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-> ''I was born in the year 14,100 BCE... About ninety of us were born before Christ...''
-->'''G'Len''', oldest of the Eternals
-> ''16,000 years ago, a man called G'Len was born on a peninsula that would one day become Ireland. Since then, other immortal men and women have been born, sometimes parent and child, sometimes siblings, sometimes great-to-fiftieth grandchildren. They are the Eternals. They vary in age, from just decades to many millennia old. This site is dedicated to these people. For they have watched civilization be born, grow up, and mature into the globalized world we live in today. Here, they can tell their stories.''
--> '''OpeningNarration''' of the series
''AH.com Eternals'' is a long-running blend of a roleplaying PlayByPostGame and action-espionage dramatic webseries created over at the Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom discussion board. Though originally intended as a one-off idea, it soon grew and expanded and now carries the distinction of being one of the few roleplaying games on AH.com to be still running after nearly 5 years. Obviously {{inspired by}} the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' series during its starting phase, it has firmly grown into its own original mythos and canon over the years, [[SerialNumbersFiledOff only sharing a few basic ideas]] with its source of inspiration.
One of the main elements of the canon is the existence of The Trust, a secret global organization of Eternals that was founded in the 16th century. Its goals are to help Eternals cope with their unique fates, shelter them, record their life stories, allow them to contact and help each other and work to protect [[{{Muggles}} regular humans]] and world peace from various threats. Naturally, many Eternals never warmed up to the idea of the Trust or never liked other Eternals and regular humans all that much to begin with. These are Rogue Eternals, the primary antagonists of the series.
An important milestone in the game's MythArc was the Reveal. It occured in early 2011, and from then on, the game has stopped being a purely secret history populated by the Eternals, and has become a kind of AlternateHistory of our present. In addition to this narrative ReTool, the pace of the main storyline has sped up a bit and is now set [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture about five or so years into our own future]]. This was done as a move to chronicle the gradual influence of Eternals and their declassified knowledge on modern human society and science.
The series was nominated regularly for "Best Roleplaying Game" in AH.com's annual Turtledove Awards (the AH.com Oscars). It had already won once in this category, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2456243&postcount=14 in 2009]].
The discussion thread in which the series is played can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=85097 here]]. The series page on the AH.com Wiki can be accessed [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.php?id=shared_worlds:ah.com_eternals here]]. A revival thread called AH.com Eternals Forever has recently been created, and can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ah-com-eternals-forever.393059/ here]]
Unfortunately, since that forum is off limits to non-members, you'll have to join the board before you can read the discussion thread itself. However, the always-accessible wiki page of the series regularly summarizes the main developments in the story.
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!!''Eternals'' provides examples of:
%%* ActingForTwo: Several players have played more than one character throughout the years. Their older characters are not retconned away, but added to the list of characters and portrayed whenever they're needed again on-screen (which is not all that often, really). Off-screen dialogues and actions of characters can occassionally occur, particularly if the player/creator of a character is not available at the moment and his character is crucial for at least a few moments in the storyline. To date, the latter type of situation has been very rare, so few of the existing non-NPC characters make appearances in the absence of their creator.
%%* TheAgeless: Eternals. The story is told from their point of view.
%%* AlienSpaceBats: Given the basic premise and its fantasy nature, the game is housed in the eponymous forum of AH.com, which deals with fantasy-themed alternate histories.
* AlternateHistory: At first, the premise of the game was more of a standard secret history with a dash of {{historical fantasy}}. After the 2011 reveal of the Eternals to the world public, [[TheUnmasquedWorld the game's universe]] became an explicit AlternateHistory version of ours. While the storyline has yet to leave the 2010s, the ramifications of the Reveal have already been felt. And even while the game was in its {{Masquerade}} phase, the meddling of many Eternals in the course of world history [[SubvertedTrope implies that the baseline history itself]] [[MindScrew could have been quite different without their intrusion]].
* AlternateUniverse: Exactly the same as ours until 2011, with a single exception: A certain portion of humanity are immortal humans who live among us, keeping their superpowers in secrecy.
* AnachronicOrder: Most of the storyline in general. Sometimes, a chapter will focus on the latest events in the storyline, sometimes it will be an examination of the known history of the Eternals, sometimes it will be a retrospective of an Eternal about one particular period or event in his life, etc.
* AncientConspiracy: Played with. Eternals trying to cover up their own existence definitely qualifies as ancient, but the Trust as an organization was only formed in the 16th century. And, for once, the conspiracy itself is actually ''benevolent'' and serves to protect both Eternals and [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]]. Rogue Eternals, on the other hand... They play the typical "malevolent" connotations of the trope fairly straight.
%%* AntiHero: A lot of the characters have or had traits like this, even the really noble ones. The antihero subtypes in the Eternals community run the whole gamut, except for the rather rare ByronicHero.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: While some Eternals tried to keep to themselves for their entire long existence, most Eternals helped shape history in one way or another, to various degrees and because of various motivations.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: While most Eternals have posed as common folk throughout the centuries and millennia, some of them did eventually become notable historical characters and personalities. One of the secret identities of the character Gregorios was the early American settler [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alden_%28Pilgrim%29 John Alden]].
* BloodKnight: Literally! [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname The Blood Knight]] is the [[BigBad most dangerous and sociopathic Eternal all around]]. Though only born relatively recently (during the Middle Ages), he has fought for centuries against the Trust, murdered many Eternals and worked on creating a network of allies and minions among likewise minded rogue Eternals. Thankfully, by the time the Eternals community reveals itself to the rest of the world, [[{{Anticlimax}} he is caught one last time, interrogated and imprisoned by the Trust for good]].
%%* CallToAdventure: Many Eternals fell for its lure. They had various reasons for doing so.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The character of Valkert. Despite being on the side of the Trust and the good guy Eternals, he's a highly eccentric and sometimes downright nutty person.
%%* ConspiracyThriller: At times.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Several of the worst [[{{Villains}} Rogue Eternals]] had to be punished by extreme confinement in order to protect both mortal humans and good guy Eternals from their endless rampaging. How extreme? Like being burried alive in a mine'' or ''being burried in the ocean crust extreme.
* CursedWithAwesome: All Eternals. Some [[LivingForeverIsAwesome revel in their unnatural gift]] ([[SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope often going overboard]]), some [[WhoWantsToLiveForever utterly hate it]] (emphasis on the "cursed" part of the trope), most TakeAThirdOption and adopt a relatively neutral stance.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Even the luckiest, most cheerful and most idealistic characters have gone through their fair share of unpleasant experiences.
%%* DocumentaryEpisode: Quite a lot of the chapters.
* DoingInTheWizard: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] While the trigger of immortality that some people receive at birth seems supernatural, it is eventually discovered to be a rare glitch in the human genome. (To the surprise of Eternal characters, the number of people with "Immortality Genes" has only grown throughout human history, not dimished as was once thought.) However, despite the discovered scientific evidence for natural immortality genes, the actual cause of their existence still isn't well understood.
* DrunkWithPower: Why and how a lot of Eternals turned to [[ImmortalityImmorality evil, treachery and anti-social behaviour]].
* EncyclopediaExposita: Most of the wiki pages covering this roleplaying project (apart from the introductory one) are written in-universe in order to better immerse readers in the narrative and [[{{backstory}} backstories]].
* ExpansionPackPast: Some characters tell their [[{{backstory}} autobiographies]] chronologically, some do it in a more AnachronicOrder. It adds to the charm and unpredictability of the series.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: On a personal scale, when a new eternal reveals himself/herself to The Trust or when [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/shared_worlds/the_trust The Trust]] contacts a confirmed Eternal and explains to him/her his/her immortality. On a global scale, the 2011 Reveal that finished TheMasquerade MythArc and remade the timeline into an outright AlternateHistory.
* FunWithAcronyms: One of the service branches of The Trust is TETRA - "'''T'''he '''E'''ternals' '''T'''rust '''R'''epository and '''A'''rchives".
* GenreShift: While ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' is primarily an action adventure story, this series has more of a [[SpyFiction spy thriller]] tone, with lots of DeconstructorFleet elements. It's less about the fancy swordfighting with ancient adversaries, and more about Eternals reminescenting about their past adventures and experiences in the form of [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/shared_worlds/autobiographies_of_eternals oral history interviews]], or taking part in working for the Trust and for the Eternals' cause. Helping {{Muggles}} from behind the scenes or protecting them from villainous Eternals is one of the Trust members' main missions.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Eternals and regular humans in general, though most are (or aspire to be) ALighterShadeOfGrey. Turns to BlackAndGreyMorality when the saner Eternals are dealing with the most villainous ones, particularly The Blood Knight and his posse.
%%* GuileHero: Several Eternals, but Bosch in particular.
* HistoricalFantasy: Though the only fantastical element are the Eternals themselves. It's still enough to create room for some really compelling stories.
