Jacqueline "Jacky" Boulogne

Jacky Boulogne is the scion of a prominent Templar family and the current head of the Round Table Group. She acquired anima powers after adopting the archetype of King Arthur and, subsequent to a period of intensive training, has been active in the port town of Kingsmouth.

Family and Early Life
Jacqueline is descended from two distinguished families. Her father, Guy Boulogne, descends from the House of Boulogne, which includes two rulers of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the years after the First Crusade. Her mother, Andrea Montbard, is related to Andre de Montbard, fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar and one of the founders of the Order. Although the Boulogne family has been extremely wealthy for many generations, Guy and Andrea recently lost their entire fortune in the EU debt crisis of 2011-2012. After taking out considerable loans, the couple has begun repairing their finances, but it is a long and slow process which has required the family to sell off virtually all its holdings at a considerable loss, including substantial real estate, multiple homes, and investments.

Jacky was born and raised during the time her family was prosperous, and she benefitted from a dilettante lifestyle that allowed her to travel Europe and America in the company of private tutors. No doors were closed to her, and she was spoiled for much of her life, but at the age of 22 she made a trip to Tibet, largely on a lark. Harsh weather blocked her exit for two months, and she was forced to live among the monks there, where she came under the tutelage of the Man With Green Gloves. Under his instruction, she came to understand not only how fortunate she was, but how little she appreciated the world around her. Moreover, she at last understood that the luxuries of her youth were blinding her to deeper, inner truths about the world. She spent about six weeks in study at the remote monastery, which she would only later realize was almost certainly a Dragon safehouse.

Entering the Order
In 2000, Jacky returned from Tibet and entered Temple Hall to request her rightful place as a member of the Order. Her parents had shielded her from this, not because they sought to protect her but rather because they felt her contributions were not necessary. After all, the Temple already had a small army and the Boulogne family made considerable annual donations. Wasn't that enough? But for Jacky, it was not. She now understood that in this world there are the Knowing and the Ignorant. She was no longer Ignorant, and therefore she was obliged to take her place among the Knowing. The Grand Master of the Templars agreed and she was made an agent.

Over the next ten years, Jacky underwent combat and magical training designed to make her a more useful field asset. Possessed of natural leadership potential and an assertive, logical mind, she took swiftly to her studies and was groomed for a ranking position in a Templar cabal. She studied Hermetic Thaumaturgy and Chaos Magick, the psychic defense techniques pioneered by Clark Savage Jr., Tantric yoga and 11th-dimensional p-brane perception. Her mundane training began with pistol marksmanship and included a variety of armed combat techniques including fencing and kenjutsu. With practice, she began to display a modest level of affinity with the Ur Command Language, but has never successfully performed more than a three word utterance.



The Round Table
In early 2012 the Round Table Group, one of the Templar's oldest and most recognized cabals, imploded when it attempted to respond to the Tokyo Event; every single member of the cabal perished. In the wake of Tokyo, the entire Secret War threatened to explode out into the open and Richard Sonnac, current Grand Master of the Order, had his hands full with damage control. He left it to one of his subordinates to see to the reconstruction of the Round Table, and that subordinate happened to owe Jacky a favor. She nominated Jacky for leader of the rebuilt cabal, and Sonnac -- out of agreement or haste, it is impossible to say -- signed the order.

Jacky was installed into the Round Table Cabal by senior members of the Templars, in accordance with centuries old protocols to be enacted in the event of the cabal's dissolution. When she took the Archetype of the Once and Future King upon herself, her anima powers activated. As the newest "King Arthur", however, Jacky's position is very precarious. She has none of the resources of the previous cabal, all of which have been lost in the chaos since Tokyo. She does not know the location of the sword which the previous King Arthur wielded, and the contents of the previous cabal's headquarters in Washington DC were lost to an Illuminati bomb. She has begun recruiting new men and women to fill out the Table, but it remains a pale shadow of its former glory. That is something Jacky hopes to change.