Roger Wood
Dr. Roger Wood
Roger was born in 1935, in Oxford, England. Raised in a small messy home filled with books, his father was one of the surrealist poets, who extolled the virtues of the “primitives” and filled the house with chanting and music from far off lands. His mother was a warm and amiable woman, very well liked in the town and with many admirers. His childhood was dominated by World War 2, during which his father served in the home guard. Long nights were spent huddled under blankets reading books. Owing to his father’s eccentricity, there was a dearth of charming books for children. Instead evenings were filled with air raid sirens and books in Greek, Latin, German, or ancient Egyptian. Man's Life is This Meat by David Gascoyne, Dalí's Conquest of the Irrational, the Malleus Maleficarum, and the Keys of Solomon… Strange texts for a young boy, but when German planes are shaking the slate from the roof you don’t complain.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Standing 6'2" he has a slim frame and relatively poor posture, owing to a half century of sitting hunched over books.
Facial Features
He still wears the long hair and scruffy beard of the 60's hippy movement. Luckily it doesn't stand out as much in the modern night as it did in the intervening years.
Apparel & Accessories
He has 3 modes. In private he dresses for comfort, in general public he dresses professionally. When Performing magic, he favors the theatrical trappings of the occult.
Mental characteristics
Gender Identity
Demi-Male
Sexuality
Pansexual
Education
Royal Holloway
(1953-1956), BA Ancient literature; Primi Ordinis
(1956-1957), MA Comparative Literature and Culture
University of Oxford
(1957-1960), PhD Comparative Literature and Culture, Dissertation: Comparative Metaphysics of Early Cultures: Impacts on Modern Neo-Pagan Practices
(1960-1969) Post Doctorial Research Fellow, primarily performing field research in the emergent “hippy” movement as it relates to neo-pagan practices.
Employment
Interim/Provisional Regent of Morgantown Chantry
Accomplishments & Achievements
Widely published before and after embrace in matters of the esoteric and concerning comparative mythologies and culture.
Failures & Embarrassments
An unsanctioned embrace has resulted in nearly 50 years of penance and near exile.
Intellectual Characteristics
Powerfully curious
Morality & Philosophy
Heavily influenced by the surrealist movement, the civil rights movement, hippy counterculturalism
Current Location
Morgantown WV
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Prince of Morgantown
Regent of the Morgantown Chantry
Regent of the Morgantown Chantry
Date of Birth
Sepember 1, 1935
Birthplace
Oxford, a university city in Oxfordshire, England
Children
Current Residence
Morgantown WV
Gender
Male
Eyes
Blue
Hair
Blond
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Fair
Height
6’2”
Weight
195 lbs.
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