NAME: Amenirdis
CIRCA: Predynastic - 640 AD
LOCATION: Heliopolis, Egypt
STATUS: Locked

Resurrecting every 500 years, Amenirdis, in any incarnation, was responsible for making pilgrimages to Heliopolis, City of the Sun, where it was believed the ashes of the phoenix’s predecessors came to rest. This continued until approximately 48 BC when involvement in Roman Egyptian affairs sparked a fire in the Library of Alexandria, contributing to its already inevitable decline.

Still, Amenirdis continued the pilgrimages to Heliopolis as physiologically dictacted upon resurrection until the Battle of Helipolis in 640 AD which, while a victory against imposing forces, made Roman Egypt practically defenseless and forced the phoenix to flee.

NAME: Han Ae-cha
CIRCA: 640 AD - 1007 AD
LOCATION: Jirisan, Korea
STATUS: Locked

Adjusting to a life anew, resurrecting as dictated over the years without the ventures to Heliopolis, Ae-cha took up life as a tea cultivator and merchant for the aristocracy as well as a poet while living on a monastery in Jirisan, Korea. An unknown death in 1007 brought this life to an end, perhaps as a part of the scorched earth tactics of the Goryeo-Jurchen War.

NAME: Kaneko Asahi
CIRCA: 1008 AD - 1182 AD
LOCATION: Niigata, Japan
STATUS: Locked

Raised by a Japanese fisherman in the seaside town of Niigata, Asahi somehow escaped the terror brought on by a sea dragon who he would meet years later while in human form during one of her visits to the land. Together, they birthed a son – the hai-riyo – until she returned to the sea and left Asahi to raise the child on his own. His death is unknown, but it is believed to happen at sea.

NAME: Asa Solnetevich
CIRCA: 1183 AD - 1300 AD
LOCATION: Novgorod, Russia & Buyan
STATUS: Unlocked

A Russian noble sought out and betrothed to an Unseelie Fae also known as The Snow Queen, Asa Solnestevich was “kidnapped” the evening before his wedding by Koschei the Deathless to become his first bride-consort.

The two live approximately 100 years together in Buyan before the “Firebird” is tracked down by Ivan the Fool who, much like the ballet steals a feather to use against Koschei, eventually resulting in Asa’s death. The reincarnated phoenix is taken away by Ivan the Fool as an egg to parts unknown.

NAME: Unnamed
CIRCA: 1301 AD - 1400 AD
LOCATION: Unknown
STATUS: Unlocked

Purchased as an egg by the leader of a mysterious, supernatural-purging cult that declared itself ‘The Church of the Eternal Flame’, tasked with protecting the ‘Eternal Flame’ in order to keep their flock safe with a militant arm to further their authority, an unnamed phoenix was raised to be a near-merciless force meant to both bless and punish those devout.

However, as corruption spread, many – supernatural or not – found themselves tried for often wrongful convictions, ultimately leading to the cult’s destruction at the hands of Koschei and Deathless with any further loose ends eradicated by the church. Reborn in the ashes of a hollowed keep, the phoenix takes off to parts unknown.

NAME: Alexander De la Croix
CIRCA: 1401 AD - 1644 AD
LOCATION: Rhodes, Greece; Malta; Barbary Coast; Germany
STATUS: Locked

In a continuation of religious order in his prior life, Alexander joins the Knights Hospitaller in Rhodes and Malta for nearly two decades, traveling the sea as needed to protect merchant ships and extend medical help to Christian Crusaders until the Great Siege of Malta led to his capture by the Barbary Pirates.

Moved to the Barbary Coast, he remained there until he was able to escape to Europe where he meets his end just four years prior to the end of the Thirty Years’ War, found by a mercenary army sweeping through the German countryside.

NAME: None Given
CIRCA: 1645 AD - 1666 AD
LOCATION: London, England
STATUS: Locked

With little known of this comparatively short life, the phoenix took up work as a iron smelter in London, England before being “lost” to the Great Fire at some point between September 2 and September 6, 1666. The fire was responsible for destroying 13,200 houses, 87 Parish churches, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the city authorities.

NAME: Alexander Leclair
CIRCA: 1667 AD - 1812 AD
LOCATION: France; Moscow, Russia
STATUS: Unlocked

As a resident of France under the ruling aristocracy, the phoenix survives the downfall of power and structure during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror only to join the military in the Napoleonic Wars as they trekked eastward to Moscow, Russia where he died in a fire under “mysterious circumstances”. The body was never found.

NAME: "Andrei"
CIRCA: 1813 AD - 1945 AD
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany; London, England
STATUS: Locked

After years of imprisonment by Ivan the Fool after being found in Moscow, an attempt to brainwash more than it had ever been to find information on the location of Koschei the Deathless, ‘Andrei’ joins the war effort against German as a theorized accomplice to the Reichstag Fire on February 27. As only Van Der Lusse was found guilty and sentenced to death by guillotine for the committed arson, ‘Andrei’ continues life through the end of the wars to come, operating both as an agent for the Allied Force and Ivan the Fool during World War II.

It is during this time that he, for the first time since the late 1300s, crosses paths with Koschei the Deathless as captured by the Third Reich, casting a slow-burning wrench of doubt into the working relationship between Ivan the Fool and the phoenix.

NAME: Aleksander Hwang
CIRCA: 1945 AD - 1988 AD
LOCATION: New York City, New York, USA
STATUS: Locked

At the end of World War II, ‘Aleksander’, in the company of Ivan the Fool and the Huntsman, moves to New York City, New York where they take on a new set of aliases to adjust to the times. While at first, it circled around a lavender relationship with an unknown party, a means to fall into a ‘nuclear’ lifestyle during the 1950s and 1960s, a concocted scheme to keep Koschei the Deathless on his toes led to a budding model career well into the 1980s, Aleksander dies under mysterious circumstances with a number of conspiracies surroundings his death, including drug overdoses, secret affairs, and crimes of passion.

NAME: Ash Seong-Constantin
CIRCA: 1989 AD - Present
LOCATION: New York City, New York, USA; Seattle, Washington, USA
STATUS: Unlocked

Picked up by the Seongs in Flushing, Queens following his death, Ash is raised as a normal child with a normal family in the Big Apple until a 2010 fire in Chinatown, Manhattan, sparked by his own hands, causes him to flee in an attempt to find out more about his life and the ones that pass.

With ten years spent traveling the country to look into supernatural occurrences, Ash eventually lands in Seattle, Washington where, once more, he crosses paths with Koschei the Deathless who recognizes him as Asa Solenstevich. The two marry once more in February 2022.