Constantine

Constantine is an Acanthus of the Silver Ladder. He is a member of Alis Aquilae, and since joining them was perennially the lowest ranked member of the Ladder in the Consilium by the Bay. Despite this, he has been elected as the Silver Ladder Sentinel of The Consilium Of The Stone Circle.

History
Awakening at the age of twenty, Constantine dropped out of university in Birmingham and returned to his native Galgate. He wandered for some time, uncertain of his mental stability, certain of the way he could make cards dance, becoming a hustler, developing skills as a confidence trickster - his two most important of which were his natural liking for and sympathetic empathy to other people and his ability to hold a bigger picture in his head while dealing with a small piece of it.

Between these two skills, he could rewrite a scam on the fly, and often did - which went well for him until the day he attempted to scam a rich heiress in the area who somehow adapted to his schemes as fast and seemed to delight in turning them around on him. It rapidly turned into flirtation, until one day Hawthorne happened to have Mage Sight cast when she looked at him.

She sat him down and explained things, and ultimately took him to the farmhouse of Alis Aquilae - clearly he wouldn't be a Pendle Witch. There he met Branwen, not yet changed of name, and spoke with her for some time before they reached an understanding.

Constantine was introduced to Perseus and joined the Silver Ladder, assigned to Branwen as an underling in the same way he would later be assigned to Rowntree. Being Constantine, he also cosied up to the Free Council, becoming close friends with Protean and something much more with Alchemiss, with whom he had a long-running open relationship.

Since then, Constantine has repeatedly made himself invaluable as the Silver Ladder's deniable operations man and simply as a friend to many in the Consilium. He was one of the first to openly support Sargasso in her transition, and has long needled his new superior, Rowntree, over the Sargasso Incident.

At Rowntree's request, he's trained Pallas in the ways of the Acanthus. He's also done his very best to show the Rose as a whole his gratitude after they saved him from the Hallows Killer, and was instrumental in giving Protean a chance to redeem herself during Argent's operation, in which his work with Protean and Download helped save the Proximus now known as Postmortem.

He has been promoted in the Silver Ladder a total of sixteen times and demoted just as often.