Veteran (45 experience points)

Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d12, Strength d4, Spirit d8, Vigor d4.

Skills: Fighting d6, Healing d4, Intimidation d8, Investigation d8, Knowledge d6, Knowledge (Occult) d10 + 2, Magick d10, Notice d6, Persuasion d6.

• Charisma: -4
• Pace: 6”
• Parry: 4
• Toughness: 4

Hindrances: Branded, Delusional (Major), Mean.

Edges: Arcane Background (Sorcery), Scholar (Occult).

Powers: Armor, Barrier, Burrow, Curse, Fear.

The apprentice of the cruel necromancer, Roger Simeon, has come into possession of the Necronomicon. The famed English sorcerer John Dee possessed the greatest library of his age, kept at his home in Mortlake. In 1589, Dee returned from the Continent to find it ravaged. His rival, the Queen’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, kept in his employ a number of unsavory characters, including Roger Simeon, who told Walsingham of the dread book in Dee’s library. Walsingham’s agents robbed the library, took possession of the book, and gave it to Roger Simeon. After the events of “The Right Hand of Doom,” the Necronomicon passed to Simeon’s pupil, Samuell Drake.

Samuell Drake belonged to the same family as the illustrious Sir Francis, himself a black-hearted villain whose cruelty Solomon Kane came to know. The Spanish Inquisition captured him and tortured him as a necromancer. When he received the evil book, it found fertile soil in his hate-twisted mind. He became obsessed, utterly consumed by the power of the Great Old One, Yig.

He used his magic to make contact with the snake people, and make deals with them. His book could free their master; they just had to escort him to the location of Yig’s prison. And so, Drake attached himself to the Baron de la Warr, promising him the alliance of the snake people that could fortify his power and allow him to complete his ill-fated bid to become king, by carving out for himself an American empire. But Drake simply uses the Baron’s ambitions towards his own ends; he has his own agenda, one that goes far beyond the Baron’s delusions of grandeur, to threaten us all with cosmic annihilation.