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2024-12-30
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Guided Case Files

Summary:

David Rossi is well respected amongst Sentinel and Wesen specialists alike. After working for the FBI for years, he founded the WAU. He uses this to launch a respectable career as an educator and an author. He is revered for more than this, though; he is one of the longest unbonded Sentinels. He’ll tell you it’s of no concern to him, but his string of failed marriages suggests otherwise. When he returns to the BAU after his colleague, Jason Gideon, leaves, he is less than pleased at the idea of losing his independence and mystique.
His Guide, Maggie Everson, is a young woman who has been avoiding the Register her whole life. She is just establishing her new life when she is caught by the Guild. Maggie flees, using a network to smuggle herself into Canada.
Maggie and Dave are navigating their new lives when the BAU is called out to Connecticut after a serial killer begins targeting criminals. Being bonded is as foreign to Dave as profiling is to Maggie. Can they make it work? Will the team be able to stop the killer in time?

Chapter 1: Prologue

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The human race can be split into three classes. Normals are those who have no Sentinel gene and Wesen, supernatural beings who possess abilities beyond man and can take on a non-human form. Then, we have the ‘Enhanced’, which a small fraction of people fit into. These are the Sentinel and guides who have enhanced senses. Sentinel are described as having enhanced, borderline supernatural, senses; they are very observant and perceptive. A bond between a Sentinel and a guide would make the strongest, and most powerful, partnership. It is crucial that Sentinel keep Wesen in line. Without them, Wesen would wreak havoc across the globe.


To manage these Sentinel, there is a special Guild, which was created back in the 1850s in Europe. This Guild has an international presence and there is, at least, one center in every country. There is a separate part of the Guild for every government which deals with their Sentinel and finding their guides.


While most Sentinel have complete freedom over their lives, their natural biological urge to protect causes many of them to go into some form of government, such as law enforcement or the military. A bond between a Sentinel and a Guide would make the strongest, and most powerful, partnership.
 
An extract from A  Guide to the Sentinel By Dr. Brent Eaves