Perseus

A Mastigos of the Silver Ladder, Perseus was the first person to join the Gregson Five after Gregson himself retired.

History
Born in 1969, the man who would become Perseus Awakened while cycling his paper route as a teenager. A near collision with a car saw him somehow 'displace' in such a way that he wasn't struck, and he was quickly found and inducted into the now-defunct Cabal of the Barrowmen, a group of weather-mages from Heysham who met on the sea-cliffs there. This Cabal would disband when Perseus left it, being after that only one man strong. That magus, Tyburn, has since passed away.

Perseus' time with the Barrowmen was uneventful - he never quite fitted in and certainly shared little interest in the weather-workings being done, part of a Legacy which now is almost defunct itself. He made a name for himself, however, in working Iron Laws of the Consilium by the Bay to the advantage of his Cabal, leading to Salamander nominating him for the Gregson Five, where he excelled; while he never held a Consilium post, he was the de facto leader of the Silver Ladder until Branwen's marriage gained her sufficient connections to overreach him.

Perseus took that with great cheer, acting openly as a mentor to her until his tragic death in early 2013, the first of the victims of the Hallows Killer.