Who is Ace?

Ace is a Mage: part-time investigator, part-time warrior, full-time troubleshooter. Ace flies in on his plane, spends a few days to a few weeks in a location before moving on having solved the Mystery that brought him there. He works on his own schedule, liasing with locals before beginning his investigation.

Ace is a little "racist" in his beliefs that other Supernaturals have no say in Awakened matters. He's not persuasive enough to topple something like Detroit though, forget about Chicago, so he deals with whoever he must, but only when he must and he gets a little dismissive if they try to delay his efforts.

Ace is a Mysterium mage of the Archeaomancers faction within his Order, with a distinct flair for the Pancryptiates style. He gets a bad rap for his unusual obsession, and has a poor reputation as a kook because of it. Fellow Mystagogues often mock him with Ancient Aliens and Disney's Atlantis memes. Nevertheless, Ace is a dogged pursuer of knowledge, undeterred by the derision of his peers. He dives into the investigations because these Ruins of the Time Before and their Artifacts are the key to understanding what Mages have lost, and possibly how to regain it.
Anymore, Ace is feeling more and more chained down by his time in the libraries, museums, and Athenaea the world over. It seems that, lately, the only time he feels truly alive is when he's in the air, or on an adventure trying to solve an ages-old Mystery.

Ace's Obsession

It seems like Ace is more than a little obsessed with a larger Mystery. All the smaller stories he looks into are lesser versions, fallen remnants of something ancient, something Atlantean. Could his fascination with flight be translated into his obsession? The obvious answer is yes. The Mystery of Atlantean Flight is his obsession.

Ace is obsessed with a Mystery that is present in both Awakened and Fallen legends: the Vimana. In modern times, the Sleepers call the Fallen Mystery some variation of UFOs.

But Ace knows better. He connects stories of UFOs, but not to tales of aliens, instead tying them to ancient stories of the Chariots of Gods from various myths. It is a scary level of obsessiveness, he has a very large murder-board dedicated to figuring out the mechanics and science of Atlantean flying machines. He's added to that board an entire section on how the Fallen myths of India base their Vimana on those machines. And a section of pop culture references and how that proves the knowledge of these machines is still in the Temenos. He has a section which explains how the vimana behave curiously similar to how UFOs fly as described in various sightings, with case notes. He'll argue that someone has the powerful knowledge of Vimana and is using it, based on a Closed Silver Uchronia that happened in Mexico that has been time-wiped out of existence. That or an echo is happening through time from the Fall. Or something else, he's fluid in his theories even though they all sound half-mad. But these stories and those things and the ancient tales ARE related, Ace just doesn't know how.