1593

At some point after August 1592, English playwright and spy Christopher Marlowe was mortally wounded during a duel in a London tavern. Marlowe survived, and the control device implanted in his brain by the Greld during their attack on the Roanoke colony was removed by the attending surgeon, who was unaware of its true nature. Some time after his brush with death, Marlowe left London, allowing others to believe him dead. He will later turn up in Venice using the name Giovanni Chigi. (MA: The Empire of Glass)