For the past three generations, the family Kilianus has produced magi for House Jerbiton. This constant reliance upon one family, and our involvement in their affairs, meant that our line has something of a bad reputation in Transylvania as meddlers, but no convictions have yet been made; just many, many accusations. It started with my great-great-uncle, Sergei, who was taken by Constantus scholae Jerbiton, and then turned around and deposed his own brother from the county seat, placing another nephew there. Sergei's filia was my aunt, Helena Kilianus, eldest sister of my father, Valdemar, and she labored hard to gain my father the hand of my mother. I am his eldest son, Andrei Kilianus, filius Helena Kilianus, filia Sergei Kilianus, filius Constantus scholae Jerbiton.

In my third year, my mother died bringing forth my younger sister, also a Helena. By the end of the fourth year, my father had married Dagny, a shrewish woman from the county Brasov. She soon had my brother, Radoslav Kilianus, and doted upon him, flesh of her flesh. For all that Helena and I were her husband's children, it seems that she hated us from Radoslav's birth, and raised her boy in her own image. I saw less of it; I was taken in my seventh year by my aunt to live in her apartments in Bucharest. It was not an arduous apprenticeship, as such things go. I was well cared for, certainly, and my aunt would spend her summers at our family home near Cluj Napoca. My father obviously favored me, especially, and it helped not that Dagny had become more shrewish as years went by, always speaking against myself and Helena; she regarded both of us as drains upon Radoslav's patrimony. Father would not hear of it, but I could tell that her harping was wearing on him, seeming frailer with each year that passed.

In the year before my Gauntlet, Valdemar Kilianus passed away. To me, he deeded the High Meadows, a half-hide of land on a plateau at the edge of the county, for my own and free of duties or taxes. Radoslav, now sixteen and a man of his own, immediately sent my "spinster" sister (only three years his senior!) to a convent. With mater Helena's help, I was able to secure her a comfortable position there, and maintain my patrimony, but it only confirmed the hatred Radoslav and Dagny carry for me.

After that, my Gauntlet was almost anti-climatic, and I settled upon the High Meadows. Fortuitiously, it has a slight magical aura, making it an ideal place for me to study my magics. At first, I was inclined to build my home, and use the land as pasturage for the raising of horses; my knack with domestic beasts and plants would have made it an ideal land for that, but I wasn't able to accquire adequate breeding stock, and lacked the ability to conjure it. As such, when some free peasants asked to be able to farm my land in exchange for rents, I turned the land over to them, saving only the most magical places (and those needed to provide me with a comfrotable living) for myself.

I've spent the past ten years in this fashion. My land is prosperous because, while I cannot directly increase its fertility, I do devote a season of each year to ensuring that my land is fruitful and the burden of my people is not heavy. With only two small families upon my property, it is easy to deal with all that needs to be done and not cost me my winter's study. Their rents are light because I have no family to support, and their safety is secured because they live under the protection of a fearsome wizard. I know my brother has married our other neighbor's daughter, and has several children. Mater Helena says that the youngest has potential, though he's only just weaned. She cannot take him; another sister had a spare daughter with the Gift, and so my mater is fostering her until it is time to take her as an apprentice. If I am to continue the tradition of my line, I should see to it that this boy is raised to be a magus, but I fear that it will reopen the festering wound between my brother and I.

Andrei Kilianus, scholae Jerbiton
Age: 32 [born 1169]

Int: +3 (brilliant)
Per: 0
Str: -1 (unathletic)
Sta: +1 (determined)
Pre: +1 (handsome)
Com: +3 (eloquent)
Dex: 0
Qik: -3 (unhurried)

Size: 0
Fatigue: 0

Personality Traits:
Genteel +2
Unhurried +2
Wrathful -1

Reputations:
Meddler with Mundanes 4 (in Transylvania, amongst Quaesitors)
Foul Enchanter 2 (amongst those who respect Radoslav)

Virtues:
*Wealth +3 (a Combination of rent and other income from his farm means that Andrei is very well off. The farm has a +3 magical aura, and his riding horse is affected by The Immaculate Beast, being exceptionally fast)
*Enduring Magic +3
*Close family ties +1 (About half of the family is on Andrei's side in the feud. This includes Helena, mater and magus, and Helena, sister and nun, as well as his uncle and two sisters; the last three are married, with the uncle being a knight who has retired to his manor, and his aunts being married to a minor noble and a well-to-do merchant)
*Affinity: Farms and Farm Animals +2
*Secret Vis Source +1 (The heart of the first animal slaughtered each harvest, on a certain stone behind the manor, contains 4 pawns of animal vis. Most years, Andrei uses this vis to enhance one farm animal through casting of The Immaculate Beast with a vis-boosted duration)

Flaws:
*Deleterious Circumstance: Major, Uncommon -2 (Andrei is unable to really affect wild animals; any spell cast directly upon a wild animal sees his roll reduced by half)
*Slow Caster -2
*Discredited Lineage -2 (Andrei's line is very well known for getting involved in its family's affairs. While there have been no convictions, yet, the Quaesitors are keeping careful eye on Andrei and Helena)
*Enemies -3 (Andrei's brother Radoslav and his mother actively hate him, and expend a fair amount of effort to keep him from prospering)
*Black Sheep -1 (While this may seem at odds with Close Family Ties, Andrei's family is quite split. His father's brother and sisters, as well as his own sister, support him against his half-brother, his step-mother, her father, and his half-brother's father-in-law).

