Secondary Characters
Emile Combes - A founding member of the Pythagoras Club and a rising star in the Waldeck Rousseau government. Currently the Minister of the Interior, he is a noted anti-clericalist. A short, rotund man with glasses perched on the end of his nose, white hair and an immaculately styled moustache and goatee.
Hubert De la Pierre - An associate of Emile Combes who was sent to investigate the lengends surrounding Serquigny-Le-Grand but never returned, leaving a wife and family with no one to provide for them. Now found to be dead.
Michel Tournemine - In his forties, the owner of The Hunter's Meet is a tall, strapping man who is permanently dressed as though preparing to go out hunting.
Edith Touremine - The wife of Michel Tournemine. Helps out in the Hunter's Meet and occasionally sings.
The Dutilleul Brothers - Owners of the Watch Cafe. One of them is an ugly, squat and hunch-backed man in his eighties who threatened to beat Henri with his walking stick if he didn't leave.
Jacques Crux - The Catholic priest at St-John's. does not wear a traditional cassock, preferring instead to wear a dark suit with a collar and a silver crucifix. Did not grow up in the village.
Marcel - An 11 year old village boy that the group have befriended. Seems a brave sort.
Dr. Laurent Grillpin - The town's doctor. A tall wiry man with slicked back hair and glasses, was not born in the village.
Le Prouxit - Village idiot lives in the cemetary and only ever says "Prouxit"
Gaston Lapache - Royalist mayor, rival of Emile Combes and potentially involved in rigging an election.
Raoul Weil - Elderly Jewish Parisian painter, currently living and working in Serquigny for reasons largely unknown.
The Countryside Surrounding Serquigny...
Gaston - A lad of 17, more open-minded and ambitious than most country-dwellers, he operates a poney-and-trap service between Cognac and Serquigny.
Jean-Jacques - A local farmer who is more than willing to repeat a clearly rehearsed story about how a giant bat carried off one of his cows.
Michel - A farm-hand who works for Jean-Jacques and who also saw the attack of the bat but seems more laid back about the whole affair.
Uzo and Cybella - Gypsy children who were passing through the area.
Maurice Garcien - Local gamekeeper and outsider.
Cognac...
Adjutant Remy Vautrou - The short, plump and officious looking commander of the local Gendarmes.
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