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CRAIG BOWER
By: 22639 Date: September 30, 2011, 6:57 am
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Full Name: Craig Bower
DOB: 8/26/1895
Apparent Age: 25-30 yrs. old
True Age: 113
Sex: Male
Hair color : Blond
Eye Color: blue
Height : 5’9”
Weight: 195 lbs.
Nationality: Canadian
Residence: Seacouver, Washington
Teacher: Darius
Watcher: Unknown
Languages: English
Personality: Funny; loves practical jokes; quiet; sometimes,
somewhat shy; intelligent; chivalrous; gentle; romantic; loves
life.
Any Special Skills: 4th degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Excellent marksman with all firearms & cross bow.
Participation in The Game (Good, Evil, Neutral): Good
Number of Quickenings: 174
Weapon of Choice: Sword of Light & Smith + Wesson 357 Magnum
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History: Craig was born in the Northwestern Territories, what
is now known as Alberta, Canada in 1895. His father worked for
the Canadian Pacific Railway laying track until he was killed by
a landslide when Craig was two. Six months later, Craig’s mother
committed suicide. The Mounty that discovered Craig’s mother’s
body (after neighbors reported that a baby had been crying
constantly for four hours) took Craig home and he and his wife,
although never officially adopting Craig, raised him as their
own. Craig grew to idolize his new “dad” and many times would
ride behind him on his horse when his “father”, a Northwest
Canadian Mounted Policeman, rode patrol of the small town
outside of Calgary.
A month before Craig’s fourteenth birthday, his “father” was
shot and killed in the line of duty. Although he and his
“mother” lived alone, Craig was not without adult male influence
because he had become so popular with his “father’s” co-workers
that they took over in his “father’s” absence. For Craig’s
fifteenth birthday three of his “uncles” got together and gave
him a hunting rifle and taught him how to use it. They had
already taken him hunting with them a few times, but that year
he became one of them and went every on every trip they made.
By the next year he was good enough to go on his own.
Three months after his sixteenth birthday Craig and another boy
his age went into the mountains to hunt elk. The two boys came
face to face with a very large grizzly. Before Craig or his
friend could get a shot off, the bear attacked Craig and mauled
him to death. Craig’s friend finally managed to get a shot off
and the bear ran off into the woods. When Craig’s friend
realized that Craig was dead, he tried to drag his friend home.
He only managed to drag Craig about half way before becoming too
exhausted. So he left Craig in a small cave on the side of the
mountain and hiked the rest of the way to get help. But by the
time he, his own father and a couple of his father’s friends got
back up the mountain to the cave where he had left Craig,
Craig’s body was gone. They marked it up to either the bear
that had attacked them or another bear carting the body off to
their den to feed on since bear’s hibernation season was not far
off. Craig’s “mother” buried an empty casket next to her
husband.
Craig awoke confused and afraid. He had no idea what had
happened to him, only that he was somewhere in the mountains and
alone. He wandered around the forest dazed and confused for
several hours before coming across a small Blackfoot village.
Cold, scared and hungry he staggered into the village where he
passed out. The village’s Shaman took him into his tepee to
dress his wounds (many of which had not healed yet) and feed
him. The Shaman was not totally surprised to see Craig’s wounds
heal themselves in the few hours that Craig remained unconscious
for he had seen this once before when it had happened to one of
his own people. When Craig regained consciousness, the Shaman
fed him and tried to communicate to him what he was, but Craig
was unable to fully understand. He stayed only a couple of days
in the village and then, feeling stronger, left to return to his
home and his “mother”. He came to grips with what the Shaman had
been telling him when he arrived in town during his own funeral
and burial. Knowing that his appearance would cause more harm
than good, Craig left town, un-noticed, and went back to the
Blackfoot village and the Shaman, not knowing what else to do.
The village council, however, would not okay the white boy
staying with them, for fear that there might be repercussions.
So the Shaman gave him a horse, clothes and some supplies and
sent him on his way.
Craig traveled south and across the border into the US. Unable
to find work in Montana he moved on to Wyoming where he got a
job helping to build the Pathfinder Reservoir. That job lasted
one year and when the reservoir was completed, Craig went to
work for a cattle rancher nearer to Casper.
When the US entered World War I in 1914, Craig enlisted in the
Army and was immediately sent to Europe. Craig’s platoon was
ambushed on a small country road in France, and slaughtered.
Craig woke up as the Germans were throwing the US soldiers’
bodies into a large hole to be buried. He scrambled to freedom
and ran, hiding in barns and abandoned houses, and ended up
taking refuge in a small church, which is where he met Darius.
