Father David Haden
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Father David Jeremiah Haden | |
| Player: Neil Kiernan | |
| Origin: | Technology |
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| Archetype: | Mercenaries Mastermind |
| Security Level: | 29 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | David Jeremiah Haden |
| Known Aliases: | Sir David Haden |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 33 |
| Height: | 6'2 |
| Weight: | 220 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | Blue |
| Hair Color: | Brown |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Citizen of the United States |
| Occupation: | Catholic Priest |
| Place of Birth: | Portland, Oregon |
| Base of Operations: | Portland, Oregon |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Known Relatives: | Father: William Haden (Deceased) Mother: Tiffany Haden (Deceased) Daughter: Charlotte (Deceased) |
| Known Powers | |
| Father David has no actual super human powers, but has access to powerful military equipment. And the mystical powers of a Catholic Priest to perform various religious rites, including the creation of holy water, exorcisms, etc. | |
| Known Abilities | |
| David was an extremely talented operative for the United States Marine Corp, Marine Force Recon, Marine Scout Snipers, and eventually the Delta Force. His skills with firearms, explosives, and hand to hand combat are world class. | |
| Equipment | |
| David typically uses an M-16 with attached grenade launcher. His squad of Templar Knights use various military equipment. | |
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Early life
David Haden was born in Portland Oregon. His father was a decorated war veteran. David was raised Catholic but did not make religion a focal point of his life. In his childhood he excelled in sports including Football, Archery and Shooting. He often went hunting with his father.
Military Career
Upon graduation he enlisted in the United States Marine Corp, and through programs there eventually completed enough college courses to become an Officer, having studied emergency medicine. He became a field medic in Marine Force Recon, but his natural talent with firearms lead him to the sniper school at Fort Brag, where he graduated with honors. After a distinguished service record, he was surprised and honored to be asked to join Delta Force, the most elite Special Forces unit in the United States Military. This would normally be the best time of a soldier's life. But his duties often took him into situations where he had to choose between his morality and his duty. This eventually wore him down, and left him very cold. He achieved the rank of Major, and was assigned his own Delta Force unit. One day his career took a dramatic turn, one that would leave him changed forever.
Recruitment to the Order of the Knight's Templar
David was assigned to a secret operation in Mogadishu, Somalia. His unit was to eliminate a powerful warlord who had been terrorizing local people. Strange ritual-like murders were being discovered. To David it was just another routine mission. Until his unit was slaughtered by what was clearly a Vampire. Only David survived to tell the tale, but high command wrote off his story as being the product of a long career of dangerous operations. Frustrated and feeling betrayed by the military he had given his whole life to, David found only one person who would hear him out. An eccentric old Catholic Chaplin. The Chaplin had been a WWII veteran. He told David one of his own stories, about the demonically possessed German SS that he fought in his own time in the war. It was then that he revealed to David that he was a member of the Order of The Knight's Templar. A religious military organization that was the current incarnation of the famous Knightly order of the Crusades. The Chaplin recruited David to the Knight's Templar, where he found that he was not alone. The order was made up of many people like himself who had their lives changed forever after an encounter with the supernatural.
Accomplishments in the Templar
David joined the Catholic Priesthood, and was Knighted into the modern Templar. His first squire to the order was a young orphaned girl he found on the streets of Chicago. She was a "chosen one", blessed by the powers that be with a special talent for killing beings of the supernatural. This phenomena is sometimes referred to as being "The Slayer". The Templar order urged David to take this child as his squire and teach her his skills. Her name was Angela Marie Wilson. And she was a quick study. From the age of 13 to the age of 17 she lived, breathed, ate and slept the military lifestyle. She became an extremely formidable Templar. And a credit to David's teaching and leadership. Another organization that hunted the supernatural known as "The Midnight Squad" sent one of their own agents to assist in her training. Eventually this Midnighter betrayed Angela in exchange for Vampire immortality. Angela was presumed killed in a deadly ambush.
His next squire was Will McBlack. He had discovered the young Irish Catholic boy while on a mission investigating a a string of bloody murders in the midst of The Troubles. Will's father was a cop and his mother was a stay-at-home mom, and devout Catholics who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. David took the orphaned Will under his charge and he proved to be an exemplary squire.
David has been directly responsible for thwarting several attempts by the forces of darkness to bring on the apocalypse, has slain hundreds if not thousands of Vampires, Demons, Spirits, Aliens, and various other paranormal threats to humanity. Along with various operatives of the Inquisition. The evil perversion of the Catholic Church who's persecution of the supernatural reaches fanatic and cruel proportions. What he cannot kill outright he tends to always find a creative way of dealing with.
Brief time out of the Templar
After another successful thwarting of Lucifer's plans, he was captured by demons and taken to Hell. David spat at Lucifer and expected to die. But Lucifer had other plans for him. He summoned the demon responsible for the creation of the first Vampire. And ordered him to make David a Vampire. David felt his soul escaping on the death of his body to heaven, but Lucifer was not going to let him off that easily. Lucifer returned his soul to his now Vampiric body, taunting him with the fact that would now never again be able to have his faith. And how those he fought beside would forever hunt him. This lead to a difficult time in David's life. He kept himself hidden from the Templar, and founded a Catholic school for children like him. Who basically of no choice of their own were afflicted with taint of darkness, or in some way not human. Eventually one of David's former students found a way through super-science to cure his Vampiric affliction, returning his body to the state it was in before his transformation. After this David returned to the Templar, and moved his school and church to the Rogue Isles.
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church and school
Father David's school is now full of various orphans and children with various supernatural afflictions or conditions. His Church is the only church in the Rogue Isles. It is also a secret HQ for the Knight's Templar. His students are instructed not to involve themselves in the conflicts against the supernatural, an instruction that is rarely heeded. The Church and school are David's life, and he would die to protect them and the students.
