Kane and Gribardsun
or Triple Tarzan Tangle Revisited
Renown scholar and Wold Newtonry researcher Jess Nevins has previously claimed in his Jewel in the Crown article[1] that the character named John Gribardsun in Time’s Last Gift was not the immortal Tarzan but rather the omnipotent Mr. Am from the Orphan Annie comic strip. Furthermore this being who was John Gribardsun and Mr. AM who was also the powerful being called Kevin Uxbridge as portrayed in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, “The Survivors”. Uxbridge was a member of the Douwd; sentient energy beings capable of assuming the appearance of other life-forms. They also possessed great powers of creation and destruction. Nevins’ theory is intriguing but the preponderance of evidence in Time's Last Gift is that Gribardsun was Tarzan. One wonders why a careful and diligent researcher would make this claim when so many clues point to Gribardsun as being Tarzan. How can we reconcile Jess' theory with the Triple Tarzan Tangle article? I think that perhaps Jess Nevins was wrong about Gribardsun being Mr. Am and Kevin Uxbridge but that he may have been correct that the Douwd that would eventually be known as Kevin Uxbridge was on the H G. Wells expedition to 12,000 BC.
Kevin
Uxbridge was a botanist; the botanist on the HG Wells was Rachel
Silverstein.
She was also trained in genetics and zoology. Rachel Silverstein had an
affair
with John Gribardsun during their time in the past. When he stayed in
12,000 BC
she returned to the 2070.
When an expedition was launched from 2073 to travel to 3500 BC Rachel
was one
of the crewmembers. Once in 3500 BC she stayed behind to live with
Gribardsun;
they became Terah and his wife, the parents of Abraham.
Since the Douwd are energy beings it is possible that they do not have
genders
as we know them and so may assume physical shapes in either gender.
However we
do know that they are capable of loving corporeal beings such as human
beings.
I believed that the being known as Kevin Uxbridge was also Rachel
Silverstein
and that she had joined the expedition to be with Tarzan. How or why
the Douwd
had become infatuated with Tarzan is unknown but for some reason it
had. HThe
Douwd iscovered that Gribardsun was very interested in traveling to the
past
andeven funded and encouraged what he believed was the most viable
method of
time travel; the method promulgated by Dr. Jacob Moise. The Douwd then
assumed
the persona of Rachel Silverstein. It then made certain that Rachel
Silverstein
was one of the most likely candidates to get onto the H.G. Wells. When
it the
directors of the expedition would not let an unmarried female accompnay
three
male members, Rachel Silverstein married Drumond Silverstein.
When it came time for the expedition to be launched, Gribardsun was one
of the
most likely candidates but not directly in line to become a crew
member. He was
sixth in line and had only gotten that far "in some unaccountable
manner" Then suddenly he was second, one thing or another happened to
those in line ahead of him. Sickness, a sudden loss of interest or
loss of
courage. One man resigned without giving any reasons. Then De Longnors
who was
supposed to have headed the expedition disappeared and Gribardsun was
put in
charge.
Dr. Moishe and de Longnors had suspicions about Gribardsun from the
start
because he was so eager to travel back to the past and investigation by
the
International Criminal Agency revealed he had a mysterious background,
yet they
could find no evidence of wrong doing.
While we could imagine Tarzan intimidating or using his wealth to
entice people
to give up their positions, murder is out of character. Besides
murdering seven
individuals would have surely left some sort of trail. If Moishe
believed that
Gribardsun had used criminal or even unethical methods to get rid
of
those in front of him why was Gribardsun chosen to lead the expedition?
The
In Time's Last Gift, we are shown that Rachel Silverstein was
infatuated
with Gribardsun from the start. From the first day of arrival in the
past we
see how she become excited when around Gribardsun, how she touches him
a lot
and she become jealous of the local women's attraction to Gribardsun.
Although
it may have been able to influence Tarzan into loving it, the Douwd
wanted
Tarzan to do so of his own free will.
The Douwd knew that Tarzan was mourning Jane and so had became obsessed
with
traveling back in time to a simpler time. Tarzan had done this through
out his
life psychologically. When he suffered a head blow he would undergo a
short
term relapse to a primitive state. Time travel would be one way to
achieve this
primitive state on a more permanent basis.
