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Hey everyone! I'm Charlie, and I might have written with you a few times in the past (I've been doing this forever and am ancient). I currently have only one character, but I've got a couple other rumbling around in the skull.
This is Joseph Teague. Former teacher, writer, historian, World War I veteran, formerly dead man, and psychopomp. The tl;dr of his story is that he was born back in the day in rural Georgia and was going to school for history when he was drafted into the army. When he was in Europe, his luck ran out and he was a casualty of one of the last battles of the war. While dead, something came to him and made him a deal to return to life--as long as the creature could come with him and he would help do what was necessary. With a wife and child, he didn't even really blink before agreeing. Ever since then, he has been all over and dealing with having some sort of alien entity of death as a constant passenger in his mind and soul. After the first forty or fifty years, he started living under alternate identities and working as a writer of paranormal studies and histories around American culture.
In truth, day-to-day, he uses his abilities as either an exorcist or to help ghosts pass on to their final rest (something that he knows nothing about). He can naturally see and communicate with restless spirits all the time, but he has to work on clearing up their business and fetters to the living world before he can send them on their way. He can also physically enter the Shadow (the metaphysical representation of the world on the other side of the Veil) or the Underworld (exactly what it sounds like, the real deal Afterlife) with varying degrees of effort. This opens up all sorts of interesting perks (lost treasure and information) and dangers (mad ghosts and worse things Below) to him.
So, interested in people who might know him through a network of those relating to the restless dead or who have studied ancient texts of the Underworld. Maybe some people who met him in the decades prior. Others who might have use of someone of his particular necromantically-inclined abilities.
This is Joseph Teague. Former teacher, writer, historian, World War I veteran, formerly dead man, and psychopomp. The tl;dr of his story is that he was born back in the day in rural Georgia and was going to school for history when he was drafted into the army. When he was in Europe, his luck ran out and he was a casualty of one of the last battles of the war. While dead, something came to him and made him a deal to return to life--as long as the creature could come with him and he would help do what was necessary. With a wife and child, he didn't even really blink before agreeing. Ever since then, he has been all over and dealing with having some sort of alien entity of death as a constant passenger in his mind and soul. After the first forty or fifty years, he started living under alternate identities and working as a writer of paranormal studies and histories around American culture.
In truth, day-to-day, he uses his abilities as either an exorcist or to help ghosts pass on to their final rest (something that he knows nothing about). He can naturally see and communicate with restless spirits all the time, but he has to work on clearing up their business and fetters to the living world before he can send them on their way. He can also physically enter the Shadow (the metaphysical representation of the world on the other side of the Veil) or the Underworld (exactly what it sounds like, the real deal Afterlife) with varying degrees of effort. This opens up all sorts of interesting perks (lost treasure and information) and dangers (mad ghosts and worse things Below) to him.
So, interested in people who might know him through a network of those relating to the restless dead or who have studied ancient texts of the Underworld. Maybe some people who met him in the decades prior. Others who might have use of someone of his particular necromantically-inclined abilities.