Hooray! ^____^ Welcome to the game! I was so excited to hear that we were getting a new Circle mage, and omg he's a great big adorkable nerd too! <3333
Introductions! I'm Dorie, but I go by Cons or Constans around here. Two of my three characters are denizens of the Circle tower, so we have a ton of possibilities for connections and backscenes! I want to conspire with you so bad oh my goodness you have no idea. TOWER PEOPLE!
Constans is a Tranquil (I baww'd over the Tranquil bff in Kenton's backstory, oh Tranquil ilu), and before he bacame Tranquil he was... well, a dick, mostly. When he was brought to the tower a couple years after the Blught he spent a lot of his time dodging classes, playing pranks and being as big a jerk as possible to anybody he didn't like. I have a very special feeling that he and a nice mage like Kenton probably didn't get on very well. XD
Alderic is a Templar who has been stationed in the tower since he was a teenager, not long after the Blight. He's a very nice young man and treats mages with respect, but is very pious and serious about his religion and his duties. He's also secretly a really big nerd and loves books and other nerds, so I can easily see him having a healthy dose of respect for Enchanter Kenton. His experiences as a Templar have made him skittish about forming relationships with mages beyond polite acquaintance, but his awkward friendship with Bethen Avilla suggests he's not very good at being impartial.
My third character is a crazy surface dwarf lumberjack lady named Johann Bronson, who unfortunately probably doesn't have much chance of background character connections with your fellow. Even sadder, none of my characters are in G3! I'd love to do some tower backscenes with the others though, that would be amazing.