filius [L61b], of House Lem
apprenticed 356; declared mage 371; died 417
Quintus Opacus: 356-371
Inceptum: 371-404
Hermit: 404-412
Quintus Opacus: 412-417
d. 417
Raised at Quintus Opacus, he joined the Inceptum immediately upon his ascension to magehood in 371 and remained there for the next thirty years. In 404, however, he found himself in strong disagreement with the rest of the magi at the Inceptum as to how to proceed in the wake of Cristoferean obstruction to the recall of its students.
While Aedis shared the others' concern over the activities of the founders of Nonae Fidelitatis and Lord of Misrule, and while he had been an enthusiastic participant in the recall of 403-404, he was very much against the idea of the Inceptum allying itself with Quintus Opacus -- perhaps because, as an ex-Opacan himself, he know all too well How Opacans Can Sometimes Behave. When he found himself unable to dissuade his colleagues from this course of action, he invited them to do as they wished and left the covenant.
Irritability aside, the parting was amicable enough, and Aedis remained on friendly terms with the magi of the Inceptum. Many within Quintus Opacus, however, including Aedis' parens [L61b], were angered when they learned that he had spoken against the alliance. Unwilling either to return to the Inceptum or to face Opacan hostility, and as a committed opponent of the Quintillicans, utterly disinterested in any other covenant, he took up a hermetic lifestyle in the city of Quintillica, where he spent the next decade infiltrating the higher eschelons of the Priesthood and accumulating a great deal of useful knowledge about its practices and policies -- information which he readily shared with those magi of Quintus Opacus with whom he had remained on friendly terms. So valuable was his work that by 412, the Opacans had completely forgiven him his brief and shining moment of sanity eight years previous, and he was prevailed upon to return to the covenant, although he continued to spend much of his time working deep undercover in Quintillica.
In 417, Aedis learned that the Quintillican Priesthood had been conducting its own research into the same Litan defenses which so obsessed the Opacans --and furthermore, that they had for the past decade or so been studying the matter directly from a mage of Virginis In Litus, whom they had succeeded in capturing back in 406. This was of great concern to the Opacans, who felt that they could not possibly permit the Quintillicans to gain the secret of the Litan defenses. In spite of the fact that the captive mage was being held in the innermost sancta of the High Temple, which had many times proven itself resistant to Cholaeic attack or investigation, the Opacans decided that they must at least try to keep this knowledge out of Quintillican hands. To this end, Aedis organized a group of Opacan magi to make a stealth assault on the area of the High Temple where the Litan mage was being held. The mission was a success, but Aedis himself was killed in the attempt.
Although in his time with the Inceptum he had helped prepare a number of students for Cholaeic apprenticeship, he taught no students of his own.
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