Galerion the Mystic
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Galerion the Mystic is the fictional Altmer founder of the Mages' Guild in the fictional role-playing video game series, The Elder Scrolls. He is never met face-to-face in any of the games, but he is highly revered by mages, and many consider him the greatest mage who ever lived.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Vanus Galerion was born Trechtus at the beginning of the second era. His parents were laborers, but his father had secretly learned to read, and then pass the knowledge on to Tretchus. But because (out of paranoia) their master, Lord Gyranesse, had illegalized literature except for within his keep, a smuggling operation began to run in order to keep books and scrolls in ciriculation.
When Trechtus was eight years of age, the smugglers were caught, possibly ratted out by Trechtus' own mother. The smugglers would be imprisoned, while Trechtus' father was executed.
Three months after the smugglers were apprehended, Trechtus escaped from Lord Gyranesse's estate. He ran half-way across Summerset Isle until he was found close to death by a traveling troubadours, who cared for him and used him as an errand boy. one of the members of the troup was Heliand, a soothsayer, began to evaluate Trechtus' knowledge of the Arcane Arts, and found them quite exceptional.
When the troup was in the town of Potansa, on the Isle's eastern shore, Heliand brought young Trechtus to the Isle of Artaeum. It was there that Magister Iachesis saw the boy's potential and took him as an apprentice, bestowing upon him the name of Vanus Galerion.
[edit] Later Life and Death
After his training was complete, Galerion began to continue studying the Arcane Arts, and wanted to share it with the rest of the world. He formed the Mages' Guild to help do so. When the Imperials finally conquered the Summerset Isles, they accepted the Guild and helped strengthen it by setting up guildhalls in every region in Tamriel as well as authorizing the guild. But Galerion would not find peace for long.
Galerion, like most Altmeri was against necromancy, the study of the dead and undead, and thus kept it out of Guild curriculum, and later managed to illegalize it. This caused many local necromancers in distant regions to become furious with the Mages' Guild when the Empire set up guildhalls in their regions and then forced them to give up necromancy. They began to work underground in caves and ruins. The were, for the most part, scattered bands of mages that didn't pose nay threat to the guild. But that changed with the arrival of Mannimarco, the so-called King of Worms. This powerful necromancer began to unite his comrades under his banner, and started attacking the Guild. Galerion asked his Council of Mages to make hunting down and killing Mannimarco a top priority, but they believed that the treat would go away with time. Furious, Galerion left the guild, and took those loyal to him to help hunt down the King. He began a small-scale war between the Mages and the Necromancers that would die down and then rekindle over and over again with each new aggravation. Galerion and his men finally found Mannimarco and engaged him, but was unsuccessful. The battle, while weakening the Nercomaners' numbers, did not stop the violence, and Galerion was killed during the conflict. Mannimarco would somehow escape.
[edit] Legacy
Galerion is seen in the eyes of modern-day Tamriel as a great wizard and man, not a traitor to the guild. His betrayal is viewed as a necessary one, and the Mages' Guild is still the leading Arcane organization in all Tamriel.
