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Coming down to the wire with the members of the Imperial Knights. Only one more after this.

Thomas Carnacki was a legendary occult detective, the famed "Ghost Finder" who investigated supernatural phenomena in the early 20th Century, debunking fake events while dealing with genuine hauntings and "abnatural" forces. He did this by applying a fusion of traditional folk methods with scientific and technological means, even pioneering technology designed by him to detect, record, and interact with "abnatural" forces, most famously his "electric pentacle." He is most famous for six cases from between 1910 and 1912, but these were far from the only cases he took, though the cases preceding and coming after that short period of notoriety are significantly less documented. By 1937, he had retired from active investigations, although he did provide some consultation for allied agents against the Thule Society during the second world war.

One of Carnacki's less well known cases took him far away from Great Britain, all the way to the British Raj. When he returned home, he brought with him a young Indian boy, whom he adopted as his own son and taught about his work. And while Thomas Carnacki the 2nd grew up into something of a scholar on the subjects his father had lived for almost his whole life, Jr. chose not to pursue occult investigations like his adoptive father, nor did he pass down this knowledge and expertise to his own children. Thus, the Carnacki legacy was seemingly lost forever. That is, until the present day.

Thomas Carnacki (the 3rd, although he was initially ignorant of this due to the family's multi-generational burial of the Carnacki legacy), was a bright, highly intelligent student with a knack for engineering and thermodynamics. One day, while scouring through a family storage room, he discovered the original Thomas Carnacki's memoirs and diaries and began reading them. Soon, he was engrossed, and began to dig up more of his adoptive great-grandfather's documentation and equipment, to the chagrin of his family. He even began to play with Carnacki the 1st's designs for tools to detect and defend against supernatural forces, applying the same rigorous scientific reasoning as his forebear, even creating brand new devices like the "eldritch electrofork" and "holosigil projector". As it turns out, this was fortunate. Supernatural phenomena had been on the rise around the world in general over the past century, and Great Britain in particular was a hotspot. Furthermore, the Carnacki family themselves became the targets of hauntings and malevolent spiritual forces, as if these spirits were old enemies of the original Carnacki and sought revenge for what he had done to stop them in the past. As events escalated, Thomas Carnacki the 3rd raced to perfect his updates of the 1st's tools and then went to work to banish, contain, and destroy the spirits targeting his family.

These events were not unnoticed, and a particularly wealthy man hired Carnacki the 3rd to help him with his own supernatural problem. This led to further investigations, further battles, and soon Thomas Carnacki the 3rd had a new nickname; while the 1st was the "Ghost-Finder," the 3rd was now known as the "Ghost-Fighter," and his exploits continued from there, and he even found himself working alongside the magical elite of British society, such as Aeon the Archmage and Danielle Darcke. Soon after, he became a member of the United Kingdom's team of heroes, the Imperial Knights, after he worked alongside them at the behest of the crown against a particularly powerful and dangerous supernatural threat to the royals and the nation. While the Knights still occasionally go to Aeon or Danielle for help and insight, Thomas has become the team's in-house expert on the supernatural, occult, folkloric, and mythological, providing knowledge, equipment, and in-field tactical support.

And that's Carnacki the 3rd! Another oldster, and a special nod to one of my favorite occult detective characters in fiction, with a bit of a nod to the Ghostbusters and assorted other occult detectives old and new. I definitely recommend you track down and read those original six Carnacki stories by William Hope Hodgson (and really, I recommend checking out Hodgson's other works, such as The House on the Borderland, The Night Land, The Boats of the Glen Carrig, etc).

As for the other members of the Imperial Knights, you can check them out below:
Eventide Longbowman Jane Green

I hope you guys like Carnacki the 3rd, and stay tuned for more new and updated character goodness.

Carnacki the 3rd belongs to , and is protected under copyright law. © (The original Carnacki and his stories are public domain)
Created using Fabrica de Herois 2014 and Photoshop Essentials.

