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Inmate Information
Name: Jonah Magnus
Current alias: Elias Bouchard
Job posting: kitchen, lunch
Timeline
Childhood: born late 1780s to a Scottish family, attends Eton boarding school.
Young adulthood: attends Oxford. Joins a group including Robert Smirke, Mordechai Luckas, and George Gilbert Scott, investigating esoteric incidents which they link to the Dread Powers.
1814: founds the Magnus Institute in Edinburgh. Begins collecting stories he believes to be connected to the fears.
1815-1821: Millibank prison built and completed in London, with the help of Robert Smirke. Designed to be the seat of the Watcher's Crown.
1815, spring: visits Albrecht von Closen.
1816, 21st March : receives a letter from von Closen. They frequently communicated. Albrecht later travels to visit Jonah and gives him a book related to this letter.
1824, April 9th: receives a letter from Barnabas Bennett, shortly before his death. Jonah is acquainted with Mordechai Luckas.
1830: steals a number of books from von Closen. He returns some books, however they are blank.
1831, April: hearing that Albrecht von Closen is ill, Jonah asks a doctor, Jonathan Fanshawe, to visit him and see what can be done. During his time there, Fanshawe feels as though he is under constant observation by something unseen.
1831, November 21st: receives a letter from Dr. Jonathan Fanshawe about events leading to the death of Albrecht van Closen. Jonah had invited Fanshawe to take a medical position in Millibank prison, which he declined. Due to the events of this letter, Jonathan decided to sever ties with Jonah Magnus completely.
1841, 12th June: receives a letter from Sampson Kempthorne before he moves to New Zealand. A period in which Jonah was working incessantly in his Edinburgh townhouse with letters and accounts of the Fears.
post 1841: Elias attempts the Watcher's Crown ritual in Millibank. It fails, killing all inside but Elias. He discovers his failure has given him extraordinary powers, and he moves the Magnus Institute to London, over the old Millibank Prison site.
1864: will have come into contact with Maxwell Rayner around Cambridge, very popular at the time.
1867, 13th February: receives a letter from Robert Smirke. The two have not communicated for several decades at this point.
As Richard Mendelson (Unknown - 1973)
As James Wright (1973 - 1996)
Had previously been working in the Archives as a filing clerk.
Met Peter Luckas in this period.
As Elias Bouchard (1996 - 2018)
[tlv] inmate ledger
Inmate Information
Name: Jonah Magnus
Current alias: Elias Bouchard
Job posting: kitchen, lunch
About
Presents well, polite; but his vindictiveness, desire for power, and willingness
to go to any length for his own goals should not be underestimated.
Warden Comments⏵Jonathan Sims
-shares a world with Jonathan Sims (W), Timothy Stoker (W), and Martin Blackwood (W), as well as Gertrude Robinson (I) and Gerry Keay (I) [should they return]
-is an avatar and dedicated follower of a fear-based entity known as The Eye, Beholding, the Ceaseless Watcher, It Knows You
-has powers relating to knowing, watching, and secrets
-can put memories or information into people's minds
-may be able to use others eyes or the eyes of images
-founder of the Magnus Institute in London, England which was a research foundation dedicated to the supernatural and esoteric
-bound those working in the archive section of the Institute to his own life force and made it impossible for them to leave or they would slowly waste away and die; killing him would kill them as well
-successfully engineered the end of the world and plunged the entire Earth into a nightmare hellscape the engulfed all of humanity including children and animals (this has since been reversed via Admiral deal)
-has shown passive aggression via baking
-has manipulated other inmates into betraying their wardens
-has a probable grudge against Norton Fulgate and Daniel of Mayfair, as both have killed him
If you require further explanation or wish for context on any of this and have a valid purpose for this information, please seek out Jonathan Sims for further discussion.⏵Douglas Eiffel
(handwriting tilts to the right in a messy mix of cursive and block letters.)
Died by being stabbed in the chest by Apocalypse!Jon after spending months as a human Horror Wiki with real-time updates⏵Archer
Despises cleaning and mopping floors. Will hold a grudge against you forever if you put him on clean-up duty.
⏵Raylan Givens
Sensitive about his lover's bones, hasn't admitted to being Faust yet - Terrible guy but great taste in whiskey.
⏵Iris Wildthyme
Possibly destined to be the test case for whether punching an inmate in the face will get me demoted
Iris xx