Golden Dawn Characters

Player Characters

• Donovan Shankley (played by Dennis)
  A journalist and author of popular books on the occult. Now 32, he has been a member of the GD for two years, though like Waite he does not yet take it seriously.
  Upper Middle Class, £600 per year
  Allies: Farr (former lover), Waite (cartomancy)
  Enemies: Mathers
• Thomas Stopford Coneybeare (played by Jim)
  A philologist working as an archivist at the British Museum. Now 50 years old, he is a cultured man and a member of the Apostles Club at Cambridge. He is outspoken in his criticism of British academic philology, but failed to obtain a professorship at either Oxford or Cambridge. Wife and two daughters live near Tuvingen in Bavarian Alps.
  Middle Class, £400 per year
  Allies: Woodsworth (old school chum), Mathers (scholarly), Farr (friend of uncle)
  Enemies: none (?)
• Dr. Peter H. Woodsworth (played by Daniel)
A medical doctor, now 52, working as a coroner. His wife died in 1889, after which he went into a bout depression and drinking. Eventually, he was brought out of it, with treatment by Dr. Hugh Norton and the support of Dr. Westcott, founder of the Golden Dawn. Westcott helped him get his current position, and he has been a GD member for 2 years, seeking in particular speaking with the dead.
Middle Class, £400 per year
Allies: Westcott (fellow coroner)
Enemies: Berridge (clash over medicine)
• Dr. Hugh Norton (played by David)
  A doctor and alienist who works at St. Agatha's Asylum (in the North of London, St. John's Wood). Now 36 years old, he went to Eton and Cambridge, and served with the army in Egypt prior to a moderately distinguished career. He is not a member of the Golden Dawn. However, Dr. Woodsworth is a friend and former patient of his, and he has taken an interest in his activities.
  Upper Middle Class, £800 per year
  Allies: Woodsworth (former patient), Shankley (served with brother)
  Enemies: none (?)

Prominent GD Members

• William Westcott (coroner, scholar, GD founder)
  Non Omnis Moriar "I shall not wholly die"
  Founded in 1888.
• S. L. MacGregor Mathers (author, GD founder)
  Deo Duce Comite Ferro "With God as my leader and the sword as my companion"
  Founded in 1888. Moved to Paris in 1892.
• Moina Mathers (artist, GD officer)
  Vestiga Nulla Restrorsum "No traces behind"
  Married Mathers in 1890.
• Florence Farr (actress, GD officer)
  Sapientia Sapienti Dono Data "Wisdom is given to the wise as a gift"
  Initiated in 1890, joined inner order in 1891.
• Dr. Edward Berridge (doctor, GD officer)
  Resurgam "I shall rise again"
  Initiated in 1889, joined inner order in 1891.
• William Butler Yeats (poet, GD officer)
  Demon Est Deus Inversus "The Devil is the converse of God"
  Initiated in 1890, joined inner order in 1893.
• Allan Bennett (chemist, GD officer)
  Voco -?? ""
  Initiated in Feb 1894, joined inner order in 1895.

Lesser GD Members

• A.E. Waite (author, GD member)
  A talented artist and occultist.
  Initiated in June 1891, resigned in 1893.
• Annie Horniman (aristocrat, GD member)
  Fortiter Et Recte "Bravely and Justly"
  Initiated in 1888. Patroness of Mathers.
• Maud Gonne (actress, Irish Nationalist, GD member)
  A close friend and sometime obsession of Yeats.
  Initiated in Nov 1891, resigned in Dec 1894.
• Frederick Leigh Gardner (GD member)
  Initiated in March 1894.
• Constance Mary Wilde
  Wife of Oscar Wilde.
  Initiated in 1888, resigned in 1893.
• Major Randolph Northcote
  A retired major and long-time freemason. He has become a friend of DDCF (Mathers) through correspondence. He is obsessed with English history and lately with the Arthurian legends.
  Initiated in 1891.

Other NPCs

• Dr. Geoffrey Fotheringay-Phipps
  An alienist in St. Agatha's asylum. He is a skilled man of science, bit of a buffoon socially. He comes from a rich industrialist background.
• Lord Arthur Pellgraine (deceased)
  A young lord recently come into his inheritance. He is knownas a rake and social firefly in the occult scene. He died late September 1893 in a mysterious fire with all his servants at his estate in Loughton.
• Rev. Edwin Bristol
  Vicar of the parish in Rochester. He took Joan Bayldon to St. Agatha's for treatment after her breakdown at the time of her sister's death.
• Inspector John Craig
  An inspector for Scotland Yard, assigned to the murder of Lord Pellgraine.
• Colonel Albert Hardewick
  A friend of Northcote's, also a mason but not in the GD.
• Nathan Hardewick
  The 20 year-old nephew of Albert Hardewick, living as his ward.
• Malcolm Howard
  An official within the Foreign Office with a non-descript job. He was formerly a writer of fiction and amateur astronomer. Now he has contacts in the Navy and makes regular trips to Oxford and Cambridge.
• David Knightly
  An agent of the Foreign Office who contacted Norton.