Andrew Helms; Adventurer and man of letters, having published several treaties on Aboriginal folk along the Amazon, in Australia, and in varied countries of Africa. His latest endeavors in anthropology, and latest wife have to do chiefly with the Asian continent.

Helms is in his early 40s, still dark of hair and sharp of eye, still quite fit despite the occasional debilitating resurgent bout of Malaria.

Born April 15th, 1857 to a family of modest means in Chicago, Andrew Helms was in his youth as today, a diligent student and athlete, and has managed to travel several rungs up the social ladder.

Helms' has had a long and storied career, an the reputation of both an adventurer, and a gentleman scoundrel.

Helms had reportedly made and lost fortunes. Gambling, Stock Market, racing Motocars. Winner of the $5,000 prize in the Chicago Times-Herald race; the first automobile race held in the United States, piloting Charles Duryea's Motorized Wagon to victory.

Helms is a member of the International Order of St. Hubertus; incorporated by Count Anton Van Sporck in 1625 and was originally intended to gather “the greatest noble hunters of the 17th Century”, and himself one of the greatest known trophy hunters of 19th century, donating painstakingly preserved heads and hides of exotic animals to museums and high society friends.

Twice a widower, Helms was first married to Imogene Church, who died in 1879, giving birth to Helm's second, and only surviving child Charlotte Jane Helms.  In 1882 Helm's remarried, this time to a wealthy, titled heiress from England; Lady Catriona Warren.  Lady Warren died in 1886 along with Helm's 18 year old son Albrecht; of Dengue hemorrhagic fever, both accompanying Helms' on an expedition to the Congo. Charlotte James Helms would remain in European finishing schools until her 21st birthday.

In 1888 Helms made a disastrous and scandal plagued marriage to an American Actress, Mia Grace (Chalmers), divorcing after roughly a year in 1900. In 1905 he entered into a fourth marriage, this time to Mei Cartwright a wealthy half caste woman of British and Malay-Chinese descent, at least twenty years his junior.

Andrew Helms has something of a reputation; a challenger of faith and the hierarchical bureocracy of the church. A man of the world and a worldly man, his three marriages and divorces were enough to famously bar him from communion at St. Leonard's Church in Boston.  Helm's response had been to publicly start attending services at the Episcopal Christ Church of Boston.