Michael "mike" crew

Michael is a pale man with a white Lichtenberg figure scar running across his neck and back, short, pale blue eyes, smells of ozone. short brown hair, darkish Scarf, light blue sweater, jeans. He's tone with minor abs. His personality is overall Teasing , he likes his privacy, somewhat friendly, somewhat of a Recluse. When Mike was 8, he was struck by lightning when playing in a field with Dominic Swain during an intense storm. The lightning branded him with the fractal pattern of a Lichtenberg figure, he was pursued throughout his life by a creature of The Spiral that took the shape of a strobing, branching figure that tormented him with illusions of storms. In 1996, he found The Boneturner's Tale, a book from the library of Jurgen Leitner. He tried to remove his scar using the book's power but any changes he made to his body were laced with fractals. He deposited it in Chiswick Library along with four other books. Later after encountering The Boneturner's Tale, he was briefly in possession of a book in Cyrillic that tried to "read him back." He buried it. From late 1997 to early 1998, Michael frequented Lions Street Books and eventually found Ex Altiora, a book of The Vast. He bound the creature pursuing him to it and devoted himself to The Vast, becoming an avatar. In 2017, Michael is contacted by Jonathan Sims. When John offends Michael by bluntly asking about his scar, Michael dramatically affects John's perception of the world and forces his senses to believe he is falling at terminal velocity. Michael describes his life leading up to his becoming an avatar of The Vast in a statement. He returns John's senses to normal, but later knocked out by Daisy and later murder and Buried.

the Eye, the patron entity of the Magnus Institute, and the fear of being watched or having one's secrets exposed; the Spiral, the fear of madness and lies; the End, the fear of death; the Stranger, the fear of the uncanny or things that are not quite human; the Lonely, the fear of being alone; the Desolation, the fear of fire, pain, and destruction; the Slaughter, the fear of violence; the Vast, the fear of the infinite or of being insignificant; the Buried, the fear of being trapped without enough space, whether physical or not; the Dark, the fear of the darkness and what might be in it; the Corruption, the fear of rot, decay, filth; the Web, the fear of spiders and of being manipulated; the Flesh, the fear that one is nothing more than meat; the Hunt, the fear of being hunted.