Master Theophilus

Master Theophilus is a famous British wizard Centurion who has renounced his old name, hair and quite a few other things a long, long time ago. He is perhaps the most well-connected and well-known active member of the magical community in the entire world as of the mid-19th to early 20th century. Although he has had more than his fair share of heroic Centurion adventures back in the day (most notably that one time he discovered Shangri La and stopped the Green Lama from conquering all of Asia, but also his clashes with Madam Czarna and other malevolent magicians and sinister spirits), in recent years his main stake to fame is more likely to be his vast network of connections and influence within the aforesaid magical community. It is fair to assume that most everyone outside of the most recent generation of magicians knows him and is known by him; and the younger has not quite escaped his grasp either. Widely travelled and highly erudite, Theophilus has founded schools and trained numerous pupils, of which Simon Laffey is probably still the most notable, being a Centurion and all. His Oriental mystic training has granted him considerable willpower and focus, allowing him to master so-called manipulation magic, controlling and reshaping the magical effects created by others.

There are those however who point out less favourable aspects of Theophilus' character. Critics attack his excessive stubborness and self-righteousness, and charge that his aloof detachment from the affairs of those outside the magical world is equal to indifference towards the fates of mere mortals. So much more strange then that he has played the most important role in calling the extraordinary gathering of the Conclave of Mages in Stockholm in 1917 to figure out a way to bring about peace through magic.