Montresor

Montresor was an Acanthus who, after a long period in which he was Apostate, joined the Adamantine Arrow for a short period. He lived in the area claimed by the Blackpool Consilium, and is now dead.

Awakening
As a young man, Montresor became obsessed with gambling, and his Awakening into the Acanthus path was at a point of great stress in his life due to a sudden and unexpected financial loss. He was found by local magi and introduced to the magical community of Blackpool, quickly forming an alliance with a similarly apostate young man by the Shadow Name of Vandal.

Though apostate, both men bought into the worst aspects of the Silver Ladder's contention that the Awakened are simply above Sleepers, and quickly came to regard the Lex Magica as the only laws they need pay attention to.

Criminal Intent
In many ways, therefore, it was natural that they should look at circumventing British law for profit using magic, and their first steps in doing so ran into various problems with a lack of understanding of basic police procedure.

At around this time, however, Montresor spotted a young woman who bore all the hallmarks - he had been trained to realise - of someone who was treating their Awakening as a mental breakdown.

Approaching her, the two young men introduced themselves and began to explain the basics of Awakened society, but quickly discovered that Anna Williams - who would come to call herself Rayth - was a policewoman.

Flashpoint
Ultimately, it was Vandal's idea, but Montresor was easily persuaded. Rather than introduce her to the Consilium, they kept quiet, and instead, drawing on her secrets, lured her into confiding more and more information until they could blackmail her for the advice and consulting their plans needed.

The target for their first job with this information was a mobile one, and their strike took place as it neared Lancaster. Rayth still hadn't been pressed for many specifics, but the strike drew the attention of another mage - Hoodsman, or, to give him his full title, DCI McMillan.

During investigation, Hoodsman took a number of Fate-aided intuitive leaps that took him outside his usual jurisdiction. He found himself scrying the past in a particular location, and discovered the identities of the culprits - and also discovered that they'd been dragging information out of someone else.

He called in Demdike, and the two Guardians ran Montresor and Vandal to ground.

Aftermath
Both Vandal and Montresor had their memories of their slow descent into criminal intent erased and were reintroduced into the Blackpool Consilium. The two drifted apart; Montresor joined the Arrow, while Vandal joined the Guardians.

Montresor would go on to repeat his attempt to blackmail a newly-Awakened, and on this second offence, Blackpool Hierarch John Murphy called for the death sentence. He was executed by the standing Interfector of that time - Vandal.