History:
> Georgios was born in Alexandria in 1100 AD and is a distant but direct descendant of Heron of Alexandria. He was identified as a magus by a retired Redcap who arranged his apprenticeship with House Verditius at the age of 12 in the covenant of Ingasia. He never mentions his parens’ name and while records in House Verditius or individual elderly mages might remember it, it is otherwise lost to time.
-> An excellent mage, he resented the fact that his magical lineage focused on magical books and paintings and wanted to reclaim his ancestor’s fame. He pushed to understand the inner mysteries of the house and his hubris drive him to make both enemies and mistakes.
+> An excellent mage, he resented the fact that his magical lineage focused on magical books and paintings and wanted to reclaim his ancestor’s fame. He spent years in Ingasia's library, travelled to Verdi to consult more books there, refused to make items except for the inner mysteries of the house and the Competition and his powers grew rapidly and powerfully. He bound a magical hound as his familiar and soaked up its adulation.
-> For years, he did well, even winning the journeyman’s prize once but he got into a vendetta with a far more politically astute mage. In 1180 this came to a head. None outside the house know why he was expelled but it is widely known by those who study these things that he was forced to seek sanctuary with the Ordo Ex Miscellanea as an Orbus mage.
+> For years, he did well, even winning the journeyman’s prize once but his rapidly growing hubris drove him to make both enemies and mistakes. His biggest one was that he got into a vendetta with a far more politically astute mage. In 1180 this came to a head. None outside the house know why he was expelled but it is widely known by those who study these things that he was forced to seek sanctuary with the Ordo Ex Miscellanea as an Orbus mage.
>Embittered and angry, Georgios swore off magic for years, refusing to work for anyone. Instead he immersed himself in mundane society and passed himself off as a student in Constantinople. His age and maturity did well for him and he quickly progressed to become the Greek Chair of Natural Philosophy. He became successful and wealthy and eventually began to work again, although he refused to be part of any covenant, telling the redcaps that his was the Covenant of Georgios. He never went to tribunal and largely refused all contact with mages, selling his automata to nobles of Constantinople through a network of mundane friends.
>Following the destruction of Constantinople, Georgios’ world was shattered again and he and his apprentice fled, practically penniless. After a year of wandering, they settled in Bologna where their reputations allowed both to take the exams for Magister and then Doctor in short order. Georgios quickly built his wealth back up through sales of magical items. He is the only wizard of the Order in Bologna now that Alexios has left but he still has no interest in involving himself with those who wronged him, the only tribunal he has attended since being forced from House Verditius was in 1214 when he presented his apprentice and then left immediately.
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