Stuff that happened at the Savacion Gauntlet of 408.
The Candidates:
Stuff that happened:
The Candidates conspire to aid each other in gaining admission to Leo Compulsus
Together, these three young magi agreed to challenge Leo Compulsus for membership; secretly, the three of them also agreed to aid one another in their respective entrance gauntlets, thus ensuring that all three of them would succeed in gaining membership in the covenant.
This plan did not go quite as expected. The Leo Compulsans learned of the agreement, and wanting to nip this whole "let's cooperate rather than compete!" meme in the bud, they retaliated by setting each of the three candidates a ridiculously, patently impossible task to complete as a prerequisite to membership.
The Compulsans had thought that would be the end of it. Praesul, Ipse and [S115], however, took the challenges quite seriously, and actually succeeded in accomplishing the first of the entrance gauntlet tasks—Praesul's—which they tackled. Praesul himself, however, was killed in the process. Ipse and [S115] brought his body back to Leo Compulsus, confessed their agreement to the Compulsan magi, and requested that Praesul be postumously recognized as a member of the covenant, as alive or dead, with help or no, the terms of his entrance gauntlet had been met. The Compulsans complied with this request; they also accepted both Ipse and [S115] as members of the covenant without any further requirement.
