Canon History

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The wiki does not provide any account of the events of the game, just Jonathan's pre-canon life. His experiences in canon are below.

• Jonathan returns to London after years spent on the battlefront in France during World War I. He was a pioneering surgeon who used his time to practice a novel transfusion technique (anastomosis, or vein-to-vein transfusions) that paves the way for successful organ transplants.
  
  
• He's attacked by an ancient vampire named Myrddin and turned.
  
  
• Jonathan wakes up in a mass grave and crawls out. He encounters his sister (unrecognizable to him at the time) and, mad with bloodlust, attacks and kills her, draining her of blood.
  
  
• After the murder, he's chased by mysterious fanatics calling him "leech." In escaping them, Jonathan realizes he's no longer human and that he must kill these men or they'll kill him first using sunlight and fire.
  
  
• He hides in an abandoned house overnight and attempts to commit suicide while reflecting on the grief of murdering his sister. It doesn't take, but he does hear a voice that explains to him how to unlock his vampiric abilities. This does take.
  
  
• Jonathan again flees violent fanatics and makes his way north in London. He discovers there's a Spanish Flu epidemic in the city, as well as some kind of menace murdering people in the streets and draining their blood.
  
  
• In a local pub, he meets Dr. Edgar Swansea who is investigating the street murders. They don't exactly agree to work together, but they agree something needs to be done.
  
  
• Jonathan investigates and finds his way a warehouse where a man named William Bishop has been turned into a Skal (a sort of lesser vampire) and has been killing people. Jonathan defeats him, rescues one of his intended victims, and is helped by a mysterious vampire woman who calls him a newborn before disappearing.
  
  
• Dr. Swansea arrives to help Jonathan and the man he saved, Sean Hampton. They head to the Pembroke Hospital where Dr. Swansea is the administrator. Dr. Swansea offers Jonathan employment and he accepts.
  
  
• Arriving at the Pembroke, Jonathan witnesses a fight and a murder. When he goes over, he meets Clay Cox, a rude and vicious gang member. The world very suddenly goes red, and Jonathan hears a voice directing him to mesmerize Cox, lead him into the shadows and murder him to drink his blood.
  
  
• Jonathan can't resist the order to mesmerize and he does lead Cox off, but at the crucial moment, Jonathan refuses to kill. He refuses the voice, releases Cox, and goes to find help for the man for his injuries. As he leaves, the voice admonishes Jonathan that he'll need to feed sometime.
  
  
• Jonathan completes a series of missions for the staff and patients of Pembroke, assisting them and getting to know them as the newest night staff at the hospital. He finds out that William Bishop was not the only Skal in London and that they're pretty much everywhere. Likewise, so are the fanatics he encountered. They're the Guard of Priwen, sworn to eradicate vampires.
  
  
• Eventually, Dr. Swansea asks Jonathan to assist in dealing with a case of blackmail. When Jonathan goes to meet the victim, he discovers it's the vampire woman who helped him with William Bishop. This is Lady Elisabeth Ashbury. She apologizes for being so short and sends Jonathan off on his mission.
  
  
• Jonathan finds Nurse Dorothy Crane (one of the Pembroke nurses) is the blackmailer. She's running a secret clinic to help the poor and immigrant communities of Whitechapel. Recognizing her good work, but needing the blackmail to stop Jonathan demands her resignation. She gives it and they form a partnership, whereby Jonathan can procure medication components from her and he'll look the other way on her illegal operation.
  
  
• Jonathan returns and informs Lady Ashbury that she's no longer in danger, then Dr. Swansea that Nurse Crane has resigned. In the second conversation, Dr. Swansea tells Jonathan his mother announced the burial of Mary, Jonathan's sister, in the Whitechapel cemetery.
  
  
• Jonathan goes to attends the funeral discreetly, then commisserates with Lady Ashbury after. She counsels going to confess to the priest at St. Mary's. Jonathan agrees to go.
  
  
• On the way out, he is accosted by a giant, dark-skinned vampire who tells him that Ascalon doesn't like that he's running around on his own. Jonathan has no idea what he's talking about and expresses frustration with the immortals he's encountered so far (including his sire) who seem to talk in endless riddles about a game of chess that he's not privy to or interested in.
  
