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Edwards

2006-09-10T07:31:20Z

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Edwards was one of the men who met regularly with [[Alexander Roby]] in late 1925. This information came from both [[Delia Morrison]] and [[Vincent Tuck]]. The group also included [[Lawrence Bacon]], [[Malcolm Quarrie]] and possibly a man called [[Coombes]].

Aged about 40, neatly-dressed and sporting a beard and moustache, Edwards lived alone in short-term lodgings at 50 Berriman Road in Islington. Neither Delia, nor Tuck found out his first name. He spent his time in the library and meeting the other men, and despite driving a car did not appear to be employed.

Referred to by [[Alexander Roby]] during his monologue to [[Dr Bartlett]], Roby said the following:

- Edwards told Roby to work only with him.

- Roby and Edwards were in some way opposed to, or in disagreement with [[Malcolm Quarrie]].

- Roby also says 'What Edwards and I are doing now harms no one.'

After the disappearance of Alexander Roby and Nurse [[Evans]] from [[St Agnes Asylum]] it was discovered that his full name is '''Montague Edwards''' and that he had been at the Asylum all along, posing as Nurse Mark [[Evans]].

The [http://www.artistmonkey.com/Downloads/17_Bacons_Obituary.pdf obituary] of [[Lawrence Bacon]] printed in Occult magazine refers to Edwards as the "Laird of Mullardoch" which ties him to [[Loch Mullardoch]] in Scotland.

Edwards had a reader's ticket for the British Library, for which his references were [[Malcolm Quarrie]] and Dr Schwabe, his former teacher. Schwabe remembered Edwards and was able to give a little more information about him.

As a young man Edwards attended the Slade School of Fine Arts, but showed no real desire to graduate or exhibit, despite his talent. He dropped out in 1907 and seems to have disappeared from society.

While at Slade he saw slides of the 1907 Oxford University dig at [[Springer Mound]] and seemed to show great interest in them.

As witnessed by the investigators in [[Carcosa]], and explained by Roby, Edwards had come away from encountering [[Hastur]] on Springer Mound with an unnatural ability to regenerate from the effects of physical damage, which he had refined into a particularly bloody form of masochism. This seems to explain the large amounts of blood found at the scenes of the Asylum murders, and [[Lucius Harriwell]]'s stories of the Devil being covered in cuts.

There can be no doubt that Montague Edwards was the Asylum killer.

==His Death==

In December 1928 Edwards took [[Alexander Roby]] to [[Loch Mullardoch]] and called Carcosa to Earth. On the 10th of December, while attempting to summon [[Hastur]], Edwards was foiled by Roby, apparently using [[the Chime of Tezchaptl]] and his blasted corpse was hurled back to the real world, where it was discovered in Mullardoch House.

Shortly after this, the corpse changed into a hideous scaly form with boneless arms and attacked [[Nathaniel Browne]], who was saved by [[Bartlett]] and [[Withers]]. After being pinned to the wall with a garden fork, the creature was finally killed with a rifle bullet through the brain, after which Edwards was apparently finally dead. His hideously disfigured corpse has been explained by the police as the result of being attacked with acid, probably by Roby.

Lucius Harriwell

2006-09-10T07:30:20Z

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Harriwell is an inmate of [[St Agnes Asylum]], and lives in the cell next door to [[Alexander Roby]]. He is a brain-damaged lunatic who is likely to be institutionalised until his death.

Harriwell was a witness to, and possible suspect in, the brutal murder of [[Cuthbert Yates]], who was killed in Harriwell's cell on November 27th 1927. Harriwell claims the killer was 'the Devil'. The asylum staff insist Harriwell is incapable of violence.

After the murder of [[Thomas Clarke]], Harriwell approached [[Dr. Bartlett]] with a bloody knife, blaming 'the devil' for the murder. [[Dr. Charles Highsmith]] rendered Harriwell unconscious with a fire extinguisher, and Harriwell has been arrested for all 3 [[St Agnes Asylum]] murders, despite his status as legally incompetent to stand trial.

His most likely fate was to be incarceration at the Broadmoor Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

After [[Dr. Bartlett]] testified that he had been attacked by [[Alexander Roby]] in Scotland, and [[Montague Edwards]] was identified as the true identity of nurse [[Evans]], Harriwell was moved back to his old cell to live out his days in familiar surroundings.

Nepal

2006-09-10T07:25:15Z

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Nepal is a mountainous landlocked country between [[India]] and Tibet. The border with Tibet is along the line of the Himalayan mountains and Nepal contains 8 of the world's highest mountains. The single highest mountain, Everest, lies half in Nepal and half in Tibet. The Nepalese ''Sherpa'' people are skilled mountain guides.

The terrain and climate of Nepal varies with altitude, the Southern plains being relatively low-lying and lush, with the Northern highlands being cold and arid.

Nepal was granted its independence from the British Empire in 1923 after a long history of supporting the British in conflicts ranging from the Sepoy rebellion to the Great War. Despite this friendship Nepal has long been closed to foreigners, and those who do enter, such as diplomats and trade representatives do so by invitation of the Nepalese government and rarely see any of the country outside the capital, Kathmandu.

Nepalese culture is influenced by Tibetan culture in its Northern provinces, but these are sparesely populated and the vast majority of Nepalese are Hindu with a culture very much like that of India. Despite this Hindu domination, Nepal was the birthplace of the ''Buddha'', Prince Siddharta, and there is a sizable Buddhist minority in the North.

In the North of the country can be found the little-known, sparsely populated kingdom of [[Mustang]], which is the likely destination of [[Malcolm Quarrie]]'s [[Pilgrimage of Grace]].

Nepal

2006-09-10T07:24:26Z

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[[Image:Nepal.jpg|right]]

Nepal is a mountainous landlocked country between [[India]] and Tibet. The border with Tibet is along the line of the Himalayan mountains and Nepal contains 8 of the world's highest mountains. The single highest mountain, Everest, lies half in Nepal and half in Tibet. The Nepalese ''Sherpa'' people are skilled mountain guides.

The terrain and climate of Nepal varies with altitude, the Southern plains beinf relatively low-lying and lush, with the Northern highlands being cold and arid.

Nepal was granted its independence from the British Empire in 1923 after a long history of supporting the British in conflicts ranging from the Sepoy rebellion to the Great War. Despite this friendship Nepal has long been closed to foreigners, and those who do enter, such as diplomats and trade representatives do so by invitation of the Nepalese government and rarely see any of the country outside the capital, Kathmandu.

Nepalese culture is influenced by Tibetan culture in its Northern provinces, but these are sparesely populated and the vast majority of Nepalese are Hindu with a culture very much like that of India. Despite this Hindu domination, Nepal was the birthplace of the ''Buddha'', Prince Siddharta, and there is a sizable Buddhist minority in the North.

In the North of the country can be found the little-known, sparsely populated kingdom of [[Mustang]], which is the likely destination of [[Malcolm Quarrie]]'s [[Pilgrimage of Grace]].