Laetitia Laureata

"Joyful Laureate"
Filia Iracundia, of House Derleth (formerly of House Aegidius)
apprenticed 401, graduated 416
Loriat of the 8th class of Bethelion

Laetitia is that strangest and rarest of mages: One who made it through the entirety of apprenticeship without ever becoming hardened and embittered towards the world.

Laetitia's parens Iracundia had been at Bethelion for nearly thirty years before she took her first student. Iracundia actually discovered Laetitia herself and brought her to the University, and largely trained her as her own apprentice while she was simultaneously receiving instruction as a university student.

This combination (in addition to Laetitia's innate talent and good natured enthusiasm) led to Laetitia being one of the most powerful first year mages in the history of the order, and the obvious Laureate of her class (in an act of typical eccentricity, she insists on the High Ventrian spelling of "Laureata" instead of the Tyrrean "Loriata"). Her graduation project (completed a year early) was a pair of linked magical scrying bowls (currently used as two way communication between Bethelion and Manu Tenere). They also can be used to make excellent ice cream.

Laetitia was an ardent convert to Circumsessor's plan for a new University in Gaetan and, along with her dear friend and classmate Somnex, was a founder of Manu Tenere. She maintains healthy relationships with all of her fellow mages (and associated familiars), although she has an almost crippling aversion to gore, vermin, and death which complicates some interactions.

Laetitia's main magical gifts are with the weather and the winds, and also with communication and knowledge. Since arriving in Gaetan, she has also become deeply involved with research into the magical nature of the hidden spring at the heart of the hill on which Manu Tenere is built.

Laetitia is also a fantastically gifted lecturer, with a deep talent for discovering exactly how each person learns, and has taken a very attentive interest in Manu Tenere's first class (started in

420). This natural capacity for attentiveness, along with her general appreciation of a good party, might explain her otherwise incomprehensible, continuing fondness for Perdix Carbonis Loreatus, although this relationship has naturally trended more and more towards worried chiding in recent years.

Laetitia renounced house Aegidius out of sympathy with Mavis Loriata in 424.