Genius Duncan-History

Richard Duncan Maquiyre was the son of one of the more powerful "Mages" (Geniuses with the Aesthetic of Alembic) of Atlanta. His father, Richard Micheal Maquiyre, ran a small but highly exclusive shop that catered to, usually, very wealthy patrons who wanted items and books of occult importance and power. He also had a thriving business in making limited use charms and amulets that allowed those who owned them special abilities outside of their own capabilities. Though these items were sold to very specific people who knew, or thought they knew, what the Maquiyre's were, and the fact that amongst the politics of Supernatural Atlanta, they were a neutral party.

Duncan didn't believe they should be neutral, dealing to all comers and paying attention only to the green of their customers money to the exception of all else. Especially after when he was only fourteen years old and just coming into his own as a burgeoning young apprentice "Rune Master", and his mother was killed while delivering a ring his father had made to the Vampiric Prince of the City, Ragnar.

The death of Illyana Maquiyre drove Richard Micheal further into both his work and his determination to stay neutral due to not wanting to also lose his son, and drove an emotional wedge between Richard Duncan and his father. A wedge that simmered for years as the younger mage studied, both the occult skills he was gaining as a result of his bloodline and the "normal" skills he was gaining as an advance placement student in school.

Duncan moved amongst the supernaturals that were patrons of his father's store attempting to learn everything he could about them, as well as find out who had been responsible for the attack that had taken his mothers life. Unfortunately, while the boy was perceptive, and learned to store and retrieve information mentally at a frightening speed and accuracy, he was not the most sneaky and manipulative of individuals. Thus, due to the power and respect his father commanded since he provided a service that was well looked up, various factions brought this information of young Duncan's attempted activities to his fathers attention. And this, and his father's domineering reaction to it, drove an even further wedge between father and son.

This dynamic continued over the next four years until it came to a head a few days after Duncan's eighteenth birthday. Father and son got into a yelling and screaming arguement, each convinced he was right and the other was too blind to see the error of his ways, until finally when Duncan said "I don't need you or your money I have what Mama left me! And am going to be a greater Rune Master and a better Man than you ever thought about being!" it all exploded. Richard, his face white and shaking with rage, threw his son from his house and ordered him never to appear in his presence again. Duncan, with the firey temper of youth, stormed out, only his backpack, the gear within it, and the clothes on his back with him. Determined to never see the man who had allowed his mother to die again.

That was three, almost four, years ago..In that time Duncan has hitch-hiked west across the United States. Growing both physically and iin his personal skills and power. He spent the last year in Los Angeles sharing an apartment with a young woman who claimed to have the blood of the sirens flowing through her veins, and a musician who claimed that the blood that flowed through his came from several different people, every night. Duncan used this time to work on a personal favorite craft of his, tattoo work. He recently found that by incorporating mystic symbols and runes within the tattoos he placed on himself, and others, he could incorporate the mystic training he had recieved into something more modern than the charms amulets and jewelry his father had made so many years ago.

With Two Thousand and Fourteen looming ever closer, Duncan has decided that he should make amends with his father before it is too late. His calls have gone to a disconnected phone number, his letter returned unopened, but his father never took away the stocks and accounts which had provided for the young man these past several years, so surely there is room and capability for forgiveness on both sides. Thus, Duncan has headed home..And when he gets to Atlanta, he will make things right.