Benjamin Davies

Benjamin Davies is chief clerk to Gabriel Carter. He features in The Lunatic, The Doctors, and The Daemonologist.

In his past he dabbled in daemonology, which he keeps a tightly held secret now. He once visited the Asylum out of curiosity, and there he met Kate Allesbury (although she does not remember him clearly) in the deepest grips of her madness. She spoke to him of dark things, of daemon summoning, and the gods, and drew fearsome patterns on her walls. She spoke most often the god Ngloth, and sometimes others, such as Engrathar the wrathful and Logol the wise. Benjamin visited Kate often, and recorded her ravings in notebooks (His works later became the Book of a Thousand Eyes). He also heard her describe a certain plant which would make others experience the madness she is experiencing, and he has noticed it bears a resemblance to a plant brought back from Papua New Guinea by William Allesbury.

These days, Benjamin is a respectable banker's clerk, and has long since hidden all of his notebooks.

He is besotted with Emeline St. Oswald, who does not return the affection. He recently bought a pretty silver pendant in a pawn shop and meant to give it to her.

Currently, he has been driven insane by his difficult boss and past studies, and is under the care of Emeline St. Oswald.