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| - Rev. Darren Englund [sometimes England] has been fighting things that go bump in the night for longer than most people would consider reasonable. He's 6'3", about 190 lbs, gaunt build and dresses in black with a white clerical collar. His long service in protecting the world against menaces it doesn't even dream exist have left him a bit, shall we say, fanatical. According to WOG, he's approximately 90 at the time of the stories in 2006. He's Episcopalian. He is considerably tougher than one would expect. The cause has never been specified. Reverend Darren Englund entered the main control room of Arena 77 with trepidation. Not since a couple nights after Halloween had he talked to, or attempted to make peace with, the Whateley Gun Range Crew and the Group Crisis Simulation Team. That instance had been a disaster and a half. The result had been a near-miss with the Heavy Weapons Range Instructor, Erik Mahren, and only the timely intervention of Gunny Bardue and Staff Sergeant Wilson had interrupted a sudden, unexpected rendezvous with a magazine full of .45 caliber bullets that probably would have ripped him open, toughened body or not. He had been torn between rage at the outburst, and guilt. He is the only person ever known to have actually killed a Great Old One. He's said that he uses the Power of the Lord, but most people don't believe him. If true, it means that he's Imbued. At the First Shaman’s side was the preacher man Reverend Englund. But the Reverend had hellfire in his eyes, and brimstone on his breath, and the cross in his hand was ablaze with a fire that could have burned the sin out of the devil himself. Rev. Englund was instrumental in the incident with the Mystic Six that eventually resulted in Sherry Henderson's (Cirque) death. He has expressed guilt over her death, and a sees Fey's presence at the school - whom he strongly associates with Cirque - as an opportunity to make amends to her. At one point he was a member of the Board of Trustees, but his removal was set in motion following the Halloween invasion. He was a Trustees' representative on the Whateley Board of Supervisors; no information has been given concerning his current status. To further muddle things, he appeared to be operating as a member of the Trustees during the Angel of Hell's Kitchen affair, which would indicate his removal after Halloween 2006 was blocked. When he meets Josie Gillman on 16 March 2007, he says he is a member of the Trustees.
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