Post by sentinel on May 23, 2006 10:54:42 GMT -5
Sentinels' character background
Sentinel was born approximately 15 years before the Secession and the War Between The States. His parents, although wealthy landowners and slaveholders, secretly educated blacks and assisted them in fleeing the South. Sentinel was raised with a passionate hatred of human bondage, and taught to appreciate the diversity of mankind.
Althopugh he did not know of such at the time, Sentinel was a mutant, among the first of his kind. After his parents died, he released the remaining servants (no longer slaves, having been set free), and sought out education. He attended college in New York, then worked in CT, to support himself. At about this time (15 years after the War), he began to realize that he wasn't aging normally. He also realized that he was far stronger than ordinary men. Fearing what might happen should his secrets be found out, he left the North East, and journeyed West with the expanisionist movement. He worked a variety of jobs over the years (indeed, throughout the remainder of the century) from cowhand to oil rig roustabout, to several voyages on fishing boats between California to Alakska. He also managed to complete his Masters degree in history and literature.
Sentinel enlisted in the First World War, and fought in the trenches of Europe. After the war, he remained in Europe for several years, and attended college in London and Paris. Always moving before it could be discovered that he wasn't growing older, he made his way to the East Orient on a steamship (he found he loved working on ships, and learned as much from the crew as he did in any classroom). He spent several years in Japan, although the events leading to the Second World War would cause him to leave for a time, and return after the reconstruction. He spent time in Austrailia and New Zealand, working as a guide, land developer, animal handler, and briefly as a librarian.
Sentinel returned to the U.S.A. in 1955, appearing to be in his late 20s. He turned his studies to the occult, suspecting that there was something supernatural to his longevity and physical power and stamina. By now, Sentinel could lift several tons, and had learned during WWI that his skin was resistant to gunfire. He also seemed to be unaffected by the Mustard Gas used in trench warfare.
He sought out Professor Cyrus Ellicott, a noted teacher at Harvard who was also a parapsychologist, and confided in him. What Sentinel was surprised to learn was that Ellicott had known of Sentinel, and suspected there may be something unusual or perhaps even mystical about the man who seemed to live forever (apparently, Sentinel had not been as careful with concealing his nature and identity as he thought: there were always rumours, tabloids, and urban legends surrounding his trail).
Over the course of the next decade and a half, Sentinel learned that his nature was not mystic, but genetic. At this time, mutants were more common, although they comprised less than 1/10th of 1% of the population of the world. Ellicott and Sentinel battled supernatural menaces and explored occult incidents together. This association took the two around the world, from Egypt to Rome, the Hymalayas, and to Okinawa, where Sentinel earned a Second Degree Black Belt in karate (he studied to better discipline himself and learn to control his strength). Sentinel worked with Ellicott until his death in 1981. He then returned to his childhood home in Virginia, and using forged papers validated his identity as one of his own descendants (although he found this distasteful, and taken steps to insure that it never becomes necessary to do so again), and dicovered that he had amassed a small fortune in early investments and intrest accrued on his land holdings.
In 1998, he aided several super-humans in battling a terrorist group called Chimera, and began to make several appearances on the East Coast as a "super-hero".
Sentinel disappeared sometime in the early 21st Century: although there were no witnesses, he had actually fallen through a Rift.
Sentinel found himself in the time after the apocalypse (105 P.A.). He continues to battle injustice and tyranny there today, alone or with friends. In Ciudad Juarez, he became a Champion of the Arena, aided in battling crime and corruption, Spluglorthian Slavers, and destroying a Vampire Intelligence. He is currently on route to Virginia, to set up a base of operations there
Sentinel was born approximately 15 years before the Secession and the War Between The States. His parents, although wealthy landowners and slaveholders, secretly educated blacks and assisted them in fleeing the South. Sentinel was raised with a passionate hatred of human bondage, and taught to appreciate the diversity of mankind.
Althopugh he did not know of such at the time, Sentinel was a mutant, among the first of his kind. After his parents died, he released the remaining servants (no longer slaves, having been set free), and sought out education. He attended college in New York, then worked in CT, to support himself. At about this time (15 years after the War), he began to realize that he wasn't aging normally. He also realized that he was far stronger than ordinary men. Fearing what might happen should his secrets be found out, he left the North East, and journeyed West with the expanisionist movement. He worked a variety of jobs over the years (indeed, throughout the remainder of the century) from cowhand to oil rig roustabout, to several voyages on fishing boats between California to Alakska. He also managed to complete his Masters degree in history and literature.
Sentinel enlisted in the First World War, and fought in the trenches of Europe. After the war, he remained in Europe for several years, and attended college in London and Paris. Always moving before it could be discovered that he wasn't growing older, he made his way to the East Orient on a steamship (he found he loved working on ships, and learned as much from the crew as he did in any classroom). He spent several years in Japan, although the events leading to the Second World War would cause him to leave for a time, and return after the reconstruction. He spent time in Austrailia and New Zealand, working as a guide, land developer, animal handler, and briefly as a librarian.
Sentinel returned to the U.S.A. in 1955, appearing to be in his late 20s. He turned his studies to the occult, suspecting that there was something supernatural to his longevity and physical power and stamina. By now, Sentinel could lift several tons, and had learned during WWI that his skin was resistant to gunfire. He also seemed to be unaffected by the Mustard Gas used in trench warfare.
He sought out Professor Cyrus Ellicott, a noted teacher at Harvard who was also a parapsychologist, and confided in him. What Sentinel was surprised to learn was that Ellicott had known of Sentinel, and suspected there may be something unusual or perhaps even mystical about the man who seemed to live forever (apparently, Sentinel had not been as careful with concealing his nature and identity as he thought: there were always rumours, tabloids, and urban legends surrounding his trail).
Over the course of the next decade and a half, Sentinel learned that his nature was not mystic, but genetic. At this time, mutants were more common, although they comprised less than 1/10th of 1% of the population of the world. Ellicott and Sentinel battled supernatural menaces and explored occult incidents together. This association took the two around the world, from Egypt to Rome, the Hymalayas, and to Okinawa, where Sentinel earned a Second Degree Black Belt in karate (he studied to better discipline himself and learn to control his strength). Sentinel worked with Ellicott until his death in 1981. He then returned to his childhood home in Virginia, and using forged papers validated his identity as one of his own descendants (although he found this distasteful, and taken steps to insure that it never becomes necessary to do so again), and dicovered that he had amassed a small fortune in early investments and intrest accrued on his land holdings.
In 1998, he aided several super-humans in battling a terrorist group called Chimera, and began to make several appearances on the East Coast as a "super-hero".
Sentinel disappeared sometime in the early 21st Century: although there were no witnesses, he had actually fallen through a Rift.
Sentinel found himself in the time after the apocalypse (105 P.A.). He continues to battle injustice and tyranny there today, alone or with friends. In Ciudad Juarez, he became a Champion of the Arena, aided in battling crime and corruption, Spluglorthian Slavers, and destroying a Vampire Intelligence. He is currently on route to Virginia, to set up a base of operations there
