filius Patiens, of House Aegidius
trained by the Inceptum 348-350; apprenticed in 350; declared mage in 365
Inceptum: 348-350
Calvus Grigori: 350-365
Tempestatem Sedare: 365-401
Lapidis: 401-
Aquinas was found by the Inceptum in 348 and prepared for Cholaeic training from 348 to 350. He was the only of the Inceptum's male students during this time, although the girls who would later become Mel21a and Mel21b were also being trained there over these two years.
When Aquinas was deemed ready for apprenticeship in 350, he was given over to Patiens, the filius of Spingelli, at Calvus Grigori. There, he also received training from the Savacion Faustus, and from 353 on was joined in Amicitian Fellowship with Faustus' student [S72], himself also an Inceptum-found student. Faustus and [S72]'s eventual conversion to Plenilunial Elementalism, however, dismayed both Aquinas and his parens Patiens, and the latter years of Aquinas' apprenticeship were really Amicitian far more in name than in practice.
A deep believer in redemptive possibilities (of which indeed he considered his own life to be a fine example), he worked closely throughout the last year of his apprenticeship with his brother Augustine and the Cristoferean Quilibet, aiding them in engineering the Cholaeic Amnesty of 365. In that same year, the Sixth Fellowship was amicably dissolved by mutual consent and Aquinas was declared mage; shortly thereafter, he left Calvus Grigori with Augustine and Quilibet to found Covenant Tempestatem Sedare in Chaeronia.
At Tempestatem Sedare, Aquinas took a particularly keen spiritual interest in the reformed diabolists of Prima Lux, with whose position he felt he could strongly identify -- he, too, was from the Dawn. He served as confidante, if not quite as confessor, to a number of them in the early days of the Cholaeic Amnesty. When in 401 one of his erstwhile confiders, the Manerean Irrumator, betrayed his brother Augustine to arrest and execution at the hands of the Ventrians, Aquinas became very deeply depressed. He retired to Lapidis along with his apprentice later that year.
Aquinas had always felt that he owed a strong debt of gratitude to the Inceptum for having saving him from his previous life course. As mage, he took only Inceptum-found students as apprentices, and he encouraged his elder student Ecclesius to return to the Inceptum as a trainer once he himself had ascended to magehood. In 403, he supported the Inceptum's recall of its students, handing over his second student [A73] for examination without demur, and he continued in his support even after much of the Order had begun to turn against the Inceptum. Even in the wake of the Nonae Fidelitatis incident, Aquinas remained firm in his support, maintaining that the Inceptum's only crime had been their naivete in trusting to the judgement of the Quintus Opacan Lemmites. His unfailing advocacy was one of the factors which led so many of the disgraced members of the Inceptum to retire to Lapidis after their own covenant's forced dissolution in 406.
Aquinas is currently the eldest mage at Covenant Lapidis, and one of the senior magi of House Aegidius. He remains an ardent supporter of his filius Ecclesius, who in his eyes can do no wrong.
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