Warden

Template:PC Summary Awakening Transmuter of the 'Self' for the Free Council

Born: 30 May, 1969

Age: 46

Rank: Adept of Mind, Disciple of Matter

Titles/Memberships: Former Hierarch of Adelaide, Guardian of the Heavenly Voices

Various nicknames and aliases: Sir & Master

Physical description: 190 cm about 85kg with bushy brown hair and hazel eyes; a badly scarred left pinky finger that looks shorter than its opposite. Warden is a man with no dress sense and generally parades around looking like a 1980s manual arts teacher with somewhat burnt clothes.

Quirks: Warden wears a graduation robe and hood with a blue trim (engineering), plus keeps all manner of techie gadgets on his person.

Weaknesses and short comings: Warden has an almost pathological hatred of a particular faction of Seers, something like all members of the Free Council its towards the Followers of the Lie. The Hegemony is an enemy that causes him great internal trouble... Whilst not knowing much about the five factions within the Seers he realises that which controls the mind controls the heart strings as well. Warden has a habit of pacing backward and forward and looking off into the distance like he is contemplating the great wonders of the world.

Greatest Strength: Warden is driven by his altruistic quest to make both other people and himself happy with their own lives as well his own. This altruism was first born by his aunt who he spent much time with as a child that had him develop his creative skills, which later led to him developing a love of science and to a lesser extent the occult as the spiritual scientific side of life. Warden spends much of his life in an auto-dictatorial mode where he prefers to self teach that he also teaches to his students in a somewhat more guided function where morality goes hand in hand with the self-teaching process.

Character Paradigm & Deviation: Self administration of canonical doctrine is what he uses, where the teaching of the Free Council are the basis. Warden deviates in his dedication to enlightening his students to become awakened ahead of time. This education is guided but teaches those students he teaches to learn on their own, to embrace his wisdom and moral code, but build upon their own knowledge and self learn as he did. This will introduce switched on minds to the magical gene pool where they can be swept up into a self made miracle or destroyed by the ravishes of the lie. Warden hopes for the former rather than the latter...

Nimbus: Shadows rise from all corners of a room or open space, they resemble people in an auditorium speaking in a low murmur asking questions about all the sciences. They will respond to queries and become annoyed if incorrect answers are given to their questions. If they're ignored they will begin to shout and raise a din...

Which is worse Hubris or Paradox?

Paradox is worse as letting the nasties of void enter through into this world is far more potentially corrupting to the worlds fabric. Hubris is in it self a way of rebalancing the scales of magical over use. Relevance Paradox or Hubris accumulates in the back of a mages mind when he sees that the magic does not work as a panacea to his or her problems.

However, in many significant instances across a wide range of areas, even when relevant information is readily available, the decision makers are not aware of relevance because they lack the information which would make its relevance clear. As a result, they do not attempt to look for it (whatever ‘it’ may be). These decision makers will seek only the information and advice they believe is the minimum amount required as opposed to what they actually need to fully meet their goals.

An analogy would be that of a nearsighted person who is unaware of their condition. They would not perceive any benefit in getting the glasses to improve their sight beyond what they perceive to be correct, until something collided with them. Such a situation could be resolved by a third party, aware of its relevance, recommending an eye test; in this case all relevant information is presented and acted upon equally.

Relevance hubris can and usually does apply to all professional magical groups and individuals. While there are many examples of willful ignorance, there are also many cases where people do not look outside the paradigms they are operating in and thus fail to see the long term consequences.

Hierarchical incompetence that stems from relevance hubris and is the often observed as an inability of organisations to achieve the aims set for them (see the Adamantine Arrows, Mysterium and Guardians of the Veil). This can be due to the oversimplification of issues and the loss of tacit knowledge about issues as they ascend a hierarchical organisation. There is often an inbuilt tendency for people up the hierarchy to discount information coming from those lower down, particularly if it questions conventional wisdom of the hierarchy. There is a tendency for lateral communication across the various departments, sectors, etc., to be stifled either actively by management, or by self-imposed isolation.

Paradox is worse, but Hubris implies danger and stupidity.

Timeline

Awakened: Warden awoke at age 16 and did not join the Free Council until he was 18 worth his master.

Initial Master: Boss Man, Moros Free Council, Uncrowned Kings Master

Internal Journal

The internal Journal is one kept only by Warden and is for internal thoughts and not to be expressed in the open. (This is an OOC tool for the player and the storyteller, however is open and available for players to read)

2016

Warden 03232016 Feeling a bit down

Warden 03252016 Worried about the upcoming meeting

Warden 03292016 Taking on some new blood

Warden 04252016 Killing time...

Warden 05292016 Focusing on the future

Warden 06042016 Secret, Arrow, Stuff...

Warden 07022016 Roving stupidity...

Quotes

That's the problem with dearth these days, it's never forever...

Quotes by

Still waiting for someone to take this Hierarch thing off me...

Inspirations and Soundtrack

• Aterciopelados, Rio - Without knowing much Spanish, I like the song as it was once explained to me about how in Bogota it is talking about stopping the rovers of blood flowing from violence. This was the course of my character where even though the Free Council is charged with destroying the keepers of the lie, he himself without killing people stops them or (the rivers of blood) by doing so without death and violence, hoping (generally in vain) that violence and combat isn’t necessary.
• Mamas and Papas, California Dreamin’ - This is the song I was listening to when I first thought up the character. Whilst it plays no real significance to an emotion behind the character, the significant part it does play is basically the song that I had in my head.
• Beastie Boys, Intergalactic - How mages seem to be constantly battling monsters on the planes of the universe, is where this song places my thinking. Whenever or wherever a mage character is, there’s always another beastie to kill, maim or run away from.
• The Clouds, Hieronymus - This song made me think about my character as an Astral Companion, however as the character has evolved I’ve not had much time to flesh this part of the character out. Primarily it made me think about the character as being a teacher of youngsters and how it was his job to be their charges and protecting them from inner demons and guiding their awakenings was most important.
• J. Deacon, Death and the Lady (ballad) - this is one of the root causes for me to play a Moros, as it demonstrates a juxtapose between Death and people's fleeting perceptions of the fragility and shortness of life and the eternal nature of death.
• Bob Dylan, Knockin on Heavens Door - covered by so many different different artists, Knockin on Heavens Door had always been one of the songs about a fight between the pentacle and the opposition, whoever they might be. 'Great song'!
• Megadeath, Five Magics - This song always reminds me of the corruption of Hubris and how life and it's pursuits can be corrupting. Moreover how no matter how much a Mage thinks they know about magic, the void always knows more and how to use it to corrupt and overconfident wizard.
• Genesis, Home by the Sea - This is something that talks to me where a regular Joe becomes a wizard and instead of magic setting her free it instead captures them and turns their life into a nightmare.
• Iron Maiden, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - apart from the biblical overtones, the song is about clairvoyance and the connection we as mages have to the supernal world. It speaks to me off prophecies and chosen ones and how they can make and our break the world.
• Will Smith, Men in Black - is one of the quintessential pieces describing how I view elements within the Magee community and how paranoia had fueled the way political policing systems manage unforeseen and unknown problems that remain unexplained.
• Muse, Exo-Politics and Black holes - a classic song that makes me feel good about the Free Council. Something that is like the X-Files for me... ;)
• Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child - This accounts for Wardens interest in trying to save people and educate people. Warden has always had an altruistic nature and it will one day end up destroying him as people take advantage of it.