There was one slight problem with the Moishe method of traveling
through time.
It did not really work with any sort of reliability.
Moishe had limited success with it. One of his more successful
experiments
caused an explosion in 1850. On the basis of that he was given the go
ahead to
perfect his method of time travel.
If the time travel method did not work then how did Tarzan and company
get back
to 12,000 BC, and the other two expeditions get to 8,000 and 3,500 BC?
The answer is the Douwd augmented the ship's time travel devices with
his own
power. The common denominator of these three expedition is Rachel
Silverstein.
Consider this; the 3,500 B.C. expedition was the last to arrive in the
past,
although others were scheduled they did not show up. The 3,500 BC
expedition
was also the last one that Rachel Silverstein had gone on. (Although it
is not
specifically stated that Rachel Silverstein was on the expedition to 8,
000 BC.
we can surmise that she was in fact on it, possibly as the commander.
Von
Billman surmised that he would not be on it but we do not know for
certain if
he did in fact go on it or not)
Gribardsun stated that the 8,000 expedition was searching for him but
he
successfully hid from them. Rachel Silverstein had probably been caught
by
surprise when Gribardsun had suddenly decided to stay in 12,000 BC. One
wonders
why it did not stay in the past with Gribardson. There may be two
factors
involved. The first was that Rachel realized that since Gribardson had
not
confided his decision with him or asked her to stay that he had not yet
reached
the point where they could be together. It could also be that the Douwd
had no
choice but to travel back to the future. If the Douwd was using its
powers to
augment the time travel device and the count down had already started,
then its
powers were somehow connected to the device in a way that could not be
extricated without causing it serious pain or even death.
Rachel Silverstein probably went on the 8,000 BC expedition seeking
Gribardsun,
despite knowing that according to the testament that Gribardsun had
left for the
12,000 BC expedition that they would getting together in 3,500 BC.
Having
failed to find him in 8,000 BC she returned to the future and took part
in the
3,500 B.C expedition.
So if the Moishe time travel method really did not work, Gribardsun
probably
needlessly concerned himself with making certain that his body was not
a
perfect doppelganger for the John Gribardsun who had lived from 1872
(really-1888)-2070. We have seen from many other sources that time
twinned
individuals can exist in the same time/space without wreaking havoc on
the
universe.
If the Moishe time travel method really did not work, then my theory
about how
the expedition of the H.G. Wells was time twinned with one vessel being
send an
additional 14,000 years into the past because of a quirk in that time
travel
method was wrong. I do so concur that I was wrong. Although I concur
that I was
wrong about the method that the HG. Wells was time twinned I still
stand by the
theory that the vessel and its occupants were time twinned and that one
vessel
traveled to 26,000 BC or thereabouts and identical ship traveled to
12,000
BC.. Gribardsun must have later learned that something odd had
happened
at the original vessel's arrival in 12,000 BC. Gribardsun may have been
giving
us a clue that something odd when when he stated that the original HG.
Wells
vessel had never arrived in 12, 000 and had disappeared enroute. This
of course
is impossible, had it done so he would not have been able to live from
12,000
BC and he would not have had any memories of doing so.
I theorize that the Douwd used his powers to augment the time
travel
device on the H G Wells. However his control of that power on the first
expedition was inexact. The initial mixture of the Douwd's power and
the time
travel device caused a chronal instability that nearly destroyed the HG
Wells.
In its panic not to be wiped out existence, the Douwd overreacted
and
exerted much more of his power to be channeled into the vessel and be
pushed
back to 12,000 BC. In doing so it caused a duplicate HG Wells vessel to
be
formed and sent another 14,000 years in the past.
The Douwd felt very odd after arriving in 12,000 BC because it had also
been
time twinned that is two versions of itself were existing
simultaneously in
26,000 BC and 12,000 BC. The Douwd who was Rachel Silverstein (26,000
BC)
version was also Mr. Am and Kevin Uxbridge.
The Douwd was also Sathonys or at least the person Kane claims was
Sathonys in
Ric Bergquist's "Talks with
Kane". Evidence in the Kane stories by Karl Edward Wagner indicates
that Sathonys was an alien humanoid who used science to evolve
primitive
hominids into human beings. In the Kane’s saga Kane would eventually
gain
enough power to track down and kill this "God"
Kane’s history does not make him an unbiased source so the story he
told to Ric
Bergquist might have been a mixture of fact and fiction.
