Dana Brydges
Dana Brydges is an Investigator with the Service. He is an expert on the subject of oriental esoteric knowledge and has remarkable aptitude with languages. Brydges tends to spend most of his time on assignments in the East.
History
Dana Brydges was born in the Colony of Queensland. At the age of ten, he shipped as ship's boy on the Philonoe, a merchant that carried wool from Marysborough to various Chinese ports. By sixteen, he was an able-bodied seaman and served on several of the merchants that worked the Indian Ocean and South China Seas before signing onto the tea clipper Fiery Cross for two of her races back to England.
It was during the loading of this second cargo that her captain noticed that Brydges could speak the local dialect fluently. Upon the ship's return to Fuzhou, Captain Robinson set Brydges ashore to work with the local agents. For fifteen years, he travelled extensively around China and India, purchasing tea and making arrangements for shipping it to England.
While on these trips, a natural curiosity, coupled with his linguistic talents and ample free time, led him into places no Englishman had ever been. Chinese monastic temples and Tantric gurus became his schools and tutors and he learned the ways of meditation, yoga, and the mantra and rituals for controlling arcane power.
In 1880, Ronald Cromwell travelled to Hong Kong on the steamer Castor to deal with reports of a demon which was terrorizing several large tea plantations. When Cromwell made his way to the mountain village where the demon was supposed to be, he was informed that "No, no! The crazy Englishman has already driven it off!" Cromwell insisted on meeting this "crazy Englishman" and was eventually escorted to where Brydges was living.
After several days of conversation, Cromwell recognized Brydges's rather unique abilities and presented him with an invitation to No. 1 Silver Place. Brydges was amused by the idea, but cleaning up his affairs and making his way to London took two years. His arrival at Fairweather came months after Cromwell's untimely death in Canada.
Service Highlights
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Notes
Brydges is quite proficient with a variety of fighting styles using swords, sticks, and bare hands. Despite this, he is a hopelessly poor shot with pistols and long guns.
Particulars
Affiliations
Realm
Earth
Nationality
Queenslander
Organization
HMS AEIOU Investigator