%%* HistoricalInJoke: Given the nature of the series, it shows up frequently.
* {{Homage}}: Immortal humans, born in various eras and places, walk among us. Some good, some evil, some of dubious alignment. They cannot die of natural causes. They can only be killed by decapitation or vaporization of the head. This is all that this series and ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' have in common.
* IHaveManyNames: Every Eternal has a whole list of pseudonyms and made-up personas, and the list only grows as they get older and older. The character of Gregorios alone (born around 300 AD) has an infamously large collection of pseudonyms. The trope is also [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in some cases, like with The Blood Knight, the Bloodsinger, and other terrifying rogue Eternals who are deliberately [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname only known by their nicknames]].
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Averted. Eternals can have offspring just fine with regular humans and other Eternals alike (unless they're impotent).
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Unless you actually become an Eternal during your 20s, this trope is averted.
* InJoke: On the wiki pages of the roleplay, at least. In the database of biographical interviews with Eternals, each Eternal is assigned a seemingly random large number by the Trust Archives. This code is actually derived from the secondary code of a post made in the roleplay's thread on the AH.com discussion board.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Subverted. While many of the longer-lived and more [[WalkingTheEarth globetrotting]]-oriented Eternals have certainly met a lot of famous historical figures, no character has bumped into every single famous figure of any given era and any given country.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Several examples, but Macarius (old medieval hermit) and Nicolet (young 19th century Franco-American woman) as two lonely explorers on Mars takes the cake.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Usualy averted and frowned upon by the Eternals. If a rogue Eternal tries to reveal the Trust or hurt regular people or Eternals, at the very worst, he's hunted down and gets imprisoned. If a regular person reveals Eternals, he is made a life-long confidant or employee of the Trust.
* LargeHam: The villainous Rogue Eternals, natch. Some of them are fond of a BreakingSpeech from time to time.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: While the canon is self-admittedly InspiredBy the rules of the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' series, they weren't copied wholesale. This was due to a desire to create an original take on the "immortal humans among us" theme. The AH.commers that have taken part in the game have gradually fleshed out the backstory with a host of new and different ideas. The second reason was, of course, to avoid obvious copyright issues - one of its telltale signs is that [[InsistentTerminology the characters are properly referred to as "Eternals"]], [[NotUsingTheZWord not "Immortals"]] as in ''Highlander''.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Many of the good-natured Eternals enjoy being immortal, especially if they can use their powers for the benefit of mankind and for helping people in need.
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* LongRunners: As already mentioned, it's one of the longest-lived continuous roleplaying games on Alternatehistory.com. Late February 2013 will be its ''5th'' anniversary.
%%* LovableRogue: Many of the characters, especially those who had the career of a conman or thief at least once in their lives.
* {{Masquerade}}: The Eternals try to uphold it as much as they can ([[WhamEpisode until if finally fails in early 2011]]). To ease this process, they created the Trust in the 16th century. The trope is also namedropped and hilariously [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in this in-character discussion:
-->'''G'Len''':"I have heard many terms for our kind, and for how we tend to keep to the shadows in the civilizations that rise and fall around us. However, I think the recent trend to have terms that are entertwined with those popular in 'Vampire' fiction [[TakeThat may be some of the sillier innovations]]."\\
'''Bosch''':"The Trust had nothing to do with this - what we do was to promote [[{{Creator/RobertAHeinlein}} Heinlein]]'s use of the word "Masquerade" in his story ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'' in 1958. One of our non-trustee employees might have been involved with White Wolf and somehow suggested ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' to them, or they may simply have gotten the idea from Heinlein."
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Most of the immortal Eternals marry mortal humans. A couple might eventually learn that they ''are both'' Eternals, thus averting this trope. The characters of [[HappilyMarried Timothy and Jesci]] are good examples of this.
* {{Muggles}}: Mortals, commonly referred to as Ephemerals. Most Eternals want to assist them, the rogue ones [[FantasticRacism would like to see them enslaved]] in one way or another.
* MultinationalTeam: As one would expect, the Eternals come from all over the world and from many different eras of human history. Many (if not most) come from nations that have long since disappeared.
* MythArc: The storyline has slowly and organically moved through several over the years. The early history and fundamentals of Eternals, the quiet war between altruistic and avaricious Eternals, the establishment and history of the Trust, the bringing of malevolent Eternals to justice, the coping of Eternals with the modern and globalized world, with the failure of their long-held masquerade, the [[DawnOfAnEra start of a new era]] of Eternal and Ephemeral human coexistence and relations, etc.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The [[BigBad top dogs]] of the Rogue Eternals all have EvilGloating-style TheAdjectivalMan nicknames, while their real names remain unknown. The three most infamous of these - the leaders - have nicknames that openly refer to their bloodlust: "[[ArchEnemy The Blood Knight]]", "[[TheDragon The Bloodsinger]]" and "[[SociopathicSoldier The Blood God" (aka "The Hashasheen")]].
* NonActionGuy: While lots of Eternals have a past that includes military careers, various daring-do or just being BadassNormal by nature, many Eternals follow this trope instead, often being skilled artists, traders, con-men, or even {{Science Hero}}es or {{Ambadassador}}s. The trope also gets subverted numerous times: Many Eternals turn out to be {{Badass Bookworm}}s and {{Genius Bruiser}}s, or at least {{Cultured Warrior}}s. Or were [[TheEveryman unremarkable]] {{Non Action Guy}}s at first, but eventually TookALevelInBadass.
* OldSoldier: Many Eternals, especially male ones that were born in earlier eras and were forced to travel and fight a lot. At least one or two characters even mention the name of the trope verbatim when describing themselves and their tribulations.
* TheOlderImmortal: G'Len and Th'And in particular. They were alive and adventuring already ''before the end of the last ice age''.
* OlderThanTheyLook: An Eternal will look the same age they had when they died for the first time, before regenerating. Thus, you can have 20-something Eternals who are 2000 years old, and septuagenarians who became Eternals "only" some 50 or 100 years ago.
* {{Omniglot}}: Gregorios is specifically stated to be this, being able to fluently speak 37 languages at last count. Other elder Eternals would also fit this trope.
* PsychoForHire: The commonest SecretIdentity of [[SociopathicSoldier The Blood God]]. The trope also applies to a number of other Rogue Eternals, mooks and leaders alike.
* RashomonStyle: Given the amount of characters, their differing ages and motivations, [[PerspectiveFlip this is to be expected from time to time]]. In the case of Rogue Eternals, you just have to roll with this trope full-time, since the Rogues are more often than not {{Unreliable Narrator}}s - either deliberately or just because of their own insanity.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: And not only 700, but anywhere from 40 to ''[[TimeAbyss 16 000]]'' years old.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: One of the early post-Reveal side storylines was about the Eternals helping the Japanese government in containing and cleaning up the reactor chamber of the ill-fated Fukushima Daichi nuclear powerplant. Some of the stories that followed this one were related to the Arab Spring of 2011, including the Libyan Civil War.
* RunningGag: Kind of an unintentional one. Despite the oft-repeated notion that the Trust has contacted virtually every Eternal on the planet by the 18th century, new Eternal characters keep popping up from time to time, shocked by the notion that they aren't the only immortal humans alive.
* ShoutOut:
** Numerous references to actual historical events and facts, [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold including many obscure ones]].
** There are some {{Mythology Gag}}s towards ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'', of course :
*** The whole ''Highlander'' franchise [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/shared_worlds/highlander_propaganda was]] actually created and produced with secret input from the Trust, in order to prepare the global public for a potential reveal of the Eternals, whether intentional or not. Yeah, even the crappier cinematic movies (it's all part of a clever ruse to keep the public from searching too hard for actual Eternals).
*** In-universe, the film characters of [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Connor MacLeod]], [[TheMentor Ramirez]], [[LargeHam The Kurgan]] and [[TheUnseen Ramirez's Japanese mentor]] are revealed to be all [[BroadStrokes broadly based]] on existing Eternals, though with most of their backstories changed. The Kurgan himself is supposed to be an adaptation of this series' [[MemeticBadass memetic]] BigBad, The Blood Knight (over-the-top EvilGloating included). In one of the in-universe casual discussions between Eternals, one of them claimed to have written the lyrics to {{Music/Queen}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE Who Wants To Live Forever]]'' during a depression in the 80s and later had it covered up when the film studio and band picked up the lyrics for use in the movie.
** Open or veiled references of Eternals to other films and TV shows dealing with the theme of immortal characters (''Film/TheManFromEarth'', ''Series/NewAmsterdam'', etc.).
** One member of the main trio of bad guys, "The Hashasheen" (aka "The Blood God"), uses the phrase "[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Blood for the Blood God!]]" as his favourite BattleCry and MadnessMantra.
