Jacob Simons

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| name=Jacob Simons

| aliases=Jake, John Bateman

| gender=Male

| race=Human

| parents=Arthur Simons, Margaret Simons (deceased, 2026)

| dob=December 18th, 2003 (Age in Aug. 2030, 26)

| occupation=Heir, Executive

| affiliations=ATLAS

| spouse=None

| children=None

| class=Blade Bound

| alignment=Chaotic Good

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Early Life

(Age 13): Death of Margaret Simons of sudden onset degenerative neural disease. Doctor's baffled. Arthur becomes distant and withdrawn to his children.
(Age 13): Jake responds by lashing out at his school, his friends, and most especially his father. Arthur responds by sending Jake to private school in England.
(Age 14 - 17): Being further from his father's authority is no barrier to his continued anger and frustration. Falls in with a bad crowd in England, including a slightly older boy, Crawford St. John ("Cash"). Cash and Jake fall in with a gang in North London, the "Kings", led by a sinister and powerful warlock named Dominic Grosheva (Eastern European immigrant, Russia/Lithuania/Ukraine).
- Pseudo-chemical drug with paranormal induction properties (Street Name: Blaze?,)
- Time with Dominic and Cash introduces Jake to his latent warlock abilities. Raise hell in mid-England.
(Age 17:) Meet Sylvia Hart for the first time. Cash and Jake compete for her attention.
- Jake and Syl become friends, but she has no time for he and Cash's chaos and random crime.
- Syl introduces Jake to Roland Black (at Ruthin Castle, near Ruthin in the Vale of Clwyd).
- Roland lays out the truth to him, that his meeting Cash was not an accident, that he's being set up by powers he can't comprehend, that Dominic is far more than he seems to be, and where he's headed.

(Age 17-18): Jake resolves to save Cash from the Kings (actually a cult of Moloch) with Roland and Sylvia's help.
- Cash agrees to help take out the "Blaze" lab, but it's all a setup. Cash betrays him to Dominic, who forces the two best friends to fight each other to the death.
- Cash, at the end, refuses to kill Jake, so Dominic kills him and prepares to kill Jake too.
- Jake taps his reserves of anger and hate and lashes out at Dominic, injuring the old warlock enough to frighten him away.
- Syl and Jake destroy the drug lab, but when Jake tries to resurrect Cash, something goes wrong. He gets Cash back, but as a demonic soul, bound to his will. Cash is a mockery of the friend he once had, but Jake, under the advice of Roland, keeps him around to try to find a way to get him out of hell.
(Age 18-24): Jake and Sylvia train with Roland, learning their powers and abilities, and the limitations and dangers of the path they both now tread. Jake completes his schooling and attends Cambridge University as a finance major (resolving to start patching things up with his father).
- When Roland disappears, he leave cryptic messages for his two apprentices about the forces of Moloch rising again, this time in Boston, and that Jake's family is in danger from a hidden enemy.
(Age 25-26): Jake and Sylvia return (separately, so as not to draw suspicion) to the States to check the rising tide of evil in Boston, with Jake's ultimate goal to save his family (perhaps from themselves).