In the first few years of his life, Nicholas de Vere was
raised in the Hertfordshire countryside. At the age of seven,
Nicholas’ family moved to the remote outskirts of the Kentish
village of Kemsing, and then later to isolated rural settings in
Devon and Sussex. Nicholas’ father and mother had contempt for human
beings and human society. Thus, they sought to protect Nicholas from
their mediocrity and banality in the sanctuary of the country.
Nicholas’ father was a skilled backwoodsman and during these
formative years Nicholas was instilled with country knowledge, as
well as a deep respect for the natural world and its delicate
balances.
As he was growing up, Nicholas’ father taught him of the family’s
royal Scottish origins and of its involvement with royal witchcraft
within the dragon tradition, which had been passed down to Nicholas’
father by his own parents. Nicholas’ father was
gifted
with the “king’s touch.” His paternal grandmother - a Scottish
Gael - was a skilled seer, and his maternal grandmother had
spent years as a student of mediumship.
Both of Nicholas’
parents were deeply committed to his broader education, and fostered
in him at an early age a love of Homer, the Sagas,
classical history and mythology. Nicholas’ father was an
ardent admirer of the work of Omar Khayyam. Consequently
Nicholas grew and developed in isolation, detached from the vacuity
of human culture, enveloped in a world of intellectualism, magic,
mysticism and imagination. Nicholas was raised by his father to
honor the female highly and, as a result of his father’s teaching,
he discovered that the greatest spiritual expression of human
relationship is seraphic in nature: the union of the divinity within
the male and female.
At the age of twelve, Nicholas was magically dedicated to the dragon
tradition formally, and at the age of thirteen he first enacted the
rite known as “Starfire.” Following this period his mother
obtained for him works by
Aliester Crowley, and he studied the principals of the
Black Arts in earnest, gaining a considerable degree of
competence in ritual magic. At the age of fifteen Nicholas underwent
the ancient rite of kingship which, in accordance with archaic
Gaelic tradition, bestows the mantle of sovereignty arising from the
very Earth itself.
By the 1980’s, Nicholas had become intimately conversant with
a broad spectrum of magical traditions, and political perspectives.
During this period he met and rejected numerous proponents of the
Wiccan and New age Movements, considering them to be
uninformed, self-deluding and magically incompetent.
On Midsummer’s night, 1985 Nicholas’ skill in and knowledge
of magic was acknowledged. His family’s hereditary
involvement in royal witchcraft and the Dragon tradition
was recognized by the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic
Order of the Cubic Stone. He was bestowed with the highest
accolade of the covenant: that of Magister Templi. The Order
traced its origins back to the Knights Templars and
Nicholas was able to use his investiture as an invocational key
in the pursuit of deeper, unwritten knowledge. In 1991 Nicholas
was invested as a gartered and anointed knight of the Plantagenet
Clan Donnachaid by Lord Lir of Orkney, the head of a
cousin branch of the House of Vere.
During the 1990’s, Nicholas developed a series of
associations with university lecturers and post-graduate scholars.
Following the academic exchanges which ensued, Nicholas was
encouraged by them to construct the basis for what is now known as
The Dragon Legacy. This was further influenced significantly
by his experience of seraphism and hierogamy during
this period, and by years of commitment to the elven, Dragon
tradition - a tradition within which he is recognized as a royal
Dragon prince by the House of Vere, and is acknowledged as
such by the British Government.
Today, Nicholas de Vere is the sovereign of the Dragon
Court of the Royal House of Vere. As a proponent and scholar of
magic he is unrivalled. He is the original magical prince; the
rightful king of witches by familial inheritance whose ancient,
royal elven blood lineage is unquestionable.
Currently Nicholas lives reclusively as a bachelor in a quiet
village in the English countryside, and aside from his magical
pursuits, he has a broad range of secular interests including an
eclectic taste in music. He is a renaissance man, a polymath.
Nicholas is deeply concerned about environmental issues and
animal welfare, concerns shared by his immediate family and by the
House of Vere in general, whose number include skilled and
experienced ecologists. Nicholas has contempt for the blind
pursuit of money and power, and values above all things simplicity
and transcendence, which he believes are key to the continued
existence of life on Earth in the future.
gifted
with the “king’s touch.” His paternal grandmother - a Scottish
Gael - was a skilled seer, and his maternal grandmother had
spent years as a student of mediumship.