Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno was a 16th century philosopher whose life was heavily influenced by House Dvora and Father Self of Faction Paradox . Biography . Early life . Bruno originated from the Italian town of Nola . He was the son of a soldier . From a young age , Bruno was manipulated by an agent of House Dvora impersonating a Cardinal . The end - goal of Dvora was to shape Bruno into an individual who would become pope , reform the Catholic Church , and lead Europe into an early age of rationalism , altering human history in a way which would benefit them in the War . The Cardinal frequently visited Bruno in Nola and became somewhat of a tutor . Bruno left home to receive an education at a monastery in Naples , learning about mathematics , physics , astronomy , and metaphysics . Bruno was dissatisfied with what he was taught and began forming his own ideas about the universe . The Cardinal continued visiting Bruno while he was at the monastery . Near the end of Bruno ' s time at the monastery , the Cardinal returned as an entirely different man claiming to be the Cardinal ' s nephew ; Bruno sensed that somehow the nephew and the Cardinal were one and the same . After finishing his education at the age of 24 , Bruno was ordained a priest . In order to handle all of his knowledge , Bruno devised a system of mnemonic techniques . The techniques were so effective at enhancing memory that Bruno was invited to Rome to demonstrate his mind to the Pope . However , Bruno took an interest in heresy and magic , topics which could have him tried and executed by the Church . Bruno fled the monastery and took to a life of wandering . Wandering Europe . For a decade , Bruno became a wandering scholar , travelling Europe and spreading his memory techniques and views on cosmology . All the while , he continued to study magical texts . He also published " De umbris idearum " , a book on his theories of mnemonics . After angering the Calvinists in Geneva and the Lutherans in Helmstadt , Bruno found protection with the king of France . After living in the French court , Bruno relocated to the French embassy in London . He became associated with John Dee and the Service . Bruno found significant progress with his research into magic during his stay in England ; particularly with his acquisition of a Faction Paradox mask from an occult collector in Oxford . In 1584 , Bruno performed an experimental ritual with the Faction mask , accidentally creating an astral link with the mask ' s owner , Father Self , in the Eleven - Day Empire . Self informed Bruno of the fate that Dvora wished for him to have and also informed him of another possible fate : to be burned at the stake by the Church , becoming a martyr . Before leaving , Self advised Bruno that - should he go down the martyr route - it would be beneficial to teach the mnemonic techniques to as many people as possible . ( PROSE : " De Umbris Idearum " ) The path to death . Bruno couldn ' t decide which future he wanted , but he nonetheless followed Self ' s advise to personally spread his mnemonic system . Bruno eventually returned to Italy , where he was captured by authorities . He was given the chance to repent , but he didn ' t and shortly afterwards he was burned at the stake . ( PROSE : " De Umbris Idearum " ) Remembrances . Father Self collected memories of Bruno from everyone Bruno had taught the memory system and used them to recreate Bruno with a remembrance tank . Self took this remembrance of Bruno forward in time to Anathema in 1799 and left him there with the Remote . By 2012 , Bruno had been simplified by generations of remembrance into Brown . Sometime after Gerard Evangelista joined the Remote , a remembrance of Bruno was inspired by the personalised nature of internet to try to change the Remote ' s relationship with signals . The remembrance proposed that members of the Remote should choose which signals they receive . The other Remote didn ' t take kindly to this proposed revolution , so they murdered the remembrance and sabotaged his remembrance tank so that he couldn ' t be recreated . ( PROSE : " De Umbris Idearum " ) City of the Saved . In the City of the Saved , Bruno created the Memory Theatre . ( PROSE : " A Hundred Words from a Civil War " )