*Full* credit to Jude! from a Discord server I'm in for compiling this together, full timeline from the Oddfellow podcast:
1920s – Richard Oddfellow travels to the “Jungle of Doom”, obtaining a magic crystal skull from a temple. This gives Oddfellow the power to create and mutate creatures, the ability to near perfectly mimic the appearance of people or animals, alongside a form of low-level mind control. Oddfellow learns to use his abilities in the Jungle of Doom, using the local wildlife to practice his craft, before returning to the Midwest. Between 1920 and 1938, Oddfellow establishes his own travelling circus, and obtains the cane of souls after heavily researching and obsessing over the power of the Zodiac, ultimately etching his back and face with his own personal sigil and the wheel of the Zodiac.
1938 - Oddfellow, obsessed with the power of the Zodiac and immortality, murders over 100 circus patrons and workers as a mass sacrifice. As part of the sacrifice, Oddfellow attempts to kill Jack Schmidt, who scars Oddfellow’s face and blinds his left eye. Oddfellow’s Zodiac tainted blood leaks onto Jack, bestowing both with immortality. Oddfellow stuffs the body of Jack Schmitt into a large wooden box, and leaves the circus untouched, albeit without any evidence of an “Oddfellow” working there. Castilla, a starving vampire from the NYC brood, believes that the mass murder in the circus was the work of the infamous vampire lord Alato – an elder member of the NYC known for his brutality. Between 1938 and 1940, Oddfellow, disguising himself as “Arlo” - a clown turned by a vampire raid on his circus – joins the NYC brood alongside Castilla and her father, Fenrick. Oddfellow describes his fictional account of the circus massacre to the NYC council, gaining favour with the council.
1940 - Oddfellow ships hundreds of self-created creatures to his shipyard in San Francisco in order to disseminate them across the world. Several creatures escape containment and ravage the dockworkers – Oddfellow participates in this carnage under the guise of one of these monsters. Returning from San Francisco, Oddfellow (as Arlo) curries favour with the NYC brood, slowly gaining power over several decades. From this point onwards, Oddfellow indeterminably and semi-randomly drops his creatures to several areas across the world, influencing several major events.
1942 - Oddfellow, as Arlo, recounts his fictional experiences of the circus massacre to the NYC council for the second time. Again, the council accepts his message, and he is granted access to the council as a council member. Cecile notices several discrepancies in this second account and begins to feel somewhat doubtful of Arlo’s motivations. Fenrick, feeling perturbed with the council, leaves his daughter and exits the brood, living alone to study immortality. Oddfellow and castilla attend a council meeting, in which Oddfellow stokes Alato’s pride and lust for blood, provoking him into planning a feast for the next year.
1955 - Still part of NYC brood, Oddfellow participates in the 1955 feast, convincing a young vampire to murder the homecoming queen.
1969 - Oddfellow, Alato and Cecile participate in the 1969 feast, slaughtering hundreds of festival goers. Amidst the chaos, Oddfellow kidnaps Alato, and both are assumed dead or missing in the chaos. Oddfellow sacrifices Alato and drains his blood, in order to boost his own natural power and immortality.
1980 - Jack’s resting place is disturbed, freeing him from containment. The vampires of NYC quickly learn of this, and are somewhat disturbed by his immortality, but decide to leave him to his own devices. Jack begins his personal quest to find Oddfellow, and exact revenge by killing him.
2006 - Jack is incarcerated in Shadybrook Asylum, which he quickly assumes control of through a prison riot. Finding the location of Oddfellow through a selection of records, Jack searches for Oddfellow to exact revenge.
2007 - Jack, upon finding Oddfellow’s whereabouts, murders Oddfellow. Jack steals Oddfellow’s cane and jacket, and then departs to start his own travelling carnival. Celebrating in a vampire-controlled NYC nightclub, Jack recounts his tale to Castilla. Despite this, Oddfellow manages to resurrect himself from death through the power he had obtained from Alato . Between 2007 and 2023, Oddfellow reobtains his staff of souls.
2023 - Oddfellow begins to offer immortality to his mortal followers through a specially brewed elixir . Oddfellow offers this immortality granting substance to his followers that experience large amounts of fear, death and mutilation from Zodiac induced visions and experiences in large festival – like venues. Castilla, witnessing one of these festivals, feels supernaturally compelled to achieve immortality despite already being a vampire. Spending the last of her own free will, Castilla writes a letter informing her father of the threat that Oddfellow faces, before succumbing to her own desires of fear and murder.