** Though this is more coincidental and unintentional than not, the flatly descriptive one-word pseudonyms of many Eternals (especially the villainous ones) are similar to the naming conventions of the Time Lord characters from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* ShowWithinAShow: The autobiographies and personal memoirs of specific Eternals, gradually gleaned through many interviews.
* TangledFamilyTree: Eternals and their offspring that had inherited the immortality genes, often only after several generations (i.e. a lot of Eternals don't even know some of their ancestors were Eternals as well and only reveal this after extensive genealogical research or debates with other Eternals). [[RuleOfDrama Some longer-lived Eternals are unfortunate in this regard]]: Some of their offspring turned outright evil or sociopathic over time, and they as their ancestors now have to live with it. This kind of situation occurs with the fairly normal Eternal character known by the moniker "Edward", who turns out to be one of the direct ancestors of The Blood Knight.
* TeamDad: There've two or three characters like this so far. In the pre-Trust era, the role was filled by G'Len, the oldest known Eternal. He is now retired and rarely visits the Trust. The post-Trust bearer of this trope is Bosch, the founder and head of the Trust. While Bosch, born in medieval France in the late 15th century, is chronologically younger than many of his clients, he is still the undisputed leader, [[{{Ambadassador}} spokesperson]] and peacemaker of the Eternals. Also a GentlemanSnarker and TheStoic. A villainous version of TeamDad would be The Blood Knight, with his many allies and [[{{mooks}} minions]].
* TimeAbyss: The oldest Eternals (including the much-revered "Forefather G'Len") are often so old and have gone through so many experiences in their lives, that [[TheFogOfAges they themselves aren't always sure how long they've been alive]].
* TimeDissonance: Naturally, Eternals experience the flow of time and the course of history a bit differently than [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]]. Said experiencing also varies from Eternal to Eternal and often has a lot to do with how long they've been alive.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Valkert is not explicitly evil, but he's morally ambiguous and crazy enough to pull off some weird stunts that are often embarassing to the Trust.
* UndeadTaxExemption: Averted. Eternals have to eventually move to another place and adopt a new identity in order to not become too suspicious to [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]].
%%* UnfazedEveryman: The mortal employees of the Trust, sometimes dubbed "Trustees".
* WalkingTheEarth: The older and more adventurous the Eternal, the higher the possibility that he/she is an experienced globetrotter.
* WastelandElder: The character of Macarius, [[TheQuietOne a silent]] and [[TheStoic stoic]] old man, who was originally an early Christian hermit monk. After living through the entirety of the Byzantine Empire and harassment by Napoleon's troops in Egypt, he was contacted by the Trust and became an important protegé of it. Eventually, he got bored out of his skull and disillusioned by Earth, so he volunteered for the Eternal's first secret mission to Mars in the 1970s. He's been living there ever since and later Eternal missions have come to make him company.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: InUniverse. Despite a certain amount of traditionalism, the use of ever-developing technology by The Trust and Eternals is [[{{Deconstruction}} one of the main points of the series]]. One of the reasons why The Blood Knight [[{{Anticlimax}} is caught so fast after his 2011 escape]] is because [[SimpleYetAwesome he had no idea of modern satellite tracking technology]]. And while the MugglesDoItBetter trope occurs, it also gets subverted a bit, in an ETGaveUsWifi sort of way: The Eternals have financed the development of some groundbreaking or state-of-the-art technologies, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries. However, [[TheWorldIsNotReady some of these have been kept in secret storage until well after the Reveal]] (like ''[[CoolStarship The Runaway]]'').
* TragicVillain: Out of all the Rogue Eternals (especially the highest-ranking leaders), The Bloodsinger comes off as more of an AntiVillain, rather than the usual power-hungry OmnicidalManiac. This is because he became an Eternal [[FreudianExcuse after he was murdered in a particularly vicious and gruesome manner]]. [[spoiler:He was lynched to death, then burned alive.]] The traumatic death experience and unexpected ressurrection messed up his sanity for the rest of his life. Unlike The Blood Knight and The Blood God, he doesn't particularly revel in his evil acts, [[EvenEvilHasStandards considers unarmed civilians and Muggles not worth killing]] and follows a morally twisted vigilantist doctrine in which he indiscriminately "punishes" (i.e. slaughters) people he decides are "irredeemable" purely because they participated in armed conflicts or crime in one way or another. One of the clear signs that he's been off his rocker for centuries are [[MadnessMantra his constant references to spilt blood "singing to him"]], calling him to murder more supposed adversaries or wrongdoers. Hence his odd [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname nickname]]. To quote the character's creator and player:
--> '''Cambyses the Mad''': The Bloodsinger's crazy, but with the notable exception of the family of the guy that burned him, he doesn't bother with 'innocents', preferring to fight and kill soldiers on the battlefield. It is only in war and battle that he finds satisfaction, hacking up some defenceless chump wouldn't really appeal to him.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: The world since early 2011, when the Eternals decided to finally reveal their existence to the rest of humanity. This has led to the post-Reveal world veering into an increasingly AlternateHistory version of our present day world.
%%* TheWatcher: One of the functions of The Eternals' Trust.
%%* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper: [[BewareTheSuperman The modus operandi]] of some of the more deranged [[SmugSuper Rogue Eternals]].
%%* WhoWantsToLiveForever:
* TheWorldIsNotReady: Why the Eternals tried to keep their existence secret until 2011, when the {{Masquerade}} became no longer feasible. Even after the 2011 Reveal, they only gradually release information about Eternals, their activities and The Trust to the rest of humanity, due to diplomatic and security reasons.
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!!Characters
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Character page for ''Roleplay/AHDotComEternals''. All characters are sorted alphabetically.
For a list of mockumentary "interviews" with the characters, go [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.php?id=shared_worlds:autobiographies_of_eternals here]].
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!! 47
->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame fortyseven]]
Born in circa 2700 BCE in northern Germany. He claims his numerical nickname denotes the number of pseudonyms he bore in his life until adopting this one.
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%%* FishOutOfTemporalWater
* HumanPopsicle: He ''hibernated'' through several centuries of certain older periods of human history.
%%* LivingRelic
%%!! Alfred
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame e350tb]]
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%%An Englishman born in 1591 CE/AD.
%%!! Amelia Gutierrez
%%->'''Played by:''' Turquoise Blue
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%%Born long ago in the prehistoric city of Catal Huyuk. During the 21st century, she goes by the moniker of Amelia Gutierrez, a middle-class woman living in present day San Francisco.
%%!! Aneirin
%%->'''Played by:''' demonkangaroo
%%Born in 984 CE/AD in Wales.
%%!! Apostolos
%%->'''Played by:''' Huehuecoyotl
%%!! Ay'eyh
%%->'''Played by:''' AnalyticalEngine
%%Born in 5085 BCE in Britain.
%%!! Beedok
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Beedok]]
%%Born in 3409 BCE on what would become the French-Belgian border, about 10km from the coast.
%%!! Benjamin Upham
%%->'''Played by:''' RCAF Brat
%%Born in 1335 CE/AD in the southwest of England.
%%!! Blackbeard
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Blackbeard]]
%%Born c. 900 BCE, as an Olmec.
%%!! “The Bloodsinger”
%%->'''Played by:''' Cambyses the Mad
%%A delinquent who was burned alive. Killed his captors and may be insane.
%%!! Daniel
%%->'''Played by:''' [[TheDanza danielb1]]
%%Born in 966 CE/AD in Alexandria.
%%!! Edward
%%->'''Played by:''' Catboy637
%%He was born in 500 BCE as a Macedonian. He met LoyalistColonial in the Crusades. Inadvertently, he is one of the ancestors to the feared Blood Knight.
%%!! "The Egyptian"
%%->'''Played by:''' Turquoise Blue
%%Male, born in the 68th century BC in what is now Egypt.
%%!! E. T. B.
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame e350tb]]
%%Born in 1770 CE/AD, was a perpetual soldier.
%%!! Fenwick
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Fenwick]]
%%Born 1747 BCE, in Uruk.
%%!! Francis
%%->'''Played by:''' Seldrin
%%Born in 1854 AD in Australia. Abandoned as a child after his father died in the Eureka stockade incident. Claims to have been the first European to set his sights on Uluru.
%%!! Freodhoric
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Freodhoric]]
%%Born in 1744 CE/AD.
%%!! Garrick Porter
%%->'''Played by:''' TheDarkMessiah
%%Born in 1745 in the London borough of Wapping.
%%!! G. B. W.
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame GBW]]
%%Born in the first century CE/AD, in Syria, Palaestina. Witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus.
%%!! G'Len
%%->'''Played by:''' Glen
%%Born before most civilization, he is possibly the oldest Eternal. He and Th'And are not sure who is older, since they did not have accurate calendars for a long time.
!! Gregorios
->'''Played by:''' Vulcan Trekkie 45
Born in Constantinople in 473 CE.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: In addition to him, many of his offspring became important historical personalities or influenced major events.
