The Enlightenment Expedition
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Created: November 2021
Main inspirations: Return of the Obra Dinn; The Terror; The Thing; the Terra Nova expedition (real event)
Setting: Antarctica and the surrounding waters, during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (the early 1910s specifically). Most of the world is the same as ours, except for supernatural forces inhabiting the southernmost continent.
Genre and themes: Horror (cosmic/existential/body/etc.); historical fiction; fear of the unknown; the terrifying, insurmountable power of nature; the depravity, greed, and narrow-mindedness of humans.
Story Overview
Captain Theodore "Ted" Hawthorne of the Royal Navy is selected as the man to command the United Kingdom's next expedition to Antarctica. It is not an official government-organized affair, but rather one conceived by the country's scientific societies. Its main goal, as was the case for many other expeditions at the time, was the gathering of scientific data. Hawthorne, however, also had ambitions to become the first to reach the South Pole, a still hotly-contested title.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION :-)
Characters
Theodore "Ted" Hawthorne
Expedition Commander
Alfred Hawthorne
Captain of the Pagonia
Graham Murphy
Lieutenant
Cecil Rycroft
Surgeon
Domagoj "Dom" Evans
Assistant surgeon
Russell Hetherington
Geologist
Bernard Jones
Meteorologist
Wilbur Bennett
Meteorologist
Edgar "Eddie" Irving
Photographer
Marley Roscoe
???
Franklin "Frankie" MacIntyre
???
Kyrre "Cherry" Mortensen
Dog handler