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==== George Gordon, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale ==== | ==== George Gordon, Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale ==== | ||
Lord Byron is one of the more enigmatic figures of the 18th and 19th century - a poet | Lord Byron is one of the more enigmatic figures of the 18th and 19th century - a poet extraordinaire who somewhat famously died in 1824 and his pickled corpse shipped to England. | ||
After he is pressed into service for the [[Star Chamber]] at an early age, Byron's first appointment for the Chamber is a trip through [[Europe]] — given the appearance of a fashionable trek through the continent — to discover the truth of rumours that the [[Mal'akh]] have been gaining a foothold in Eastern Europe and the border between Europe and [[Asia]]. During the journey, Byron encounters the Mal'akh in an incident dubbed the [[Maltese incident]], and leaves the Chamber for [[Faction Paradox]] shortly afterwards. Six years later, Byron is exiled from England and forced to live in the [[Shelley Cabal]]until the Cabal is attacked by the Mal'akh seven years later. | |||
Two years later, Byron supposedly | Two years later, Byron supposedly dies. This death turns out to have actually been actually faked by Byron using a duplicate corpse, with Byron instead moving to the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. Though he is an elder [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] in all but name, Byron's tendencies towards the theatrical grates on the nerves of even the most theatrical of the other Faction members. | ||
==== Ada Byron ==== | ==== Ada Byron ==== | ||
The daughter of Lord Byron, Ada | The daughter of [[Lord Byron]], [[Ada Byron|Ada]], is spirited away from the company of her father by [[Annabella Byron|her mother]]. Ostensibly because she fears that young Ada will begin to emulate the more infamous tendencies of her father, though also due to the orders of the [[Star Chamber]], Ada's mother represses any fanciful influences — most notably poetry — in her young daughter and raises her as a mathematical prodigy. | ||
From a young age, the Star Chamber | From a young age, the Star Chamber recruits Ada and attempts to use her powers to decipher [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s [[Musical Offering]] so as to breach into the [[Eleven-Day Empire]]. She is unsuccessful, but, when the Chamber acquires the loose drafts of schematics for [[Charles Babbage]]'s [[analytical engine]], she sees their potential to solve the puzzle and informs her superiors of it, leading to her transfer to Babbage's retinue undercover as an [[assistant]] with no apparent ulterior motives (later informing him of her true intentions in [[1834]] as previously recounted). | ||
Shortly before she | Shortly before she plans to use the analytical engine, Ada is accosted by [[Lord Byron|her father]] while leaving [[Charles Babbage's London home]]. Ada — not knowing that Byron has become a member of Faction Paradox — unwittingly reveals the existence of the analytical engine and its functions to her miraculously-alive father. After [[Clockwork Ouroboros affair|the disastrous attempt]] to break into the Eleven-Day Empire, Lord Byron goes on to keep his promise to remain in contact with his daughter — either out of fatherly love or so that the Faction could discover any future plans to use Charles Babbage's work to break into their stronghold. | ||
==== Canon per Tonos ==== | ==== Canon per Tonos ==== | ||