* {{Omniglot}}: Able to fluently speak ''37 languages'' at the last count.
%%!! Mark Faire
%%->'''Played by:''' Abakhazia
%%Born as Marcus Flavius in 321 BCE in Ostia.
%%!! Chuck Mandus
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Chuck Mandus]]
%%Born 1840, in Pittsburgh.
%%!! Josef Schneider
%%->'''Played by:''' Jord389
%%Born in 1072 CE/AD in the northern area of what today would be called Switzerland.
%%!! Karl Stueck
%%->'''Played by:''' Pipochubs1999
%%Born in East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic on April 26th, 1987.
%%!! Klaus Schoff
%%->'''Played by:''' Kevin in Indy
%%Born in Germany in 1823 CE/AD.
%%!! Lalli
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Lalli]]
%%His original name was Lauri Metsälä and he was born in 1847 CE/AD in Rauma, the Grand Duchy of Finland. Originally a fisherman, he became an Eternal after drowning at sea in 1880.
%%!! Leo Fitzroy
%%->'''Played by:''' Vulcan Trekkie 45
%%!! Llywelyn Amerike (''ap Meryk'')
%%->'''Played by:''' Turquoise Blue
%%Male, born of Welsh origin in 1541 in London, and a Tudor urchin early in his life.
%%!! Loyalist Colonial
%%->'''Played by:''' RandomIdeaGuy
%%Born in the 8th century BCE (ca 788 BC), he saw the crucifixion of Jesus and first died when facing Egyptians.
%%!! Lukas Merhoff
%%->'''Played by:''' Abakhazia
%%Born in 1552 AD in Dresden.
!! Marcus Valkert
->'''Played by:''' FDW
Born circa Late 5th Century CE/AD. A mysterious and dubious Eternal of questionable sanity, he claims to know how an eternal can be killed. His identity has been unknown to most members of the Trust, though he claims to have done important tasks for them in the past. Also, despises the Blood Knight, and has attempted to kill him 130 times.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: There's a reason why he has such a loopy and unpredictable personality. But no one is sure what that reason - medical or otherwise - really is.
* ByronicHero: As the titular character of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' would put it : "Oh, I may be on the side of the angels... but don't think for a second that I'm one of them."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A lot of his reminiscing comes across as WordSaladPhilosophy at face value and much of his antics in public are deliberately embarrassing or over-the-top goofy.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied, especially in regards to his occasional references to "having done odd jobs for The Trust in the past".
* DroppingTheBombshell: He claims to know how an Eternal can be permanently killed.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Not evil per se, but wacky, with uncertain motivations and morally grey enough to be a rather Byronic type of AntiHero.
* {{Troll}}: Once it was obvious that the {{Masquerade}} will fail soon, he deliberately trolled The Trust by staging a silly public performance.
%%!! Marie-Renée Nicolet (Nicolet)
%%->'''Played by:''' Sedna
%%Born 1824, American, French-Canadian by ethnic origin. Went from schoolteacher to physicist. A member of the first Eternal expedition to Mars in the 1970s, along with Macarius. Still residing there.
%%!! Michaël Bosch
%%->'''Played by:''' Michael Busch
%%Born in 1419, in Bois-le-Duc. Originally a sailor, then a monk after discovering his immortality. Later a merchant, lawyer, doctor, banker, explorer, scientist, and spymaster. Closely associated with other Eternals, and one of the founders of the Immortal's Trust. Helped to capture the Blood Knight.
%%!! TheMilitantOne
%%->'''Played by:''' TheMilitantOne
%%Born in 1736 CE/AD in the Virginia colony by parents of English citizenship.
%%!! Modelcitizen
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame modelcitizen]]
%%Born in 1041 AD in an unspecified location, he has a mischievous and trigger-happy personality, likes fighting, having fun, collecting old fancy cars and organizing his own secret mercenary companies to take down various world-renowned terrorists and criminals. Participated in the Eternals' fighting championships in Kimberly, Australia. Currently lives and works under the guise of an average high school teacher.
!! Peter
->'''Played by:''' Petike
Born in the 1280s' Kingdom of Hungary, raised as a Hospitaller knight, but instead became a drifter, outlaw, soldier, general con-man, travelling merchant and traveler-adventurer throughout the centuries.
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%%* BadassBookworm: Especially in the later half of his life. He was more of a BadassSwordsman during his first two or three centuries, when he was mostly a soldier by occupation.
* ConMan: One of his sources of income during the 16th and 17th century, usually by conning customers into thinking he's a real alchemist.
* DorkKnight: Has some elements of this, especially after he starts getting interested in scholarly pursuits and scientific occupations during the later parts of the early modern era.
* GentlemanAdventurer : Later in his life, mainly during the 18th and 19th century. He was even a member of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_North_Pole_Expedition Austro-Hungarian polar expedition]] to Franz Josef's Land.
* IHaveManyNames: Amassed quite a few pseudonyms during his life, though he doesn't have as many as the really long-lived Eternals.
* IntrepidMerchant: One of his main sources of income during certain centuries, especially in the 15th, 16th and 17th century.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Appears to be an average-looking, mild-mannered 23 year old man, is actually at least 720 years old.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Even ''literally''. He was born in the 1280s, and is therefore over 700 years old when The Reveal occurs in the alternate 2011.
* {{Robinsonade}}: Spent a few years marooned on a deserted Pacific island. He drops hints that, in addition to Alexander Selkirk, he too might have inspired Defoe's ''Robinson Crusoe'', since he once described some of his experiences to Daniel Defoe himself.
* TechnicalPacifist: Especially when he grew tired of wars around the mid 15th century, and when he switched to travels instead of fighting during the early 17th century. He still fought in the world wars, but he mostly did so out of a sense of duty.
* WalkingTheEarth: During his life, he had visited every major landmass, except for Antarctica.
%%!! Peter the Psephologist
%%->'''Played by:''' Rogue Beaver
%%Born in 1974 AD in Montreal.
%%!! Prometheus
%%->'''Played by:''' Prometheus_2300
%%Born in 352 AD in the Eastern Roman Empire.
%%!! Radulf
%%->'''Played by:''' Ran Exilis
%%Born 476 CE under the Ostrogoths.
%%!! Raven
%%->'''Played by:''' Bavarian Raven
%%Born in 1761 in Transylvania.
%%!! Redem
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Redem]]
%%Born circa 2000 BCE.
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%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
%%* WalkingTheEarth
%%!! "The Saxon"
%%->'''Played by:''' Nikephoros
%%Male, born in a village near early London in 757 CE/AD.
%%!! Snowzinger
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Snowzinger]]
%%Born in 1584 CE, on land that would become part of New Netherlands and later New Jersey.
%%!! Th'And
%%->'''Played by:''' Thande
%%Along with G'Len, one of the most ancient Eternals.
%%!! Tiberius
%%->'''Played by:''' Soverihn
%%Born in 263 AD, right in the middle of the Crisis of the Third Century.
%%!! Timothy
%%->'''Played by:''' TimKeck84
%%Born in 1384 CE/AD. Along with his wife Jesci and with Bosch, he was a founder of the Eternals' Trust.
%%!! Tochtli
%%->'''Played by:''' Huehuecoyotl
%%Born in 1495 CE/AD in Xochimilco, an Aztec town. Witnessed the last years of the Aztec empire and the Spanish siege and eventual conquest of Tenochtitlan. Became a drifter after that, living mostly in the Americas.
%%!! Torque
%%->'''Played by:''' torque7844
%%Born in 1558 CE/AD, shot during a naval battle in 1588.
%%!! Winston
%%->'''Played by:''' Winston Smith
%%Born on the 1st of September 1939 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (today's Harare in Zimbabwe).
%%!! "The Wizard"
%%->'''Played by:''' Communist Wizard
%%Male, born ~500 BCE in Carthage.
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%%!! The Blood Knight
%%Homicidal, he has killed many humans and other Eternals. Killed Edward at least twice, despite being his great-grandson. Buried beneath a mountain in the late 1700's, escaped in the late 1800's; now buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean crust.
%%!! Jesci
%%Timothy's wife.
%%!!Macarius
%%“Desert Father”. Born in Alexandria c. 335 CE, he became a Christian monk and ascetic hermit. Remained sequestered in the desert for many decades at a time. Was attacked by the Blood Knight in the late 1800s. Eventually volunteered for the Eternals' first Mars mission along with Nicolet, to find a more demanding location to practice his self-discipline. Currently still living on Mars.
%%!! Tadayo
%%Japanese blacksmith and sword-master who studied under Masamune. He relocated to Hokkaido in the late 18th century.
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%% YMMV tropes have been commented out until the Roleplay Maintenance thread has decided what to do on subjective subpages.
-> ''I was born in the year 14,100 BCE... About ninety of us were born before Christ...''