The version Kane's story that was told to Bergquist stated that
when
Tarzan traveled back in time he did not find primitive man and so
created them
in his image. "He came back thru the ages to improve the original
stock
and didn’t even find that stock. It was a fantasy, an illusion. But did
he let
that stop him? No. He took those apish men and made them over into his
own
image, again, with the help of a meteor strike. He made us as much like
him as
he could! "
Kane claims that the person who did was " The gray-eyed man
with
the flowing black hair." Kane further states that "Though
it took millennia, I tracked him down and I slew the lying
son-of-a-bitch.
My last memory of that day, his triumphant eyes upon me: I killed John
Clayton,
Lord Greystoke. God, and Tarzan of the Apes!”
This sounds very out of character for Tarzan to have done
anything
remotely like this. He may have tried to use modern medical science to
help
ensure the survival of the hominids that would become known as the
Great Apes
but it is unlikely that he would carried out the Moreau-like
experiments that
Kane describes.
However
even if Kane's perceptions of these events were either deliberately
misleading
or incorrect there might be some element of truth to them however.
Let's consider for a moment that time twinned versions of John
Gribardsun, Rachel Silverstein, Drummond Silverstein and Robert Von
Billman
arrived in 26,000 BC and were unable to return to the future. This trip
to
further past was not a mirror of events that occurred in 12, 000 BC.
The time
travelers had to live out their lives in the distant past because
the
Moishe drive would not function and the Douwd's own power was not
sufficient to
carrry them back to 2070. The stranded time travelers would have either
formed
a tribe of people by recruiting locals from that time period or they
would have
joined an existing tribe.
In 26,000 Gribardsun and Rachel Silverstein did not click as a couple
to her
great dismay. Although the Douwd could have used its powers to make
Gribardsun
care for it, it chose not to do so. Rather it chose to appear to age
like Drummond
Silverstein and Robert Von Billman and to appeared to die of old age.
It then
slipped away from the tribe of people that they were living with.
Still infatuated with Tarzan and having decided to discard the Rachel
Silverstein appearance and persona, the Douwd adopted another one. It
chose to
emulate the object of its affection and looked like Gribardsun. As
stated
earlier Rachel Silverstein was a geneticist, a zoologist and a
botanist.
As the Douwd, looking like Gribardsun, wandered Ancient Europe, it
became aware
of that the sapient species that would become known as Homo Neanderthal
were
dying out. The Douwd also discovered that the lack of biodiversity
among the
existing human populations would cause the human race to suffer from a
genetic
calamity that would preclude its surviving the coming ice age.
The
Douwd's researches concluded that there was a slim chance to save the
Neanderthal population and also the human population by combining them.
Because
of their great genetic differences Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthal
were not
generally cross fertile. Yet the Douwd discovered a population that had
both
Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens genetic influences. They called themselves
The
Blood People, they were lead by a man who called himself Vadar Ang or
Kane. The
Douwd was allowed to join his tribe by beating Vadar Ang in personal
combat.
The Douwd told Ang that he was Tarzan of the Apes, since that name
would not be
known for millennia. When "Tarzan" had proven to Kane that he had
some remarkable abilities himself, Kane began to relate his story to
him.
Vadar Ang or Kane was an anomaly. He was first and foremost one of
those very
rare cases of a fertile hybrid between a Homo Neanderthal and a Homo
Sapiens.
He had been made this way by a God who had come down from the skies in
a
chariot of fire to create mankind. Vadar Ang already claimed to be
countless
years old hundreds of thousands of years. The Douwd doubted this story
at first
since there was little evidence of either population of Homo
Neanderthal or
Homo Sapiens that far back in history. Kane insisted that the Creator
had used
sorcery to plant seeds in the bodies of female hominids to create his
new race
of mankind. The female hominids perished more often than not.
Man was created to be servants of the gods, to till the soil for food,
to work
in the mines of the gods etc. Kane had been a tiller of the soil but
his grain
stores were depleted by a lazy Shepard. When Kane failed to make his
quota he
was punished and the Shepard was rewarded because of the fecundity of
his
flock, which had been well fed from eating Kane's grain. In anger Kane
slew the
Shepard and tried to hide the body.
