Cliff "LionRampant" Connolly

=• INTRODUCTION AND BIOGRAPHY •= Cliff Connolly was born and raised in Chicago. His childhood was unremarkable, his family blissfully unaware of what really lurked in the shadows. Always a talented student, Cliff excelled academically but developed few close friendships. In high school he developed a fascination with Biology. The intricate interplay between biology and ecology became a puzzle that he obsessed over. His obsession served him well. After graduating from college, his thesis on the nature of symbiosis and parasitism attracted the attention of the Orochi Group. He was hired as a cryptozoology intern.

Orochi kept the interns at arms reach from the secret world. They would bring in a small piece of a monster, a claw or an eye, discovered by "local hunters". Based on these fragments, Cliff's group would create a theoretical profile for the undiscovered creature. What kind of creature was it? Was it carnivorous? What evolutionary advantages would it have? For a year they worked in the dark, never seeing the full picture. For a year, Cliff was happy. His work was challenging and exciting. His colleagues had become more than just coworkers. They shared his interests. They were friends. Finally, the call came in. Orochi had found the creature.

Cliff and his colleagues watched as the handlers unveiled the caged beast. It was far more than they had imagined. They had said the tooth came from a carnivore. They could not imagine the rows of sharp teeth that formed serrated edges in the creature's slackened maw. They guessed the eye was adapted for night vision. They were not prepared to see it's eye's widen in the darkened room and track their every movement. They certainly weren't prepared when the bars of its cage shattered.

In three seconds, James and Amanda were dead. It ripped out her throat with its jaws.

In six seconds, Abdul and Dom had been gutted from waist to collar.

The cold dark eyes of the beast fixated on Cliff. Light. Light was the thought that went screaming through his head as he produced his cell phone and used it to blind the creature. It reeled back. The lights came on. The handlers rushed in and managed to contain the weakened beast. Cliff was the only survivor. They called it a horrible accident, but he didn't believe them. He was offered a job in "crisis management", but he declined. Well, perhaps its more appropriate to say he fled the country.

Cliff bounced around from place to place. He was afraid to settle down for too long. Always he was taunted by the image of the monster's cold dead eyes. Try as he might, he couldn't ignore the secret world anymore. What before was a random dog attack was now the act of an unspeakable monster. What before was simply a house fire was now an occult manifestation. He began to investigate, drawn in by that same fascination, that determination that had driven him since his youth. However, he had changed. Before he had wanted to understand the hidden world. Now he simply wanted to destroy it before it could destroy anyone else. It was no wonder then that when Gaia chose him he chose the Templars. Cliff Connolly has seen the dark side of the Secret World first hand. It took away his friends. It took away his life. It took away his curiosity.

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