Marcus "Machus" Lockwood

“Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”

- John Milton =• Biography •= Latest in a line of familial Templars, Marcus is the son of Barnaby and Millicent Lockwood. Their marriage was one of both love and convenience as the Whittakers were a line of anima-users who can trace their tradition back to the first heathen practitioners. Millicent was more the tea and crumpets sort rather than hemlock and blood but she could weave a mean charm.

Barnaby Lockwood remains one of the foremost occult scholars even after his demise. Marcus was educated at a number of private institutions as well as home tutelage until he came of age. At 18, he enlisted in the British Army at the behest of his family.

Basic training proved unexpectedly fun as he took to the military life with gusto. The regimented lifestyle was not so different to his civilian life. After that he was posted to a reconnaissance unit, unknowingly under the watchful eye of the Templars. One of his later missions saw him and his unit tasked with the elimination of an Aten sleeper cell in Beirut. This would be his first exposure to the Secret World. The unit was immediately recalled and the rest underwent significant debrief whilst Marcus was shipped back to England for induction.

His introduction to the Templar Brotherhood was overseen by his father, a lifetime member himself, and Marcus found himself fighting a different war with the same weapons. Whilst he has never been able to completely access his anima, the induction ceremony and extensive training has granted him peak physical toughness as well as some degree of reduced ageing.

=• Abilities•= Lockwood's anima has manifested in the form of superior reflexes and physical development. Results of Kirlian analysis has suggested that he may age at a fractionally slower rate than unawakened humans.

His main strengths lay in conventional warfare. Marcus has trained with most forms of mundane weaponry including but not limited to automatic squad weapons, anti-armour launchers and explosives. Close quarter combat is not his preferred form of engagement however he has dabbled in Silat, Karate, Kung Fu and took a brief stint with the Navy SEALS.

=• Personal Information •= Most of the following is easily available to those with access to Templar records.

Appearance
Sturdy of frame and sporting perpetual stubble. Marcus carries himself with the distinctive poise of a military man. Never entirely at ease - even with a pint in hand which is often. His accent bears a slight London twang betraying his heritage.

Reddish brown hair has grown into a vaguely tamed mop on top of his head. Below that are a pair of always tired looking blue eyes, surrounded by the shadows of a man who is not used to much sleep.

A narrow scar traces from the back of his scalp to the middle of his back. He tends to favour high collars for just this reason, turtlenecks especially. His clothing is off the rack and of no particular quality.

Sanctity Division
A modest section of the Templar Post-Operation Division dedicated to cleaning up after large scale incursions of the Secret World upon the conventional one. A small workforce of administrators oversee just under a hundred field operatives worldwide. All are combat capable and experienced in unconventional warfare.

Operatives from Sanctity Division are deployed to ensure that hazardous materials are destroyed correctly and a zone has been cleansed of active hostiles. Once Templar agents have dealt with a situation and the primary threat has been neutralised, the Sanctity Division is notified. With the prevalence of infectious/reproducing extranormal entities, the Sanctity Division have found themselves working overtime to prevent a resolved situation from becoming a problem again.

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