The Creator discovered what Kane had done and so punished Kane. Kane's
body was
subjected to various magics that re-made him. His speed, strength and
stamina
were increased and he was given immunity to disease. Finally, he was
given
glowing blue eyes that allowed him to see in the dark so that everyone
could
recognize him for who he was. He was made to be the Gods' instrument of
punishment, the executioner of those who did not follow the Gods will.
Kane
claimed that the Creator had removed his soul and conscience. He was
made
virtually immortal and ageless.
The Gods made other beings from combinations of genetic material of Man
and
animal, creations that later generations would term monsters.
Kane eventually took part in a civil war among the Gods. The end result
of this
war was that the Gods left the planet. Using technology left behind by
the Gods
mankind and other sentient creations of the Gods built cities and
created
civilizations. These civilizations rose and fell, many of the sentient
creatures did not breed true and became extinct. Kane's people
disappeared as
well as the isolated populations began to become wholly Homo Sapiens or
wholly
Homo Neanderthal. Yet during all this time Kane survived, forever alone
he
became convinced that the Gods had cursed him. He saw the rise of fall
of
Lemuria, of Atlantis, the Great Cataclysm that formed the Hyborian age,
the fall
of the Hyborian age and the fall of Mankind into the age of stone once
more. [2]
Finally after nearly six hundred thousand years whatever
tinkering that
the Gods had done to his body began to fail. He began to age, slowly
but
certainly. Dying of old age he was out for one last hunt. He was giving
chase
to three men who had poached his kill when a falling star had fallen
between
him and his prey. Great searing heat and great agony encompassed him
when he
awoke his years had been burnt away. He was once again a man in his
prime, a
man condemned to live in immortality.
Hoping that Kane would understand the Douwd tried to demonstrate how
the
populations of the world had fallen to such low numbers that drastic
measures needed
to be to save Mankind. By using genetic material from the Blood Tribe
He could
create a genetic virus that would instill in both the Neanderthal and
Homo
Sapiens populations a better ability to cross fertilize and allow
mankind to
flourish. Kane refused to see the Douwd's logic, claiming that he saw
only echoes of Sathonys in this plan. The Douwd was forced to
subjugate
Kane by sealing him in a cavern while the Douwd carried out his
experiments.
After more study on the situation the Douwd realized that Kane had been against it's experiments because Kane was responsible for the low population base of the Human and Neanderthal populations. He was carrying out his own sort of eugenics program, breeding a human race derived from his lineage. He was ruthlessly breeding The Blood people to have the same sorts of physical traits as him, possibly hoping that eventually some would become immortal as well. Since he was a created hybrid of Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens he needed some of the pure stock as breeding stock. Yet Kane also realized that since the Homo Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens were more numerous and more fertile than the Blood People that they could eventually undo his breeding program simply by outproducing the Blood people. If the numbers of the Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthal were not drastically reduced they would inevitably they would regain dominance either by sheer numbers or by absorbing the Blood people into their larger population bases. So Kane was probably systematically killing off both Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthal populations while keeping some alive as breeding stock.
To
prevent this evil from being unleashed into the world, the Douwd sealed
off the
cavern in which Kane was imprisoned
Following Kane's directions the Douwd traveled to the location of the
Garden
where the Gods had carried out their genetic experiments. Although the
site was
so ruined as to resemble rubble, the Douwd did find a few remaining
facilities.
These were so deeply buried that ordinary humans would never have
located them.
It took him decades to uncover the facilities and what he discovered
was of no
immediate help, although he did discover what he thought was the
delivery
system for the genetic viruses that the God's created to make their
chimerical
creations and their humanity hybrids. He believed that the few samples
of
fungus were this delivery system.Yet he needed advanced facilities to
make
certain of his discovery. [3]
To have the necessary facilities to carry out his work the Douwd had to
return
to the H.G. Wells and use the on board medical facilities and
laboratory. Since
the Douwd did not know if Gribardsun was still in the area or not, it
adopted
another form, looking like a heavy set older man with whiskers. The
Douwd had
hoped that Gribardsun would help with the experimentation. However
Gribardson
had already departed from the area. He had apparently left because his
prowess
in battle, his ability to recover from injury and his lack of aging had
caused
the tribe to regard him as divine. The called him the Undying God.