  
• Jonathan speaks to a priest, but he's not sure it really helps. He's a man of science and rationality and the idea of religion is anathema to the principles of it in his mind. So is being a vampire, though.
  
  
• Jonathan encounters the avatar of his maker who tells him that he was specially chosen and made into a vampire to defeat some coming evil that is newly awoken in a new form. He's told to "[d]efeat the serpent of knowing with iron spur."
  
  
• Frustrated by the seemingly endless riddles, Jonathan goes to Dr. Swansea only to encounter Geoffrey McCullum, leader of the Guard of Priwen. Jonathan exchanges glares with McCullum, but they're on neutral ground and neither attacks.
  
  
• Jonathan learns that the hospital has been attacked in his absence. They think that Sean Hampton (the man Jonathan saved) murdered a patient named Harriet Jones and escaped with her. Jonathan goes off in pursuit.
  
  
• He finds Sean Hampton in the East End. The man has been transformed into a Skal, but unlike the others Jonathan has encountered, he seems to be lucid. He says he didn't murder Harriet Jones and that Jonathan will find answers in the sewer.
  
  
• Jonathan heads to the sewers, but encounters and kills the Ascalon Club vampire he encountered before after witnessing him mercilessly killing Skals. This is one of the many instances in which Jonathan seems to fail to recognize that he's calling out the same behavior that he practices. By this point, he's killed dozens, perhaps hundreds, of the Skals roaming around London.
  
  
• He meets Old Bridget, a lucid Skal and leader of those in the sewers. She explains that Skals are not inherently violent, just that the plague has made some of them so. Harriet Jones is with them and she appears to be some variety of Skal, as well. She faked her death out of spite.
  
  
• Jonathan returns to the night shelter to find Hampton eating raw flesh. They discuss the situation with Harriet and Old Bridget with Hampton expressing that he feels blessed with his newfound existence as a Skal. He wants to look after humans and Skals for eternity. While Jonathan is convinced of his heart, he doesn't trust that Hampton won't succumb to the same madness the rest of the Skals above ground are experiencing. He forces Hampton to drink his blood against Hampton's will, sating the mans hunger permanently.
  
  
• Leaving the shelter, Jonathan finds a man murdered in the streets. Following the trails leads him to the cemetery and, eventually, his sister Mary's grave. It seems she was actually transformed into a vampire by Jonathan and has gone mad. They fight and Jonathan ends up having to kill her a second time and rebury her.
  
  
• Grieving for the loss of his sister twice over, Jonathan returns to the Pembroke and works feverishly, trying to find a cure for the Spanish Flu and the vampire epidemic.
  
  
• Jonathan encounters his maker again who calls Jonathan "my champion" tells him that "the famished queen has awoken!" He tells Jonathan to set aside his petty quarrels and focus, even as Jonathan snarls at him that he's no one's puppet and dismisses the creature.
  
  
• He heads to Lady Ashbury's and is informed that he has been invited to visit the Ascalon Club. Jonathan agrees and moves to head off. Before he does, though, Lady Ashbury warns him that the Guard of Priwen has created a list of vampires in London and is going through and methodically killing them one by one. She also confesses that she's begun falling in love with Jonathan the last few weeks they've been working together and helping one another and begs him to be careful. Jonathan is moved and tells her he'll do his best to stay safe.
  
  
• At the Ascalon Club, he meets Lord Redgrave, the leader, and is invited to join them. Jonathan accepts and he's put to the task of investigating the Skal epidemic in London. Specifically, investigating sources of the epidemic in the West End and destroying the Skal population. Wanting to find out more about the epidemic, Jonathan agrees to the mission, though he tells Lord Redgrave flatly that some Skals are peaceful and trying to eradicate them would make the Ekons (Jonathan's variety of vampire) no better than vampire hunters like the Guard of Priwen.
  
  
• Jonathan heads out to investigate the epidemic and is given two leads. In both cases, they lead back to one person: Doris Fletcher, an actress.
  
  
• He heads to Doris Fletcher's theater and finds that she's been transformed into a Skal with grotesque disfigurements. Along the way, he also discovers from diary pages that Doris Fletcher was, secretly, Harriet Jones' daughter. Harriet abused Doris terribly as a child.
  
