Einstein

Initiate of Spirit

Apprentice of Forces

Disciple of Prime

Alice White was born in Chicago, to a scientific mother and a blue-collar father. Through her childhood, her mother imprinted in her a sense of wonder about the workings of the universe. The sense of wonder soon evolved into an obsession that stayed with her all through high school and carried her into a small local college.

She managed to make it through several years, maintaining average-to-good grades, and going for a full PhD in her favorite subject: Physics, which she considered the true laws of the universe. During her last year of college, while writing her thesis paper in her room, she went to sleep stressed and confused. On one of those nights, the Supernal sang to her, calling her soul to the Aether, where she wandered, guided by the pull of a bright light in the distance, through fields of power made manifest, until she reached the Watchtower and signed her name upon its side.

At first, after she awoke from her Awakening, she wrote it off as a stress dream long enough to complete her thesis and obtain a teaching license. However, her new power would not be denied, and it manifested itself enough times for the mages on the lookout to spot it. An elder of the Mysterium, looking for a new apprentice, took her under his wing and inducted her into the first level of the mysteries. He sealed her apprenticeship by binding her to a spirit that had been lurking in the Shadow of his library, giving her an eternal companion and close friend.

Once she was liberated from her tutelage, the newly renamed 'Liber' delved into her own studies, melding a knowledge of Sleeper mathematics and concepts of the universe with new knowledge of the workings of magic. However, as her studies led her to theories against the very core of Mysterium beliefs, she was interrupted often, and her studies were mocked and ignored by her equals and betters. Eventually, she could take it no more, and she left the Mysterium to join an organization she believed would accept and appreciate her studies; she joined the Free Council.

Renaming herself 'Einstein' and moving to find a new job and a group of people who wouldn't know of her past allegiances, she has come to Sacramento to continue her studies and experiments.

Parliament:

Parliament is Einstein's longtime friend and companion, an owl-spirit Familiar that was bound to her soon after her initiation into the world of magic. He often provides a source of wisdom and knowledge, as well as a reminder to eat, sleep, or even drink. He appears as a large owl, made of various shifting fractals of light.