-->'''G'Len''', oldest of the Eternals
-> ''16,000 years ago, a man called G'Len was born on a peninsula that would one day become Ireland. Since then, other immortal men and women have been born, sometimes parent and child, sometimes siblings, sometimes great-to-fiftieth grandchildren. They are the Eternals. They vary in age, from just decades to many millennia old. This site is dedicated to these people. For they have watched civilization be born, grow up, and mature into the globalized world we live in today. Here, they can tell their stories.''
--> '''OpeningNarration''' of the series
''AH.com Eternals'' is a long-running blend of a roleplaying PlayByPostGame and action-espionage dramatic webseries created over at the Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom discussion board. Though originally intended as a one-off idea, it soon grew and expanded and now carries the distinction of being one of the few roleplaying games on AH.com to be still running after nearly 5 years. Obviously {{inspired by}} the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' series during its starting phase, it has firmly grown into its own original mythos and canon over the years, [[SerialNumbersFiledOff only sharing a few basic ideas]] with its source of inspiration.
One of the main elements of the canon is the existence of The Trust, a secret global organization of Eternals that was founded in the 16th century. Its goals are to help Eternals cope with their unique fates, shelter them, record their life stories, allow them to contact and help each other and work to protect [[{{Muggles}} regular humans]] and world peace from various threats. Naturally, many Eternals never warmed up to the idea of the Trust or never liked other Eternals and regular humans all that much to begin with. These are Rogue Eternals, the primary antagonists of the series.
An important milestone in the game's MythArc was the Reveal. It occured in early 2011, and from then on, the game has stopped being a purely secret history populated by the Eternals, and has become a kind of AlternateHistory of our present. In addition to this narrative ReTool, the pace of the main storyline has sped up a bit and is now set [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture about five or so years into our own future]]. This was done as a move to chronicle the gradual influence of Eternals and their declassified knowledge on modern human society and science.
The series was nominated regularly for "Best Roleplaying Game" in AH.com's annual Turtledove Awards (the AH.com Oscars). It had already won once in this category, [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2456243&postcount=14 in 2009]].
The discussion thread in which the series is played can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=85097 here]]. The series page on the AH.com Wiki can be accessed [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.php?id=shared_worlds:ah.com_eternals here]]. A revival thread called AH.com Eternals Forever has recently been created, and can be found [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ah-com-eternals-forever.393059/ here]]
Unfortunately, since that forum is off limits to non-members, you'll have to join the board before you can read the discussion thread itself. However, the always-accessible wiki page of the series regularly summarizes the main developments in the story.
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!!''Eternals'' provides examples of:
%%* ActingForTwo: Several players have played more than one character throughout the years. Their older characters are not retconned away, but added to the list of characters and portrayed whenever they're needed again on-screen (which is not all that often, really). Off-screen dialogues and actions of characters can occassionally occur, particularly if the player/creator of a character is not available at the moment and his character is crucial for at least a few moments in the storyline. To date, the latter type of situation has been very rare, so few of the existing non-NPC characters make appearances in the absence of their creator.
%%* TheAgeless: Eternals. The story is told from their point of view.
%%* AlienSpaceBats: Given the basic premise and its fantasy nature, the game is housed in the eponymous forum of AH.com, which deals with fantasy-themed alternate histories.
* AlternateHistory: At first, the premise of the game was more of a standard secret history with a dash of {{historical fantasy}}. After the 2011 reveal of the Eternals to the world public, [[TheUnmasquedWorld the game's universe]] became an explicit AlternateHistory version of ours. While the storyline has yet to leave the 2010s, the ramifications of the Reveal have already been felt. And even while the game was in its {{Masquerade}} phase, the meddling of many Eternals in the course of world history [[SubvertedTrope implies that the baseline history itself]] [[MindScrew could have been quite different without their intrusion]].
* AlternateUniverse: Exactly the same as ours until 2011, with a single exception: A certain portion of humanity are immortal humans who live among us, keeping their superpowers in secrecy.
* AnachronicOrder: Most of the storyline in general. Sometimes, a chapter will focus on the latest events in the storyline, sometimes it will be an examination of the known history of the Eternals, sometimes it will be a retrospective of an Eternal about one particular period or event in his life, etc.
* AncientConspiracy: Played with. Eternals trying to cover up their own existence definitely qualifies as ancient, but the Trust as an organization was only formed in the 16th century. And, for once, the conspiracy itself is actually ''benevolent'' and serves to protect both Eternals and [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]]. Rogue Eternals, on the other hand... They play the typical "malevolent" connotations of the trope fairly straight.
%%* AntiHero: A lot of the characters have or had traits like this, even the really noble ones. The antihero subtypes in the Eternals community run the whole gamut, except for the rather rare ByronicHero.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: While some Eternals tried to keep to themselves for their entire long existence, most Eternals helped shape history in one way or another, to various degrees and because of various motivations.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: While most Eternals have posed as common folk throughout the centuries and millennia, some of them did eventually become notable historical characters and personalities. One of the secret identities of the character Gregorios was the early American settler [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alden_%28Pilgrim%29 John Alden]].
* BloodKnight: Literally! [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname The Blood Knight]] is the [[BigBad most dangerous and sociopathic Eternal all around]]. Though only born relatively recently (during the Middle Ages), he has fought for centuries against the Trust, murdered many Eternals and worked on creating a network of allies and minions among likewise minded rogue Eternals. Thankfully, by the time the Eternals community reveals itself to the rest of the world, [[{{Anticlimax}} he is caught one last time, interrogated and imprisoned by the Trust for good]].
%%* CallToAdventure: Many Eternals fell for its lure. They had various reasons for doing so.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The character of Valkert. Despite being on the side of the Trust and the good guy Eternals, he's a highly eccentric and sometimes downright nutty person.
%%* ConspiracyThriller: At times.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Several of the worst [[{{Villains}} Rogue Eternals]] had to be punished by extreme confinement in order to protect both mortal humans and good guy Eternals from their endless rampaging. How extreme? Like being burried alive in a mine'' or ''being burried in the ocean crust extreme.
* CursedWithAwesome: All Eternals. Some [[LivingForeverIsAwesome revel in their unnatural gift]] ([[SlidingDownTheSlipperySlope often going overboard]]), some [[WhoWantsToLiveForever utterly hate it]] (emphasis on the "cursed" part of the trope), most TakeAThirdOption and adopt a relatively neutral stance.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Even the luckiest, most cheerful and most idealistic characters have gone through their fair share of unpleasant experiences.
%%* DocumentaryEpisode: Quite a lot of the chapters.
* DoingInTheWizard: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged.]] While the trigger of immortality that some people receive at birth seems supernatural, it is eventually discovered to be a rare glitch in the human genome. (To the surprise of Eternal characters, the number of people with "Immortality Genes" has only grown throughout human history, not dimished as was once thought.) However, despite the discovered scientific evidence for natural immortality genes, the actual cause of their existence still isn't well understood.
* DrunkWithPower: Why and how a lot of Eternals turned to [[ImmortalityImmorality evil, treachery and anti-social behaviour]].
* EncyclopediaExposita: Most of the wiki pages covering this roleplaying project (apart from the introductory one) are written in-universe in order to better immerse readers in the narrative and [[{{backstory}} backstories]].
* ExpansionPackPast: Some characters tell their [[{{backstory}} autobiographies]] chronologically, some do it in a more AnachronicOrder. It adds to the charm and unpredictability of the series.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: On a personal scale, when a new eternal reveals himself/herself to The Trust or when [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/shared_worlds/the_trust The Trust]] contacts a confirmed Eternal and explains to him/her his/her immortality. On a global scale, the 2011 Reveal that finished TheMasquerade MythArc and remade the timeline into an outright AlternateHistory.
* FunWithAcronyms: One of the service branches of The Trust is TETRA - "'''T'''he '''E'''ternals' '''T'''rust '''R'''epository and '''A'''rchives".
* GenreShift: While ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' is primarily an action adventure story, this series has more of a [[SpyFiction spy thriller]] tone, with lots of DeconstructorFleet elements. It's less about the fancy swordfighting with ancient adversaries, and more about Eternals reminescenting about their past adventures and experiences in the form of [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/shared_worlds/autobiographies_of_eternals oral history interviews]], or taking part in working for the Trust and for the Eternals' cause. Helping {{Muggles}} from behind the scenes or protecting them from villainous Eternals is one of the Trust members' main missions.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Eternals and regular humans in general, though most are (or aspire to be) ALighterShadeOfGrey. Turns to BlackAndGreyMorality when the saner Eternals are dealing with the most villainous ones, particularly The Blood Knight and his posse.
%%* GuileHero: Several Eternals, but Bosch in particular.
* HistoricalFantasy: Though the only fantastical element are the Eternals themselves. It's still enough to create room for some really compelling stories.
%%* HistoricalInJoke: Given the nature of the series, it shows up frequently.