  
• After defeating Doris, she ends up setting herself on fire. Geoffrey McCullum and his Guard of Priwen arrive and Jonathan's forced to flee quickly, but not before exchanging words with McCullum, trying to get the man to understand that they both want to stop the Skal epidemic. McCullum doesn't believe Jonathan.
  
  
• Lord Redgrave next orders are to turn Aloysius Dawson (a miserly businessman who wants to separate the rich from the poor in the epidemic) into a vampire. Uncomfortable with the order, Jonathan heads off to speak with Lady Ashbury. She councils Jonathan not to turn Dawson because he is a vicious and cruel man.
  
  
• After speaking with Dawson, himself, Jonathan refuses to kill the man. Instead, he mesmerizes Dawson, making him forget his fear of dying.
  
  
• Lord Redgrave considers Jonathan's actions to be the highest betrayal and revokes Jonathan's membership in the Ascalon Club. Snidely, Jonathan tells the man that if he wants Dawson as a vampire, he can go sire the man, himself.
  
  
• Returning to Pembroke, Jonathan finds it's been attacked by the Guard of Priwen. Jonathan follows a trail of blood to the upper floors and is forced to fight McCullum.
  
  
• McCullum also accuses Jonathan and Swansea of creating the Skal epidemic. He also accuses Jonathan of wanting to unleash "another Disaster, just like William Marshal did."
  
  
• After Jonathan defeats the man, McCullum refuses to yield, continuing to revile Jonathan, even as the doctor tries to explain that they're working toward the same purpose. In the end McCullum tells Jonathan he'll have to kill him to get him to stop coming after the vampire. Jonathan refuses. Instead, he spares the man, turning away from him and telling him he won't kill him. McCullum threatens to kill Jonathan the next time he sees him. As he leaves, Jonathan snidely notes that they're already making progress. Instead of calling him "leech," McCullum has finally used Jonathan's name.
  
  
• Jonathan searches for Dr. Swansea at Doris Fletcher's theater and the truth finally comes out that Dr. Swansea transfused blood from Lady Ashbury into Harriet Jones without either woman's knowledge or consent. It was an experiment to treat Harriet Jones. This was the source of the Skal epidemic.
  
  
• Jonathan is appalled at this news, that his friend would do something so unethical that had resulted in one of the worst epidemics in the history of London and so many deaths. Not only that, but Swansea betrayed Lady Ashbury and Harriet Jones, two people who had trusted him.
  
  
• Jonathan finally recognizes that Swansea's ambition and need for discovery has led him to foster a sense of wild experimentation at the Pembroke. He's witnessed it among the other staff, but dismissed it as their own personal ethical lapses. Seeing such things come from the head administrator sours him completely. Dr. Swansea had been mortally wounded by the Guard of Priwen, but instead of turning him, Jonathan allows the man to perish from his wounds. They have become friends, though, and even after this, Jonathan stays with Swansea until he dies.
  
  
• Jonathan tells Lady Ashbury of his findings and explains to her that he thinks her blood is the true source of the infection and that she's a healthy carrier for some disease. Lady Ashbury flees in a panic.
  
  
• Jonathan resolves to take out Harriet Jones to stop the epidemic. Through his investigations of William Marshal, he knows of at least one antidote that he can mix to prevent himself from being infected when he goes to face Harriet--the Disaster created by the Blood of Hate. He collects the materials he needs from the Guard of Priwen (a drop of King Arthur's blood), the Ascalon Club (a drop of William Marshall's blood), and the Pembroke (insulin). This mixture prepares him to face Harriet.
  
  
• Jonathan encounters his Maker who warns him that Harriet Jones is only a symptom of a greater evil: The Red Queen. This is the evil Jonathan was chosen to defeat.
  
  
• He does end up defeating both Harriet Jones and the avatar of the Red Queen that springs from her body. It puts an end to the vampire epidemic, if not the regular Spanish Flu.
  
  
• In the epilogue, Jonathan continues to work on a cure for the regular flu and help out the doctors at the Pembroke in Dr. Swansea's absence. He also searches for Lady Ashbury.
  
  
• He finds her and her Maker, William Marshall, in some ruins. She says that he is the original source of the Blood of Hate and she kills him in front of Jonathan. Lady Ashbury intends to kill herself, as well, but Jonathan stops her. He convinces her that they can return to London and work on a permanent cure for that together, abstaining from blood to ensure that the infection does not spread again.