Leslie Breed

Founder of the Order of the Flooded Cathedral, dabbler in forbidden knowledge, Malk Institute graduate, naturalist, and amateur explorer. Also a reasonably talented cellist.

Handsome fella until the Terrors started and he showed his real colors. His real colors, incidentally, are cat-puke grey and that kind of brown you only see on dead roaches.

History
Leslie Atropiel Breed was born in 1780 on Breed Island to Lois and Abraham Breed. He was raised by his parents, his maternal grandparents Benjamin and Adele Breed, and by the family butler, Anton Withers. At the age of nine he was sent alone into an abyss ruled by his brain-eating ancestors, the Mindflayers, whose bloodlines intersect with the Breed family's first in 1592. Understandably, he drops off our records for a while there.

The family put it around that Leslie was attending a special school in Galt. What he learned down there we have no way of knowing, but he came back three years later with a lot packed into that noggin of his. At fifteen he went off to the Malk Institute where his theories on conjuration raised a lot of eyebrows and, eventually, an abomination of the depths that ate two maintenance staffers and a beagle before being banished by a circle of professors. The incident was hushed up, the right people were paid off, and the younger Breed graduated in 1799, the same year his sister Lillian (b. 1777) was finally locked away at Crow's Point Asylum.

Breed married Josephine Tanner, disappeared for eight years, and then came out of nowhere at the head of an army of the undead. A three-year war was waged in secret between the Church and the Steward on one hand and Breed and his wife on the other. They were caught and killed a respectable seven and three times, respectively, only to return and start the madness all over again. Whole settlements and islets were lost to plague. The port of Old Mire was largely abandoned after Breed raised a church and forever tainted the ground and water.

Finally, in the Month of Fish in 1714, Tanner disappeared and Breed was captured after a six-day duel on Grouper Island and imprisoned at the North Pole by Hugo Strauss, High Abbott of the Cult of Saint Elliott the Lockmaker. Recently, though, Breed's name has been coming up more and more. Dark times are coming for Mirewell.

I could use a drink.