FREDERICK CAMMELL

Real Name: Frederick Cammell

Identity/Class: Sub-species of humanity (Hidden race; Seerkind) magic-user;
    active circa 1910 A.D. and 1987 or 1991 A.D. (and likely at least 50-60 years before that)

Occupation: Unrevealed

Group Membership: Seerkind

Affiliations: Appoline DuBois, Jerichau St. Louis, Calhoun Mooney, Nimrod, Suzanna Parrish, Lilia Pelicia

Enemies: Immacolata, the Rake, the Scourge (Uriel), Shadwell

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    perished in ??
    formerly the Fugue/"Weaveworld"

First Appearance: (Presumably) Weaveworld novel (1987);
    (Marvel/Epic) Weaveworld#1 (December, 1991)

Powers/Abilities: Frederick presumably possessed low-level magical abilities, including the ability to sense and track the energies of the Fugue carpet, but he was no match for the likes of Immacolata or the Rake.

    He enjoyed smoking a cigar, which would give him a characteristic odor and likely affected his endurance, gustatory (taste) sense, etc.

History:
(Weaveworld#1 (fb) - BTS) <Many decades before the main story; at least early 20^th Century if not earlier> - The Seerkind was a magical race who dwelled in a garden-like village, where they made themselves invisible to humanity -- who persecuted them as demons or fairies -- unless they wished to specifically interact to obtain goods, horses, etc.

    In 1896 A.D., the Scourge (apparently a manifestation of the angel Uriel) appeared out of the blue and began to slaughter Seerkind; as none of saw its face survived, the rest of Seerkind knew little of the nature or origins of the Scourge. Seeing themselves trapped between humanity and the Scourge, after extended debate by the council, the Seerkind resolved to weave the Fugue. Seerkind from all over the world  came and brought with them parts of their lives, places, etc. to be woven into the Fugue. The name "Fugue" was apparently used to describe both the realm they created and the carpet into which the realm was woven.

    On Earth, the Fugue carpet was left in the care of the human woman Mimi Laschenski, who had married one of the Seerkind and lived in Liverpool.

    Circa 1987 or 1991, Mimi died following a stroke, but not before summoning her granddaughter Suzanna Parrish (a hybrid Seerkind). Additionally, Calhoun Mooney accidentally glimpsed the carpet and saw the realm within. Together, Suzanna and Cal sought the Fugue.

(Weaveworld#1) - Possessing a fragment of the Fugue carpet given to her by her grandmother, Suzanna dreamed of the carpet and the Seerkind while sleeping in her grandmother's house and apparently summoned the Seerkind Frederick Cammell, along with Lilia Pelicia, Appoline DuBois, Jerichau St. Louis and Nimrod. After Suzanna and Cal told them of the involvement of the power-seeking human Shadwell and the exiled Seerkind Immacolata, Frederick asked if it was 1910 or 1911, and Cal explained that it was about 80 years after. When Frederick asked why they had waited so long and considered that something terrible must have happened, Suzanna asked for an explanation of what was going on. Dismissing her, as they consider conventional humanity to be "Cuckoos," Frederick told her that she couldn't possibly understand, but Appoline questioned what was the harm, after which they described the history of the Seerkind and the Fugue. They insisted that they retrieve the carpet before Immacolata destroyed the Fugue.

(Weaveworld#1 - BTS) - Immacolata subsequently summoned the monstrous Rake and sent it to slay the Seerkind.

(Weaveworld#1 (fb) - BTS) - The next morning, Frederick and Lilia traveled to the warehouse where the Fugue carpet had last been seen, and Lilia picked up a strong echo of it. However, before they could locate it, they were confronted by and fled from the Rake back to Mimi's house.

(Weaveworld#1) - Pounding on the door, Frederick insisted Cal let them in and close the door, as something was hunting them.

(Weaveworld#1 - BTS) - Seeking Nimrod (who was trapped in the form of very young boy), Lilia was captured and destroyed by the Rake. Rescuing Nimrod, Cal -- who had memorized the local train schedule -- led the Rake to dive in front of an onrushing train and be destroyed.

(Weaveworld#1) - As police arrived, Cal, Frederick and Nimrod took a car to pick up the others, and they retrieved Appoline, but Jerichau was beaten and captured by police, and Suzanna refused to leave Jerichau's side; prioritizing the weave, the others returned to Mimi Laschenski's house, where Lilia had last sensed the carpet.

    While Frederick argued against Appoline's using the giddy fruit -- which had powerful magic grown into them and which Nimrod had brought with him from the Fugue -- as he felt it would make her too drunk to lead them to the weave, Nimrod countered that Frederick could not do any better.

(Weaveworld#1 (fb) - BTS) - Appoline, Cal, Frederick and Nimrod traveled to the house where Shadwell was preparing to auction the Fugue carpet to a number of wealthy would-be occultists. They were discovered and ambushed by Immacolata and her ghastly sisters, who mortally wounded Frederick, wounded Appoline and captured Nimrod.

(Weaveworld#1) - Cal cut the magical infection/whatever off of Frederick and Appoline, but Frederick perished nonetheless.

Comments: Created by Clive Barker;
    adapted by Erik Saltzgaber, Mike Manley and Ricardo Villagran for the creator-owned Epic line.

    I never read the Weaveworld novel, so I'm just going by the information from the adaptation.

    The Seerkind called magic "raptures."

    "Weaveworld was my version of what the English fantasy tradition has done so well: the imagined world - Tolkein (sic), C.S.Lewis, Lewis Carroll - a British tradition that's notable for the way in which it deals with the notion of mythic worlds."--Clive Barker.

    As creator-owned characters and story originating outside of Marvel and then adapted in the creator-owned Epic line, it is unlikely that this story was intended to be part of Reality-616, but I also don't see anything to definitively exclude it. Although they remind me a little of the Shadows of the Shadowline, I think the Seerkind could just be another little-known Hidden race. I don't think there's also nothing to exclude it...the events involved a relatively small number of people in a few parts of the world, and I don't recall anything that would diverge events from . There's no reason it could not have taken place in 1987 or 1991, which due to Marvel's sliding timescale in is over 20 years and counting before the Fantastic Four's space flight.

Profile by Snood.

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First posted: 09/11/2026
Last updated: 06/05/2025

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