Name: Edward Vanheim- | -Player: Stimtheone
Nature: Mentor- | -Demeanor: Activist
Essence: Questing- | -Concept: Pragmatic Old-timer
Affiliation: Traditions- | -Sect: Order of Hermes

Attributes

PhysicalSocialMental
Strength2Charisma2Perception3
Dexterity (Hand-Eye Coordination)4Manipulation2Intelligence (Analytical)4
Stamina2Appearance2Wits3

Abilities

TalentsSkillsKnowledges
Alertness1Crafts0Academics0
Art0Drive1Computer0
Athletics1Etiquette1Cosmology1
Awareness1Firearms1Enigmas1
Brawl1Martial Arts0Esoterica3
Empathy1Meditation0Investigation1
Expression3Melee0Law0
Intimidation0Technology0Medicine1
Leadership0Stealth1Occult1
Streetwise0Survival0Research1
Subterfuge0 0Science1
Other TalentsOther SkillsOther Knowledges
 0Larceny1High Rituals3
 0 0Lore:Awakened1

Advantages

Spheres
Correspondence (Ars Conjunctionis)1
Entropy (Ars Fati)0
Forces (Ars Essentiae)1
Life (Ars Animae)1
Mind (Ars Mentis)1
Matter (Ars Materiae)1
Prime (Ars Vis)1
Spirit (Ars Manes)0
Time (Ars Temporis)0
Backgrounds
Library3
Avatar3
Node4
Mentor3
Resources4
Certification1
 
Misc
Arete3
Willpower5
Quintessence0
Paradox0

Health Levels
Bruised-0 
Hurt-1 
Injured-1 
Wounded-2 
Mauled-2 
Crippled-5 
Incapacitated- 

Focus

Paradigm: Turning the Keys to Reality
Practice: Primary: High Ritual Magick Secondary: Alchemy, Psionics
Instruments:
1: Languages [personal: Latin]
2: Dances, Gestures, Postures, and Other Movement Practices
3: Brews, Potions, Powders, and Other Concoctions
4: Formulae, Equations, and Sacred or Advanced Mathematics
5: Circles, Pentacles, and Other Geometric Designs
6: Voice and Vocalizations
7: Thought Forms
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NOTES

Avatar: 3 (Resembles a golden eagle which could be seen perched on his shoulder with prime sight. Ambitious and predatory)
Resources: 4 (Despite his loss of name, Edwards till have many titles to his name, bank accounts and shares as well as his rather successful career as a writer. While he is no longer rich enough to have a car per weekday, he has quite the material means at his disposal)
Mentor: 3 (Gregorious Kinley Vanheim the Third, almost ancient hermetic and his biological great-grandfather. While great in knowledge he bears less leverage with the order and does not yet look at Edward as being worth too much of his attention) \\ Library: 3 (A proper Library defines a mage, and Ed has a very impressive one, both mundane and eccentric. He has claimed many texts that his family had as well as his mentor could share, as well as his own passion for them)
Node: 4 (Through an order contact, the mage has acquired claim over a local node, an old school ground where bits of paper with writing still appear from time to time)
Certification: 1 (Edward has gone through the process of acquiring a concealed carry license, a necessity in this time)
Natural Linguist: 2 (As part of his schooling at a proper faculty, Edward acquired a talent for the written and spoken word, which included him being very pliable in terms of languages)
Language (Latin & Greek): 1 (The basis of true mages, these languages were considered crucial for Edward's magickal education)
Offline: 3 (Through repeated drilling into this matter due to his mentor's distaste of it as well as his own traditional views, Edward not only lacks any real skills with tech, but is repelled by the concept entirely, tolerating guns and cars only for their necessity, as well as any other amenities that one would be a borderline verbena to discard)
Twisted Apprenticeship: 1 (Edwards' mentor believed perhaps a bit too much in him, or held to his old ways too harshly. Either way, skipping the proper procedures has left those around Edward in his tradition to not regard him well)
Failure: 2 (And then it got worse, as his immense pride from being in such a fast track has sent him even further into screwing himself and a few others financially and killing status. This managed to make him even less trusted)
Impediment (Myopia): 1 (A lifetime of reading will give you a vast knowledge base and bad eyesight)
Equipment:

Carries a small pistol - SIG P320 COMPACT 45 Drives a Nissan Sentra Owns a house in the suburbs, a space reserved for his sanctum and a bookstore in Starke


DESCRIPTION

Character Bio:

Edward hails from a quite prestigious family despite not being very prestigious himself nowadays. While researching a book for another in his long line of above-average Thrillers under the pseudonym Adrien Walters he had stumbled over a particular book in his family's possession which soon taught him that the old ways are anything but dead. Then his great-great grandfather came and took his primer back after taking a moment to recognize that his kin had potential... but there was a reason the old coot was not seen so well among the order. They took the young man in, despite the man who would be his mentor. Soon enough, Edward suffered from his mentor's outdated beliefs which had him ejected from the family home until he can prove he was good to be taken back. Starke is where his mentor sent him, another in a long line of blunders on his part.

Description:

Average build usually concealed beneath a trench coat with dark brown short hair, more often with stubble than clean shaven, with slight shows of graying. Wears glasses with a thin rim and slight marks of not being kept clean
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HISTORY

Edward's life started in England, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, taught a general education in many subjects, but his true passion was writing. In his youth, while attending the university of arts, he wrote five fantasy novels who returned enough to be worth the effort, but as he got his degree and turned towards the real world, he found thrillers to properly give form to the ideas in his mind. While he earned for those times he saw the world with new, book-ridden eyes, where fantasies remain as such and life is but walking between shadows. Until he found a certain book, one of the exceedingly rare primers that gathered dust within his family's library, a book which once again caught air after half a century of sitting on a shelf. That book told him of the old arts, of mystic language and sacred geometry, mystical mathematics and meaningful sigil. It also told its creator where it was, and with that first seeking done, Mister Vanheim found himself facing what would stand for a wizard in pretty much every sense of the word. Gregorious Kinley Vanheim the Third, his great-grandfather, still alive despite the rumors of his death and the impracticality of living past a century. Still, the old man saw in this so far away kin the spark of hope, the spark of the old ways, and a capability for magick. If only he'd kept better ties to the Order in the last 30 years, he fast tracked his admission into the order, an act which was not as beneficial as it should be, skipping entrance exams and learning traditions would soon land Edward in a test of his skills that broke both the order and his family's trust in him, though not completely, getting involved in politics without a base and trying to leverage his family's finances towards the order, and getting quite the burn for it. Cambridge could no longer hold him after that, so his mentor sent him to another place which "Will inspire you to grow", which is how he opened a bookstore in Starke while keeping up with his writing.

NODE

Node Rating: 4
Current Quintessence accumulated: 8/8
Current Tass accumulated: 8/32
Current Free Tass in possession: 0