Tenebrae (Jekyll and Hyde)

Tenebrae is an organization that features in Jekyll and Hyde.

History

Tenebrae (Latin: 'Shadows')

It was said to had existed in one shape or another for a thousand years. (Episode: Mr. Hyde)

Military Intelligence Other (MIO) was noted for defending England from the threat of Tenebrae. For years, there had been no sightings of any Harbingers with existence of Tenebrae being hidden as they went into the shadows. (Episode: The Harbinger) For a long time, the MIO had attempted to kill the Tenebrae's top agent Captain Dance but all their efforts had failed. (Episode: Mr. Hyde)

Some years ago, they came to kidnap Olalla Jekyll when she was a child where she came to be raised by Captain Dance as his own offspring. This was all part of his revenge against Henry Jekyll. (Episode: Moroii)

Sir Roger Bulstrode of MIO came to suspect that the Harbingers had returned. He dispatched a team of operatives to investigate a sight where they encountered a Harbinger that was killed after it said their master had arisen. Sir Bulstrode determined that the group were targeting Robert Jekyll who had come to London with him sending British Intelligence agents to recover him. In the search for Jekyll, Captain Dance was dispatched where he went to Ceylon to the home of Vishal Najaran to interrogate him. After learning that Robert Jekyll went to London, the Tenebrae agent killed both Vishal and his wife leaving their home on fire before departing to find his target. (Episode: The Harbinger)

Captain Dance and Tenebrae agents were responsible for stealing the Calyx from Ukraine. The sealed coptic jar contained the heart of Lord Trash who was one of the old gods. These were monsters of all time with Lord Trash having been a god of chaos sustained by human sacrifice. He had originally been defeated by the Normans who had sealed his body underground with his vital organs being removed as well as scattered. The coptic jars contained each of these organs where they were protected by a guardian. Tenebrae though had acquired the jar containing the monsters heart which they looked to restart in an effort to revive him in the world once more. (Episode: The Calyx)

Tenebrae were later in the process of reviving Captain Dance. (Episode: Moroii)

Overview

In appearance, Tenebrae was a multi-species organization whose core personnel and strike forces consisted entirely of supernatural humanoids, reanimated corpses, and monstrous aberrations. They featured an irregular, highly distinct collective build because their operational workforce combined standard human structures with mutated monster profiles, ranging from the athletic form of the operative Fedora to the animalistic, half-man and half-dog anatomy of their prophetic Harbingers. The organization possessed no unified natural facial features or skin tones due to the diverse array of mythological entities assembled within their order, with their senior field agents exhibiting pale, unaging epidermal skin layers and internal physical states altered by the use of parasitic leeches. They expanded their visual identity by enforcing a dark and highly recognizable uniform standard designed to project absolute secrecy and terror. Their garments consisted of sharp, weathered black civilian suits, matching high-collared leather overcoats, dark fabric shirts, and polished black service boots. Members universally wore distinct black bowler hats or wide-brimmed trilbies to mask their facial profiles during urban deployments, and every asset openly displayed a distinctive, stylized geometric organization emblem to identify their dark allegiance to their rivals. (Episode Harbinger) They possessed a distinctive emblem that was recognised by their enemies. (Episode: Mr. Hyde)

According to one account, they were an army of monsters. (Episode: The Calyx) The Tenebrae organization naturally lacked any shared, uniform biological traits due to the stark genetic and evolutionary differences between its diverse humanoid operatives, undead field soldiers, and hybrid creations. They utilized their collective centuries of supernatural lore and covert intelligence networks to execute precise tracking operations, bypass standard municipal law enforcement lines, and wage an active shadow war against the government's Military Intelligence Other department. They did not possess a single shared superpower or baseline physical invulnerability, relying instead on a highly advanced stream of ancient dark magic, specialized chemical compounds, and parasitic biological vectors. Their specialized capabilities allowed separate employee units to achieve functional immortality by using leech-like creatures called Moroii to regenerate from standard lethal trauma, revive ordinary human corpses into zombie-like thralls known as Vetala, and engineer synthetic monsters that spoke infallible prophecies of the future. Their primary capabilities allowed them to manipulate public perception to dismiss their monsters as mere mythological fables, coordinate global counter-espionage campaigns across light-years, and maintain a highly disciplined corporate front capable of threatening high-tier metahuman targets. (Episode: Harbinger)

Tenebrae wanted people to think the monsters they created were simply creatures of mythology. (Episode: Mr. Hyde)

It was said that Mr. Hyde was something that Tenebrae wanted in their ranks as they believed he would be a powerful weapon for their organisation. (Episode: The Calyx)

One of their creations were the animalistic Harbingers that were half man, half dog, and spoke dire warnings of the future. It was said that they were twisted and monstrous creatures that spread chaos and death with them turning the minds of others inside out but they never told lies.

The blood spike was called the Sanguis Maxilla to the members of the Tenebrae. (Episode: Moroii)

Members

• Captain Dance : He was said to be the most powerful agent of the Tenebrae. (Episode: Mr. Hyde)
• Fedora :
• Keres :
• Olalla Jekyll : a blonde haired woman who was the daughter of Louis Hyde, the granddaughter of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Margaret Hope, and the twin sister of Dr. Robert Jekyll. She came to join Tenebrae who kept her in her Hyde state using monocane. he escaped Tenebrae and hid in London, feeding off young men with her 'blood spike'. (Episode: Moroii)

Notes

• Tenebrae were created by Charlie Higson where they featured in the setting of the BBC Jekyll and Hyde universe.
• The term Tenebrae was Latin for "darkness".

Appearances

• Jekyll and Hyde:

External Links

• Jekyll and Hyde Wiki Entry

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