Stephen Abernathy was from a long line of seamen, but had chosen different vocation. Regardless, with the heritage that ran six generations to his, the Sea and its' temperment where things that sang to some buried portion of his soul. Something in the air had stirred his unconscious mind, bringing him from slumber to sudden wakefullness. On some instinctual draw, he had stepped into the wee hours of the new coming day and scented the atmosphere.
Six generations sang his blood, warning of what was to come with clarion volume. Now standing afore Master Chamber, a knock to raise the dead was applied to rouse those within.