GLRP:EMs:Event Bios:Magnus Grey
Magnus Grey
Occupation: Minister of Security, Royal Spymaster
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Location: Britain
Alignment: Virtuous
Status: Alive
Bio:
Magnus Grey is the current Minister of Security for Queen Dawn and her government. Previously, he served under Casca as the Royal Spymaster. In this role, he officially held the title of Minister of Agriculture, in mockery of his urban background. (He was from the capital city of Britain).
Magnus Grey was a career field operative in the realm's Secret Service, and was promoted following Casca's ascent to the throne seemingly because he was willing to break rules to keep the realm safe.
Under Magnus Grey's leadership, a motley collection of volunteers were gathered together to do just that. Through a series of difficult training missions and grueling, brutal, taxing covert operations, the Royal Spies became aware of a villain who called himself Pauper. After a long and complex chain of events, this Pauper was eventually revealed to be an alternate identity of Casca, the King Pro Tempere himself.
This placed Magnus in an awkward spot, but he made his choice and effectively wound up as a resistance leader, along with Dawn (the soon-to-be-Queen) herself and Sherry the Mouse. He was imprisoned for awhile in one of Casca's secret prisons. Following Dawn's ascent to the the Throne, Magnus was promoted to Minister of Security. The Royal Spies remain, basically as part of the Minister of Security's personal staff.
Magnus can fairly be said to be characterized by tension between a strong sense of morality and loyalty on one hand, and a kind of quiet ruthlessness on the other.
The following is a second-hand account of Minister Grey's recruitment to be the Spymaster/Minister of Agriculture, following Casca's becoming King:
A guard dragged a scruffy man into the interrogation room and pushed him into a chair. The guard inspected the shackles on the prisoner and tipped his helm to a man in official robes before leaving the room. Dropping his chained hands into his lap, the prisoner sneered at the other man.
“Magnus Grey. It’s been a long time,” said the official.
“Shh, James. Not so loud. Don’t blow my cover!” Magnus whispered hoarsely.
“It doesn’t matter now. You won’t be going back. It’s not as though we keep anyone important in Yew prison anymore,” said James. He threw a heavy pack at Magnus’s feet. “Change out of those rags.”
“I’m being re-assigned?” Magnus fiddled with the lock on his shackles.
“Actually, you’re being promoted. There was a mass assassination. The boss was one of the victims. You are going to replace him.”
The tumblers clicked, and Magnus set the shackles aside. He opened the pack and removed a suit of armor and a blade.
“I thought I was out of favor due to that incident with the Meer ambassador.” Magnus carefully put on the chain tunic. Despite the heavy metal rings, the set was silent. He ran his finger along a small letter “T” carved into a ring of the tunic.
“There are bigger problems to worry about with us at war. The people in charge want new blood, new faces. They think you’re willing to break the rules a bit to keep us all safe.”
“What about Dexter or Tess? They have more experience. Heck, they trained us.” Magnus started trimming his beard with the edge of the blade.
“Dexter’s dead. Happened when he tried to infiltrate a group of cultists. Agent Midnight disappeared about three months back, and we assume the worst. I’m sorry. I know you two had some history.”
“That was a long time ago.“ Magnus looked down sadly at his chain tunic. “I assume you’ve already worked out my cover. I can’t go around saying I’m the Royal Spymaster.”
“Officially, you’ll be the Minister of Agriculture. It seemed an amusing title for a city boy like you. I mean, look at you: five minutes time, and already you’re looking slick enough to see the king.”
“King?” asked Magnus as they walked out of the room.
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