The Quandry Chronicles: Dramatis Personae
Coming Soon: A Steampunk Tale of Horror, Heroism, and Haberdashery: The Quandry Chronicles Book One: The Lost Scarab of the Aethernauts!
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
THE SCHOLAR: Professor Cassiopeia Quandry, daughter of famed astronomer and historian Sir Edward Quandry, who was recently killed in a tragic accident in Alexandria, Egypt. Cassiopeia is determined to carry on the legacy of her father’s research, hoping for proof of his theory that beings from the outer planets visited Earth in the Bronze Age. A lively public speaker for someone generally so timid, her lectures at Oxford have gathered international notoriety.
THE SCIENTIST: Dr. Manwar Singh, former army surgeon, now a leading researcher into reanimation and synthetic life. One of the most brilliant minds of his age, but denied the recognition he feels to be his due on account of either his South Asian origins or the morally questionable nature of his work. Seeking to prove himself through a dramatic creation, or through new insights into the nature of life itself. His reputation particularly suffered from widespread rumors that his laboratory pet is not in fact a reanimated mummified cat but merely a bandage-wrapped stray.
THE SOLDIER: Major (Retired) The Honourable E.V.L. (Victor) Mainwaring, younger son of Viscount Lonsdale. Maj. Mainwaring served with distinction in The Royal Sussex Regiment (The Iron Regiment). Emotionally and physically scarred by the Regiment’s disastrous Nile Expedition, which arrived too late to prevent a massacre of the British garrison in Khartoum. Mainwaring was injured in the battle: despite being fitted with a brass Dynamic Ocular Prothesis Enhancement, he was mustered out as disabled. Lately, he seems determined to drink and brawl his way through both his pension and his inheritance.
THE ARCHAEOLOGIST: Mikawa Tatsu, Head of Egyptian Acquisitions for the Imperial Kyoto Museum, Japan. Rumors abound around Miss Mikawa: that she is a “personal favorite” of the Emperor, that the best pieces she acquires never reach the Imperial Museum, but are sold to collectors for vast sums to finance the purchase of her own hidden palace, that her dealings with the global criminal underworld go far beyond artworks. Or that she has a secret ninja army at her beck and call. Of course, she is no more than a mild-mannered, if incredibly successful, museum worker!
The Quandry Chronicles: Dramatis Personae
Coming Soon: A Steampunk Tale of Horror, Heroism, and Haberdashery: The Quandry Chronicles Book One: The Lost Scarab of the Aethernauts!
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
THE SCHOLAR: Professor Cassiopeia Quandry, daughter of famed astronomer and historian Sir Edward Quandry, who was recently killed in a tragic accident in Alexandria, Egypt. Cassiopeia is determined to carry on the legacy of her father’s research, hoping for proof of his theory that beings from the outer planets visited Earth in the Bronze Age. A lively public speaker for someone generally so timid, her lectures at Oxford have gathered international notoriety.
THE SCIENTIST: Dr. Manwar Singh, former army surgeon, now a leading researcher into reanimation and synthetic life. One of the most brilliant minds of his age, but denied the recognition he feels to be his due on account of either his South Asian origins or the morally questionable nature of his work. Seeking to prove himself through a dramatic creation, or through new insights into the nature of life itself. His reputation particularly suffered from widespread rumors that his laboratory pet is not in fact a reanimated mummified cat but merely a bandage-wrapped stray.
THE SOLDIER: Major (Retired) The Honourable E.V.L. (Victor) Mainwaring, younger son of Viscount Lonsdale. Maj. Mainwaring served with distinction in The Royal Sussex Regiment (The Iron Regiment). Emotionally and physically scarred by the Regiment’s disastrous Nile Expedition, which arrived too late to prevent a massacre of the British garrison in Khartoum. Mainwaring was injured in the battle: despite being fitted with a brass Dynamic Ocular Prothesis Enhancement, he was mustered out as disabled. Lately, he seems determined to drink and brawl his way through both his pension and his inheritance.
THE ARCHAEOLOGIST: Mikawa Tatsu, Head of Egyptian Acquisitions for the Imperial Kyoto Museum, Japan. Rumors abound around Miss Mikawa: that she is a “personal favorite” of the Emperor, that the best pieces she acquires never reach the Imperial Museum, but are sold to collectors for vast sums to finance the purchase of her own hidden palace, that her dealings with the global criminal underworld go far beyond artworks. Or that she has a secret ninja army at her beck and call. Of course, she is no more than a mild-mannered, if incredibly successful, museum worker!