Granit

Once a member of the First Throne Consilium, Granit retired from Moscow life after an argument with his apprentice Iskatel. For the rest of his life, this Acanthus of the Mysterium remained Lone within the Consilium of Polotsk. A member of the Tamers of Winds, his body rests in Minsk still.

History
The mage known as Granit was, at the time of his death in 1999, in his early seventies. He Awakened in 1943 during a particularly unpleasant period of his war service on the Eastern Front, during a conflict that reduced his unit from thirty to three, Granit included.

Thereafter, the teenager was treated as a lucky charm by the unit he was folded into, seemingly always bouncing back no matter the risks handed him. It was during this time that his stoic response to orders earned him the nickname Granit which would become his Shadow Name in time to come.

After the war was over, he set out to understand what he had clearly become, journeying to Moscow on the grounds that such a large place would surely have someone who would understand.

He was taken in by the First Throne Consilium, whose reduced selection of Orders led him to enter the Mysterium. What explanations of the Supernal and Fallen worlds he was given did not satisfy his understanding, and he pressed on, looking for even greater truths, until the man who would become his mentor led him by riddles to a cliff and bade him jump.

Granit is skeptical that he ever leaped, though he remembers doing so vividly. But at the climax of his fall he found, not suicidal ideation, but revelation. He would ever after channel that into his own preferred method of truth telling, granting visions of reality in the form of anekdoty.

He took on Iskatel as a student when he found him at Domovoi's father's coffee house, but felt afterward that this had been a mistake; nonetheless, with his own mentor monitoring him, he was unwilling to breach the code of the Tamers and take another.

This may be why, when visited after his death by Felix, he agreed to help the young man in his project to update and rejuvenate the Tamers. As a consequence his ghost now resides in Felix's home.