1168 AD, England - Eloise is born into a wealthy family. Much of her life is spent being groomed for her future husband. In a time when marriages are arranged without consultation to the intended bride, Eloise fought tooth and nail against such a thing, refusing every suitor her parents considered.
1185, Dutchy of Aquitaine, France - While at court in France, 17 year old Eloise caught the eye of Richard Plantagenet. Richard would be crowned King when his father, Henry II, passes away in three years.
September 1190, Sicily - Arrives in Sicily with Richard and King Phillip II of France, who has joined the Crusades with his friend.
May 12, 1191, Limassol, Cyprus - Richard marries Princess Berengaria of Navarre, first-born daughter of King Sancho VI of Navarre. A devastated Eloise watches the ceremony – she had known the day would come but hoped nonetheless that her love would refuse the union in favor of her.
June 1191, Acre - After Richard's successful siege of the city, Eloise joins him there. Their reunion is not as happy as it should have been, as Richard is saddened by the desertion of King Phillip and a falling out with King Leopold V of Austria.
Spring-Autumn, 1192, Acre - Richard's wife, Berengaria, having been aware of the affair with the young Eloise, was tolerant until her husband sent for the young woman to join him in Jaffa. The Queen took advantage of her husband's absence and saw to Eloise's removal. Charges were brought upon Eloise as a spy for the infidels. The Knights Templar took her into custody, where she was tortured. King Richard, in Jaffa, could do nothing to stop it when news was given to him of the events the affair itself only served to condemn her. Though Richard had taken Jaffa, his subsequent march south to take Jerusalem is abandoned when he realizes that even if he took the city he could not hold it. Eloise, awaiting a trial she is sure to lose and knowing her lover can do naught to save her, is killed in her cell by John Mauteby, a Templar Knight, and more importantly an Immortal.
1192-1198 - Mauteby takes Eloise away. They reside in England, where John tells Eloise of Immortals, the Game, and he teaches her to defend herself.
April 1199, Fontevrault Abbey, France - 1254, Egypt - Eloise and John are there when King Richard I is put to rest after his death from an infectious wound. She and her teacher depart company at this time, as John wants to return to the Crusades. Eloise, in retaliation to what was done to her, returns also. This time as a spy for the infidels. During the fourth crusade (1202), Eloise meets Immortal Haresh Clay, who takes over where Mauteby left off, becoming her teacher, and after a time, her lover. By the seventh crusade (1248), she and Haresh had parted ways.
Friday, October 13, 1307, France - All the Knights Templar in France are arrested by agents of Philip the Fair, tortured into admitting heresy and executed. As Philip's lover, Eloise was sure to have had a hand in the coming of this. After, it was speculated that Philip did it to gain the Templar riches. But Philip never touched the treasures Eloise disappeared with them before he could.
1320, Italy - While in Italy, as the mistress to Mondino de Luzzi, Eloise began what would become a lifelong interest in medicine. As a woman, she wasn’t allowed to attend classes at the University of Bologna, so she studied every text that de Luzzi would bring her. Her life from that moment on was dedicated to medicine she would learn wherever she could, even going so far as to cut off all her hair and dress as a man.
1400’s, Heidelberg, Germany - posing as a man, and going by the name Eli De Luzzi, Eloise attends Heidelberg Medical School, where she meets another Immortal, Benjamin. The pair become friends, and then lovers, and he reveals that he is the legendary Methos they develop a lasting friendship, picking up where they left off whenever they run into each other in the years to come.
1800’s, America - Eloise was in the New World for some time when the Civil War broke out.SHe volunteers on the side of the North, using her medical skills as best as she can to help as many injured soldiers as she can. She meets many Immortals at this time, among them Matthew McCormick and Carl Robinson, but the most notable is Balthazar Freidrich, who she develops a deep bond of friendship with.
1912, Crossing the Atlantic aboard the RMS Titanic – Eloise, always up for an adventure, booked passage on the unsinkable ship. In the ensuing sinking, Eloise gives up her seat on a lifeboat, knowing it would make no difference if she stayed on the doomed ship. The experience caused her to develop a slight fear of not just boats, but of large bodies of water.
1914-1920, Europe - When World War 1 breaks out, Eloise volunteers as a nurse. As the war is coming to an end in 1918, a deadly influenza pandemic begins, and she spends the next two years traveling Europe, and the United States, caring for the sick and dying.
1922-1945, France - The death toll of the war, combined with that of the Spanish Flu, drives Eloise to return to the French countryside for the first time in a long time, seeking peace, which she finds in the arms of Immortal Noah Arnaud. They spent 17 years together, until 1939, when World War 2 broke out. Ell’s overwhelming need to use her gift of immortality to be a healer took her to the frontlines as a nurse, and Noah left France for Canada.
1945, Quebec, Canada - Over 700 years old now, with a majority of that time spent healing mortals through their fascination with war, finally got to Eloise. Despondent with grief, she left France and sought out Noah.
1954, Alabama - She meets up with an old friend, Carl Robinson, while he is playing baseball in the Negro League. She develops a love of the ball game.
2002, Astoria, Oregon - Eloise was living a quiet life in Astoria, running a small medical practice and working on call at the emergency department at Columbia Memorial Hospital. When Captain Trips hit, Eloise worked nonstop, trying to save her patients, to no avail.