Abilities: (XP are towards next level; specialties are in parenthesis)
Speak Latin 5 (nobles)
Speak Slavic 4 (nobles)
Scribe Latin 3+1 (short-hand)
Magic Theory 5 (Animal)
Parma Magica 2+1 (Corpus)
Magical Affinity: Farms and Farm Animals 3 (High Meadows) 2 XP
Craft: Farmer 3 (High Meadows)
Concentration 2 (Reading)
Hermetic Law 2 (and Mundanes)
Order of Hermes Lore 2 (House Jerbiton)
Artes Liberales 2 (History)
Philosophae 2 (agriculture)
Occult Lore 1 (Transylvania) 
Finesse 2 (Muto)
Etiquette 3 (Nobles)
High Meadows Lore 4 (geography)
Legend Lore 1 (Transylvania)
Faerie Lore 1 (Transylvania)  1 XP
Riding 1 (agility)
Bargain 1 (horses)
Leadership 1

Arts (XP is towards next level)
Cr 6
In 7 xp 2
Mu 8
Pe 5 xp 1
Re 6
An 6
Aq 5 xp 1
Au 6
Co 8
He 9 xp 4
Ig 5 xp 1
Im 5 xp 1
Me 5 xp 1
Te 6
Vi 5 xp 1

Spells (number in parenthesis is normal casting total)
From the Standard Grimoire:
*The Immaculate Beast MuAn 15 (+14)
*Alleviate the Serpent's Bite PeAn 5 (+11)
*Beast of Outlandish Size MuAn 15 (+14)
*Subtle Taste of Poison and Purity InAq 5 (+12)
*Chamber of Spring Breezes CrAu 5 (+12)
*Intuition of the Forest InHe 10 (+16)
*Repel the Wooden Shafts ReHe 10 (+15)
*Hornet Fire MuIg 10 (+13)
*Aura of Ennobled Presence MuIm 10 (+13)
*Notes of a Delightful Sound MuIm 5 (+13)
*Unseen Porter ReTe 10 (+12)
*Edge of the Razor MuTe 5 (+14)

Standard Spells altered by Andrei

*Circling Winds of Protection ReAu 15 (+12)
Duration changed to Diameter

*Intuition of the Field InHe 10 (+16)
As Intuition of the Forest, but applies to fields instead

*The Crystal Dart MuTe (Re) 15 (+14) (mastered)
Duration changed to Diameter. A new target may be chosen each round, during the melee phase, but each new target requires a new targetting roll.

Spells invented by Andrei

*The Shepherd's Eye InAn 5 (+13)
As the InCo spell "Revealed Flaws of the Mortal Flesh", but applied to Animals. Range: Touch/ Duration: Momentary/ Target Individual

*The Vinter's Touch MuAq 5 (+13) (Req: An or He)
Turns any natural liquid into wine, with a Int + Finesse stress roll determining quality. If someone else casts the spell, without vis boosting, the wine has the added benefit of not causing a hangover when drunk, as it turns back to its original form at the end of the duration. Andrei, however, can only rarely enjoy this advantage, as the lengthened duration of the spell means its damage is done before the spell wears off.
Botch: Vinegar
3+: Poor quality
6+: Average Quality
9+: Good quality
12+: Excellent quality
Range: Touch
Duration: Sun/Instant
Target: Individual (one amphora, wineskin, etc.)
Focus: a Drop of wine (+1, which adds to the Finesse roll, as well)

Library:
In addition to his lab note books, Andre has the following books in his library:
*Records of the Freeholding of High Meadows (Tractatus, High Meadows Lore (Business), level 5, quality 6)
*On Divination (Summa, Intellego, level 5, quality 4)
*The Airy Sphere (Summa, Auram, level 7, quality 4)
*Mastery of Field and Forest (Summa, Herbam, level 14, quality 8)

Spell Texts (That he hasn't learned yet):
MuAq10 Water of the Ineffable Sweetness
ReAu15 Broom of Winds
ReIm15 The Captive Voice
MuVi20 Wizard's Communion
ReVi10 Maintaining the Demanding Spell