Alistair Montague, born 1920 in France to a family who ran a travelling circus. From the age of ten, Alistair would train with the trapeze artists and occasionally assist in shows if a trapeze artist was out for the performance. His family had no known history of sorcery, so he wasn't aware of it till the oracle who travelled around with them taught him about it. It turned out she was a sensitive, and would teach him about the different disciplines. At age 19, he enlisted in WW2 on the side of the allies. While there, he encountered many of his higher ups, some of them being past soldiers from WW1, one being a man, Major Thompson.
Alistair went through his surge during the war, and went MIA. Alistair's ability fell under the adapt category, a quite macabre ability to temporarily take on parts of someone's appearance to his own, he only needs a belonging or an item associated with that person, the only drawback is that the person's soul becomes tethered to him and has a chance of possessing him.
His surge started off with him hearing the voices of people in his head, some speaking in the German language and some familiar voices of fallen comrades, this was happening because he had kept some of the belongings of his comrades, and some shotgun shells tethered to other souls. It got too much for him while his troop was wading through marshland and he got left behind. Some nearby townspeople found him and brought him in, turns out that the town was full of sorcerers that helped him through it. He was able to make his way back to the last place his family would've been, but found out that most of them had dispersed after hearing that he was reported MIA.
When the war ended, he managed to travel to England and start a small detective job in the English Sanctuary. Reports of activity from the Church of the Faceless started coming in, then without warning, the Sanctuary gave him a job that hit too close to home. Major Thompson had been murdered in his home, and it was suspected that he was part of a group that worshipped the Faceless Ones. He was poisoned with a chemical that was given to all members of the group incase they were found out, but after investigating, they found an untouched vial next to his bedside dresser in his bedroom that turned out to be his. That meant that another member had to have done it. Alistair asked the family's permission to take one of Thompson's belongings, an ornate pocket watch.
The investigation was nearing an end when Alistair was called in by one of the Grand Mages, who told him that the investigation was being given to another investigator, though this one was know to be an easily bribeable one. Alistair tried to convince the Grand Mage to let him continue, but as he was about to, it clicked, the Grand Mage had something to do with this, didn't he? So Alistair left with no more hassle, got home and took out the Major's pocket watch to find out one more key detail, but the Major wanted something in compensation.
A week later, Alistair was in a meeting with the Grand Mage who was telling Alistair that he had been sacked from the job, but as he was beginning to finish his talk, The Grand Mage collapsed dead in his seat. In the commotion, Alistair ran out of the room and threw the pack of cigarettes and the vial of poison to the crumpled corpse of the Grand Mage's advisor, whom he had killed earlier.
Now in the present, Alistair is still semi wanted from the English Sanctuary for his crimes, but has managed to evade them, for now.