Charles Quimberlain Hector was born in the winter of 1870, at No. 9 Quimberlain Street, London. His parentage is unknown. Unfortunately, very little has been revealed about the preternatural race known as The Watchers. Descendents of the Biblical race of "Fallen Angels" or Nephilim, the Watchers were angels who, like their mortal cousins, had actually been granted free will by the Elohim (or Yhwh, the One True God). The price was exclusion from the Kingdom of Heaven among the angels, saints and the saved. Upon this earth, they are possessed of unique, magickal gifts. In Europe they have been called the Faery. With their free will, the business of the Watchers became the clandestine guardians of humanity. With Watchers in government house, in journalism, and everywhere in between, they have secretly guided the course of human history from the shadows, since the earliest days. Charlie spent his early youth at No. 9 Quimberlain Street, the headquarters of the British Watchers. Led by the clairvoyant matron Imogen Phettiplace, the motley team of guardians includes Thomas Redfist, a relocated Sioux medicine man; Carmilla Van Hasding, a Dutch vampire hunter; and many others. The prominent London family of Watchers is descended from the Norman Templar knight, Guillame de Quimberlain. Though there are no extant Quimberlains to date, his progeny thrive among the Phettiplace, Hector, and Grantham families. Watchers toward the end of the 19th century could be identified by the educated eye for their more bohemian lifestyle. While they dress like fashionable Londoners, there is something otherworldly about their bearing, the cut and colour of their garments, and the grace in their forms. They are attractive creatures, graceful and cunning, human in nearly every respect, extremely long-lived, and possessed of an inner radiance. They do well to blend into their mortal surroundings, though the astute observer may occasionally catch a glimpse of a silver crescent moon encircling the right eye of the Watcher. This is called the lunare, a signature of power that glows when a Watcher employs his or her magickal gift. Though Watchers may take carriages and walk along the Strand like any other respectable Victorian Londoner, their favourite mode of transport is rooftopping. By moonlight, when the city has gone quiet, Watchers get from place to place by running and leaping across the rooftops of London. It has been suggested that children's author P.L. Travers created Mary Poppins and Bert from her understanding of the Quimberlain Watchers. Watchers are very fond of technology and magick. Their scientists are proud of their steam motor carriages, motion picture machines, and metaprint. Metaprint is the encoding of hidden messages in public newsprint. Watcher-journalists use metaprint to communicate messages to other Watchers, men and women who are specially trained to recognise and decipher them. These messages are news items relevant to defending the human race, usually of a precognitive nature. In other words, Watchers may read of things that have not yet transpired in order to take preventative measures. Charlie has affiliations with a secret society called the Ordo Orbis Albus and was once a member of an enchanted carnival. He currently resides at No. 9 Quimberlain Street, with his fellow Watchers.