Elias Grimshaw

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Gaius 'Guy' Leeford, alias Patrick C. Collins, alias Elias Grimshaw, was the last leader of the Dark Order on planet Altronis.

Origins

Leeford was descended from the Grey Temple after the Necromanic Wars, in which his parents adjourned to Altronis after their defeat by the Alliance. For various reasons, he was not a pure-bred Necromancer; but inherited enough gift to improve in training. Believing that Altronis formerly housed Vampires and other undead, and should again, he dedicated himself to revive them. To that end, he recruited any he could find of Necromantic ancestry, and formed the seventh Dark Order.

Multiple Identities

Like any Dark Lord, Leeford relied on the semblance of invincibility to control his followers. At times, he pretended to be three people contending for power; evidently to accomplish more than one could. His identities are described here:

–– Grimshaw, his preferred alias: a vindictive sorcerer bent on World Domination.

–– Leeford, his right name: mysterious, powerful, serene, and merciless. Seldom seen.

–– Collins, his most distant alias: an apologist for vampirism, sadism, misogyny, and other sexual perversions. The creator, and therefore called the 'father', of some near approximations of Vampires, Zombies, Ogres, and other monsters, in experiment toward the Real Thing.

None of the Dark Order knew or suspected that these three leaders "were one and the same", in so far as they often saw two or three of these together, and heard them disagree; this accomplished by a sophisticated graphic-projection apparatus, similar to that used by Laytami Gudersnipe on the Blind Consul. The triple identity was exposed by Marcus Ransom, following the capture of Nicole.

Career

Very little is known, on Altronis or elsewhere, what crimes Grimshaw and his Dark Order committed; but they secretly influenced the local structures of power for almost 400 years, and were associated with the Altronis Corpocracy. It is likely that nearly half the crimes committed on Altronis were connected to them in some degree.