Lament

Biography
Mage, Tremere, Nagaraja

"To make music, one must tune the screams."

After a Yankee gutted him at the Siege of Boston, British Captain Alistair Sherwin Awakened as he climbed Copp’s Hill. His wounds vanished. He traded his clothes for an American casualty’s and spent a year hiding in the wilderness, where he discovered some of the region’s mystical secrets. He learned the location of several Hallows and the secret agreements that bound New England’s supernatural beings.

Sherwin tired of his hermitage, however, so he boarded a ship to France and joined the Paris Mysterium. He took the name Lament and worked as a musician: the profession his genteel family had forbidden him from pursuing. Bohemian living frustrated him, however, so after his father died, he joined the East India Company under an assumed name. As a colonial overseer, he recklessly bound ghosts and stole Indian treasures until 1799, when a local Nagaraja Tremere stole his soul.

He surrendered himself to the Legacy but fled to America as soon as the opportunity presented itself. He knew Boston from his Awakening and entered the koimaomai slumber near a Hallow he remembered. He awoke long enough to call upon local Tremere. In exchange for his knowledge, they supplied him with souls, arranged for the Danvers Asylum to be built around him, and kept his existence a secret.

Under pressure from the Pentacle, the other liches left in the 90s while Lament slept. He returned to life recently and barely escaped a battle taking place around his coffin.

Largely believed to be an agent of the Void.