Promised Child

Strain: Dagonite

School: Sun

The Promised Child was a Leviathan descendant of a famous Dagonite lineage originating from Norway. Though his true name is lost to time, he was prophesied as a messiah-figure for the cult that he was born in. The Promised Child made good on this divination, and led his cult to great prominence in the decades before 1873.

However, the Child felt the pangs of loneliness, which allowed Dr. Friedrich Magnussen to prey on the nascent godling. Using his experience and charismatic personality, Magnussen convinced the Child and his cult to work for the interests of the Serpent Brotherhood, and thus the Cabal. In time, the Child came to call Magnussen a friend.

Such amity proved a fatal mistake. Based on the promises of Professor Maxwell (eager to study and make use of a Leviathan brain), Magnussen ultimately betrayed and ambushed the Child in his temple, slaying him in the process. The brain was taken to Professor Maxwell in the Bishopgate Asylum, and later became the core component of the Professor's machine.

In 1874, the premature activation of the machine led to the downfall of the asylum, as the tormented half-dead, half-alive Leviathan brain lashed out, raising the dead and driving the living insane. The machine was ultimately dismantled, and the brain destroyed, by the hands of the Krewe.