("The Heat of the Sun")
filius Aestus Fornax, of House Savacion
born 403; apprenticed 410; mage 425; gauntletted 425
Whitestone: 410-
Lauded as the Sun King Reborn by a messianic theocratic cult in his homeland of Picardia, he was apprenticed by the Plenilunial Elementalist Aestus Fornax of Covenant Whitestone after the extermination of his heretical following in a campaign organized by the magi of Leo Compulsus in 410. After a brief period of adjustment to not being waited on hand and foot and the inevitable struggle of learning a new language, he made a fairly ideal student: he was already well accustomed to keeping still, keeping silent, and doing what he was told. If anything, his quiet diligence and obedience was a bit of a disappointment to his master, who would have liked to have seen a bit more boisterousness in his student. Aestus Fornax could also never quite shake the sneaking suspicion that his apprentice secretly thought him a bit of a moron. This suspicion was, indeed, correct.
In 421, Aestus Solis accompanied his master first to Isrillion (in which he was horribly disappointed, having always been led to believe that other covenants were not in fact every bit as shoddy and ill-appointed as Whitestone), then to Leo Compulsus, and then into the Skulstorren to join the the second Savacion rogue hunt. He was declared mage in 425.
Throughout his apprenticeship, he nursed the secret ambition of returning to Picardia to bring about the unification of the region and its liberation from Tyrulean domination. Now that he is finally mage, he's preparing to find the proper allies and pretext to put this plan into action. He doesn't really care all that much what that pretext is -- he'd be perfectly happy to wage war under the banner of Love and Reason, if that's what circumstances dictate -- it's the unification of the region that primarily interests him. He has studied the War Lore extensively, but lacks any personal experience with large- scale combat and believes that it is now high time he start accumulating some.
Cholaeic parochialism makes him cranky. Being referred to as "from the Dawn" makes him doubly so.
Aestus Solis
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