Montgomery Crompton

Author of Life as a God.

He was a British soldier and artist, and a member of the landed gentry in England. Dispatched to Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercrombie.

Article from the Manchester Guardian about an 1853 fire at the Lancaster Royal Grammar School:

“…the fire began in an attic area dedicated to the storage of excess equipment and other materials as of yet unused by the school in its new location. One peculiar item lost in the fire was an unfinished bronze bust of an Egyptian pharaoh by an Old Lancastrian, one Lt. M. Crompton. A veteran of the Egyptian campaign against Napoleon, he bequeathed the bust to the school before his death in 1811. The bust, bearing an elaborate and complete headdress but lacking a finished face, was a figure of schoolboy rumour, as it was considered good luck to rub the beard before examinations. Apparently, the heat of the fire was of such a degree that the bronze bust was fully melted. Of the two boys killed in the fire, it would appear that they started the conflagration, no doubt accidentally while exploring the apparently unlocked rooms. It is without a doubt that negligence on the part of the school staff led to this oversight.”

Victor's revelations from reading the insane words of Crompton in Life as a God:

A devoted member of the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. In the book, he talks about his life before Egypt. Youngest son of a minor noble, Lancashier family. Drinking and gambling were his main past times. His family purchased an army commission for him to set him straight, resulting in him fighting for the British Empire. Took a french calvery sabre in the head, spending several weeks near death in a field hospital. This is when he had his first vision of the Black Pharaoh. He was told by the Black Pharaoh that it was the only true god and all others were a reflection of his glory. After recovering, he went to Cairo, indulging in copious amounts of opium trying to reconnect with the god. Found British and European expats that inducted him into the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh, which then let him participate in lots of orgies and sacrifice rituals. Rituals were held on a monthly basis with all sorts of horrible beasts arriving as part of it: Sulfurous bat horses, winged serpents, and more. He notes that the symbol of the Black Pharaoh is an inverted ankh. Crompton acknowledges that he and several brothers returned to England in 1805. "The night air knows best those rights and praises that were voiced by our lips and the ever waxing crimson flow knows our offerings, but no cunning art will compel me to betray my brothers still free to reap harvest of Britain's unclear fields."