("The Gentle Bit")
filius Chirotheca Velveta, of House Lem
apprenticed in 359; declared mage 374
Quintus Opacus: 359-
The second oldest mage at Quintus Opacus and its effective leader, Frenum Lenis was raised at Quintus Opacus by mentem specialist Chirotheca Velveta. As a four-year apprentice, he aided his parens and sister Scriba Fusca in the interrogation of Cristofereans [C31] and the apprentice later known as Vector Fatis; unlike Scriba Fusca, he has never shown any signs of remorse over it. He was deemed far too young and inexperienced to take part in the infiltration of Virginis In Litus, and so was left behind in the care of other magi at Quintus Opacus while his parens and sister were in the Dawn from 363-364.
In 402, now grown into one of the two senior magi of the covenant, he forged an alliance with the magi of Isrillion, who in an attempt to restore the failing reputation of their own covenant had vowed to reclaim the relics of St. Aegidius from the High Temple of the Cult of Sophia Felix in Chylorissa. Under Frenum's lead, the Opacans lent aid to the Isrillionites in the form of both information and personnel. The expedition was a disaster, however, and none of the Opacans who had joined with the Isrillion magi made it back alive; furthermore, the Isrillion magi themselves never returned to Quintus Opacus at all, instead skulking their way back home to the West without so much as a word of thanks. This peeved the Opacans. They were even more peeved when they realized that the probable reason for this behavior was that one of the Isrillion magi had chosen to take on as an apprentice an abducted acolyte of the High Temple--a population the Opacans firmly believe to be intrinsically and irredeemably corrupt. The entire affair made Frenum look bad, and it was likely one of the motivating factors behind his later enthusiasm for alliance with Isrillion's rivals at Ne Interire.
He was one of the ring-leaders of the Inceptum/Opacan alliance of 404, and he was among the invaders of Nonae Fidelitatis in 405. While there, he so effectively convinced the young student of Nonae Fidelitatan founder Isidor that his master was an unredeemed diabolist that the student began hysterically calling for Isidor's death; the surviving Fidelitatans often claim that this was the last straw which led Isidor to commit suicide shortly thereafter.
His refusal to contenance the notion that the ex-Inceptum Aegidian Ossa was not a member of a vast Quintillican conspiracy, and his insistence on conducting a brutal interrogation to wrest from Ossa all of the details of his involvement in such, led to a dispute with the Inceptum magi in the course of which a few of the Fidelitatans were able to make their escape and inform the rest of the Order of what was happening. Although Frenum pursued the escapees all the way to the nearby Covenant of St. Pyrandor, he was there obstructed by a force from Nox Facis Caelestis led by the once-and-future Primus Manere, Irrumator.
In the wake of the surrender of 406, Frenum Lenis's name was the one by far most often raised by those within the Order who felt that execution was a not unreasonable response to the entire affair. Nonetheless, more peacable heads in the end prevailed, and he returned to Quintus Opacus in 406, along with Isidor's apprentice, whom he adopted as his own and who graduated to magehood six years ago, in 419.
Together with his sister Scriba Fusca, he currently heads up the on-going examination of Quintus Opacus's Litan captive L115.
Frenum Lenis
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