The Prudent Magician

 is a potential Chief Engineer crew member.

Background
He's a good engineer, despite that missing hand. But zailors fall silent when he passes.

Character description
"He has turned aside from his revenge."

Obtaining
The  can be obtained by following the Genial Magician storylet:
 * Get a Serpent-Image by one of the following methods:
 * Go to Venderbight, do the action until you get the A Serpent-Image random event (5% chance). Since random events depend on luck, you may have to return to Venderbight many times with Something Awaits You before you get this.
 * A more reliable way is to bring to Irem and choose  to enter the Mirror-Marches where you can.
 * In the A Serpent-Image event, do the The Genial Magician has a use for it action.
 * Go to Khan's Heart, do the Find help for the Genial Magician interaction and choose any of the actions.
 * Go to The Forgotten Quarter in London, reach the Third part and do the Dissuade the Genial Magician from his plan action and be successful at the Hearts challenge.

You will also need the following:
 * One of these three:
 * 500 x Echo
 * 1 x Watchful Curio + 2 x Bale of Parabola-Linen + 5 x Secret
 * 1 x A Pewter Horsehead
 * 1 x Firkin of Prisoner's Honey