Callum+Doyle

//This is part of the Hangover city, Liverpool, uk setting//

=Callum Doyle - Face of the Guild=

"Its counter productive Man! One If you kill yourself, he would not want to go on with out you. And, two If you destroy the world to save him, where is he going to live!” The practical advice of Callum Doyle

Callum Doyle does not want to be ArchMage of Liverpool. Callum Doyle would dearly love not to be ArchMage of liverpool. Its a pig of a job (he uses heading cats as a metaphor); it carries no real power or respect with it; dumps an massive responsibility on his shoulders; and, most significantly, it takes up far too much of the time he would much rather spend researching his books on Lore and developing new magics. However the fact remains, he is Arch Mage and as the only way to dispose of the title is to die and pass it on. As he is a wizard with the famous wizards longevity, so that is unlikely to happen anytime soon. In an attempt to keep a lid on things he founded The Collective Guild Of Liverpool Manipulators of Magic. Sadly as a cunning plan this failed to be cunning enough.

Physically Callum appears to be in his late 50’s. He speaks with a upper class irish accent and dresses in the height of fashion for edwardian elegance. Fidel teases him with the possibility that if he waits long enough it will come back into style and then he will have to go out and buy a jumper, which given Fidel’s preference for GOTH attire is very much the pot calling the kettle black.

He lives in a house in Speke which is on the site of a weak point between the mortal plane and the Never-never. Sadly it is also now far too close to the airport for Callum’s liking and he finds the sound of the jets disturb his studies. Still he has been there longer than the airport and seems confident that it will leave first.

Also living at the house are his ‘apprentice’ Fidel Marino, the spirit of his dead wife Naomi and his daughter Rebecca, a strange child who spent almost 100 years being ‘not quite dead’ and has returned from her experiences with a touch of madness and a lot of power.

Mrs Doyle
Naomi now acts as his house keeper as the marriage vows only lasted until her death so it would not be proper to carry on any other relationship. Naomi and Callum refer to each other only as Mr and Mrs Doyle. Mrs Doyle is an excellent cook and her cinnamon buns are famous across the city. Few dare to refuse her hospitality.

Fidel Marino
Fidel Marino came into Callum’s care as a teenager having been found in a local second hand book shop. He was successfully enacting a ritual he found in an old note book Callum had left here by mistake some 30 years earlier. (It was a ritual Callum had never actually mastered himself, which is why the Arch mage spotted he was something special.) After a brief trial at the Royal court for his crime of ‘Unauthorised witchcraft in Covenant territories’, Callum took the young boy home and started teaching him. It was only when, a few months later, the police arrived at his house investigating a missing persons sighting that Fidel got round to admitting he had family in the city and should probably go home and tell his mother he was ok. This was the first of many rows between the Arch Mage and his apprentice. Despite, or may be because of, their volatile relationship Fidel has excelled. He was the one who figured out the curse that held Rebecca in her deathless-lifeless state and the two of them journeyed into the Never-never to rescue her spirit. Fidel has since confessed that if he had know what Rebecca was like he wouldn’t have bothered. Callum thinks he is joking and that the ‘love’ between the two youngsters is genuine. Fidel claims it is not.

Rebecca Doyle
Since her recovery Rebecca has taken up Fidels fashion sense (although she is a little too plump and well fed to carry off the Goth look properly.) She is a very direct person who does not suffer fools at all and believes tact is for lesser mortals. She has returned from her Near Death experience (in all senses of the words) with some talent for seeing the future and divining the truth; she hands out these insights (and possibly incites) as and when she sees fit with no regard for the impact they may have on the listener. Recently, and much to Fidel’s surprise, Rebecca announced that she and Fidel are engaged and that they will mary as soon as the wedding is planned. Fortunately for the young Mage she is constantly changing her mind about the arrangements, so so far no actual date has been set. He is hoping that this will continue long enough that she will forget all about it.

Also at the house at any one time will be three or four ‘urchins showing promise’; Young mages that Callum is keeping an eye on and mentoring. (As a result, any one wanting to create a wizard in the city could easily claim Callum as their mentor.)

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