Description

Coming down to the wire with the members of the Imperial Knights. Only one more after this.

Thomas Carnacki was a legendary occult detective, the famed "Ghost Finder" who investigated supernatural phenomena in the early 20th Century, debunking fake events while dealing with genuine hauntings and "abnatural" forces. He did this by applying a fusion of traditional folk methods with scientific and technological means, even pioneering technology designed by him to detect, record, and interact with "abnatural" forces, most famously his "electric pentacle." He is most famous for six cases from between 1910 and 1912, but these were far from the only cases he took, though the cases preceding and coming after that short period of notoriety are significantly less documented. By 1937, he had retired from active investigations, although he did provide some consultation for allied agents against the Thule Society during the second world war.

One of Carnacki's less well known cases took him far away from Great Britain, all the way to the British Raj. When he returned home, he brought with him a young Indian boy, whom he adopted as his own son and taught about his work. And while Thomas Carnacki the 2nd grew up into something of a scholar on the subjects his father had lived for almost his whole life, Jr. chose not to pursue occult investigations like his adoptive father, nor did he pass down this knowledge and expertise to his own children. Thus, the Carnacki legacy was seemingly lost forever. That is, until the present day.

Thomas Carnacki (the 3rd, although he was initially ignorant of this due to the family's multi-generational burial of the Carnacki legacy), was a bright, highly intelligent student with a knack for engineering and thermodynamics. One day, while scouring through a family storage room, he discovered the original Thomas Carnacki's memoirs and diaries and began reading them. Soon, he was engrossed, and began to dig up more of his adoptive great-grandfather's documentation and equipment, to the chagrin of his family. He even began to play with Carnacki the 1st's designs for tools to detect and defend against supernatural forces, applying the same rigorous scientific reasoning as his forebear, even creating brand new devices like the "eldritch electrofork" and "holosigil projector". As it turns out, this was fortunate. Supernatural phenomena had been on the rise around the world in general over the past century, and Great Britain in particular was a hotspot. Furthermore, the Carnacki family themselves became the targets of hauntings and malevolent spiritual forces, as if these spirits were old enemies of the original Carnacki and sought revenge for what he had done to stop them in the past. As events escalated, Thomas Carnacki the 3rd raced to perfect his updates of the 1st's tools and then went to work to banish, contain, and destroy the spirits targeting his family.

These events were not unnoticed, and a particularly wealthy man hired Carnacki the 3rd to help him with his own supernatural problem. This led to further investigations, further battles, and soon Thomas Carnacki the 3rd had a new nickname; while the 1st was the "Ghost-Finder," the 3rd was now known as the "Ghost-Fighter," and his exploits continued from there, and he even found himself working alongside the magical elite of British society, such as Aeon the Archmage and Danielle Darcke. Soon after, he became a member of the United Kingdom's team of heroes, the Imperial Knights, after he worked alongside them at the behest of the crown against a particularly powerful and dangerous supernatural threat to the royals and the nation. While the Knights still occasionally go to Aeon or Danielle for help and insight, Thomas has become the team's in-house expert on the supernatural, occult, folkloric, and mythological, providing knowledge, equipment, and in-field tactical support.

And that's Carnacki the 3rd! Another oldster, and a special nod to one of my favorite occult detective characters in fiction, with a bit of a nod to the Ghostbusters and assorted other occult detectives old and new. I definitely recommend you track down and read those original six Carnacki stories by William Hope Hodgson (and really, I recommend checking out Hodgson's other works, such as The House on the Borderland, The Night Land, The Boats of the Glen Carrig, etc).

As for the other members of the Imperial Knights, you can check them out below:
Eventide Longbowman Jane Green

I hope you guys like Carnacki the 3rd, and stay tuned for more new and updated character goodness.

Carnacki the 3rd belongs to , and is protected under copyright law. © (The original Carnacki and his stories are public domain)
Created using Fabrica de Herois 2014 and Photoshop Essentials.