$8.00Dr. Balthazar Morris

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Cursed Immortality Season 2 - (3/4) The Morris Inc. - Curse of Legacy   Description Decades ago, the name “Morris” stood for integrity, a kind heart, and a firm voice in the community. Doctor Jedediah Morris, head doctor, and owner of the Morris Asylum and Clinic was a well-respected surgeon and general practitioner with multiple assistant doctors and a host of nurses at his command. A friendly, outgoing man, Jedediah had many friends at his side and was known for turning none away, trying his best for even the most desperate patients. In his time, he saved many that other famed surgeons would have counted as lost causes from certain death. In his glory days, Jedediah's clinic employed over twenty professional healers and many more assistant and clerical staff led by a certain Emilia Brighton. Jedediah and Emilia were often forced to work together in managerial affairs, and a relationship soon formed. Only a few years later, the two were to wed in a ceremony attended by all their colleagues – a joyous affair for all to behold. Soon after, their luck perhaps turned. Jedediah was an ambitious man, and the matters of life and death were still the mystery he could not unravel. With a dislike for his uncertainty on these subjects, he set to work. To create life, and to cure death. Now, that first task was easy for a man in a happy marriage. It was not long until the two were parents to twin sons they loved dearly - Balthazar, the elder by four minutes, who from childhood had a natural affinity for the science and seemed a perfect fit to follow in his father's footsteps, and Gideon, who even at birth weighed nearly twice as much as his brother and at half a year of age could already run. Raising the two was no easy task for the busy couple, yet their pride and joy helped steady them. Through nurturing his children, Jedediah came to understand the miracle of life. Yet the mysteries of death eluded him still. And so, when the boys were roughly around the age of five, the first patient from the Morris Asylum and Clinic went missing. Rumors spread among Jedediah's colleagues that he had botched a routine surgery and took steps to make the corpse disappear. How kind their imagination was. In truth, Jedediah had stolen away a sickly patient dying of a neural sickness and had begun performing inhumane experiments on the poor man. Of course, he had been careful in selecting his victim – no family to speak of, nobody to mourn him, and already treated as a lost cause by many colleagues. The things Jedediah did took a toll on him too. Although he continued his regular work, he grew distant, bitter, and often frustrated at his lack of progress. The dreams of a happy family came crashing down when the boys were seven, and Emilia went out one night to look for Jedediah, only to find him performing his „other“ work. Emilia ran from Jedediah, and in her enraged panic even forgot about her children. It would not be the last Jedediah had seen of her though. Over the following lonely months, he was prone to outbursts over the smallest error, would snatch needles from his nurse’s hands, and would not trust any doctor but himself to perform even the most rudimentary of surgeries. One day he staggered around his Clinic to find nothing but empty rooms, the nurse’s station was vacant, and the once-thriving practice had become a ghostly shell inhabited by nothing but vagrants and addicts looking for a morphine fix. This was a rare sobering moment in Jedediah Morris’ life, and he resolved to put an end to his failures, restore his practice, restore their lives, and bring fame back to the Morris name. He holed up in his study, instructing his sons to leave him to his work, and poured over his collection of medical tomes. Weeks passed by without Balthazar or Gideon seeing their father, but as children do they made the best of the situation. They would play down by the river in the woods. Gideon would knock trees over so his brother could cross safely, and Balthazar always knew what kinds of berries or mushrooms the two could enjoy without falling ill. The inseparable boys would nurse injured animals back to health, mending broken wings and pulling thorns from paws with the gentlest touch. In the fourth week of Jedediah's continued absence, Emilia returned to Pitchborough. She did not come alone. In the next town over, Wilbrook, she had been hard at work convincing local law enforcement of the shady goings-on at the Morris Asylum and Clinic. She had spared no detail in her reports – and the sentence on the table was necromancy. Now, what Jedediah sought went far beyond the means of an ordinary necromancer, yet to the people, it mattered little. Gideon and Balthazar had been out by the woods and arrived back home only as their father was dragged off. Uncertain of their future, the boys decided to break into their father's study to understand what had happened. Childlike curiosity overwhelmed their fear as they saw the laboratory for the first time. More instinctively than consciously they understood what their father had done, and why their mother had abandoned them. It was not until days later that their father could return, badly beaten and in downtrodden spirits. He had been allowed his life, but stripped of his title, all his possessions, and sentenced to bury the dead for the rest of his miserable life and his laboratory was burned to the ground. Only his previous good deeds spared him the same fate. Unbeknownst to all, Balthazar and Gideon had each taken many of Jedediah’s writings with them before the fire was laid. Emilia returned to Wilbrook and offered the children to come with her, but to her surprise, Gideon and Balthazar refused. They stayed as outcasts in Pitchborough, hoping to ease their father's pain at least a bit. When the boys were thirteen, Jedediah buried a man on a rainy autumn afternoon. The cold he got should have not been an issue, but he had nothing to hold on to. His dreams of understanding life and death were dashed, forever out of his reach, and he had destroyed his family. He did not even think of his sons as he laid down that evening. He did not wake up the next morning. Balthazar always knew that he and Gideon would have to make do on their own one day, but had not expected the day to come this soon. Why had he stayed? Why had he lost all his prospects of a comfortable life in Wilbrook if his father had just up and died? These were the questions he asked himself at night. Eventually, he decided to follow in his father’s footsteps - the Morris Asylum and Clinic would be his once more, and the good name would have to be restored once and for all. Details This Product comes with an unsupported and presupported version. This product contains the following parts: 32mm Base 40mm Base Balthazar Morris DnD 5E Datasheet Get a 40% discount on this model by joining my Patreon! You can also order physical copies at my shop on Only-games!