Karlsruhe Stringer

The most well-known graduates of Karlsruhe University, a Karlsruhe Stringer is a Hermetic mage working freelance as a corporate security or R&D consultant. They have a reputation for discipline, investigative skill, and professional ruthlessness. Many if not all Stringers are also practicing Freemasons. In general, they are known more for their dispassionate academic approach, comprehensive knowledge, and professional paranoia than their skilled casting. However, non-Awakened arcane security consultants from Karlsruhe are never classified as Stringers.

For clarity's sake, the Stringers are not considered to be a formal organization or initiation group of any kind - simply a label slapped onto a certain class of alumni with advanced degree who meet the above criteria. Masonic Stringers generally belong to Masonic initiation groups, whereas freelancers on long-term contract or retainer from a megacorp often initiative in that corporation's own initiate group.