Jacob Bournell

Jacob "Hunter" Bournell is a mage of the Virtual Adepts. Many consider him to by the premier Cypherpunk of the era.

Biography
Born in Colorado, Jacob was an average student. He graduated from a private high school, had an unspectacular time double-majoring in college,and dropped out of college one year before obtaining a degree. He then took a job as a computer playtester, and after a couple of years started producing games for a minor software company.

What most people don’t know is that this entire history is a carefully designed façade. A third generation Adept, Hunter had already seen family and friends fall to the Technocracy He deliberately avoided the spotlight to blend into society and begin his real work among the Adepts unnoticed. His Awakening two years after he left college gave him the indelible impression that he had a destiny to fulfill: to protect an up-and-coming Adept who would be vital to the success of Reality 2.0.

He has yet to meet such a person, but he takes great pleasure from his job. He makes a living designing airtight identities for people on the run. Dozens of mages, both Tradition and Technocracy, are indebted to him, and he has saved countless lives. He’s been able to shift mages, Sleeper families, friends, even entire villages, off the Technocracy “radar” and into hiding.

Unknown to most, however, is that he is also a low-level functionary of the New World Order, using their resources to point them at truly evil mages, such as Nephandi or truly evil Technocrats. He has almost been discovered Six times to date.