to execute the enemies of God, well you would think that would include the Devils he works with, but no. He brings his holy cleansing to the likes of metahumans namely the ungodly elves and trolls. He has no love for the Shamans and the Native Americans basically anyone who does not follow his ideal of Christianity.

         Parish has done some very twisted work in his day, though he is most notably know as the Stalker of the Tir district of Seattle. This district is an elven section where those that hold to the ideology of the Nog group together and live as one away from the humans. You would think that a man like Parish would be easily spotted and dispatched lurking through this area, sadly no he stalked the night and slaughtered families of elves where they stood. Only leaving a prayer card to Samael behind, see a pattern here, He is the reason that that sector know has it’s own police force and check points in an out. His murders there are still unsolved and justice never served for his victims and there families and I doubt it will even be since he is now with the Deaths Hand.

      Parish was involved in a number of operations through his time in the shadows but most notably was the Cleansing Fires this is when a group of runners forcible evicted a group of toxic shamans and spirits from a residential building in the suburban sector of the city. This operation was sanctioned by the UCAS as Toxic shamans are considered to be a threat to mankind, though the sinister Aztec had other plans as well. They needed these shamans destroyed and the area cleansed so they could set up there mystical academy. Well there is no academy and that region still remains today as unhallowed shrine to innocent victims of this unfaithful day.

      The runners hired for this job where The Parish, Seven, Professor, Dictator, Stamps, Zero, Nova, Medusa, Samael and the Ringmaster. you can see where this is going can’t you. These runners where also contacted by Aztec and offered a counter offer to unleash a specific magical explosive device off after they executed the Toxics. Well according to stories they accepted Aztecs offer and took the device with no intentions of setting it off. As Aztec to Parish and Dictator where heathens and needed to be destroyed and not worked with and the others hated Aztec for the Fire and Ice job and as well there work and studies into blood magic. Well They new that once destroyed Aztec would still try to take the location for there academy unless they went above and beyond the call of duty. With this crew that is never good, going above and beyond meant that not only where they going to kill the Toxics they were going to destroy the surrounding homes and buildings basically an urban renewal without giving the home owners and tenants time to escape. So they secretly hired the Ticker with personal funds to make sure that everything went off without a hitch they also gave him the bomb in hopes he could reverse engineer it with help from the Whistler.

     Well the rest is history and that block has been blessed holy ground as it is now a graveyard of rubble and decay. These runners exterminated the toxics and as well the rest of the block and the bombs the ticker set off and Ringmaster Hell Blast made it imposable for rescue workers to do anything other then watch it burn, and since the UCAS was behind it and yes they will denies this claim but the shadows never forget. The runners involved were free of prosecution for the slaughter. Mayor Jones declared the area to be hallowed ground and protected, then had Cardinal O’Neil bless the area. In doing so he forever set this block as hallowed ground and a landmark shrine for those lost on that unfaithful day.

     Parish left the shadows and joined up with the Deaths Hand in 2055 and has been working with them since, he was brought into the Inner Circle and put directly under the Dictator who was currently on his crusade of the middle east, this was right up Parish’s alley as he was told to kill infidels and non believers. He was also given full authority to crucify or hang anyone who stood in his way.

     Parish is currently still with the Deaths Hand I do hope he stays over seas, but with inner circle members being spotted throughout the city I am nervous that he might be returning on a new crusade and this time he will have an army behind him.