Craig stayed with Darius and trained until 1918 when peace was
declared ending WW I. Then, with Darius’s blessing, he returned
to US soil. Knowing he was now considered dead in Canada and to
his friends in Wyoming, Craig decided to settle in Philadelphia
where he became a policeman and met his wife, Chalinar, an
Immortal.
Chalinar was a very talented aspiring ballerina when they met.
They married in 1919 and in 1920 she was invited to join the
Philadelphia Ballet becoming one of their top Prima Ballerinas.
And, although her membership with the company took her away from
home a lot, Craig supported her and encouraged her talent and
their marriage was a strong one.
Since leaving his mentor, Craig had managed to stay out of the
Game enough that his challenges were few, averaging about two a
year. But because Chalinar’s life was spent in the limelight,
she was not quite so lucky. She was good, though and always
returned home to Craig as the victor until 1927 when she finally
met her match and was beheaded. Shattered by his loss, Craig
left the police force and Philadelphia. He became a wanderer,
and a drunk.
In 1945, during a bad case of the DTs, Craig saw Chalinar and
she told him how disappointed she was in him and how he was
wasting his life. When he became lucid, Craig made the decision
to climb out of the bottle, found a private hospital
knowledgeable in detoxification and checked himself in.
In 1946, Craig joined the police force in Chicago where he
became a detective and worked until getting shot by a perp and
killed in 1951. He went “underground” and returned to France
where he searched for his mentor. He found Darius in Paris and
stayed with him in the monastery until 1953. He then returned
to the US, briefly, on his way to Canada, where he settled in
Lethbridge, Alberta and joined the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police.
In 1963, Craig responded to a call from a citizen who claimed
they saw two men battling with swords and they believed one man
had been decapitated. He arrived on the scene just after the
Quickening had ended and the young victor (and obviously new to
the Game) ran away in fear, leaving the decapitated body of his
opponent. Craig, understanding the situation, proceeded to
dispose of the body and most of the evidence. But his efforts
did not go un-noticed and the person who had watched him
happened to be a reporter for the local newspaper. The next
morning the incident hit the front page and was widely read
creating a major scandal in the RCMP. Craig was forced to
resign and black-balled from working in law enforcement both in
Canada and the US.
Craig left Canada and returned to the US, traveling the country
aimlessly for two years. He finally settled down in New York
City and went to work for a private investigator. He learned
the ropes of private investigating and in 1970 opened his own
agency. By 1980 he had become successful enough to hire two
other PIs and in 1984 he opened a second office in Los Angeles
that had four investigators working for him. Then in 1990 he
opened a third office in St. Louis. He settled in St. Louis.
In 2002, Craig’s agency was brought a case by a grieving widow.
Her husband, a renowned cardiac surgeon had been attacked by a
man who had amputated the surgeon’s hands just above the wrists
making it impossible for him to ever perform surgery again.
This caused her husband such grief that he ended up taking his
own life. The attack had never been reported to the police so
the assailant had gotten away with his crime. The widow would
not give any specific reason as to why the police had not been
told, only that her husband had had very good reasons. The
young PI who the widow has spoken to initially became curious
about this and, before considering to take the case, did a
little investigating on his own. When he discovered that the
method of suicide the doctor had used was self-decapitation he
brought the case to his boss’s attention. Something sparked
inside of Craig, something familiar. So he went to the widow’s
house and spoke to her in private. He was able to gain her
trust and she then admitted that her husband had been an
Immortal and that his attacker was also an Immortal. She
explained to Craig that the Immortal who had mutilated her
husband had no intention of killing him and that her and her
husband had determined that her husband’s assailant was exacting
some sort of revenge either for himself or someone else, but
they never were able to determine who or why exactly. That was
why they couldn’t report it to the police and that was why her
husband couldn’t face eternal life disabled as he was, taking
his own life the only way he could. But she wanted the assailant
found and brought to justice. So Craig agreed to take the case.
By 2003, Craig had tracked his prey to the West Coast and back
again and had discovered three more cases in which this maniac
Immortal had sought out Immortals and mutilated them, leaving
them alive, but unable to continue doing whatever had been their
reason for staying alive. The trail lead Craig to New York
City in 2005 but he lost him. He opened the Bower Agency in the
Big Apple.
In 2008 he once again picked up the trail of his prey and it
lead him to the city of Seacouver, Washington.
Played by Candy
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