Eventually, when she left him, Isaac resumed his travels, finally reaching Hyderabad, India, where for two years he became a follower of the holy man Vishnu Dass, gradually regaining his faith. He traveled to Paris, where he became obsessed with Germaine, a prostitute bearing an uncanny resemblance to Elaine. After the war Isaac abandoned his hometown and its memories. Fleeing, Isaac ran into Buster, but soon saw him cut down by a hail of German gunfire while Isaac froze in terror. Isaac followed soon after, but panicked when a sniper’s bullet killed a comrade on his first day in the trenches. Soon after America entered the First World War Buster swiftly signed up. When Buster became engaged to Elaine, Isaac was devastated. Stricken with guilt, Isaac built an emotional shell around himself, gradually emerging years later thanks to his friends, Elaine Willoughby and Buster Henderson they called themselves the “Three Musketeers”, and while Buster was Isaac’s idol, Elaine was his first crush. As a child he accidentally pushed his brother Jeremiah off the roof to his death during a game. Isaac Christians was born in Christiansboro, Virginia, a town founded by his ancestors. The gargoyle sought to join their number as an equal, but was treated as a slave, and when it rebelled, they punished it. It spent the next few centuries stalking the innocent, eventually assembling human worshippers, and in modern times, came to the attention of the demonic Six-Fingered Hand. One of them was eventually ensorcelled as a mage’s familiar, from whom it learned much of the black arts after seventy years of servitude, it slew its master. Derwyddon brought the gargoyles on it to life, sending them out to wreak vengeance, but witnessing the carnage they wrought, he came to his senses, withdrawing the spell, returning most of them to stone.

Grieving and enraged, he came upon a church built on a site of old pagan power, rich in absorbed mystical energy.

Before the Roman’s occupied Briton and Gaul, the Druid Derwyddon was punished by his gods for a lapse of faith, swept overboard to sleep in the depths, until he finally washed ashore to discover that in his absence his religion had been replaced by Christianity.

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