Solomon Kane's Wanderers

[FuryMaster]

I was reading some background on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen the other day and was intrigued by the potential for merging Solomon Kane's Wanderers into an early version of the League prior to Prospero's Men. With this in mind I was wondering what characters throughout literature might be good candidates for such a group? I think my players would love to go through The Path of Kane as any self-made hero but they would be even more intrigued with the ability of creating known fictional characters and adding the League twist to it.

I am not a fount of knowledge when it comes to literature though, so I'll need the communities help to come up with some viable names. I'll list what we get below...the period doesn't have to be exact it should just be someone who fits the League nature and the general Kane period...I'll start with Ismael from Moby Dick.

Solomon's Wanderers Candidates:

-Ishmael- Moby Dick

 

[VincentDarlage]

Elizabeth Bathory lived during Solomon Kane's era. Not exactly a hero (and not a literary creation), but she is notable. Might make for an interesting villain.

Dark Agnes (the Sword Woman) is an REH creation who lived approx. at that time.

 

[sgstyrsky]

Robinson Crusoe (and his man Friday)

Alanso Quixano (aka Don Quixote)

Cervantes also wrote that his novel "Don Quixote" was based on a historical account written by a Moor named Cide Hamete Benengeli. (Entirely fictional, so Benegeli could be part of your adventuring group as well.)

Christopher Marlowe (not a fictional character but somebody with enough tales about his life he could be considered one.)

 

[Spongly]

Britomart? (The virgin warrior woman from Spencer's Fairy Queene - not really historical I guess, but hey).

Tom Jones

Francis Bacon

John Milton

Sir Isaac Newton

 

[sgstyrsky]

Tristram Shandy, who was the rogue of rogues. I almost forgot him.

The book, of the same name, is by Lawrence Sterne. Written in mid-1700s, it is far ahead of its time. The first scene is of the main character's parents and his moment of conception!

 

[Dpetroc]

The Three Musketeers... individually, Athos might be the most appropriate...

It's on the later end of the time line but hey...

 

[sgstyrsky]

The Three Musketeers... individually, Athos might be the most appropriate...

It's on the later end of the time line but hey...

Brilliant suggestion. I can't believe I forgot them.

 

[FuryMaster]

A couple suggestions from local friends include;

Van Helsing

Zorro- An early incarnation

 

[Voltumna]

From Le Pacte des Loups:

Grégoire de Fronsac
Mani
Jean-François de Morangias
Sylvia
Thomas d'Apcher

Capitan Alatriste of Antonio Perez-Reverte

 

[FuryMaster]

Rob roy

the brothers Grimm

 

[Voltumna]

Any human who attained immortality on a work set on any previous age, like Marco Flaminio Rufo, a roman tribune, the immortal of Borges, who later appears as the antiquary Joseph Cartaphilus.

The bronze robotic head of Pope Sylvester II. The League needs it's weird scientific creations, so having it reapear to answer some relevant questions about the mission at hand. The head answered yes or no to any question asked ot it, so it could be one of those puzzles, or it could be new generation technology from the same Nine Unknown Men who produced the first one...

Many hystorical characters are true legends, and the era of Solomon Kane is a gallery of them, it could be like a young Indianna Jones thing, where the PCs meet many of them as they make history, just as I believe SK meets Francis Drake.

 

[Axerules]

Galileo.

Miyamoto Musashi (Shinmen Takezō), the greatest swordsman of Japan's history.