The Known Mages of London

The Nine Traditions

Akashayana Sangha (Akashic Brotherhood)

Sifu John Boyd defies the stereotype of the peaceful warrior. A shining light among
the Shi-Ren, he is both wealthy and politically active as a member of the social
liberal wing of the Liberal Democrat Party. He’s one of the movers and shakers
behind the scenes, organizing party events and thwarting Technocratic plans for
the Masses. This puts him squarely in the Black Suits’ crosshairs, which is exactly
how he likes it. After all, the vigor of the enemy’s resistance is the surest sign that
you’re making him bleed.

Gordon McAdam was Sifu Boyd’s life-long friend and personal bodyguard. His loss was a serious
blow to Sifu Boyd and the rest of his Tradition. He is sorely missed.

Venerable Master Hsing Yun (Master of Mind ) is the senior monk at the London Fo
Guang Shan Buddhist Temple. At age 90, he remains in excellent condition, even for a
mage. His startlingly clear mind, deep compassion for others, and surprising energy
make him beloved by the temple’s community, and he keeps the brothers and lay
personnel focused on their four-fold mission to foster culture, promote education,
provide charity, and cultivate the faith. Born in China in 1927, the aged master has spent
most of his life traveling the globe, fostering Dharma and founding quite a few temples
and monasteries. He’s received international accolades, and is a luminary of Buddhist
thought and action throughout the world.
(Councilor)

Fay Goodman (Mind, Prime, Forces and Time) is the first woman to head the United
Kingdom Kendo Association. She owns her own dojo named Masamune, where she teaches
a bewildering array of armed and unarmed Japanese styles. She’s also written over a dozen
martial art books, many of which have received international acclaim. Beyond all that, she’s
an accomplished musician with three self-published albums to her name. Rumor has it that
her avatar is none other than Miyamoto Musashi, who continues to train her in the true Way
of the warrior.
(deacon, Masamune)
 Chen Feng joined the London-based Akashic community after fighting alongside them
during the assault on Aeteris’ Otherworldly fortress. He decided to remain in order to
study Do with the venerable master at the Fo Guang Temple. He is brash and sure of his
martial prowess for an Akashic, but reasonably well-liked by the rest of his Tradition.

Celestial Chorus

Chancellor Vikram Pital is a fabulously wealthy philanthropist who sits on

the boards of directors of half a dozen charities. He’s behind any number of
anti-poverty campaigns, and is a big supporter of the Church of England.
He’s met the queen on several occasions, and has been publicly recognized
for his many good works.
(Councilor)

Father Kenneth Upton is the Canon Chancellor of Southwark Cathedral, meaning that
he maintains the archives and libraries of the church. He’s a jovial man who takes
great pleasure in perusing the antique manuscripts in his charge. Through his position
and the connections it’s allowed him to forge, he has access to just about everything
the Church of England has collected over the centuries. It’s not quite the keys to the
Vatican vaults, but it’s in the same neighborhood.
(deacon, Southwark Cathedral)

Hillary Norton works for the Diocese of London as one of the caretakers of Southwark
Cathedral. She’s a Lay Clerk with the Cathedral Choir and she helps the diocese in
dozens of others ways, including organizing events, helping with the books, acting as
the dean’s Girl Friday, and so on. She’s also a member of the informal Thursday
Singers choral group. Hillary has a magic arm created by Lord Brighton, replacing the
one she lost in battle with the Aeteris’ forces in Wales.
(Southwark Cathedral)

John England is one of Southwark Cathedral’s parishioners, making ends meet as a motorcycle
courier. He and Hillary are friends, and he was Chancellor Pital’s apprentice. John had a hard
past that he won’t talk about. Whatever it was, it left him with a whole lot of anger. Spending
time with Hillary helps. So does prayer and meditation. But what really helps is picking up his
mother-fucking God-blessed meat hooks and smashing them over and over again into some
beaver-faced cunt of a monster until it’s nothing but a bloody fucking pile of dead shite!
(Southwark Cathedral)
Belinda Kirk is a book reviewer for Faber Independent Alliance, a large group of independent
publishers that rivals the big standalone publishing houses. A large amount of worthy books on
matters arcane is printed by FIA. She’s also a member of Southwark Cathedral’s Thursday
Singers, and she practices an almost entirely sonic form of magick. Listening to her chant
quintessence into tass is an awesome and moving experience.
(Southwark Cathedral)