The tribe members refused to let the Douwd into the H.G. Wells
considering a
shrine. The Douwd could have used some of his power to overcome the
tribe
members but he needed their willing assistance to carry out his work.
He left
and returned in Tarzan's form and as such the Douwd was greeted as a
deity by
the members of the Tribe.
While researching the delivery system that the "Gods" had used for
their genetic virus, he began to work on an alternative plan. If the
life spans
of the various populations were expanded then it was possible that he
would not
have to create a genetic virus to aid Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthal
in
cross fertilization. The longer lifespans would allow the humans and
neanderthals to have more progeny. The Douwd used the medical
laboratory of the
H.G. Wells to compare the blood of Tarzan (which was stored in the
medical
laboratory) and the blood of Kane from samples he had taken. He
wondered if
there were any similarities. Was there a common factor that allowed
them to
become immortal? According to Kane's story his creator had cursed him
with
immortality. According to Tarzan's story he had been granted
immortality after
saving an old witch doctor. The Witch Doctor had made him drink a
variety of
concoctions and exchange blood with him. Yet of all of the beings
created by
the Gods only Kane had immortality. Tarzan also seemed to be the only
person to
have actually have achieved immortality through the Witch Doctor's
method. Even
the Witch Doctor that had given Tarzan the treatment aged, although
slowly. The Witch Doctor also needed boosters to keep the aging
process
in check but Tarzan had only needed one such treatment.
It was only when he had run a molecular scan of the genetic structures
of both
Kane and Tarzan that he discovered that there was a common factor in
their
genetic make up, an unknown enzyme that apparently was triggered by the
immortality potions or treatments that they had taken. He believed that
this was
somehow intrinsic to them and that the immortality treatments had
merely either
triggered or enhanced the anomalous enzyme. He managed to replicate the
chemical structure of the enzyme and used the fungus to give the new
enzyme to
members of the tribe. The enzyme lost effectiveness after one year and
the
subjects had to be given another dose. There was also an unseen factor
that he
could not remove, which he believed came from the Kane portion of the
formula,
some of the people who received the enzyme became violent psychopaths
as the
enzyme affected certain portions of their brains.
He considered this line of research a failure. He destroyed the
remaining
batches of the enzyme and the plants that he used to deliver the
enzyme. After
he had destroyed the plant the Douwd wondered if the Witch Doctor that
had
given Tarzan an immortality potion had somehow gotten a hold of some of
these
same plants but could not see how that was possible.
The Douwd then went back to working on his genetic virus to make Homo
Sapiens
and Homo Neanderthal cross fertile. Rather than using the slower
contact method
to deliver his genetic virus, he created an airborne variety
When the Douwd learned that Tarzan had written several books on
parchment he
read them. They were histories of the world to come, histories of
Tarzan's
family. The tribe had named them the Books of Tharn. The Douwd tried to
explain
to the members of the tribe that they had come from the far future. He
tried to
impress on them the importance of keeping these books safe for future
generations.
After finishing his virus Douwd departed this area to make certain that
the
virus spread and that there weren't any ill effects. He traveled all
over the
world to ensure that his plan was successful.
When Kane escaped his cavern prison in a few centuries, the Neanderthal
population had disappeared as had the Blood Tribe. Most of them had
been
absorbed by the larger pool of Homo Sapiens, courtesy of the Douwd's
genetic
virus. During his centuries of isolated imprisonment Kane had conflated
Sathonys with the man who had imprisoned him, the man who called
himself John
Clayton, Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes. He assumed that this one
of the
guises put on by his Creator. He vowed to kill him.
After a time the Douwd grew weary of this corporeal
existence and
once more transformed into a being of energy and traveled the cosmos.
Before he
left earth he made certain to make certain that the failsafes on the
H.G. Wells
were activated. These had been installed to ensure that should the ship
be
unable to travel back in time that it would decay and break down so it
would
not interfere with the historical record. Even when he revisited the
tribe for
the final time he was unaware of the evil he had accidentally created.
