After a crime streak that surely would have put him on death row, he was finally apprehended. and became increasingly irrational and violent, culminating in paranoia and homicidal rage. In return, he gained various seemingly paranormal powers. He inadvertently caused it to fuse with his nervous system by extended use. The experimentation with the crown was the primary reason. Though he had the means to restore his reputation, Lorenzo did not publish his findings and never made another expedition to Ubar despite his initial plans. By 1894 he was widely regarded as a quack and pseudo-scientist, even by his own son, Jack Cabot. The discovery of Ubar would have vindicated him in the eyes of his peers, who ridiculed him and his search for years. The dig site was buried to preserve it for his return, against the protests of Metternich, and Lorenzo returned to the United States. That night, he put the crown on his head, forever changing his life and that of his family. Lorenzo removed a single one, a crown, then ordered the tomb sealed up to prevent looting. Excavating between March and May, against hostile weather and ever more panicked diggers, Lorenzo managed to uncover buildings made of cyclopean stone blocks and discovered a sarcophagus with the remains of an ancient creature surrounded by jewelry and other strange, alien artifacts. He excavated a city which he dated to more than 4,000 years before the rise of any known human civilization. In an 1894 expedition he found was he was looking for - Ubar, a lost city, buried beneath the sands of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian desert. Due to his research, he believed that all of the earliest human civilizations shared some common parent that was unknown to history. The imprisoned patriarch of the Cabot Clan, Lorenzo is a former daredevil adventurer and explorer, who constantly sought to push back the boundaries of the unknown.
Two centuries after the Great War, the archaeologist and his dangerous artifact remain confined deep within the facility, guarded by a group of mercenaries hired by his family to protect their secrets from wastelanders seeking to abuse them. His son Jack's study of the artifact and subsequent development of a serum derived from Lorenzo's blood has granted the Cabot family the ability to live for more than four hundred years.
įollowing his return to Boston in 1898, the 63-year-old Lorenzo was institutionalized indefinitely at the Parsons State Insane Asylum on June 11 of that year in order to protect himself and his children from harm. Believing that there was still more to discover in the city, Lorenzo had it buried to protect its existence until a time that he is ready to return and uncover its remaining secrets. Lorenzo and his men uncovered much evidence of their presence, including a mysterious crown that granted him inhuman abilities, such as an unnaturally long life and telekinetic powers. Despite the setbacks, the excavation project yielded many valuable leads and answers as to the nature of the city and its long-deceased alien inhabitants. This cost the team their native guide and forced them to start over when the storm subsided, having covered the ruins back up with sand.
Two weeks into the dig, a sandstorm that seemed to last an eternity began.
All of his research finally paid off when Lorenzo found a ruined city in the Arabian desert that coincided with the description of Ubar documented by all the papers he read on the subject.Īs his team of excavators began to unearth the site, a strange series of events took place. In the 1890s, the scholar bid farewell to his family as he left on a steamship on an expedition to the Rub' al Khali, the Empty Quarter of Arabia in the Middle East. For years, Lorenzo studied the fabled lost city of Ubar which, according to legend, was founded over four millennia before the first human civilizations. Cabot was a talented archaeologist that with an interest in ancient civilizations that predate the earliest traces of his first ancestors. He is married to Wilhelmina Cabot and they together have a son and daughter, Jack and Emogene.