The Weirding Willows is a universe spawned from a mash-up of a hundred different well know characters from fiction all integrated into new story lines where anything can happen but for many their destiny's have already been written, we just didn't k...
Damon was the creation of the Italian born scientist Victor Frankenstein now living in Switzerland. In his early youth, Victor had been fascinated by stories of the fountain of youth and the elixir of life that would grant the drinker eternal life. Becoming a scientist was the closest thing schools could take him towards the study of alchemy. Thinking that access to Europe's largest libraries would give him the chance to read and examined texts he would not be able to read otherwise.
That line of study faded after the death of his mother, Caroline, when he was only 17. Instead he started to research not how to extend life but how to give it back to the dead. After studying the decay of skin tissue after death, the young scientist in the making started to research ways of countering not only the decay but reanimating it. Bringing life back to the dead.
Victor knew his research would be frowned upon by his family so he traveled to Bavaria and studied chemistry at the University of Ingolstadt. Although founded on fundamental principles of Christianity the University was now run by a group of professors who referred to themselves as the "Illuminati". So called 'free thinkers' who were seeding their students throughout Europe to eventually overthrow the governments there.
It was in their libraries that Victor made the discovery they were infact members of the forgotten order, the Knights Templar. Many of their books and artifacts went back thousands of years, including works supposedly taken from King Solomon's tomb.
Victor came across a box of six gold carved icons that when struck by the "Lord's light" would grant life back to the dead. He would spend the next year piecing together a translation of these texts, much of which were details of ancient alchemic recipes.
When Victor finally figures out the formula and attempts to revive a body made of a jigsaw of body parts, including the head of a friend at the university who died of Scarlet Fever, the disease that took his mother. He is shocked by his own success. The head of his own friend comes alive and tries to speak. This is no longer Victor's friend. It is some mindless aberration.
Victor panics and runs. Packing only his notes and the artifacts, he heads home. Thinking that the creature he created couldn't possibly find him.
Meanwhile the creature is discovered by the Illuminati. He takes the name 'Damon' derived from the German word for 'demon.' They educate him a little and then they send him after Victor to get the notes and the six artifacts he stole. But the creature is still a child. He forgets the wishes of the professors and seeks the attentions of his creator. His father.
He doesn't get it, at least not the way he wanted it. Victor agrees to create a wife for Damon, but destroys her, unwilling to consider the thought of a race of monsters. So like a child Damon gets angry and has a tantrum. He kills everyone close to his creator, including Victor's wife on their wedding night.
Victor then dedicates his life to killing his creation and that battle takes them to the ends of the world. That battle finally ends in the Arctic where Victor dies.
With Victor's death, all the anger and the hatred leaves Damon. He fills nothing but regret over both their actions.
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After wandering further north into the Arctic, hoping to end his own life, Damon finds a hole in the ice and falling into it dscovers that it leads to Hollow Earth. What Damon doesn't know is that nearby was an ancient city under the ice where a large chunk of the Crimson Crystal Heart lay, linked to its parent. The hole he went through was actually a doorway to another world. Known to some as Hollow Earth to others Pellucidar. A prehistoric world of unearthly creatures and dinosaurs. In that time his contact with humans were few, most notably Professor Otto Lidenbrook. For 100 years Damon called it his home until Rozalind, one of the dinosaurs he had raised, escaped into Willow Weir and he followed to bring her home.
Damon was probably quite handsome when he was alive, his head at least.
He is a vegetarian (berries are his favorite).
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" was written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and first published in 1818.
The Weirding Willows is a continuation not only of those stories but many others as part of a large interlocking story line that spans many centuries.