Sir David Goody is a knight of the Resolute Order of Saint George who Awakened when he
witnessed John England fighting a vampire that Sir David was stalking. He’s on good terms
with his former order, but he no longer hunts witches and supernatural creatures with
them. Instead, he puts his considerable martial skills to use protecting the Council against
any who would harm it.
(Masamune)

Cult of Ecstasy/Sahajiya

Ruin (Master of Time and Entropy…. Spirit Time and Mind) was a shy thing known as
Broken during his tumultuous apprenticeship. When he broke with his mentor on less
than amicable terms, he changed his name to Vengeance and raised hell with abandon.
He’s had his current moniker for three decades now, and some whisper behind his back
that he might be better suited for the Euthanatoi. A master of both time and entropy,
Ruin is a BAMF you do not want to mess with.

Harriet Blyth is a rave queen extraordinaire. She throws amazing underground parties every
month or so. The young woman has a special talent for crafting just the right Resonance for
each occasion, leading to orgies of self-discovery and rapturous bliss for those who surrender
themselves to the music. Every now and then, she throws what she calls “sleep-overs” in which
she gathers a few Sleepers and introduces them to sex, drugs, and high magick. Her current
apprentice Awakened at one such event, and several others have nearly done so. These
Sleepwalkers lead the cult of personality that obsessively follows wherever she leads.
(Councilor)
Jack Quick has been Harriet’s apprentice for a little over three years. He’s like her little puppy,
following her about and hanging on her every word. People are expecting a massive shit-fest
of angry adolescent angst when she finally kicks him out of the nest to fly on his own. Aside
from his idol worship, he’s a decent guy with a fair amount of musical talent.

Dreamspeakers/Kha’vadi

MacPherson (Spirit, Life, Prime, Time and Matter)is the top Dreamspeaker in London. He’s
a crotchety old Scot who much prefers to solve things in the old way, which generally
means “fooking the shight bastards as ‘ard as ye can”. He’s spent a fair few years in the far
realms, and he’s a lot older than he looks. He hates being in the city with a passion, and it
sometimes seems that he’s just biding his time until the Eldest lets him return to his
beloved highlands.
(Councilor)

Chloe Nash is an artist. Her paintings, sculptures, trance music, interpretive

dances, and other artistic expressions might mark her as an Ecstatic if it weren’t for
the reverential faith behind them. Each work is an offering to the spirits of earth
and sky. Each one reaches to the Otherworlds as an act of love. As far as anyone
can tell, Chloe’s studio has the weakest Gauntlet in London.

Cindy Bright is a truly modern shaman, as likely to use a cell phone as a

drum. She converses with the old spirits of the Otherworlds and the new
spirits of the Virtual Web. A subtle breeze follows her around, thanks to
her air spirit familiar.
(Thames Rangers)
 Euthanatos/Chakravanti/Niyamavanti

Jeremy “Ferryman” Fawcett is a neutral party in London’s politics despite his seat on the
Council. As such, he serves as a mediator in disputes among the city’s mages. He also has an
encyclopedic knowledge of Council law, second only to Magister Cooke (see Order of Hermes),
and he therefore serves as a judge when mages come to trial before the Council. Unless his
tradition is directly affected by Council business, or his vote is required to resolve a tie, the
ferryman abstains.
(Councilor)

Ravi Farsoun (left) is a happy-go-lucky seer of Palestinian descent. He has a talent for the fate
aspect of Entropy and a penchant for unexpected prophecy. Ravi’s got a lot of connections with
London’s cops and the Palestinian community.