* {{Homage}}: Immortal humans, born in various eras and places, walk among us. Some good, some evil, some of dubious alignment. They cannot die of natural causes. They can only be killed by decapitation or vaporization of the head. This is all that this series and ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' have in common.
* IHaveManyNames: Every Eternal has a whole list of pseudonyms and made-up personas, and the list only grows as they get older and older. The character of Gregorios alone (born around 300 AD) has an infamously large collection of pseudonyms. The trope is also [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in some cases, like with The Blood Knight, the Bloodsinger, and other terrifying rogue Eternals who are deliberately [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname only known by their nicknames]].
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Averted. Eternals can have offspring just fine with regular humans and other Eternals alike (unless they're impotent).
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Unless you actually become an Eternal during your 20s, this trope is averted.
* InJoke: On the wiki pages of the roleplay, at least. In the database of biographical interviews with Eternals, each Eternal is assigned a seemingly random large number by the Trust Archives. This code is actually derived from the secondary code of a post made in the roleplay's thread on the AH.com discussion board.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Subverted. While many of the longer-lived and more [[WalkingTheEarth globetrotting]]-oriented Eternals have certainly met a lot of famous historical figures, no character has bumped into every single famous figure of any given era and any given country.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Several examples, but Macarius (old medieval hermit) and Nicolet (young 19th century Franco-American woman) as two lonely explorers on Mars takes the cake.
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Usualy averted and frowned upon by the Eternals. If a rogue Eternal tries to reveal the Trust or hurt regular people or Eternals, at the very worst, he's hunted down and gets imprisoned. If a regular person reveals Eternals, he is made a life-long confidant or employee of the Trust.
* LargeHam: The villainous Rogue Eternals, natch. Some of them are fond of a BreakingSpeech from time to time.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: While the canon is self-admittedly InspiredBy the rules of the ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'' series, they weren't copied wholesale. This was due to a desire to create an original take on the "immortal humans among us" theme. The AH.commers that have taken part in the game have gradually fleshed out the backstory with a host of new and different ideas. The second reason was, of course, to avoid obvious copyright issues - one of its telltale signs is that [[InsistentTerminology the characters are properly referred to as "Eternals"]], [[NotUsingTheZWord not "Immortals"]] as in ''Highlander''.
* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Many of the good-natured Eternals enjoy being immortal, especially if they can use their powers for the benefit of mankind and for helping people in need.
%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/shared_worlds/ah.com_eternals#eternals See for yourself.]]
* LongRunners: As already mentioned, it's one of the longest-lived continuous roleplaying games on Alternatehistory.com. Late February 2013 will be its ''5th'' anniversary.
%%* LovableRogue: Many of the characters, especially those who had the career of a conman or thief at least once in their lives.
* {{Masquerade}}: The Eternals try to uphold it as much as they can ([[WhamEpisode until if finally fails in early 2011]]). To ease this process, they created the Trust in the 16th century. The trope is also namedropped and hilariously [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in this in-character discussion:
-->'''G'Len''':"I have heard many terms for our kind, and for how we tend to keep to the shadows in the civilizations that rise and fall around us. However, I think the recent trend to have terms that are entertwined with those popular in 'Vampire' fiction [[TakeThat may be some of the sillier innovations]]."\\
'''Bosch''':"The Trust had nothing to do with this - what we do was to promote [[{{Creator/RobertAHeinlein}} Heinlein]]'s use of the word "Masquerade" in his story ''Literature/MethuselahsChildren'' in 1958. One of our non-trustee employees might have been involved with White Wolf and somehow suggested ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' to them, or they may simply have gotten the idea from Heinlein."
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Most of the immortal Eternals marry mortal humans. A couple might eventually learn that they ''are both'' Eternals, thus averting this trope. The characters of [[HappilyMarried Timothy and Jesci]] are good examples of this.
* {{Muggles}}: Mortals, commonly referred to as Ephemerals. Most Eternals want to assist them, the rogue ones [[FantasticRacism would like to see them enslaved]] in one way or another.
* MultinationalTeam: As one would expect, the Eternals come from all over the world and from many different eras of human history. Many (if not most) come from nations that have long since disappeared.
* MythArc: The storyline has slowly and organically moved through several over the years. The early history and fundamentals of Eternals, the quiet war between altruistic and avaricious Eternals, the establishment and history of the Trust, the bringing of malevolent Eternals to justice, the coping of Eternals with the modern and globalized world, with the failure of their long-held masquerade, the [[DawnOfAnEra start of a new era]] of Eternal and Ephemeral human coexistence and relations, etc.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The [[BigBad top dogs]] of the Rogue Eternals all have EvilGloating-style TheAdjectivalMan nicknames, while their real names remain unknown. The three most infamous of these - the leaders - have nicknames that openly refer to their bloodlust: "[[ArchEnemy The Blood Knight]]", "[[TheDragon The Bloodsinger]]" and "[[SociopathicSoldier The Blood God" (aka "The Hashasheen")]].
* NonActionGuy: While lots of Eternals have a past that includes military careers, various daring-do or just being BadassNormal by nature, many Eternals follow this trope instead, often being skilled artists, traders, con-men, or even {{Science Hero}}es or {{Ambadassador}}s. The trope also gets subverted numerous times: Many Eternals turn out to be {{Badass Bookworm}}s and {{Genius Bruiser}}s, or at least {{Cultured Warrior}}s. Or were [[TheEveryman unremarkable]] {{Non Action Guy}}s at first, but eventually TookALevelInBadass.
* OldSoldier: Many Eternals, especially male ones that were born in earlier eras and were forced to travel and fight a lot. At least one or two characters even mention the name of the trope verbatim when describing themselves and their tribulations.
* TheOlderImmortal: G'Len and Th'And in particular. They were alive and adventuring already ''before the end of the last ice age''.
* OlderThanTheyLook: An Eternal will look the same age they had when they died for the first time, before regenerating. Thus, you can have 20-something Eternals who are 2000 years old, and septuagenarians who became Eternals "only" some 50 or 100 years ago.
* {{Omniglot}}: Gregorios is specifically stated to be this, being able to fluently speak 37 languages at last count. Other elder Eternals would also fit this trope.
* PsychoForHire: The commonest SecretIdentity of [[SociopathicSoldier The Blood God]]. The trope also applies to a number of other Rogue Eternals, mooks and leaders alike.
* RashomonStyle: Given the amount of characters, their differing ages and motivations, [[PerspectiveFlip this is to be expected from time to time]]. In the case of Rogue Eternals, you just have to roll with this trope full-time, since the Rogues are more often than not {{Unreliable Narrator}}s - either deliberately or just because of their own insanity.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: And not only 700, but anywhere from 40 to ''[[TimeAbyss 16 000]]'' years old.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: One of the early post-Reveal side storylines was about the Eternals helping the Japanese government in containing and cleaning up the reactor chamber of the ill-fated Fukushima Daichi nuclear powerplant. Some of the stories that followed this one were related to the Arab Spring of 2011, including the Libyan Civil War.
* RunningGag: Kind of an unintentional one. Despite the oft-repeated notion that the Trust has contacted virtually every Eternal on the planet by the 18th century, new Eternal characters keep popping up from time to time, shocked by the notion that they aren't the only immortal humans alive.
* ShoutOut:
** Numerous references to actual historical events and facts, [[TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold including many obscure ones]].
** There are some {{Mythology Gag}}s towards ''Franchise/{{Highlander}}'', of course :
*** The whole ''Highlander'' franchise [[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/shared_worlds/highlander_propaganda was]] actually created and produced with secret input from the Trust, in order to prepare the global public for a potential reveal of the Eternals, whether intentional or not. Yeah, even the crappier cinematic movies (it's all part of a clever ruse to keep the public from searching too hard for actual Eternals).
*** In-universe, the film characters of [[UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}} Connor MacLeod]], [[TheMentor Ramirez]], [[LargeHam The Kurgan]] and [[TheUnseen Ramirez's Japanese mentor]] are revealed to be all [[BroadStrokes broadly based]] on existing Eternals, though with most of their backstories changed. The Kurgan himself is supposed to be an adaptation of this series' [[MemeticBadass memetic]] BigBad, The Blood Knight (over-the-top EvilGloating included). In one of the in-universe casual discussions between Eternals, one of them claimed to have written the lyrics to {{Music/Queen}}'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jtpf8N5IDE Who Wants To Live Forever]]'' during a depression in the 80s and later had it covered up when the film studio and band picked up the lyrics for use in the movie.
** Open or veiled references of Eternals to other films and TV shows dealing with the theme of immortal characters (''Film/TheManFromEarth'', ''Series/NewAmsterdam'', etc.).
** One member of the main trio of bad guys, "The Hashasheen" (aka "The Blood God"), uses the phrase "[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Blood for the Blood God!]]" as his favourite BattleCry and MadnessMantra.
