Simon Terwilliger
Stats
Magus: Simon Terwilliger
Backing: Mage Association
Magic Circuit: 4
Mage Skill: 4
Physical: 2
Charisma: 3
Manipulation: 4
Firearms: 2
Weapons: 0
Flaw: Hunted (-3) (Italian Police: Is suspected in the theft of several ancient scrolls from an Italian museum. As such, Italian police and Interpol have taken an interest in locating him – something he wishes to avoid, as he did indeed steal the documents.)
Merits:
Magical Prodigy – Necromancy (4)
Fast Cast (3)
Magical Fields:
Defensive
Necromancy
Offensive
Healing
Spiritual
Energy Storage/Creation
Details
Appearance: A well-dressed, clean-cut man of his late twenties, standing at about five-foot-seven, with black hair short and immaculately combed. Black eyes peer out from behind round spectacles, his face clean-shaven. He always carries a briefcase and a palm-computer at all times.
Description: A lifetime scholar of magic, Simon has always found himself drawn to the unknown with intent to know it. Naturally inclined towards knowledge and study, he spent much of his time pursuing knowledge, even before he came across the occult. It was the disappearance of his brother – who seemed to vanish from his bed, across from Simon’s, as the two were talking at night – that truly sparked the surviving boy’s need to understand the unknown. Fortunately, his family had just the background to nurture his lure, training him as a mage.
He works as a freelance journalist or researcher, sublimating his thirst into material gain, used to keep his other, more supernatural pursuits in development. He has a wide range of magical skill, with a potent and bizarre affinity for necromancy.
Simon is polite and sober, but also quietly arrogant, greedy for knowledge, and aloof. However, he does have the capacity for compassion, and dislikes killing on a personal level. In battle, he would rather kill the Servant rather than the master, though he realizes that this is, logically, a tactical oversight.
Simon's reason for pursuing the Grail seems to be entirely academic, which is slightly perplexing. For him, though, the pursuit itself is as much of a learning experience as the acquisition. Simply grasping the Grail in his hands represents a profound expression of knowledge and Gnostic transcendence, the rise above a cycle that has been raging over the miraculous bauble. In that state, it is only a matter of granting himself full understanding of dimensions, allowing him to move between world and concepts and pursue every conceivable manner of understanding (a range which will steadily expand along as he learns more and more).