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"He hammers on your door. "Hurry up in there! It's all pagans and turnips out here! And it's cold.""[1]
The Bishop of Southwark - or Reginald, to his friends - is a powerful figure within London's Anglican Church. He is known for his boisterous character, his short temper, and his love of wrestling.
Biography
"Show me your worth, sinner!"[2]
Reginald was the eldest of an unknown number of siblings.[3] He is known to have attended university, though not which one,[4] and was once a member of the Young Stags[5] before devoting himself to a religious career. His father initially disapproved of his son’s vocation;[3] at the time of the Fall, he was a priest working for the St Albans Protomartyr church as a canon.[6]
When London launched the Campaign of 1868 and invaded Hell, Reginald decided to become a chaplain for the regiment in which his father had once served.[3] He accompanied a scouting patrol near the front,[7] and stopped to pick an infernal rose - which suddenly burned up, permanently leaving a scar on his forearm. Reginald's screams of pain alerted the Devils, and they captured the whole troop.[8] To add insult to injury, a goat-demon pulled Reginald's horse from under him and ate it.[9] After being captured, all of his comrades lost their souls, but he instead was sent to row a Brass Trireme.[10][9] While captured, he went on a hunger strike, refusing to eat the food of Hell to keep his soul intact. In a state of hunger and delirium, he signed a contract that allowed him to keep his soul, and go back to London.[11] Though this spared his life and immortal soul, he is ashamed of this decision, calling himself a craven for it.
When not busy sorting the affairs of the church, invoking his martial prowess to disrupt the machinations of Hell, or debating the Bishop of St Fiacre’s,[12] Reginald spends his time in the fourth coil of the Labyrinth. Here he feeds all sort of animals to a winged bat in a barn, producing strange new creatures in the process; the Bishop is trying to breed a Hound of Heaven, which could be used to detect devils.[13] Ultimately, he would like to invade Hell once again, to take back what was lost the first time.[14]
The Bishop ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of London in 1894, under the slogan "For God's sake!"[15] His agenda was to diminish the presence and influence that the devils have over London.[16] However, it appeared that part of his campaign was financed by some devils themselves.[17]
The Bishop has engaged in two relationships with men in the past. The first was an Irishman[18][19] called Michael,[20] who had "eyes like flames"[19][21] and was Reginald's partner at the time of the invasion of Hell.[8] The second was called James; the relationship ended on bad terms, and the Bishop surmises he is now a revolutionary.[20]
The Bishop and Virginia, as might be expected given their respective histories, rather dislike each other.[22]
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