Josephine's Allies & Adversaries
An ongoing record of the people Josephine encounters in her adventures, clanestine or otherwise.
Allies[edit]
Katherine Elizabeth Meridian Fleming - The Forgetful Heiress – Middle upper-class Eldren Adventuress - 14 Aug 1867
Dionysius Beignet– The Faithful Butler and Crack shot. Not a Hobbit, a Halfling - 14 Aug 1867
Ezekiel Michael Drake – The Egalitarian Eccentric – Noted Chartist and Museum trustee - 14 Aug 1867
Flora Spenser– The Kept Woman with the lost memory– Noted Worker in the Eldest of professions - 14 Aug 1867
Bertram Worchester Maxfield-Fleming – The Profligate Dilettante - Live-in Cousin to Katherine and Sugar daddy of Flora. A ne'er-do-well lately come into a considerable sum of money - 14 Aug 1867
Edward Billingsely - Assistant Manager, Trumpshaw's of Paris - 18 Aug 1867
Arthur MacEwan - Station Chief, Bern (ret.), Owner/Operator Trumpshaw's of Paris - 18 Aug 1867
Countess Scarpelli - Countess, Italian, lives at Scarpelli Estate outside Nurmberg - 22 Aug 1867
Fraulein Von Dahlberg - Countess Scarpelli's personal secretary and companion, notary public and accountant, daughter of Nurmberg Alderman - 22 Aug 1867
Hans Schaidinger - Retired Alpine Corp, fought in previous war against the Austrians, lost his entire unit in the Alps to ungodly cold weather spells during an April crossing - 22 Aug 1867
Alexi Kalashnikov - First encountered during the Irish Christmas holiday (Dec 1867) and again in the Trieste/Egyptian job (Feb 1868)
Evie (aka Eglantine Varney) - First encountered during a pea souper on 06 Nov 1867, Josephine quickly invited Evie to be her partner in her investigative consulting business.
Rebecca Spenser - a learned Egyptologist and scholar, skilled in rune magic, who joined our party during the Egypt job - Feb 1868
Adversaries[edit]
Countess Ezrabet Rembecki – Wealthy Foreigner looking for business investments - 14 Aug 1867
Nicolai – Rembecki’s associate at Katherine's dinner party, London - 14 Aug 1867
Baron Wiemeaux - Rembecki's associate at Comedie Francaise, Paris - 18 Aug 1867
Bishop of Nurnberg - Rembecki's associate in Nurnberg, Germany; Keeper of Frost Giant under St. Lorenz Cathedral- 24 Aug 1867
7th Duke of Leeds - First encountered in connection with the riot at the Royal Society, May 1868. Has since repelled several attempts at interference, most recently by revenue agents in his employ, 01 Jun 1868.
Acquaintances[edit]
Sir John Fielding - Blind Chief Magistrate of the Bow Street Magistrate's Court, Not doing bad for 198 year old - 14 Aug 1867
Mrs. Helena Gordon nee Agnew – Widow and heiress to the Gordon’s black soap fortune - 14 Aug 1867
Lt. Henry Gordon – Mrs. Gordon’s son, late of the Crimea - 14 Aug 1867
Mr. Roger Mortimer – Inventor, Engineer and professor at Brunel Engineering College, Cambridge looking for funding for his latest project - 14 Aug 1867
Mdm. Hanny Saulnier - Cat beastwoman and Thaumaturge from Paris, aunt to Mdm. Selene Dashwood - Sep 1867
Abegail - Cook and acting Head Housekeeper of Lady Katherine's townhouse - 15 Aug 1867
Sir Winslow Morsely - Senior Lecuturer of Thaumaturgy, Oxford - 16 Aug 1867
Barrimore - Ezekiel Drake's manservant - 16 Aug 1867
Edward Billingsely - Assistant Manager, Trumpshaw's of Paris - 18 Aug 1867
Arthur MacEwan - Station Chief, Bern (ret.), Owner/Operator Trumpshaw's of Paris - 18 Aug 1867
Countess Scarpelli - Countess, Italian, lives at Scarpelli Estate outside Nurmberg - Aug 1867
Fraulein Von Dahlberg - Countess Scarpelli's personal secretary and companion, notary public and accountant, daughter of Nurmberg Alderman - Aug 1867
Bishop Von Sinestri - Bishop Von Sinestri, who married both Bertie and Flora, and Ezekiel and Katherine -- 26 Aug 1867
Father Gessler - Society of Jesus, Inquistor, attached to Von Sinestri's retinue --- 26 Aug 1867
Hanny Saulnier - Cat beastwoman, French Thaumaturge of the Societe Du Nord, and Selene Dashwood's Godmother. Of Barbados descent - Sept 1867
Billy the Butcher & Pop the Weasel - Two young street kids of Evie's acquaintence. First encountered in Mar 1868 where they were instrumental in putting down a crime lord/necromancer. They afterward joined the Army to seek their fortune and Josephine gave her address to Billy so as to keep in touch. - Mar 1868
Sir Christopher Ashmore - Knight, Clergyman, and Demonologist, Sir Christopher is also an Arthurian historian and on a quest to find Excalibur and Avalon, King Arthur's final resting place. He has also struck up a friendship with Rebecca Spencer and was dragooned by Alexi to officiate his marriage to Evie. - 30 May 1868
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