The founders
- Bjornaer
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The child of a shaman and a shapeshifter, this Germanic wizard was cursed and abandoned to die by her clan. However, inheriting the gifts from both her parents in full strength gave her the ability to survive. Her magic prior to the Founding of the Order was alrgely self-taught. Many of the other Founders look down upon her and her powers, but Bonisagus is eager to incorporate her magic, since her different approach to magic promises to teach him much. She's interested in learning latin magic, and is friendly with merinita, one of the few founders who doesn't look down on her.
- Bonisagus
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Bonisagus is the brilliant but reclusive Magus that brought together disparate traditions of magic into a form learnable by all. He also created the parma magica with a sorcerer called Carpandus, so that wizards could meet without fear of attack. He liked the idea of a union of wizards suggested by Trianoma for he is not fond of the warfare that often raged between wizards before the founding. He is a gentle man, and has a reputation for being harmless and extremely honourable.
- Criamon
- The non-latinised version of this Arabic wizard's name is Qahir'amon. There is lot of discussion about
his eligibility to join the Order, because of his non-Christian roots, especially as many of the Founders had fought the Moors. Trianoma is keen for him to join, for she could see that the strength of the Order lies in diversification. He sees the founding of the order as a positive step,because once it was founded he would no longer fear the intrusions of other Magi. He is intensly secretive, admitting only to a search for the pathway to the Enigma, a concept that the other founders find difficult to comprehend, but from his writings sometimes seems to be a universal principle, sometimes a metaphor for human thought, and sometimes a deity.
- Diedne
- An Irish druid, and a friend of Merinita,
Diedne taught Bonisagus the use of spontaneous magic, though she
is incapable of casting a formulaic spell. Her House began as one
of the largest, for she has much influene over her fellow druids.
- Flambeau
- An Iberian noble by birth, his family lost battle after battle to the Muslims, retreating further and further north. His master took him from this violent background and taught him magic. Both of them fought along side the Christian nobility against the Moors, but to no avail. Flambeau's master was an expert in the art of destruction, but Flambeau studied and mastered the art of fire. His fighting style was flexible and brilliant, alternately using columns of flame to distract his opponents and removing them from their horses without a sound. He gathered around him a group of other wizards - not always willingly - to form a military unit to use against the hated Moors, thus he was the 'leader' of the Pyrenean Alliance. When Trianoma came to him he was sceptical, not wanting his freedom restricted. When the Order seemed more likely to form, with or without him, his attitude changed, and thus he comes today.
- Guernicus
- The Magus Guernicus shows the greatest scepticism that Magi could work together and would allow themselves to be governed by any Code, having seen the infighting that occured in the Pyrenean Alliance. He estimated the lifespan of the Order would be 'three-score years and ten, or a bit longer thanks to potions of longevity.' Guernicus says that the Order will need a Magus whose sole duty would be to police the other wizards, keep the peace, and enforce the Code. A master of magics of the earth, and geomancy, guernicus is a gadfly and many accuse him of looking for disputes in an effort to prove that the Order can not stand.
- Jerbiton
- A noble by birth, a member of an old Roman patrician family that had survived into the Dark Ages as a clan of land-holding nobles. His family cultivated in him a fine taste for music and other arts, so he felt isolated and distraught when he was taken from home and made an apprentice. Once a full wizard and free to travel, he spent his early years visiting city after city, steeping himself in whatever arts he could find in that dark time. Eventually, he even reunited himself with his family. When he heard that an Order of wizards was forming, he was excited for he felt that only by cooperating in peace could Magi themselves develop traditions of art and philosophy based on their magical arts.
- Mercere
- A French Magus who is very enthusiastic about the Order, and who visited many of the other wizards of the Pyrenean Alliance to invite them to join, considering it a means to restore the peace that was lost with the fall of Rome. He is renowned for his transformational magics, and taught Bonisagus much about this magic.
- Merinita
- A legend and a mystery. She travels alone through the wilderness, a priestess of the earth mother, who is said to be in communion with the spirits of the wild. Trianoma spent a year trying to find her to invite her to help form the Order, and for reasons still unclear, she has come out of the wilds to become a member of the Order.
- Trianoma
- The driving force behind the formation of the Order, Trianoma is a superlative diplomat. She saw the potential in Bonisagus's magic when they first met some three decades ago, and though she was a wizard already, she became Bonisagus's student. She was a good enough wizard to beat Tytalus, so her powers are by no means negligible.
- Tytalus
- Tytalus is one of the reasons that the formation of a peaceful Order s appealing to other wizards. He is known as a hot-tempered wizard, prone to challenging other powerful wizards just for the sake of testing himself and learning from his victories (which are many) and defeats (which are few). Initially he spoke out against the Order, but Trianoma beat him in a magical duel, and he agreed to join.
- Verditius
- An Byzantine Magus residing in Italy, and the last priest of the Cult of Vulcan. He seems utterly incapable of casting spells, but as a creator of magical items, he has never been matched. He is eager to join the Order because it will give him certain protection from other Magi - he fears that he would unable to hold his own in magical battles and wants to be part of an Order which would allow him to practice his craft in peace and safety.