Graham+Rathbone

//This is part of the Hangover city, Liverpool, uk setting// = = =The Red Knight - Graham Rathbone,=

The Rathbones have been in the city for a long time, and it was only natural that eventually one of them would be seduced by a Faerie, though few expected that the ‘luck girl’ would be a Sylph. Graham was the result and was quickly taken into the protection of the Royal Court before mum dropped him off a building or something. He was adopted out into one of the trusted Breed families and grew up with Cale Tien. The two are still good friends and regularly go out ‘on the pull’ together.

The Red Knight powers fell to Graham after the old guardian, a Sidhe known only as Commerce he had been doing the job for so long, declared he had seen enough and walked into the sea during the Dock workers strike of 1996. It left the Court in something of a dilemma, because although they all knew this mortal money thing was important, none of them had ever paid that much attention to what was going on. The King demanded ‘the little flying Rathy-lad’ be brought from ‘Ream's place’, which took a bit of deciphering. But when Graham, fresh out of six form collage, was presented to the King He was declared “The new red one!” and handed his talisman.

It was left to Longarm to explain to the confused young man just what that meant. Grahams successful application to Cambridge to read Math had to be refused and he found himself enrolled on the Business and finance course at John Moores University, which he was not pleased about given all the hard work he had done to get into Cambridge in the first place. Longarm sweetened it with a guaranteed top flight job at the end.

Graham has in instinctual grasp of math and number, something he probably got from his mortal line rather than his mother. He has turned this talent to the flows of the international money and stock markets, which he claims he can see ‘like clouds or something’. However he does it, the fact can not be denied that Graham is very good at predicting the trends and has amassed a massive amount of wealth out of very volatile markets for the city centre firm he works for.

In fact Graham hardly used the powers in the talisman the Fisher King gave him; a 1967 penny - one of the last minted before decimalisation. He keeps it on the watch chain of his red waist coat as his lucky penny and tells every one his uncle gave it to him. He is still not totally sure what he is meant to be doing, but hopes that in keeping a steady supply of finance coming into the city which can be redirected into regeneration projects it will all come right in the end.