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| == Background ==
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| <p>{{tab}}Jacob Storn grew up in the American South, the son of a nurse who raised him largely alone after his parents' divorce. Shaped by a family of teachers on his father's side and practical hands-on small business owners on his mother's, Jacob inherited both a love of learning and a deep respect for craft. He was quiet, observant, and perpetually drawn to old things, especially old buildings, in ways he couldn't articulate. When he earned admission to UCLA's prestigious Architecture and Urban Design program, it felt less like ambition and more like following something that had always been pulling him west.</p>
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| <p>{{tab}}At UCLA Jacob distinguished himself academically while remaining socially reserved โ a Southern kid quietly out of step with California's easy confidence. By his sophomore year he had developed an obsession he kept largely to himself: certain ancient structures felt geometrically correct in ways that defied conventional architectural theory. He began documenting recurring mathematical ratios across disconnected ancient cultures โ ratios appearing in Egyptian temples, Gothic cathedrals, and Indigenous mounds alike. It was during this period that he first encountered Roland Sark, an independent scholar and visiting lecturer from Cambridge whose published work on sacred geometry came closer than anything else Jacob had found to addressing what he was sensing.</p>
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| <p>{{tab}}On the winter solstice of December 21st, 2012, alone in a private study room in the university library, the pattern Jacob had been chasing for three years completed itself. The Awakening hit him like a bone setting. He went to Sark the next day. Sark was ready for him. Seven years of formal apprenticeship followed, structured deliberately around completing Jacob's Master of Architecture degree โ his thesis on sacred geometric ratios becoming, in retrospect, his first genuine work of Hermetic scholarship. He returned to Los Angeles in 2020, where his Sanctum waited, and where Roland Sark had quietly suggested the real work was about to begin. </p>
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| == RP Hooks ==
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Sacred Geometry:''' Ask him about a building and he will tell you more than you expected</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Gray Market Antiquities:''' Estate sales, demolition finds, private collections of uncertain provenance</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Order of Hermes:''' Hermetic scholars, House Verditius artificers, anyone who knows what a Verditius actually does</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Ascension Lodge:''' Recent addition, quietly getting his bearings</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Highland Park:''' Established there since 2020, knows the neighborhood</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Architectural Consulting:''' Legitimate cover, genuine credentials</p>
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| == Stereotypes ==
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Order of Hermes''':<br>
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| ย ย One of ours. Verditius, which explains the hands. Sark trained him well enough.</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Technocracy''':<br>
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| ย ย An architect who finds old things. Probably harmless. Probably.</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Other Traditions''':<br>
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| ย ย Reserved. Watches more than he talks. Knows things about objects that he shouldn't.</p>
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| <p>[[image:Dot black-mini.png|15px|link=]] '''Sleepers''':<br>
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| ย ย Quiet guy, works with old buildings. Keeps odd hours.</p>
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| == Contacts ==
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| <p>[[Image:UCLAIcon.png|50px|link=]] NAME - About them.</p>
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| == Gallery ==
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| <center>[[File:Storn2.jpg|x250px|Field work]][[File:Storn5.jpg|x250px|Studio]]</center>
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| <center>[[File:Storn4.jpg|x250px|Survey]][[File:Storn3.jpg|x250px|Early career]]</center>
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| == Vital Stats ==
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| | class="title" | '''Full Name:'''
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| | class="info" | Jacob Storn
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| | class="title" | '''Appears As:'''
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| | class="info" | Storn
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| | class="title" | '''Tradition:'''
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| | class="info" | Order of Hermes
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| | class="title" | '''House:'''
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| | class="info" | House Verditius
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| | class="title" | '''Concept:'''
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| | class="info" | Antiquarian
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| | class="title" | '''Awakening:'''
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| | class="info" | December 21, 2012
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| | class="title" | '''Mentor:'''
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| | class="info" | Roland Sark
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| | class="title" | '''Location:'''
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| | class="info" | Highland Park, Los Angeles
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| | class="info" | Architectural Consultant<br>Relic Hunter
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| | class="info" | ๐ด๐ด๐ด๐ดโซ๏ธ
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| | class="info" | ๐ด๐ด๐ดโซ๏ธโซ๏ธ
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| :''Here in the afterglow of day''
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| :''We keep our rendezvous beneath the blue''
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| :''Here in the sweet and same old way''
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| :''I fall in love again as I did then''
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