Simon Ben-Levi
Simon Ben-Levi, "Brother-to-Steel" was a Warder of Men who lived during the Dark Ages. He was a member of the Sept of Bright Promise.[1]
Background
Simon was born to a Kinfolk blacksmith in Antioch. While his father's income was of great value to the Warder sept there, young Simon seemed destined for other things. He was an intelligent child and quickly took to architecture and engineering. He had an intuitive eye for building things. Given a bit of charcoal and some time, he could sketch out wonderfully accurate depictions of almost anything he could study. When his First Change came (during a particularly vivid nightmare), he was spirited away to the sept and quickly learned the ways of the Theurge. Simon was particularly adept at talking to the Weaver spirits in objects and structures, and the ever-thickening strands of the Pattern Web he could perceive fascinated him. A "misunderstanding" with an older Garou encouraged him to relocate to Acre. Years later, after Aldo came, Simon sensed a hopeful anxiety among the Weaver spirits, as though they discerned some great potential in the young Philodox. Simon could not but offer his aid.
Image
Skirting the cusp between heavyset and corpulent, Simon is obviously both well fed and a bit sedentary. He wears a full beard, forelocks and a yarmukle, in the fashion of his ancestors, while in Homid form. Simon has a soft look about him, as though he's never really seen a day's work (which is not entirely true). He often loses focus in conversations, looking past or around those he is speaking to, and his tone takes on a distracted note as he ponders Weaver-spirits, marvels at a piece of architecture or considers an idea.
References
- ↑ DAV: Right of Princes, p. 125
- DA: Spoils of War, p. 111