The Douwd had used a few of the natives from the tribe as laboratory
assistants, assigning them menials tasks to carry out. He fell into the
trap of
equating ignorance with stupidity. He had no idea that the laboratory
assistants had any inkling of the longevity enzyme he had created. They
had
also gained some knowledge of genetics and selective breeding from his
experiments. One of the assistants smuggled plants out of the
laboratory and
grew them in a cavern. She and her family nurtured these plants and
used them
to create what would become the Elixir. The Douwd's command to keep the
Books
of Tharn safe took on the form of a commandment as they believed that
it was a
direct order from the Undying God. Reading the books they understood
their
purpose, they were to ensure that the events detailed in the Books of
Tharn
came to pass. They were to ensure that the family histories detailed in
the
Books of Tharn came to pass. They were to ensure that the Undying God
would be
born in the future so that the could return to them in the past. Thus
was born
the Nine, their conspiracy to control the world and their selective
breeding
program which had the ultimate goal to create the Undying God.
The Douwd visited the Earth in 3,000 BC and felt an odd sensation. It
followed
the sensation and discovered that a doppelganger of itself existed in
3,000 BC.
This doppelganger was in a human form which it had recently adopted.
Previously
this other Douwd had been using the form of Rachel Silverstein and had
become
Tarzan's mate. Tarzan had used the name Terah. The Douwd who had been
Terah's
wife had pretended to age and to eventually die. Having fulfilled its
desire to
be with Tarzan it no longer felt compelled to do so. However it still
enjoyed
being humanoid. Adopting another humanoid form it had married another
human
being named
The Douwd found that the merging to the two versions of itself had
weakened it
to some degree. It could not take humanoid shape nor could it leave the
planet.
It found a secluded spot in a mountainous region and hibernated for a
time. It
had a dream that It's son Abram was about to sacrifice his own son to
the God
of the Mountain. Somehow it convinced Abram to sacrifice a goat instead
of his
son.
It continued to hibernate. Its sleep was disturbed once more by a man
desiring
to know by what code people should live by in life. The Douwd gave the
man
seven simple rules to live by. (The man added three of his own)
When the Douwd emerged from its hibernation in circa 200 A.D. It was
stronger
and more powerful than before, possibly as result of merging with its
time
twinned self.
It took human form again, rather than going through the trouble of
pretending
to age he formed his new body to look as if it were already aged. He
took the
shape of a vigorous yet elderly man with a full white beard. His long
hibernation on this planet combined with his earlier episode of saving
the
human race made him feel a sense of obligation to help humanity achieve
its
potential. (It is unknown whether the Douwd are part of the collection
of
entities we have termed the Omni-which includes the Q, The Beings, the
Organians, The Elder Gods, The Old Ones among others. If he was then he
may
have been aware that that the ultimate destiny of the human race was to
become
the Omni.)
The Douwd traveled the world in this form attempting to help the human
race. He
took positions in society where he could best serve humanity, clerics,
medical
men, scholars etc. He accumulated wealth only to give it away to help
the
impoverished. He concentrated much of his time and energy on the
world's
children, knowing that they were roots of forthcoming generations.
Legends and
mythology grew up about about him, often the legends were new and often
they
were myths transmogrified. Although there existed people who had
already fulfilled
these roles in myth and legend he became associated with the myths
surrounding
Odin, Merlin and Saint Nicholas. If it furthered his goals he did not
deny such
an association.[4]
After a century or so he began to notice disturbing patterns of
behavior,
of deliberate attempts to circumvent his good works.
He became aware of a well hidden cabal, a cult attempting to steer
humanity
towards some mysterious purpose, to bring about the incarnation of some
god. To
gain power and influence to better achieve their goal, this cabal made
pacts
with some of the amoral beings in the known omniverse, the Old Ones. He
was not
certain which god they were attempting to resurrect but believed that
it was
one of the Old Ones. After a century or so of investigation, he learned
that
they called themselves The Nine. Their influence was vast and even with
his
great powers, which he needed to use circumspectly so that the pattern
of
history would not disrupted, he could not defeat them alone. He created
a
counter organization, which he also named the Nine, partially as a jibe
and
partially to confuse the agents of the evil Nine- he could possibly
influence
them to believe that they were carrying out tasks for the evil nine
when they
were actually carrying them out for his organization.