** Though this is more coincidental and unintentional than not, the flatly descriptive one-word pseudonyms of many Eternals (especially the villainous ones) are similar to the naming conventions of the Time Lord characters from ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* ShowWithinAShow: The autobiographies and personal memoirs of specific Eternals, gradually gleaned through many interviews.
* TangledFamilyTree: Eternals and their offspring that had inherited the immortality genes, often only after several generations (i.e. a lot of Eternals don't even know some of their ancestors were Eternals as well and only reveal this after extensive genealogical research or debates with other Eternals). [[RuleOfDrama Some longer-lived Eternals are unfortunate in this regard]]: Some of their offspring turned outright evil or sociopathic over time, and they as their ancestors now have to live with it. This kind of situation occurs with the fairly normal Eternal character known by the moniker "Edward", who turns out to be one of the direct ancestors of The Blood Knight.
* TeamDad: There've two or three characters like this so far. In the pre-Trust era, the role was filled by G'Len, the oldest known Eternal. He is now retired and rarely visits the Trust. The post-Trust bearer of this trope is Bosch, the founder and head of the Trust. While Bosch, born in medieval France in the late 15th century, is chronologically younger than many of his clients, he is still the undisputed leader, [[{{Ambadassador}} spokesperson]] and peacemaker of the Eternals. Also a GentlemanSnarker and TheStoic. A villainous version of TeamDad would be The Blood Knight, with his many allies and [[{{mooks}} minions]].
* TimeAbyss: The oldest Eternals (including the much-revered "Forefather G'Len") are often so old and have gone through so many experiences in their lives, that [[TheFogOfAges they themselves aren't always sure how long they've been alive]].
* TimeDissonance: Naturally, Eternals experience the flow of time and the course of history a bit differently than [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]]. Said experiencing also varies from Eternal to Eternal and often has a lot to do with how long they've been alive.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Valkert is not explicitly evil, but he's morally ambiguous and crazy enough to pull off some weird stunts that are often embarassing to the Trust.
* UndeadTaxExemption: Averted. Eternals have to eventually move to another place and adopt a new identity in order to not become too suspicious to [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]].
%%* UnfazedEveryman: The mortal employees of the Trust, sometimes dubbed "Trustees".
* WalkingTheEarth: The older and more adventurous the Eternal, the higher the possibility that he/she is an experienced globetrotter.
* WastelandElder: The character of Macarius, [[TheQuietOne a silent]] and [[TheStoic stoic]] old man, who was originally an early Christian hermit monk. After living through the entirety of the Byzantine Empire and harassment by Napoleon's troops in Egypt, he was contacted by the Trust and became an important protegé of it. Eventually, he got bored out of his skull and disillusioned by Earth, so he volunteered for the Eternal's first secret mission to Mars in the 1970s. He's been living there ever since and later Eternal missions have come to make him company.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: InUniverse. Despite a certain amount of traditionalism, the use of ever-developing technology by The Trust and Eternals is [[{{Deconstruction}} one of the main points of the series]]. One of the reasons why The Blood Knight [[{{Anticlimax}} is caught so fast after his 2011 escape]] is because [[SimpleYetAwesome he had no idea of modern satellite tracking technology]]. And while the MugglesDoItBetter trope occurs, it also gets subverted a bit, in an ETGaveUsWifi sort of way: The Eternals have financed the development of some groundbreaking or state-of-the-art technologies, particularly during the 19th and 20th centuries. However, [[TheWorldIsNotReady some of these have been kept in secret storage until well after the Reveal]] (like ''[[CoolStarship The Runaway]]'').
* TragicVillain: Out of all the Rogue Eternals (especially the highest-ranking leaders), The Bloodsinger comes off as more of an AntiVillain, rather than the usual power-hungry OmnicidalManiac. This is because he became an Eternal [[FreudianExcuse after he was murdered in a particularly vicious and gruesome manner]]. [[spoiler:He was lynched to death, then burned alive.]] The traumatic death experience and unexpected ressurrection messed up his sanity for the rest of his life. Unlike The Blood Knight and The Blood God, he doesn't particularly revel in his evil acts, [[EvenEvilHasStandards considers unarmed civilians and Muggles not worth killing]] and follows a morally twisted vigilantist doctrine in which he indiscriminately "punishes" (i.e. slaughters) people he decides are "irredeemable" purely because they participated in armed conflicts or crime in one way or another. One of the clear signs that he's been off his rocker for centuries are [[MadnessMantra his constant references to spilt blood "singing to him"]], calling him to murder more supposed adversaries or wrongdoers. Hence his odd [[OnlyKnownByHisNickname nickname]]. To quote the character's creator and player:
--> '''Cambyses the Mad''': The Bloodsinger's crazy, but with the notable exception of the family of the guy that burned him, he doesn't bother with 'innocents', preferring to fight and kill soldiers on the battlefield. It is only in war and battle that he finds satisfaction, hacking up some defenceless chump wouldn't really appeal to him.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: The world since early 2011, when the Eternals decided to finally reveal their existence to the rest of humanity. This has led to the post-Reveal world veering into an increasingly AlternateHistory version of our present day world.
%%* TheWatcher: One of the functions of The Eternals' Trust.
%%* WhatMeasureIsANonSuper: [[BewareTheSuperman The modus operandi]] of some of the more deranged [[SmugSuper Rogue Eternals]].
%%* WhoWantsToLiveForever:
* TheWorldIsNotReady: Why the Eternals tried to keep their existence secret until 2011, when the {{Masquerade}} became no longer feasible. Even after the 2011 Reveal, they only gradually release information about Eternals, their activities and The Trust to the rest of humanity, due to diplomatic and security reasons.
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!!Characters
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Character page for ''Roleplay/AHDotComEternals''. All characters are sorted alphabetically.
For a list of mockumentary "interviews" with the characters, go [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.php?id=shared_worlds:autobiographies_of_eternals here]].
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!! 47
->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame fortyseven]]
Born in circa 2700 BCE in northern Germany. He claims his numerical nickname denotes the number of pseudonyms he bore in his life until adopting this one.
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%%* FishOutOfTemporalWater
* HumanPopsicle: He ''hibernated'' through several centuries of certain older periods of human history.
%%* LivingRelic
%%!! Alfred
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame e350tb]]
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%%An Englishman born in 1591 CE/AD.
%%!! Amelia Gutierrez
%%->'''Played by:''' Turquoise Blue
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%%Born long ago in the prehistoric city of Catal Huyuk. During the 21st century, she goes by the moniker of Amelia Gutierrez, a middle-class woman living in present day San Francisco.
%%!! Aneirin
%%->'''Played by:''' demonkangaroo
%%Born in 984 CE/AD in Wales.
%%!! Apostolos
%%->'''Played by:''' Huehuecoyotl
%%!! Ay'eyh
%%->'''Played by:''' AnalyticalEngine
%%Born in 5085 BCE in Britain.
%%!! Beedok
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Beedok]]
%%Born in 3409 BCE on what would become the French-Belgian border, about 10km from the coast.
%%!! Benjamin Upham
%%->'''Played by:''' RCAF Brat
%%Born in 1335 CE/AD in the southwest of England.
%%!! Blackbeard
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Blackbeard]]
%%Born c. 900 BCE, as an Olmec.
%%!! “The Bloodsinger”
%%->'''Played by:''' Cambyses the Mad
%%A delinquent who was burned alive. Killed his captors and may be insane.
%%!! Daniel
%%->'''Played by:''' [[TheDanza danielb1]]
%%Born in 966 CE/AD in Alexandria.
%%!! Edward
%%->'''Played by:''' Catboy637
%%He was born in 500 BCE as a Macedonian. He met LoyalistColonial in the Crusades. Inadvertently, he is one of the ancestors to the feared Blood Knight.
%%!! "The Egyptian"
%%->'''Played by:''' Turquoise Blue
%%Male, born in the 68th century BC in what is now Egypt.
%%!! E. T. B.
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame e350tb]]
%%Born in 1770 CE/AD, was a perpetual soldier.
%%!! Fenwick
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Fenwick]]
%%Born 1747 BCE, in Uruk.
%%!! Francis
%%->'''Played by:''' Seldrin
%%Born in 1854 AD in Australia. Abandoned as a child after his father died in the Eureka stockade incident. Claims to have been the first European to set his sights on Uluru.
%%!! Freodhoric
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Freodhoric]]
%%Born in 1744 CE/AD.
%%!! Garrick Porter
%%->'''Played by:''' TheDarkMessiah
%%Born in 1745 in the London borough of Wapping.
%%!! G. B. W.
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame GBW]]
%%Born in the first century CE/AD, in Syria, Palaestina. Witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus.
%%!! G'Len
%%->'''Played by:''' Glen
%%Born before most civilization, he is possibly the oldest Eternal. He and Th'And are not sure who is older, since they did not have accurate calendars for a long time.
