Foci:
Correspondence: Lens (Camera), Sand
Forces: Light
Life: Rhythm
Matter: Sharp color, chemical compounds.
Mind: White Noise , music
Prime: Light. Gold
Spirit: Sand, lenses, patterns(pentacle/mandala)

History

Before the Reckoning hit, Lucas Maddison was the kind of mage forever destined to play second-string in the Order, behind a long line of powerful Archmasters and players in Major Houses. With the death of the Archmages and the Avatar Storm, however, he - like the rest of House Ex Miscellanea - have reexamined their role in the Order and Traditions at large and have begun to move forward into prominence

Youngest child and only son of a game park warden and diamond mine heiress, Lucas' formative years in Cape Town, South Africa were largely pleasant despite his parents' divorce when he was eleven. He turned to photography as a teenager while he was recuperating from a sports injury and discovered he had some talent for it. As he grew into adulthood, he found himself increasingly dissatisfied and outraged by the culture of apartheid he was raised in, and after leaving the country midway through a university term to avoid compulsive military service, pursued a degree in fine arts at a university in Canada.

He was inducted into the Order by a National Geographic Society photographer who recognized some hidden spark of inspiration in the his work, and took Lucas under his wing in both a mundane and magical sense. Initiatied into House Jerbiton, in the Hodgepodge, he Awakened on assignment in Northern Africa during a violent sandstorm. Not long after, photographing a rural town in Cornwall, he met a young British Army officer - perhaps by providence, also a mage of House Tytalus - who would later become his wife, muse, and strong grounding influence where he otherwise might have strayed from his path. And straight out of history.

Attached to Horizon's Circle of Artemis cabal in the stronghold's twilight hours, Lucas applied his gift for documenting the natural world to the realm's wildernss. His talent for Ars Conligationis and Ars Spirituum also made him a perfect candidate to stand as the Cabal's bonded Herald - one of the last to be Fatemarked by the Council of Nine before the Conflaguration.

Paradigm:
Sphere Associations: Correspondence, Spirit
Paradigm Style: Liberal - All avenues have equal potential; it is only our personal perceptions that differentiate them (Spirit)
Essence: Questing: Defining the world through exploration (Correspondence)
Hooks:Straight To My Heart(Corr): The greatest impact is made not by striking hard or often - but by striking true. Walking On The Moon (Spirit): The barriers we erect - whether between ourselves on this plane, or between ourselves and higher ones - are transient and artificial at best. They can be breached, and, with enough effort, even taken away entirely

Status: As a Fatemarked and recognized Tradition Herald, Lucas enjoys access to any Tradition Chantry - including the occaisional holding normally unavailable to outsiders. He may call upon any member of the Traditions for aid or shelter if in need, but rarely does. His position grants him a small amount of diplomatic immunity, although he is certainly not immune to consequences of word or deed, or the odd cértamen challenge.

Avatar:
They say a city in the desert lies
The vanity of an ancient king
But the city lies in broken pieces
Where the wind howls and the vultures sing
These are the works of man
This is the sum of our ambition

In his Seekings, Lucas wanders through windblown ruins in a vast desert - the architecture that survives is reminiscent of Moorish buildings in Spain and Northern Africa or the scant remains of Great Zimbabwe. Within the shattered remnants of the past, he searches for the elements needed to forge ahead into the unknown future.

El Ghibli is a wind that blows from the desert, hot and dry. It's the wind of the nomads, of travel and migration, the wind that accompanies and dries the errant word. The impalpable and whirling word, that is everywhere and nowhere, that is of all and of none, contaminated and shared.

Past Lives:
Incredibly vague recollections from two distinct lives-
Cyndeyrn, a Cumbric bowman from what is now northwestern England, at the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasion. Adherent of the Old Faith that would later become the Verbena
Cerys verch Senyllt, footholder to a Welsh King, c. 11th cent. Gifted with second sight and part of a loose coalition of Spirit-Talkers - later to become the modern Dreamspeakers

Sanctum: A large attic closet-converted-darkroom. Lucas has worked consistent magical effects (particularly Prime, Matter and the Grand Style rote) here long enough to establish it as a Sanctum.