The Douwd felt great guilt a few centuries later
when he
learned that the core of the Nine were members of the tribe that had
worshipped
the Undying God. They had somehow obtained his longevity enzyme and
continued
to create it, gaining coverts to the cult of the Undying God through
the
promise of physical immortality. He thought for a long time that they
had been
deluded by Nyarlathotep who had assumed the guise of Tarzan to guide
them into
destructive behavior. He later realized that it was comments that he
had made
to the members of the tribe that had formed the nexus of the Cult of
the
Undying God. The Nine were attempting to create their god, which was
not one of
the Old Ones but was Tarzan of the Apes. They were attempting to bring
Tarzan
into being, yet it was a distorted version of Tarzan created from
memories
corrupted and a mythology accrued over thousands of years.
The Douwd tried to stop them in this venture, not because he wished to
prevent
the birth of Tarzan but rather because he believed that the efforts of
the Nine
were unnecessary and detrimental to humanity as a whole. He believed
that the
Nine were aiding the Old Ones gain power through their attempts to
control
society and needed to be stopped for that reason.
In the late nineteenth century the efforts of the evil Nine stepped up
as their
remembered version of history did not match up with the reality of the
world.
They felt obligated to reshape the world into that related to them by
Tarzan
24,000 years in the past. The Douwd was either using many names or was
known by
many names during the nineteenth century. The name he used for himself
was Mr.
Am. He had bases of operation on every continent and at the North Pole.
Through
no wish of his own, Mr. Am became the physical depiction of Santa
Claus--
although Mr. Am never admitted to being him.
His agents in India reported the presence of a feral child. Mr. Am
learned that
John Clayton, Tarzan's father had recently been to India and
investigated.
Clayton had returned to England believing that his wife and child had
been
killed in a tiger attack. Mr. Am determined that the child was still
alive and
was the feral child in question. The child had a form of low level
telepathy
that allowed it to "speak" to animals. Mr. Am felt that to
"rescue" the child would be wrong, that somehow this was his destiny.
He periodically visited the boy using the guise of a bear. In this
guise he
taught the child how to speak and about human civilization. The child
was aware
that this bear was not like the other bears but took no exception to it
with a
child's innocent acceptance of the world. The child became famous when
his
story was written by Rudyard Kipling.
Even beings of great power such as Mr. Am can make minor misjudgments
when it
comes to making friends. Mr. Am befriended a young man in India in the
year
1920. The young man and his friend had just raided a temple and were
being
chased by outraged cultists. The young man's friend perished before Mr.
Am arrived
on the scene. Mr. Am was investigating this temple which had just
recently been
taken over by a group of Thuggees. Mr. Am chased away the cultists and
helped
young David Luthor carry his friend and their stolen booty to the
nearest city.
Mr. Am did not begrudge young Mr. Luthor from having the temple
treasure since
it was loot stolen from people that the Thuggees had killed. Mr. Luthor
was
acquainted with one of Mr. Am's agents Kimball O'Hara, who was also
fond of the
young man. Although he knew that David Luthor a charming rogue with the
soul of
a con man, Mr. Am could not help but like him. He knew that Luthor
would have a
hard time staying on a path that was straight and narrow but that
generally he
would be a good man. Mr. Am did what he could to help Luthor stay on
the right
side of the path.
Because David Luthor was wanted under that name in his native country
he used
his newfound wealth to create a new identity using the name of his
slain
friend. He called himself David Douglas Warburton or more commonly D.
D.
Warburton. He became a multimillionaire who was on one hand a ruthless
businessman and a generous philanthropist, like his contemporaries J.
D.
Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. D. D. Warburton eventually became the
ward of
a young girl and their life together became the basis for the comic
strip
Little Orphan Annie. Mr. Am became a more frequent visitor to D. D.
after he
had taken charge of Little Anne in order to give the girl more moral
guidance
than D.D. could provide. Mr. Am was more amused than angered when the
cartoonist took little Anne's stories about her friend Mr. Am and made
them
even more fantastic than they were in real life.
[2]
For the missing years of Kane's life, here may be some clues.
http://www.dodgenet.com/~moonblossom/Kane1a.html
[3] A variety of this fungus would survive but in a mutated form. Fortunately it would only be able to grow in one small section of South America. It would become known as the Kothoga plant See Preston and Child, The Relic
[4]
For some of the other possible identities of these individuals see http://users.frii.com/asacat/dr.htm