The Reverend Marsh
From Changeling Venue
| Seeming | Beast Swimmerskin |
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| Court | No Court |
| Freehold | Dunasheen |
| Player | Ben Bleach |
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Overview
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Marsh walks like the ocean given form. He stands not tall, but broad, his ragged hair long and soaked to the root, plastered to a weathered face. When he speaks, it is either with the roar of wave break, or the calculating cold of that black, watery abyss. But of all these things, what lingers longest, etched on the memory, is his gaze. His eyes, whether narrowed with disgust or wide with unbridled fervour, always seethe and bubble with fevered intensity. And behind the mask? Needle-teeth scythe beneath oil-slick skin, and those eyes roll like glassy orbs soaked in pitch.
History
On September 3rd, 1939, mere hours after Churchill's declaration of war, a German Type VIIA U-Boat (U-30 under Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp) torpedoed S.S. Athenia, a British Passenger Liner, 250 miles off the northwest coast of Ireland, mistaking her for an armed merchant cruiser. The event would go down in history as the beginning of the war in the Atlantic, but for one of Athenia's crew, it would be the beginning of something quite different...
Crewman Marsh was in the hold avoiding his duties when the torpedoes struck. Within a few chaotic moments, he was swept out through the breach in the hull and into the black of the Atlantic. What the rescue crews from the HMS Electra pulled out of the water, however, wasn't Marsh.
Precisely 40 years and 40 days later, 23rd October 1979, a man dragged himself, bleeding, from the waters of Nigg Bay in Scotland. A man called Marsh.
Associates
Rumours
- Marsh has a Hollow, a church, somewhere deep beneath Nigg Bay.
- He's also taken on the young swimmerskin Reeva as a disciple of sorts. Though she fiercely denies it, he's apparently abused her emotionally and physically.
- In fact, he's shown a keen interest in other Swimmerskins too...
Quotes
"H-he doesn't mean that! Honest, he's just a bit.. it's not his fault! I think he remembers... too much or maybe just something that happened to him... or it's a side effect. He's very very passionate about his faith... I'm really SURE he didn't mean to say that." - Reeva
"... I'm watching him. Oh yes. He chose the wrong tinman's g... He just shouldn't have hurt Reeva, OK? What the hell are you looking at me like that for?" - Steampunk
"He'll be lucky if Steampunk or I catch him. If others do, then may God have mercy upon his soul. If that bastard has one." - Aleksander Sokol
"He'll swear on his life never to hurt Reeva again, or I will end him. And that's all." - Arthur MacAodh
"All I see in his words are Pride, Avarice, and Scorn. He does not do what he do for others, he does it for himself and for the reward hereafter. He does it for the perceived glory of now, and for the awe and recognition he craves. He is not worthy to hold the title of Reverend." - Bishop Grey
"I have now been warned by four people to stay away from Marsh and from what I have heard of him I take such warnings seriously. I do not know what he did to Reeva, but I gather it was not pleasant and I cannot think well of him for that." - Graceful Aline
"That man is dead; his name deserves to sully no more tongues." - Hoffman
"I am undecided" - Cormac the Poet
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