True knowledge and The Unlikely Places

Name: Archmage Octavian Davenport

Occupation: A founding member and figurehead of the Ascended Intelligentsia

Characteristics: Brilliant, visionary and wise

Born into an already wealthy and powerful family Octavian was already set for life however at a cost, that life wouldn’t be his and everything would be decided by his parents. At an early age they hired wizards of all sorts to train him in the arcana and when of age enrolled him in the famous Occult Academy. While there he was an excellent student, could be arrogant but had the power and knowledge to back it. During his last year he received a letter informing him that his parents were murdered trying to protect their collection of magical artefacts. Shocked Octavian didn’t know what to do. He left the academy to go back to his home. However there wasn’t much to go back to apart from a small black glass ball inside the burnt down manor that had some sort of rune or inscription on it. After seeing his family’s manor was destroyed Octavian not knowing what to do just sat there. For days Octavian study this ball and what it did or its purpose. However he found nothing, sometime in the early hours of the morning a frustrated Octavian didn’t know what to do so he just stared up at the stars, on the 9th night he had an epiphany. He didn’t know if the hunger had to got him or reality itself spoke. Octavian swore all the stars in the sky started moving and joined together to make a bright light that blinded him. After that he knew what he had to do, if the things that happened to his family could happen to him it could happen to anyone. Magic is dangerous and those who possess it or items around it must protect it, and if someone as smart as himself didn’t know what this ball was, maybe someone somewhere would. Maybe A cleric would know it’s a holy item or a druid knew if the earth would naturally made one if the circumstances are right. So he decided to go on an adventure to find powerful magic users and find likeminded people to share knowledge and protect things they hold dear. The first iteration of the Ascended Intelligentsia consisted of Octavian, a dwarven cleric named Axel Razorbrand and a wood elf druid named Sayid. The years went by and the popularly grew, a few sorcerers approached the intelligentsia for help and understanding with what gave them their powers and after a while sorcerers could enrol in the guild. Lastly a band of lore Bard requested to join and be allowed access to their liberty of knowledge and story's.

After a few decades Octavian decided to step down. He created what he set out to do, and was getting too old to keep up, he made friends along the way but no children which he didn’t mind due to the guild being his legacy. Octavian never found out what glass ball in his old manor was but in a way he was kind of glad, maybe it'll be a test for a smarter wizard than him would one day maybe figure it out or a group of young IA members.