Ogden Hartman

"Oh if only Elaine had been saved, we wouldn't be in this mess."

- Ogden

Ogden worked in the Nemeton Monastery with his wife Bessy in the game Koudelka. He was once a captain of a pleasure boat called the Princess Alice but the boat crashed into an iceberg one night killing most of the passengers and crew, Ogden was black-listed for the accident and became a pariah not just in nautical circles but in just about every job he applied for. Finally when Ogden applied to a researcher named Patrick Heyworth for a job Patrick's wife Elaine Heyworth, hired him on her husband's behalf ignoring the rather large blemish in his work history. Elaine was the first person other than Bessy to believe Ogden was neither drunk nor incompetent at the time of the crash and also attempted to comfort him on the trauma assuring him it wasn't his fault; As a result Ogden became obsessively loyal to the Heyworths and Elaine in particular. Ogden and Bess were hired as full time servants for the Heyworth estate, Odgen mainly worked as a handyman while Bessy mostly tended to the cooking and cleaning and for many years it looked like Ogden had found a second chance and a place to live out his remaining years in peace.

One day tragedy struck though, Patrick had left for to get supplies and taken Ogden and Bessy with him to help carry them back, while they were out bandits had broken in and killed Elaine in the robbery. All three became extremely depressed after Elaine's death. However Patrick eventually took in a traveler one night. The traveler was a member of the Vatican who in exchange for Patrick's kindness told him about a book called the Émigré Manuscript.