Bishop Whaler

Type
Person: NPC: Primary NPC.

Physical Description
Species: Ghoul

Gender: Male

Age: 300s, appears to be in his early 50s.

Heritage: English

Appearance: tall, broad-shouldered; built like a rugby player. Doesn't look like he "should" be a bishop even though he very much is. Wears FallOut-style clerics along with his pectoral cross and bishop’s ring.

Political Description
Faction: Saint Paul's Sanctuary

Personal Description
Centuries of life outside the walls have turned the once-comfortably well off bishop into a hardened survivor. Although Bishop Whaler is a deeply compassionate man, his compassion manifests most often as physically protecting those weaker or less fortunate than him. He follows his code of beliefs, whether moral or practical, to the letter and does not easily deviate from it. His strict police of neutrality has protected the Sanctuary until now, making him wary of taking sides in the upcoming conflict.

History
Formerly merely the Roman Catholic bishop of Middlesborough, Bishop Whaler was caught in the bombing while on a visit to London, with the Blue Cross relic in his possession. He was able to take shelter in an improperly secured pindar station but his exposure to radiation left him ghoulified. Upon emerging from his shelter he made efforts to contact his superiors and fellow bishops, all to naught; it soon became apparent to the bishop that he was, in fact, the only bishop left in the southern half of the British Isles. Middlesborough, like most cities in England, was left decimated; unlike London or York, however, nobody remained behind long enough to rebuild, and Whaler's technical See is now a ruin.

Finding himself the only Roman Catholic bishop left south of Scotland, Bishop Whaler has since become the de-facto bishop of all of England and of London in particular. After Saint Paul's Cathedral was abandoned upon the Gentry's retreat behind the walls, Whaler took over the church and eventually remade it into Saint Paul's Sanctuary, a neutral territory offering hospitality to all and sundry.