!! Gregorios
->'''Played by:''' Vulcan Trekkie 45
Born in Constantinople in 473 CE.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: In addition to him, many of his offspring became important historical personalities or influenced major events.
* {{Omniglot}}: Able to fluently speak ''37 languages'' at the last count.
%%!! Mark Faire
%%->'''Played by:''' Abakhazia
%%Born as Marcus Flavius in 321 BCE in Ostia.
%%!! Chuck Mandus
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Chuck Mandus]]
%%Born 1840, in Pittsburgh.
%%!! Josef Schneider
%%->'''Played by:''' Jord389
%%Born in 1072 CE/AD in the northern area of what today would be called Switzerland.
%%!! Karl Stueck
%%->'''Played by:''' Pipochubs1999
%%Born in East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic on April 26th, 1987.
%%!! Klaus Schoff
%%->'''Played by:''' Kevin in Indy
%%Born in Germany in 1823 CE/AD.
%%!! Lalli
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Lalli]]
%%His original name was Lauri Metsälä and he was born in 1847 CE/AD in Rauma, the Grand Duchy of Finland. Originally a fisherman, he became an Eternal after drowning at sea in 1880.
%%!! Leo Fitzroy
%%->'''Played by:''' Vulcan Trekkie 45
%%!! Llywelyn Amerike (''ap Meryk'')
%%->'''Played by:''' Turquoise Blue
%%Male, born of Welsh origin in 1541 in London, and a Tudor urchin early in his life.
%%!! Loyalist Colonial
%%->'''Played by:''' RandomIdeaGuy
%%Born in the 8th century BCE (ca 788 BC), he saw the crucifixion of Jesus and first died when facing Egyptians.
%%!! Lukas Merhoff
%%->'''Played by:''' Abakhazia
%%Born in 1552 AD in Dresden.
!! Marcus Valkert
->'''Played by:''' FDW
Born circa Late 5th Century CE/AD. A mysterious and dubious Eternal of questionable sanity, he claims to know how an eternal can be killed. His identity has been unknown to most members of the Trust, though he claims to have done important tasks for them in the past. Also, despises the Blood Knight, and has attempted to kill him 130 times.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: There's a reason why he has such a loopy and unpredictable personality. But no one is sure what that reason - medical or otherwise - really is.
* ByronicHero: As the titular character of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' would put it : "Oh, I may be on the side of the angels... but don't think for a second that I'm one of them."
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A lot of his reminiscing comes across as WordSaladPhilosophy at face value and much of his antics in public are deliberately embarrassing or over-the-top goofy.
%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Implied, especially in regards to his occasional references to "having done odd jobs for The Trust in the past".
* DroppingTheBombshell: He claims to know how an Eternal can be permanently killed.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Not evil per se, but wacky, with uncertain motivations and morally grey enough to be a rather Byronic type of AntiHero.
* {{Troll}}: Once it was obvious that the {{Masquerade}} will fail soon, he deliberately trolled The Trust by staging a silly public performance.
%%!! Marie-Renée Nicolet (Nicolet)
%%->'''Played by:''' Sedna
%%Born 1824, American, French-Canadian by ethnic origin. Went from schoolteacher to physicist. A member of the first Eternal expedition to Mars in the 1970s, along with Macarius. Still residing there.
%%!! Michaël Bosch
%%->'''Played by:''' Michael Busch
%%Born in 1419, in Bois-le-Duc. Originally a sailor, then a monk after discovering his immortality. Later a merchant, lawyer, doctor, banker, explorer, scientist, and spymaster. Closely associated with other Eternals, and one of the founders of the Immortal's Trust. Helped to capture the Blood Knight.
%%!! TheMilitantOne
%%->'''Played by:''' TheMilitantOne
%%Born in 1736 CE/AD in the Virginia colony by parents of English citizenship.
%%!! Modelcitizen
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame modelcitizen]]
%%Born in 1041 AD in an unspecified location, he has a mischievous and trigger-happy personality, likes fighting, having fun, collecting old fancy cars and organizing his own secret mercenary companies to take down various world-renowned terrorists and criminals. Participated in the Eternals' fighting championships in Kimberly, Australia. Currently lives and works under the guise of an average high school teacher.
!! Peter
->'''Played by:''' Petike
Born in the 1280s' Kingdom of Hungary, raised as a Hospitaller knight, but instead became a drifter, outlaw, soldier, general con-man, travelling merchant and traveler-adventurer throughout the centuries.
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%%* BadassBookworm: Especially in the later half of his life. He was more of a BadassSwordsman during his first two or three centuries, when he was mostly a soldier by occupation.
* ConMan: One of his sources of income during the 16th and 17th century, usually by conning customers into thinking he's a real alchemist.
* DorkKnight: Has some elements of this, especially after he starts getting interested in scholarly pursuits and scientific occupations during the later parts of the early modern era.
* GentlemanAdventurer : Later in his life, mainly during the 18th and 19th century. He was even a member of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_North_Pole_Expedition Austro-Hungarian polar expedition]] to Franz Josef's Land.
* IHaveManyNames: Amassed quite a few pseudonyms during his life, though he doesn't have as many as the really long-lived Eternals.
* IntrepidMerchant: One of his main sources of income during certain centuries, especially in the 15th, 16th and 17th century.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Appears to be an average-looking, mild-mannered 23 year old man, is actually at least 720 years old.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Even ''literally''. He was born in the 1280s, and is therefore over 700 years old when The Reveal occurs in the alternate 2011.
* {{Robinsonade}}: Spent a few years marooned on a deserted Pacific island. He drops hints that, in addition to Alexander Selkirk, he too might have inspired Defoe's ''Robinson Crusoe'', since he once described some of his experiences to Daniel Defoe himself.
* TechnicalPacifist: Especially when he grew tired of wars around the mid 15th century, and when he switched to travels instead of fighting during the early 17th century. He still fought in the world wars, but he mostly did so out of a sense of duty.
* WalkingTheEarth: During his life, he had visited every major landmass, except for Antarctica.
%%!! Peter the Psephologist
%%->'''Played by:''' Rogue Beaver
%%Born in 1974 AD in Montreal.
%%!! Prometheus
%%->'''Played by:''' Prometheus_2300
%%Born in 352 AD in the Eastern Roman Empire.
%%!! Radulf
%%->'''Played by:''' Ran Exilis
%%Born 476 CE under the Ostrogoths.
%%!! Raven
%%->'''Played by:''' Bavarian Raven
%%Born in 1761 in Transylvania.
%%!! Redem
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Redem]]
%%Born circa 2000 BCE.
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%%* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
%%* WalkingTheEarth
%%!! "The Saxon"
%%->'''Played by:''' Nikephoros
%%Male, born in a village near early London in 757 CE/AD.
%%!! Snowzinger
%%->'''Played by:''' [[NamesTheSame Snowzinger]]
%%Born in 1584 CE, on land that would become part of New Netherlands and later New Jersey.
%%!! Th'And
%%->'''Played by:''' Thande
%%Along with G'Len, one of the most ancient Eternals.
%%!! Tiberius
%%->'''Played by:''' Soverihn
%%Born in 263 AD, right in the middle of the Crisis of the Third Century.
%%!! Timothy
%%->'''Played by:''' TimKeck84
%%Born in 1384 CE/AD. Along with his wife Jesci and with Bosch, he was a founder of the Eternals' Trust.
%%!! Tochtli
%%->'''Played by:''' Huehuecoyotl
%%Born in 1495 CE/AD in Xochimilco, an Aztec town. Witnessed the last years of the Aztec empire and the Spanish siege and eventual conquest of Tenochtitlan. Became a drifter after that, living mostly in the Americas.
%%!! Torque
%%->'''Played by:''' torque7844
%%Born in 1558 CE/AD, shot during a naval battle in 1588.
%%!! Winston
%%->'''Played by:''' Winston Smith
%%Born on the 1st of September 1939 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (today's Harare in Zimbabwe).
%%!! "The Wizard"
%%->'''Played by:''' Communist Wizard
%%Male, born ~500 BCE in Carthage.
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%%!! The Blood Knight
%%Homicidal, he has killed many humans and other Eternals. Killed Edward at least twice, despite being his great-grandson. Buried beneath a mountain in the late 1700's, escaped in the late 1800's; now buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean crust.
%%!! Jesci
%%Timothy's wife.
%%!!Macarius
%%“Desert Father”. Born in Alexandria c. 335 CE, he became a Christian monk and ascetic hermit. Remained sequestered in the desert for many decades at a time. Was attacked by the Blood Knight in the late 1800s. Eventually volunteered for the Eternals' first Mars mission along with Nicolet, to find a more demanding location to practice his self-discipline. Currently still living on Mars.
%%!! Tadayo
%%Japanese blacksmith and sword-master who studied under Masamune. He relocated to Hokkaido in the late 18th century.
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