Vandal

Vandal is a Thyrsus of the Guardians of the Veil, though he spent some years Apostate. He is a Sentinel for the Blackpool Consilium, and is a member of the Bearers of the Eternal Voice.

History
Vandal doesn't remember his Awakening. In fact, he doesn't remember the first two years he was a mage. In his first memory as a mage, he was sat in a small room in Blackpool City Hall with a man who introduced himself as John Murphy and a woman who called herself Demdike.

They gave him a swift crash course in the world as Mages see it and outlined possibilities. Vandal thought it over and said that he felt he should join the Guardians, that someone had to stand up to protect the citizens of the magical world.

Still he had no idea where to start - however, one day not long after joining his Order, he was approached in his local pub by a man who clearly knew him, and with whom, Vandal inferred, he shared a criminal past. And it clicked; he has continued to nurture his gang ever since, while patterning their structure loosely after the Pentacle and its wisdom.

The group have slowly become something closer to vigilantes; while Vandal is still able to supply enough money to keep them happy, nobody has questioned it, but Vandal now watches over Blackpool's criminal world, looking for magical incursions of any kind and dealing with them.

For his efforts in this he has been appointed Sentinel by John Murphy; partly to help, and partly out of admiration for the way he has reorganised his crew, a mage of the Consilium of the Isle by the name of Kelpie offered to bring him into the Bearers of the Eternal Voice.

While serving as Interfector he passed sentence on a man named Montresor, who had kept a young mage by the name of Bray from magical society, evidently also manipulating the man - a natural rival to Vandal, as a young beat officer - for information. It's bothered him ever since; he tells himself that it was Murphy's right to pass sentence but that it seemed steep to offer death for a first offence.

He attended the North-Western Convocation of 2014, exhibiting a collection of artefact rings that had been discovered by members of the Consilium, where he was asked to check up on a mage called Pauli. He also encountered a mage by the name of Rayth, and - though her robes of office meant he couldn't see her face - found her voice familiar and her attitude unsettling.