Abbas Shalhoub (right) is Ravi’s best mate. He spends his hours trying to rehabilitate ghosts and
vanquish the undead. He runs a “rehab center” for ghouls, which is really just a sound-proofed
basement where he can keep them locked up until the blood wears off. Abbas doesn’t mind that
this sends the older ones off to rejoin the Wheel.
(unofficial and unnamed, they’re effectively a cabal of two)

Aleksander is a taciturn Russian émigré with a nearly palpable aura of cool and
incredible fashion sense. He has an annoying way of just being in a room without
anyone noticing his arrival, followed by an equally unobserved disappearance
when he leaves. The man drinks like a fish, and it’s been quipped that he uses
inebriation as one of his arcane tools. His past is a mystery, as are his reasons for
leaving the Motherland.

Order of Hermes

Magister Mundi Augustus Cooke bani Quaesitor filius Vercingetorix is the highest
ranking Hermetic in the United Kingdom, and one of the most accomplished mages on
Earth. He spent time studying under Porthos Fitz-Empress in Doissetep, and he mourns
that great man’s loss still. Despite his eminence, Magister Mundi Cooke holds no official
position outside of the Order. Even inside the Order, Cooke refuses to hold any office
that would interfere with his ability to act as an impartial judge. Behind his back, the
younger magi of the Order half-jokingly quip that he’d Gilgul his own mother if he
thought she were guilty of a crime.
(deacon of the Chantry of the Green Chamber)
 Magister Scholae Horatio Tattersall (Force Prime Mind Correspondence Time) bani Bonisagus filius
Porthos Fitz-Empress was the dean of the now-defunct London Academy of Magick prior to the fall of
Doissetep. Though technically inferior to Magister Cooke, Magister Tattersall is the Order’s undisputed
leader in the UK. He oversees the chantries and cabals of the islands from his seat in the Chantry of
the Green Chamber in Westminster. He has a large staff of Sleepwalkers who take care of much of the
day-to-day book-work of the Order, freeing him to deal with the internal and external politics of his
tradition. Magister Tattersall is a stern but fair man who tends to look to the health of the Order as a
whole more than the needs of any given member.
(Councilor, Chantry of the Green Chamber)

Magister Bao Zheng ex Hong Lei is one of the Wu Lung who joined the Order in
1992. He’s a master of his particular style of magick, which makes him a boon to the
Order. However, his methodology is alien enough that it takes weeks of work to
incorporate into any serious group rites. Though haughty, Master Bao is a pleasant
and soft-spoken man unless his dander is up, which happens anytime that he’s
witness to egregious injustice. A man of absolutely scrupulous (though outdated)
morals, he will move mountains to right a wrong done to a helpless and innocent
man who sincerely asks for his help. Heaven help the poor fool who attempts to take advantage of his good nature.
(Chantry of the Green Chamber)

Adeptus Maior Roger Grimes ex Xaos is, like the rest of his house, a Discordian chaos mage.
Unlike his fellows, he’s highly skeptical of Prima Kallisti’s purported divinity. Indeed, he thinks
oracles and their like are just wishful thinking on the part of mages who can’t handle reality.
Still, he agrees with the Xaosian agenda of challenging preconceptions both within and
without the Order.
(Thames Rangers)

Adeptus Jin Shu ex Hong Lei is a bona fide Chinese princess—or she would have been if
General Mao hadn’t put an end to the Middle Kingdom’s monarchic ways. Bao Zheng
chose her as his apprentice specifically because her noble line wasn’t polluted with
common blood. She practices the same traditional Chinese magick that her master does.
(Chantry of the Green Chamber)

Initiate Exemptus Ayla McKinsey bani Verditius Awakened late in life. She’s an
engineer who very nearly got swept up by Iteration X. The combined efforts of
Adeptus Grimes and Dark Tangent (see Virtual Adepts) spared her from that grim fate.
Now, she’s busy trying to reconcile Hermetic magic with her work in robotics. It’s
expected that she’ll make some very interesting golems someday.
 Initiate Edgar Rawles (left) and Initiate Exemptus Winston Stafford (middle)
are inseparable friends. They, along with the late Connor Dalton (right) are
—or were, in Winston’s case—Magister Tattersall’s three apprentices.
Winston has recently come into his own as a magus, and Edgar is soon to
follow. The duo aren’t as mischievous as they were when Connor was
around, but they remain devoted to one another.
(Edgar, Chantry of the Green Chamber cabal; Winston, unaffiliated)

