Lem's second student was declared mage in 212 and given the name Consilii Exspectans ("Awaiting Guidance"). It was to prove an apt appellation. Overshadowed early in his career by Lem's first student, the brilliant Tresmillia, and later on by his younger sister, Quae Montes Cieret, Consilii Expectans was to spend his entire life in search of a personal identity which might set him apart from his more talented siblings.
At the Cholaeic diaspora in 232, Consilii left Evasendia with the north-bound diaspora party. Although he was the ranking Lemmite and the elder of Lem's filii on the expedition, his authority was often overwhelmed by Tresmillia's two students, Sine Cruris and Sine Alis, the elder of whom was only one year slightly younger than he, and both of whom were far more charismatic and aggressive. Consilii was dubious about the notion of founding a covenant on Whinnie Moor, a place of dangerous repute, but when it became clear that Tresmillia's students were unwilling to continue further north, he allowed himself to be persuaded. Covenant Brellyn was founded in the forbidding bog of Glun Orddu in the spring of 233.
Consilii Exspectans differed from the students of Tresmillia on several points of Lemmite doctrine, and he and his filia Adventus Consilii soon took to quarrelling with the other Brellyn founders. Over the next several years, he struggled to define his own interpretation of the Books of Lem. When his sister Quae Montes Cieret visited the covenant in 235, however, he was immediately converted to her interpretation and abandoned his own efforts. He and his students left Brellyn with Quae Montes later that year, to found Circulus Ruber in the mountains of Chaeronia.
In his years at Circulus Ruber, Consilii was a prolific writer of Circulan interpretation, and he carried on a lively debate with Tresmillia's students at Covenant Brellyn from 235 to 244. In spite of his advocacy of Circulanism, however, it was clear to him that it would always be Quae Montes who would be remembered as the founder of the Circulan movement. The idea that the Order might perceive him as a mediocrity haunted Consilii, who felt that as a student of the Founder he was expected to leave his mark on the Order in some dramatic and important fashion.
Shortly after his second student graduated to magehood in 244, Consilii publicly announced his intention to travel to the swamps of Orsinia and locate the reclusive Savacion magi Trans Paludem, a feat which none within the Order had yet accomplished, although a number of magi had tried. He was last seen alive entering Orsinia in 245. For the next three years, all efforts to determine his whereabouts or well-being failed, but his death was not confirmed until 250, when his body was found in the marshes by the Manerean Gratus, himself embarked on an unsuccessful attempt to find the magi Trans Paludem. Gratus brought his body back to Circulus Ruber, where Consilii was determined to have perished of malnutrition and exposure in 248, three years after he had ventured into the marshes of Orsa. He had taught two students:
- Adventus Consilii (L6), from 214 to 226
- Legatum Anaticulae (L12), from 228 to 244
