Character's Fully Name: Shannon Elaine Myers

Aliases: None.

Non-Played Character

Character Type: Immortal

Apparent Age: 32

Actual Age: 120

Sex: Female

Height: 5'8''

Hair Color: Dark Brown

Eye Color: Blue

Nationality: American

Skills: Speaks Latin, Egyptian, Arabic. She is an expert marksman with long rifle, knows some martial arts, but she is not expert.

Personality: Outgoing, forceful but not above using feminine wiles.

History: Shannon was the only child of a doting father who was a wealthy financier, who lavished gifts on her and pretty much catered to her every whim. Her mother was a ghost of a woman who commuted from one mysterious illness to another and spent the majority of her life ensconced in her bedroom with the drapes drawn. Shannon's father's only requirement was that she obtain an education of some sort, which was fairly revolutionary for young women for that time period, and he didn't set any time limits on her for obtaining that goal which was a good thing because Shannon was in no hurry to finish her degree. Her interests lay in languages and archeology and she played around with college�and college professors� for years. Almost in spite of herself, and in between parties and soirees, she actually did rack up some serious knowledge about her chosen profession, not that she ever actually intended to do anything about it. She didn't lack for suitors but never accepted any proposals and her father was beginning to despair of her ever marrying.

Along came Rupert D'Angelo, charming, mysterious, wealthy, handsome and thoroughly detested by her father. Naturally, Shannon adored him. He kept telling her that she was special and there was something waiting for her `out there' and that he would be her teacher. Shannon figured she had enough teachers in her life, but there was something so intriguing about him that she started shutting her other suitors out and making time only for Rupert and it wasn't long before she found that she was falling in love with him.

The arguments with her father were getting more heated, though, and one night Shannon decided it was time to make her way in the world on her own. She had enough credits to at least find work on an archeological dig somewhere if it came to actually having to work for a living. That is, if Rupert didn't want her. She left that night in a brand new Roadster and a violent thunderstorm. She never made it to Rupert. The car swerved off a treacherous curve, sailed off a cliff and head on into a tree and Shannon Myers died at 32 years of age.

The car was hidden deep over the side of a ravine and no one found the wreck for over two days; when it was discovered, the horribly mangled vehicle was empty. That night, a dazed and confused Shannon was found wandering on the road back to her house, with no memory of the wreck or how she had managed to survive. Though her clothing was torn and shredded, she didn't even have a single bruise. Her father, overwhelmed with relief to have her back alive, allowed no questions to be asked, and when she asked for Rupert, he didn't object.

Nor did he object when she told him a week later that she and Rupert were going to be married. It was nearly a year later that Rupert told her the truth. She had actually died in the car wreck. She was immortal as was he and he had meant it when he had told her that he would be her teacher. Somehow she knew he was telling her the truth, whether because she loved him or because somewhere deep inside she had felt her own death, she wasn't sure, but she knew he was right. He was over 900 years old and a strict teacher and hard taskmaster and she learned quickly and well.

They were together for 30 years when another immortal took Rupert's head.

Shannon was devastated. And then she was enraged. She took her considerable inheritance and completed her education, established herself as an archeologist under new, false identification papers, so that she would be able to travel where she wanted and set out to find the man who had killed her husband. She took Rupert's sword as her own. She started on a long trail, searching for the identity of the man who had taken Rupert's head and she was ruthless with those who stood in her path. By the time the flu hit, she had taken 15 heads and before the last man died beneath her sword, he gave her the name she sought and the place to find him. Boulder.



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