Grimoire Weiss (grim-war vice) is what’s left of the great Magister Scholae Hrothmund
Weiss bani Tytalus. During the dark days following the fall of Doissetep, he braved the
Avatar Storm in an effort to determine what was happening on the other side of the veil.
A master of Spirit, he attempted a grand rite intended to tear the Gauntlet asunder and
protect him from the worst of the Otherworldly maelstrom as he crossed.
Unfortunately, a misspoken Enochian phrase from one of the participants spelled his
doom. Paradox descended upon the gathering like a hammer, killing three magi, driving
two more into Quiet, and leaving Weiss’ soul trapped in a silver-bound book. Magister
Cooke tried for years to rid his friend and colleague of his biblioform condition, to no
avail. The cantankerous and haughty tome sometimes shares his wisdom and mystical might with those he finds
deserving. The rest of the time, he sulks on a special shelf in the Chantry of the Green Chamber.

Society of Ether

Doctor Ashleigh Oakes-Morton is the London Council’s foremost expert on night-folk

of all varieties. She’s performed autopsies on vampires and social experiments on
werewolf packs. She has shelves full of the testimonials of ghosts concerning what
it’s like to be extinct. She’s recorded the wail of a bean sí, and she knows several
methods for seeing changelings for what they are. If it’s out there, chances are she’s
heard of it and can give some reliable advice about how to handle it.
(Councilor)

Xavier Gladstone (Master of Mind, Force, Correspondence) is an astral traveler, exploring the reaches
of the mindscape as he develops his prodigious mental powers. His psychic abilities can empower his
mortal frame in superhuman ways, and his telepathic prowess inevitably confirms that he’s the
smartest person in any room. Of course, such an enlightened being puts his immeasurable faculties
to good use. Morality is the only thing that separates gods from devils, and Xavier intends to achieve
apotheosis rather than debasement.
 Descartes is an androgynous PhD biologist with an MD. S/he is an expert on pathogens of all
sorts, with a specialty in viruses and phages. The bag s/he almost always carries may contain the
most dangerous cargo in Europe, filled as it is with vial upon vial of carefully engineered diseases.
S/he was probably a Progenitor in another life. That said, Descartes makes no secret of the fact
that s/he thinks that they’re disgusting monsters with no moral compass.

Agent Ultra was an Ascension warrior who used the power of Science! to stick it to the Technocrats in
their Primium towers. Unfortunately, he died during an epic battle near the island of the Eternal
Flame.
(Masamune, deceased)

Ellie Miracle is hell-bent on securing a prestigious and influential position in the Council. As a
lowly Scientist, she has her work cut out for her. She understands this, however, and is
playing a long game—as much as her impetuous nature allows, that is. Currently, Ellie spends
a fair amount of time tinkering with her electrostatic ether key while keeping an ear out for a
chance to be useful to the powers that be.
(Thames Rangers)

Omnia and Biggles are the Society’s newest members. Omnia is currently apprenticed to Dr. Oakes-Morton, and Biggles
is studying under England’s foremost ethernaut, Dr. Kelvin Voight, at Oxford. Both of them Awakened thanks to Toward
a Unified Field Theory, an Etherite primer obtained by the Thames Rangers.

Omnia Biggles
 Verbena

Rose Pennington is a member of a scattered and highly eclectic cabal called the Cheshire
Cheese Club, which supposedly got its start protecting the empire at the pleasure of
Queen Victoria.  She's quite possibly one of the original members.  Rose is an impeccably
polite and civilized woman. That said, she’s been known to dance sinuously around
bonfires at rites, skyclad and covered with calf’s blood.
(Councilor)

Sol Hart practices a particularly brutal form of magick. Pain, mutilation, and bodily fluids of all
kinds feature in his rites, filling his works with intense and unpleasant Resonance. He’s a hell of
a battle mage and good to his friends and fellow Verbenae, but he’s a hard guy to like.
(Masamune)

Margaret Read is an independent licensed midwife. Unlike most members of her

profession, she often chooses her patients through divination. She seeks out babies with
interesting destinies and then follows them through their lives as a sort of clandestine
witchy godmother. Occasionally, she gives fate a push if she thinks that a particular child
has true potential. It’s impossible to tell for certain where fate magic is concerned, but she
claims that she’s altering the course of history for the better.

