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  1. Characters

Robert Cauthon

Theoretic Mathematician
NPC

1915
Born in Raleigh, NC to poor family

1918
contracts Spanish Flu, rest of family dies

1919
Begins seeing "strings" attached to people

1920
learns to follow the "strings", informs a nun at the orphanage she will die. She does.

1922
Follows a string, predicts several disasters

1923
is 'exorcised' by several priests, believing him to be possessed.

1925
Severely beaten by a nun when he predicts WW2, the atom bomb, and the death of millions

1927
Almost killed by fellow orphan when Robert predicts his death at the hands of a homophobic cop.

1929
escapes orphanage when he follows a thread and see's his own demise in another exorcism

1931
Laura finds the boy hiding in a trash heap. Cold, hungry, and abused by a group of hunters.

1931
Helps the boy get healthy. He informs her of the Strings. He predicts his own embrace and several other actions

1935
Predicts WW2 and its end. Laura builds hospitals in anticipation

1950 - 1970
Helps guide clan and Laura through many actions. Learns more about the Strings, can follow several from one person. Learns to strengthen them

1972
Follows a String from Laura, predicts the return of her Sire. He has nightmares for a week. She takes precautions. Is ordered to keep the prediction a secret

1975
Follows a String on Cathal, learns of his lust for power and possible intentions to achieve that power.

1978
Predicts the storm, the mummy, the SF watchers, hunters, and the death of Justicar Godefroy