Gaming Lads Wiki:The Ukrainian Death Chalice

=History of the Ukrainian Death Chalice=

Sir Silas Brunswick Childress
Long ago there was a Lord by the name of Sir Silas Brunswick Childress the first of his name. Not only was he a great artisan and craftsman but he was also a close friend of Catherine the Great despite his Ukrainian heritage. Rumors began to circulate within the Royal Family of the great craftsman Childress being somewhat of a charlatan rather than a man of practiced talent. Uncertainty surrounds his character, yet clues left throughout his personal principles lead us to believe he had acquired a great unworldly power of necromantic power.

Death of Sir Silas Brunswick Childress and the passing of the Chalice
Upon his death bed Sir Childress passed down his most prized possession to his son Edgar Jerome Childress. This possession was known as the Ukrainian Death Chalice. The lack of modern medicine and  absence of any autopsy procedures led Sir Childress' death to be a muddled mystery with no official rulings on the cause. The years following Sir Childress' death saw the Russian invasion of Crimea. This invasion led to the official burning of any records of Sir Silas Brunswick Childress by the Russian Empress Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg herself. His memory is kept within the personal reports and memories of his heir Edgar Childress. Edgar Childress was imprisoned upon the invasion of Crimea and the tungsten chalice itself came into the possession of Catherine the Great. Edgar would spend the next thirteen years imprisoned under Catherine's authoritarian rule.

Death of Catherine the Great and the pardoning of Edgar Jerome Childress
It was not until the night of November 16th, 1796 that Catherine would be found collapsed in her washroom with only the chalice and a bottle. The bottle of Chanoine Frères was smashed as she had collapsed yet the chalice was found upright upon the floor. Catherine the Great would later die in her bed on the morning of November 17th, 1796. Her autopsy performed soon after would confirm that the empress had died of a stroke. Foul play would immediately be ruled and Edgar Childress would find himself the prime suspect due to his father's chalice being present at the scene. Paul the First of Russia would take up the throne after his mother's death despite her intentions to instate Paul's son, Alexander. Paul would ultimately pardon Edgar and return the chalice to the family on the terms that it's power would be locked away. This acquittal and his early foreign policies would lead to the discomfort felt from the Russian people. The political prowess presented by his mother was absent within his rule and would lead to his inevitable assassination.

Sworn enemy to the State and fall of Edgar Jerome Childress
It is with the assassination of Paul that Alexander the First would come into the Russian seat of power. Alexander would rule the Childress family as a sworn enemy to the state. This declaration would lead Edgar Childress to flee to the state of Austria and make a home in the city of Graz. The following years would see Edgar try to destroy the chalice for he knew it's power would ultimately be used for evil. The chalice however could not be destroyed and Edgar would settle to seal it away for the time being. The chalice would lie in wake for many years to come. The year of 1809 however saw the Battle of Graz. Fearful of his imminent death and the chalice falling into the wrong hands Edgar sent his son, Linus Cyprus Childress, and wife, Lydia Jochebed Childress to retrieve it and find refuge in the town's clock tower. Edgar would die to a barrage of cannon fire while defending the 84th line along with the deaths of 3 officers and 30 other men. Unbeknownst to it's power Linus Childress would inherit the chalice and return it's status as a Childress lineage possession.