The Courts have had a long, winding history. For your help and information, here is a map of their life...

398 AD:
The death of King Arthur, the death of a dream, and the death of Gomurr's assumed persona; Merlin.

When King Arthur goes to fight his bastard son, Merlin is left alone, fearing the worst, knowing the worst. The king, along with the kingdom, will die. Arthur is not the Ascended one. On the battlefield, the once great First Knight Sir Lancelot sobs. He has betrayed his King to the woman he loves, Queen Modred, and now, as the newly dubbed Black Knight of the Hellfire Clubs, he draws his sword to end his life. He is stopped, however, by a man, strangely attired. The time travelling Robert Maxwell, AKA the Harbinger, who makes an enigmatic comment of taking Lancelot home.
Further away, the dead body of Arthur is found by Gomurr/Merlin, who summons his talking bird friend Archimeide to their side. Gomurr mutters his apologies, and retrieves the sword Excalibur. Archimeide asks what they do with it, and the reply comes "Toss it into the abyss. Eventually it will return." After a long walk, the ancient mage prepares to cast the sword away, and is stopped short by Morgan, the king's half sister, the mother to the bastard son. She attacks the wizard, whom is guarded by Archimeide, allowing time to cast the sword into the black hole created. In anger, Morgan attacks and kills Gomurr, leaving him to be reincarnated 600 years later. In his last words, Gomurr agrees to meet up with Archimeide in Kathay, the far east.

1848 AD:
Elaida Thompson, the girl who would one day take the title of Jon Ellen Tolliver, White Queen Nytshade to the IHFC, is born in Germany.

1917 AD:
The first world war. One believed to be the end of them all. Private Ryan Jensen serves as a soldier in the army, at the tender age of sixteen, just to escape the torments of home. It is in the trenches, in the middle of battle, that he sees his friend wounded. As he attempts to save the life of Private Chris Jones, an artillery shell lands, sending shrapnel flying into the fragile body of Jensen. As he lies there dying, he hears a voice. The voice of a devil. A devil that he makes a deal with. A deal that enables him to travel through the "Red", capture and mould his friend's corpse, and lets him live again. Live again, to later become king of the Red Court.

1973 AD:
A two-year old SuperGrover is the only survivor when his family's car is attacked for sport by the ex-Black King Silver Sr. The child is scooped up by Gomurr and they escape into the woods before any HC members arrive, the telepathic Psi-Dog unaware of the child's presence due to his TK shield.