Holy Ones (CofD)

The Holy Ones are some strange form of being that appeared to Rev. Benjamin Bodycombe in the mid-19th century.[1]

Overview

It is unknown what the Holy Ones truly are, though the sourcebook indicates the possibility that they are ghosts, spirits, the true inhabitants of the tunnels beneath Bishopsgate, a psychic projection of said inhabitants, or simply Bodycombe's delusions.[2]

Whatever the truth of the matter, their predations led to Bodycombe and his followers' mass suicide in 1857, leaving behind only two children as survivors — children who died shortly after, regardless.[3]

The sourcebook provides three potential hooks in the modern day:

  • That patients with no knowledge of the asylum's history are beginning to perceive them;[2]
  • That only the owner of Bodycombe's journal can perceive them, and the book has turned up recently;[4] and
  • The Holy Ones are manifestations or servants of the being Inothiel the Herald, a dark and twisted thing flung from Heaven and now trapped beneath the asylum.[5]

References

  1. ↑ CofD: Asylum, p. 55 Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print!
  2. 1 2 CofD: Asylum, p. 56 Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print!
  3. ↑ CofD: Asylum, p. 58 Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print!
  4. ↑ CofD: Asylum, p. 57 Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print!
  5. ↑ CofD: Asylum, p. 97 Buy it from DriveThruRPG! Now in Print!
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