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Maxwell Anderson Mercer is the founder of the Æon Society.

Backstory[]

Mercer is both a potent Talent and a time traveller. Of his abilities his core one is to manipulate timelines in order to let the more favorable ones to succeed. Mercer's classification is that of a Daredevil as he can bend probability and time itself.

He grew up in Chicago, but moved to New York to assist in his society's operations.

1900s[]

In 1922, Mercer disappeared from his friends and families and upon his return founded the Æon Society for Gentlemen. The disappearance was due to the Hammersmith Incident which caused Mercer as well as others to become Talents.

Missing Six Months[]

Immediately following the Hammersmith Incident, Mercer experienced time skips which caused him to jump between points in time. At first these skips only encompassed a few minutes, but then progressed futher and futher until he was jumping all over the timeline.

Eventually, Mercer was able to wrangle enough control to experience the future. Seeing key moments such as the rise of AEon Society and the Aberrant War. During this time a mirror version of himself was hunting him. This entity was identical to him, but without any hope and full of cruelty. After fighting himself, Mercer reappeared in a weakened state in Dr. Primoris's office.

Rise of the AEon Society[]

His goal was to collect the greatest minds across the world, they didn't have to be the best he stressed they just had to be great. He made sure to keep the organization untethered to any governmental body.

Sometime before 1930, Mercer dropped "for Gentlemen" from the Æon Society's name.

He and Doctor Primoris assisted Harry Houdini in discrediting spiritualists.

At some point, Mercer dictated that instead of him making decisions, the decisions of the Æon Society would be handled by a board of directors. In the 1950's a Michael Maxwell Mercer who claimed to be Maxwell's son (his mother a mystery) took over leadership in AEon Society until his death in late 2010s.

It is believed that due to Mercer's time travelling he is accutely aware of the dangers of Fascism and dedicates his group to stand against Fascist organizations.

Other Allegiances[]

Whitley Styles requested Mercer to help create the Neptune Foundation. Mercer has some affiliation with the Pharaoh's Lightkeepers, much of which is speculative. The Triton Foundation is an offshoot of the AEon Society who always accept requests from Mercer. Mercer helps Enkidu and Rabia Al-Harrak to find Inspired to join the Order of the Stars.

Modern Era[]

Legend states that Mercer and the Daughters of the Jacobins' cofounder Isidora Legrand a position in the Æon Society.

Nova Age[]

Mercer tries not to influence the era of the Nova Age as its an experiment by his friend Michael Donighal. And Michael needs to experience the failure. But also Project Utopia's use of novas to help humanitarian aid efforts plants seeds that reach fruition in the future.

Mercer did try to stop the Aberrant War from occurring, but in doing so created a knot of branching timelines within the timeline that made it difficult to travel to his own time. Since then, Max has resorted to making smaller changes to the timeline to avoid such a complication.

Æon[]

Rumors exist that either Max Mercer himself or a descendent is still running Æon Trinity.

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