Greer, the Unseelee Prince

Greer is the son of the lord of the Unseelee Host, and directly in line for the throne. In 1969 his father caught Greer planning to see that seat vacated sooner than the current lord cared to give it up. Greer was exiled from the Twilight Realms to Earth. Greer surmises that his father is not truly mad at him (after all, hes still alive), but instead is using this as a testing period to strengthen his possible heir. As such, Greer is consciously testing himself against this reality, aiming for dominion in one form or another. If this means he proves himself and can return home, fine. If he will never be allowed back home, it becomes the basis for an army to claim his throne, which serves him just as well. Since his arrival on Portabello Road in 1969, hes been a persistent and tangible threat to both London and the restof the world.
     Greer is amazingly powerful, comparable to a low Epsilon level variant. He can mold reality effortlessly to his whims, creating objects or life forms, animating objects or transmuting inorganics and teleporting vast distances. He can project his sprit astrally, and is a sorcerer focusing in divination magic. His endurance, intelligence, agility, willpower and presence are all ranked as mid to high Delta, while his strength is only as great as the strongest mortal man. He heals minor wounds instantly and does not age. He senses magic, its manipulation and who is manipulating it anywhere within a 100 mile radius. Taken all told, hes a nightmare.
     Despite all these powers, Greer is not unstoppable. He cannot return to the Twilight, nor travel outside of Earth's atmosphere—his fathers bindings have seen to that. He is harmed by all the things that harm Faerie—Cold Iron, Hawthorn and Ash, specially prepared magic—though far less than weaker members of his race (rumor has it he has taken to eating with carved hawthorn utensils to improve his tolerance...). These weaknesses were eventually used against him.
     In 1980, a group of heroes led by Stormchild and the mysterious Journeyman managed to outmaneuver Greer, forcing him into his tower after the building had been magically prepared. Once inside, Greer found himself trapped; he could not teleport or even walk out of the construction. Once his home, now it is his prison. The world was safe from his evil, forever, and Greer could be comforted only by the knowledge that he had slain Stormchild in their final conflict.
     [Unknown to the world at large, Greer's prison is not perfect; he can free his astral self with effort, giving him the means to manipulate the world outside his tower. While his powers are very limited in astral form, he has become a behind the scenes manipulator in the world's magical scene, being careful to keep his identity and limited freedom a secret. He can partially escape through a wall in the prison, but that wall could be closed if he tips his hand too soon. He's been in there for years, but while every moment is the deepest insult, he has forever, after all....]

Indigo Moonchilde
Shortly after his arrival on Earth, Greer fathered a child with a socialite/debutante turned hippie. This daughter was named Indigo Claire Moonchild, and while she didn't meet her father until 1978, she inherited his temper, his foul nature and a fraction of his power. Indigo is inhumanly fast and charming (when she wishes to be) and can manipulate objects of any sort without touching them, telekinetically moving several tons with ease. If fey powers registered on tests, she would be a Gamma level variant.
     As befits a fey prince, Greer kept careful but distant watch on his progeny, molding her childhood with a series of tests and conditions. He saw to it that she inherited her family funds (the rest of her family died in mysterious accidents). When her mother returned to her family, Indigo began using a more sedate name, and now uses her True Name as her cover identity among the mystics and criminals of London. None would suspect Claire St. Cloud, the hot-tempered but charming socialite, of the activities Indigo performs in the shadows.
     Indigo is learning, with effort, to contain her fey temper and her unseelee wildness. Regardless, she still values human life as inferior to her own (an attitude she always held, and eventually found reason to explain it), and will snuff it out at the drop of a hat. She doesn't let her underlings kill, for the same reason that you don't let your pets kill one another. Indigo is nowhere near as powerful as her father, but she is his agent in the walking world, in occasional contact with him, and dangerous in her own right.

Philosopher Stone
Greg Stone was a philosophy professor at London University, and a dabbler in the occult. Visiting the Harvest Fair one year he was drawn into the tent of a fortune teller, and ended up hiring the gentleman to teach him the magic of divination. The mage was actually an agent of Greer, the trapped Unseelee Prince, who taught Stone a few minor cantrips while slowly leaching his soul away. Finally he left Stone with an open spell book resigned to render people senseless with even a casual glance.
     Stone awoke to find himself inside the body of a huge stone golem, the mage was cursing him for a bumbling fool, reading a spell like that, he deserved whatever he got! Greg pleaded, and the mage begrudgingly agreed to help him reverse this mighty magic. Now Greg does whatever is asked of him, and researches on his own, to try and find a way to reverse the spell. He doesn't suspect that he was tricked, that his transference was deliberate, or that the mage and Greer are just using him. If he ever finds out, or if he discovers there is no cure, he may well snap.
     The golem body is very strong and durable, with the ability to transmute solids with a touch. Stone himself knows a handful of divination cantrips which he can use to good effect, but is no true mage.

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