Fame: Award-winning photojournalist for National Geographic magazine

Name: Lucas Arthur Groenveldt-Maddison
Craft Name: Conrad Fidanza Marlow, bani Jerbiton (Magus Ex Miscellanea)
Shadow Name:Conrad Lucas Arthur Fidanza Groenveldt-Maddison Marlow , bani Jerbiton (magus Ex Miscellanea), The Rebel Prince, Beloved of Xerops, Anruth of the Blue Lady, The Blood of the Lazarus Heart, Sapientia Sectator
True Name: In Caligne Abditus
Word: Intrepid
Title: Adept Major (Seventh Degree)

Theurgia Godform: MICHAEL, the Angel of Light - the Sun King, also known as Apollo or Ra, is a warrior of the light. Throwing his seven-shafted bow into a scene that is stumbling a long in the dark, Michael is the principle of godhood, holiness and divine intuition. The perfect form of idea, Michael is the guiding force of pure mind manifest.
Correspondences: Air, light, the Sun, electricity, the electromagnetic force, the photon, sky, rational thought and inspiration, Mind, the color yellow

Wonder: Enchanted camera, functions in Umbral realms

Rotes: Every Prison Blown To Dust (Corr ****, Matter *, Life *, Prime *)
Sweet Hunter's Smile (Mind **)
Pathfinder's Pride (Corr *) - as Whereami?
Impala's Flight (Corr ***) - As Seven-League Stride

Hallmark (Mind ** Prime *)
'Spot the Man' (Corr * Life * Matter * Prime *)
Public Posting (Corr ** Mind ** Prime **) - Sends a short message to all mages in a vicinity
Auric Trail (Corr * Prime *, Spirit **) - track's another Mage's presence through the Umbra
Rememberance (Mind ** Prime *) - Staves off effects of Umbral Disembodiment
Spirit Journey (Spirit ** Corr **) : Allows the mage to navigate the Umbrae mentally
Charm (Mind **)- gains a number of dice equal to Arete roll in all non-confrontational social rolls
Adder's Tongue (Mind **)
'Pass For Normal' (Mind ** Prime **) Adds one dot to Wits, Expression and Etiquette
Mindfulness of Wrong Thought (Mind ** Life *), alerts the mage to hostile beings in the vicinity
At- Ease (Mind **) Negates Resonance penalties by 1 die per succ.
Eagle Eye (Corr ** Life *) Focuses the Mage's sight to look down from a vantage point in the sky
Deduction (Life * Mind *)
Encrypt Thoughts (Life * Mind * Prime **)
Epiphany of the Muse - (Mind ** Spirit *** Prime *)- Allows the mage to draw information from subtle clues in the scene
Ariadne's Thread (Corr * Mind *)
Grand Style ( Mind ** Prime ** Matter *) Allows the mage to use mass communication on an intuitive level. To do so, the mage must use some form of art. Although live music is most common it can be placed on visual art. This effect causes those who perceive the artistic display to feel a certain way. Predominantly this rote is used to bring about feelings of well being, joy, pride, contentment and reverence. Likes: His wife, photography, deserts, indigo-dyed silk, soft pastels, the sound of his own voice, Arabic love poetry, Herodotus, a ring around the moon, snow, Sting, drums, exotic cuisine, children, dogs, cats, ducks, reading aloud, globalization, rugby, watercolor, sunrises, sunsets, nostalgia, African landscapes, Charlize Theron, new vistas, unattainable horizons, developing pictures by hand, archery, limes, the United Kingdom, hiking, caves, walking on the beach at low tide, tropical fish, foreign currency, written correspondence, the color blue, the notion (but not the practice) of infidelity, sand, Paul Simon, blue glass, Jerry Uelsmann, airports, South African exports, Jurgen Schadeberg, travel blogs, big cats, penguins (especially jackass penguins), antique cameras,

Dislikes: Prejudice, the Afrikaans language, blind rightwing ideals, food poisoning, guns, greed, exploitation, post-colonial guilt, arguements, nationialism, white noise, the idle rich, hospitals, armchair academics, infighting, politicing, terrorism, funerals, e-mail, people who lack moral compasses, abuses of basic human rights (particularly children's), difficult moral problems with no viable solutions, unaccountability