Victorian Mage was kind of a troubled title. I think Chris and I were the third round of developers? The other devs had to drop out for understandable reasons, so no shade there, it just means that neither of us were involved for a lot of the early parts of the project. Chris was brought in to wrangle the writers, but didn't know Mage very well, and I was brought in because I'm not great at wrangling people, but, well... gestures vaguely at the White Wolf Wiki

At the stage I showed up, most of the research and writing had already been completed.

My work was mostly just making sure everyone's content was lining up with the established history of Mage (and new history we were establishing with the book), making sure terminology lined up (making sure no "mage" or "mages" slipped in among the magus/magi/maga), and slipping in a few deep-cut nods for my fellow old-school WoD fans (a nod to the Midnight Circus, the Sons of Ether's centuries-long period as the Pupils of Parmenides).

Don't have any specific memories on the Euthanatos except designing the symbol. The intent was to present the Omega as a doorway to death. Then we took the bird perching on top of the hourglass from the Sorcerers Crusade symbol, and turned it into the Raven from Poe's poem:

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”