Andrew Hackney (Spirit and Life) is a down-to-earth kind of guy. What you see is what you get. He’s
a butcher by trade, and he supplies the city’s animal sacrifice needs. His folk have been farmers,
grocers, and butchers for as long as there’s been an England. Salt of the Earth he is, unlike most of the
ponces that were born to title and land. Tradition’s well and all, but a good new-fashioned
meritocracy suits him just fine. Everybody’s just meat and bone in the end, regardless of how many
fancy titles and big houses they have.

Joan has used the gift of Awakening, the next best thing to godhood, to sculpt herself into
the spitting image of her rock and roll idol. While none can fault her for the true artistry
she’s displayed in doing so, they certainly question the wisdom behind it and often suggest
that she might turn her obvious talents to less trivial affairs. Joan, however, is a true free
spirit who doesn’t give a shit what they think. Either that or she’s just doing what she
thinks the original Joan would do.
 Virtual Adepts

Morgan “Dark Tangent” Enfield is the leader of the @stake cabal. The group is
an elite crew of hackers and social engineers, most of which have never met in
real-space. The circuitry tattooed on her head isn’t just for show. It’s her deck,
encoded on her flesh through her technomagickal will. She’s a big shark on the
Virtual Web, tangling with some of the Technocracy’s best and holding her own.
Morgan claims to have hacked the European Iteration X crypto-vault on no less
than three occasions. She’s good enough that the boast just might be true.
(Councilor, deaconess of the @stake cabal)

Nemo is the newest member of London’s mage community. Fresh out of apprenticeship, he’s
still got that new avatar smell and the delightful sense of wonder that the recently Awakened
get to enjoy. The young man is sharp as a tack and will likely find his place in the grand scheme
of things in a few years.

Agnes “Antagone” Wolsey is a hacktivist and blogger who collects embarrassing truths and
strategically deploys them the way a terrorist plants bombs. Her efforts to shake up the
status quo have led to the downfall of more than one public official and billion-plus pound
losses for several Syndicate businesses.

The Disparates

It’s fairly well-known that a group of Templar Knights has a chantry somewhere in London, and that they cooperate with
a highly conservative faction within the Church of England to fight what they see as Satan’s influence in the UK. Though
he claims otherwise, Sir David Goody (see Celestial Chorus) is rumoured to have some contact with them.

There are a fair few voudoun operating in London. At least some of them are Bata’a, but they’re hard to distinguish
from the hedge magicians.

The Inmates are a Hollow One cabal that, until recently, ran a Gothic nightclub calld Asylum. They try to keep a fairly
low profile.

Alice Liddel Fourteen

 Gambler Penrose

Porridge Rika

Smeg (Life, Prime, Forces)

Nein Danke

Silent M -Tall skinny pencil-necked geek. Brown Fringe jacket tshirt w a rainbow.

Victoria

Mouse – Might be a couple with Nein Danke. Built Ford tough.

Fiosaicha is a mysterious mage from Ireland. He may be a gruagach, which is a very rare
hedge tradition noted for taking on dire bans in return for great power. His name is a
medieval Irish word that loosely translates to “the one who knows”.
 The Technocracy

New World Order

Blanchard Lee, known as the Lady in White, is a mercilessly pragmatic woman. She’s an
independent field agent who seems to operate outside the usual structure of Black Suits
and mirror shades—a fact which worries the wise. She also seems to have no
compunctions against cooperating with reality deviants if doing so will allow her to more
efficiently achieve her goals. Despite her 5’ 4”, 98-pound frame, the Lady can be
spectacularly menacing when she needs to be.

Agent Colin Firth-Godbehere is one of the top men who protect the royal family. He’s also
involved in co-opting many of England’s elites, turning them into informants and
supporters of the Technocracy’s totalitarian agenda. He’s got a lot more authority and
autonomy than your usual man in black.

Agent Reginald Foster is Agent Godbehere’s partner in authorianism.