The Leighe family has an interesting history, which has impacted the group in a way that only can be described as "special". Ambrose Leighe was born in 1867 to a local lumber baron. He had one sister, Penelope. Ambrose married Frances Gerda in 1896 and had three children; James (1897), Augustus (1898), and little Victoria Lucille (1901). Penelope married Henry Davies in 1889 and had two children, Henry Jr. and Evelyn. Ambrose by this point had taken over the family business.
Then, Ambrose�s life began to slide downhill. His son Augustus died in the scarlet fever epidemic in 1908. Then his oldest child, James, was murdered in 1914. To make matters worse, his youngest, Victoria, was hauled out of the ocean, frozen to death in 1915. By 1917, he was no longer able to function at work and the family business was sold to the Davies family. The end of his sanity came in 1917 when he arrived home from work one day to find his wife, Francis, dead. She had hung herself.
Ambrose moved in with his sister Penelope. In 1919 he murdered Henry Davies and his nephew and niece. He believed that with their bodies, he could resurrect his own children. He was tried, found mentally incompetent, and moved to St. George�s Mental Hospital on Port Penn Island. Both Penelope and the resident physician, Dr. Friederich Klaus found him far too dangerous to move, so Ambrose remained there until his death.
But how does this affect the group? In short, Ambrose Leighe's spirit was still around, and it desired to reunite his family physically. Ambrose possessed Bradley Carleton on Port Penn Island, and then used the body to help his children possess others on the island. Three models and Joseph Sumpter were possessed on the island, and the family with their new bodies began to seek out descendants, swapping the Port Penn bodies for those of their relatives. Before Ambrose could obtain the last body, the group confronted him, and during the conflict managed to stop the possesions and stop Ambrose's plan. As far as the group knows, Ambrose has been stopped permanently. (See journals on "Port Penn", "Return of the Leighes", "Time Travel", "Wild West" , and "Final Showdown with the Leighes" for the whole story) |
