Combat Profile
Forbidden Revelation
Exposes hidden truths of secret orders, dealing damage proportional to the target's concealed power and striking fear into those dependent on secrecy.
Martyr's Clarity
Each wound taken increases INT and Oracle accuracy; presence weakens oath-bound entities and compels confession from the guilty.
Local Masonic networks in upstate New York; an unsympathetic legal system; possibly a body of water
Lore: Morgan was a stonemason and Royal Arch Mason with unresolved grievances against his lodge. When he announced his publishing plans, the local Masonic establishment escalated from harassment to abduction to murder (presumed). A body washed ashore on Lake Ontario in October 1827; some identified it as Morgan, others denied it. (Thurlow Weed, the Anti-Masonic newspaper editor, allegedly said it was “a good enough Morgan until after the election.”) Whether the Craft killed him or rogue members acted alone remains unproven. What is certain: the Anti-Masonic Party that grew from the affair became America’s first third party, and Masonic membership collapsed for a generation. Morgan is the closest American Masonry has to an outside martyr.
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Whoever it was that took him from the Canandaigua jail on 12 September 1826
Batavia, NY court records; *Illustrations of Masonry* (1827, posthumous); Anti-Masonic Party archives
