What can a lone Cliomancer do when all of the important sites in the area are claimed? Build an army and take what should be theirs!

DuWayne Jackson is one of the rarest of Cliomancers: one that arose spontaniously. A particularly horrific boyhood experience in 1996 under the shadow of the Washington Monument in D.C. caused him to become fascinated with the structure, its meanings and everything that occurred under its metaphorical shadow (even extending to the history of the site before it was actually built). This fascination grew into obsession and his mind fractured in such a way that the Washington Monument became a source of spiritual and mystical strength for him.

DuWayne was at first delighted when he discovered that there were others like him. His initial happiness was short-lived when he discovered that Jonathan Mulberry, a Cliomancer who had arranged a position for himself as caretaker for the monument, was completely unwilling to share in the mystical power of the site. DuWayne quickly realized that the numerous other important sites in Washington, D.C. were also claimed by a cliquey group of established Cliomancers, magicians who had gotten quite powerful and wealthy due to extensive webs of favors amongst each other and adepts belonging to different schools in the Occult Underground. DuWayne, being an unconnected newcomer and of modest financial means besides, had nothing to offer in return except the crudest of possible physical favors.

DuWayne still had his pride. No way was he going to become everybody’s lackey and prostitute in exchange for an occasional taste of the mystical strength the D.C. cliomancers took for granted.
This attitude reduced him to poaching charges from more established adepts, causing the D.C. cliomancers to unite as a group and run him out of town, chased out by the D.C. police on suspicion of murder and child molestation.

DuWayne fled only as far as the Civil War battlefields of Virginia, hiding out in a small town, getting a menial job, and running a circuit between the various cliomantic sites the American Civil War had established. When he noticed a fellow cliomancer named Wanda Mickelson squatting at Gettysburg, he didn’t bother announcing himself. He just waited until the woman was alone in a grocery store parking lot at night and shot her in the back.

Reliable, convenient access to the Gettysburg battlesite brought him a whole new level of power–the sort of power the D.C. adepts had been wallowing in for decades. Rather than resting on his laurels, he began building an organization to take back the Washington Monument, the site he had always considered to be rightfully, exclusively his.

He built his organization on falsified memories–“curing” someone of the drug addiction they’d never had over here, “rescuing” people from imaginary dangers over there, but especially fixing problems for those whose reputations had been damaged by public scandal. He began to take on regalia associated with Robert Chamber’s “King in Yellow” (a favorite story of his from a young age), viewing himself more and more as a “Reparer of Reputations,” and thinking of the Washington Monument as his royal scepter. This, then, is when DuWayne started to channel the True King avatar and conceived his grand plan of becoming the Cliomantic King.

Most of DuWayne’s followers are still mundane humans, but he has managed to train two of his followers in cliomancy and has convinced a third cliomancer to swear fealty with promises of great power in the future. The very near future.