History

Eleanor Uasal was born in 1425 CE in the Highlands of Scotland near Inverness. She was brought up in privilege. Her grandfather was a diplomat and Lord. Her parents were Angus and Bein Uasal. She was also affected deeply by the Chattan Curse. She was beautiful, elegant, polite, and ruthless in her quest to fulfill her pleasures. Eleanor became aware of her Curse at an early age. In 1429 Inverness was attacked and burned by Alexander, Lord of the Isles. Eleanor witnessed this attack and saw many of her own people killed. A few months later she had dreams of running through the woods and making a kill.

Much later, Chelsea Chattan came upon the Grimoire of Eleanor Uasal of the Clan Chattan in her grandmother’s attic. Chelsea ended up casting a spell from the Grimoire, and as a result on 2000-03-12, Eleanor awoke. She found herself in her pocket universe, free of the iron coffin, but very weak. By convenient coincidence, a witch by the name of Eric Hanford had gained access to the Diary of the Mad Witch. He and his coven of Dark Practitioners (in name at least) used a spell from the Diary to access Eleanor’s pocket dimension. Apparently the Eleanor and Eric got along together quite well. Perhaps Eleanor felt some affinity with the man, since the brother she had found necessary to kill was also named Eric. In any case, three months later he came back with Eleanor in tow. They went to Canada, searching for her grimoire.

By July 2000 the duo had reinstated the Order of the Dark Practitioners. (It had dissolved as a formal order in 1476, shortly after Eleanor was imprisoned.) With them as servants, Eleanor began travelling back and forth from earth to her dimension, kidnapping and torturing seven witches over a seven-month period of time. All the while Eleanor was regaining strength.

On 2001-02-26, the seventh and final victim of Eleanor was found in Canada. Then on 2001-03-03, Alice Dobson and Dot Carroll were kidnapped (also from Canada).

In the meantime, the tortured witches in Canada drew the attention of Craftsman Detective Martel Harris. The inscription “Touch not a cat bot a glove” found carved on the final body directed him toward the Clan Chattan. As a result, he was at the auction of the Diary of the Mad Witch, thereby encountering Corrine Melpomene Chattan, who wanted the Diary to find a way to control the Curse.

Simultaneously, the news of the tortured witches in Canada jogged Chelsea’s memory of her adventure with the Grimoire. Realising how dangerous the situation could be, Ruth gave Chelsea the Grimoire to study. The night of 2001-03-03, Chelsea and Sebastian viewed the Council of Three and Marcus Lupus Ferox and the battle back in time. That same night, Chelsea was captured and tortured by Eleanor into the morning. The Sprite, with his chaotic magick, succeeded in bringing Raven to Chelsea and then more or less rescuing everyone, after a brief appearance of Eleanor in the earth dimension where she and Corrine fought to a standstill. By the afternoon of 2001-03-04, Eleanor was in her dimension, recovering, while the others were at Ruth’s house also recovering. That night, the whole crew of them, Chelsea, Jubal, Corrine, Martel, Jacob, and Sebastian, went back to Eleanor’s Realm. After a pitched battle, Corrine and Chelsea together managed to destroy Eleanor before she could complete the ascension spell. On Eleanor’s death, her pocket dimension self-destructed, taking with everything remaining inside, Grimoire and stray Dark Practitioners included. Battered, they arrive safely back at Ruth’s on the morning of the Fifth of March, 2001.

Originally, Eleanor welcomed the Curse, greatly enjoying the bloodlust. She tortured victims for the sheer sadistic joy of torture, only giving them the release of death when she had finished with her activities. She would often loose herself in the bloodlust. However, when she realised what it had done to her, she went totally insane. This makes further analysis of her mental condition somewhat dubious.

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