Valerie de Langan

Marchioness Valerie de Langan was a fantastically wealthy French noblewoman, who financed many of the Cabal's plans and activities before their apparent dissolution.

A dutiful if somewhat materialistic wife in medieval France, de Langan experienced much horror and trauma during the Jacquerie rebellion, where her husband was brutally murdered by their peasants and she was humiliated and robbed of all their possessions and land. Cast out and wandering as a beggar-woman, de Langan eventually came to be possessed by a Demon of Greed, in service to Abaddon.

Through the gifts of the demon and her own guile, de Langan quickly rose to her former heights and beyond. At some unknown point of time, she joined the Cabal as well. Nevertheless, she remained a staunch materialist, with little faith in the group's infernal master, assisting Magnussen merely out of demonic obligations.

Her final scheme in the Cabal's service was the hiring of a large group of mercenaries that temporarily took over Portsmouth for a brief period in 1874, with rumours of a planned coup against the nascent French Third Republic or a march on London being deliberately spread. The objective of these rumours was to attract Lemuria's attention to Portsmouth, which was successful.

After the Abyss-tainted Hector Pendleton usurped control of the Cabal and their final plan, de Langan fled alongside Hans Altenburg and Valentino Cavalcanti. The former two quickly abandoned the latter in Portsmouth after his infection by the Abyss became clear. Her fate afterwards is currently unknown.