LORE---Ashton Soul. Head of the Raven Foundation, which influences many goverments through lobbying, financial donations, and other types of influence. Also secretely head of the Wolfpack mercenaries, a fighting force composed of the best soldiers money can buy....which he has also used to influence governments. The Raven Foundation is thought to be kept in trust by the Soul family, but in actuality, Soul just pretends to be various members of the Soul family over the years.

Regards himself, with reason, as Earth's secret master.

Powers: The Zha'Tahn circuitry in his brain makes his thinking a unique computer/brain hybrid, able to process information and think up plans much easier than any computer or normal human being. His large staff is actually a portable one-man rocket launcher.

Origin: a Renaissance man. Literally. Born in 1550 in a small town in Kent, England, Soul was a wandering book trader and minor poet when the Zha'Tahn took him and his sister, their first known captives. He was made a biological interface for their computers, a living processor hanging from their network, with whole sections of his brain replaced by Zha'Tahnian circuitry. His right eye was plucked out, replaced by a cybernetic plate which could easily interface with their circuitry, and can incidentally also pick up radio and television transmissions. Eventually he decoded their language (which had previously run through his brain without any meaning) and led a revolt, returning to Earth in 1590. His sister, Ageless, was able to control the aging process in others, and keeps him alive and relatively young in health even today.

Group Affiliation: The Next Level, sometimes known as the Command. Position within the group: Its leader.

Motivations: Preparing mankind against the return of the Zha'Tahn. Everything else is secondary to that. Thinks it's a mistake for mankind to go too far in space, too fast, that it will attract the attention of the Zha'Tahn. Tried to dissaude Kennedy from announcing the Moon program, and was literally the man on the grassy knoll who shot Kennedy, hiring Oswald as a diversion, and blackmailing Jack Ruby into shooting Oswald afterwards. (It's unknown whether he had any hand in the assasination, directly or indirectly, of either Martin Luther King or Bobby Kennedy.) He also ordered the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger in an effort to slow down "escapes into space" and set the space program back. Often used terrorists and anarchists to offset governments at key points in history---knew both John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, and Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, which caused World War I, and may have influenced both. Hitler oddly enough took him by surprise, although he influenced Rommel and others into trying to kill Hitler. It is known he made some trips to Afghanistan in the late eighties, and may have influenced Osama Bin Ladin. Often makes sure, through blackmail, revelations to the press, lobbying and other means, that mediocre men are often elevated to become heads of state, rather than those with high intellects or overpowering personalities, who might recognize his efforts.

Often changes his code name, to throw off the world's intelligence agencies, as each is discovered. Has been known as the Commander, as Masterful, as Intrigue, and most recently, as Sage. Changed it to Lore when Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, picked up rumor of Sage. Back to the Cast Page