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====== AH.com Eternals : Autobiography of Subject 6097564 ("Lukas Merhoff") ======

This file has been approved by the leadership of [[The Trust]] for Eternal and Ephemeral staff members visiting the databases of TETRA.

==== Session 1 ====

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6097564|Lukas Merhoff]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6132393|introduces himself]]**

Well ladies and gentlemen, I was born in the 1550s, what rockin' decade.

I should introduce myself. I was born as Lukas Merhoff in Dresden, Saxony, in the Holy Roman Empire in 1552. Now it is called Germany. I have not been there since 1949.

My father was a carpenter, a strong Catholic. I became a Lutheran at young age. I wanted to be a theologian, and I went to Luther's old home is Eisleben often. My father wanted me to be a carpenter.
After an enormous argument with my father when I was seventeen, I was sent hurling across Europe, west from Saxony, until I stumbled across the city of Strassburg, a medium sized town, where I worked odd jobs, until I was taken on as a blacksmith's apprentice. I learned smithing, a valuble tool in those days. I acquired my skills and moved to the city of Bordeaux, and settled down with a family, a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids. I noticed things, as my wife got older, I didn't. So with enormous sorrow and doubt, I got on a ship and headed to Quebec.

I settled down with a new I identity, Jean Luc de Mer, in Quebec City, and became a blacksmith. I married again, and had 3 kids.

==== Session 2 ====

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6405552|The possible grandfather]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6415717|of Heinrich Merhoff ?]]** **[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6422651|(16th century)]]**

__Lukas Merhoff:__ Does anybody have any descendents that lived in East-central Germany in the 1500s ? Because my maternal Grandfather ran away from Dresden for some reason, because he couldn't age, as I later found out. My mother only survived because my father took her in (not that he didn't want to, she was a curvy twenty-something blonde with sharp green eyes) and they got married, and hence, I was born.

__The [[Egyptian]]__ (//suddenly answering Lukas//): Yes. My son, Heinrich. Now that you mention it, I did get a letter from him (I was living in Berlin) describing his new wife. He did mention the blonde hair and green eyes...

__Lukas:__ My father was named Heinrich Merhoff... Did he ever mention his son Lukas ?

__The [[Egyptian]]:__ Lukas... Let me think... Once or twice, we wasn't communicating much by that time...

__Lukas:__ Amazing... Grandfather ?

==== Session 3 ====

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6136383|Lukas the 17th century settler and trapper]]**

I lived in Quebec for a few years, 12 to be precise. As I grew older, I had 2 kids. Two beautiful girls Marie and Heidi, after my first wife and my mother. My wife, a beautiful curvy Parisian with raven black hair was named Monique. I was happy, a well-to-do blacksmith with good connections to the fur trading industry. I did some fur trading on the side, and one day went one a trading expidition far down the Mississippi River, as we know it now. I got horribly lost. I sailed about and about, for 15 years. In warmer climes, I saved a young Arawak girl, Setting Sun, from a pack of cannibals. It was a classic "Knight and Shining Armour" story. We traveled together and in 1639, she bore my 5th child. I knew I would never see my family in Quebec again, so I changed my name to Johnathan Luke, my wife to Sunset Luke, and we settled in British Virginia in 1640 and lived in a nice estate and farm. We had a few more children, and I went back to Quebec in 1656 when I encounted my grandson, which was awkward, to say the least.

I lived next to a man named John Washington. He had a beautiful wife, Anne Pope, and when Sunset died in 1659, she came over to cook me a dinner for a night, out of pity. Ended up with her in my bed. We kept it secret, but we knew when a baby, Lawrence was born, it was mine. My dark eyes were there. Lawrence Washington is the grandfather of George Washington.

==== Session 4 ====

__The [[Egyptian]]:__ [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6138823|I was an Egyptian, an Ancient Egyptian, so I probably have a LOT of descendants.]]

__Lukas:__ [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6139046|I don't know what happened to the children I sired in Bordeaux and Québec so I could be the progenitor of many famous people, Washington is the only one I know about.]]

__The [[Egyptian]]:__ [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6139073|Hell, I could be the ancestor to all the American presidents, for all I know...]]

__[[Bosch]]:__ [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6139248|You're not quite old enough to be sure of being past the identical ancestors point, but a lot of the world are your grandchildren.]]

__The [[Egyptian]]:__ [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6139258|Indeed. How much of the world ?]]

__[[Bosch]]:__ [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6139623|Could be one percent, could be fifty, could be a hundred. Give it another few hundred years.]]

__Lukas :__ [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6139834|Most of the population if Quebec and western France is probably descended from me...]]

==== Session 5 ====

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6128824|Lukas Merhoff and the Seven Years War]]**

I've fought in several wars. The first one, the Seven Years War, I fought for the British in North America. I always called it the "French and Indian War." I fought with a young man named George Washington. We were best friends, but never heard from him again. I dug through a book during the 1800s and found his name it. I couldn't believe that George would found the most powerful nation on earth.

==== Session 6 ====

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6128852|Lukas Merhoff and the 19th century US]]**

I've always kind of avoided the USA, but did move to Pennsylvania in 1853. Only President I ever voted for was Lincoln. And Fremont, but he never became President.

==== Session 7 ====

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6136993|Lukas the would-be assasin]]**

I once tried to assassinate Upton Sinclair.

==== Session 8 ====

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6137049|Thomas Miller, London banker (early 20th century)]]** 

__The [[Egyptian]]__ (//responding to the claim about the assasination attempt//): Oh yes. That was you ? Really ? By the way, I feel we met a while ago, around 1900...|

__Lukas:__ I was going by Thomas Miller, had a job at a bank in central London, just married. Who were you ?

__The [[Egyptian]]:__ Desmond Field, lived in London, I was an accountant, and had been for ten years.

__Lukas:__ Desmond ? Is that really you ? Long time, no see old chap !
Where are you now ?

__The [[Egyptian]]:__ Well, I'm named Parley Miles now. I live in Toronto, Canada.

__Lukas:__ Never knew I ever met another immortal.

__The [[Egyptian]]:__ We should get together soon and ramble about the old days !

=== Session 9 ===

**[[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/1/post-6128838|Lukas Merhoff and WWI]]**

__The [[Egyptian]]__ (//about WWI//): Fought for the French in that war. Died in the Somme, and again at Passchendaele. By the end of it all, I felt empty, heartless, disillusioned.

__Lukas:__ Fought for the Austrians in Serbia for that war. Later fought in Galicia. Ended up a drifter in Vienna. I didn't find a new family until 1950 because of that war.

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**[[The Trust]]**

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