(“From the East”)
filius Lagopus, of House Savacion
trained by the Inceptum 378-380; apprenticed 380; declared mage 395
Inceptum: 378-380
Antrum: 380-395
Acus Doris: 395-400
Inceptum: 400-406
Ne Interire: 406-
An Inceptum-found student, he was prepared for Cholaeic apprenticeship alongside Marianas and Semper Incertus at the Inceptum from 378 to 380 and was given over for apprenticeship to Lagopus of House Savacion at Covenant Antrum. Upon his ascension to magehood in 395, he joined Covenant Acus Doris. Five years later, however, he found himself so deeply disturbed by news of the founding of Covenant Nonae Fidelitatis—whose founders’ time at the Inceptum had overlapped by a few months with his own—that he left Acus Doris to return to the Inceptum to join as a member.
In 401, when he learned of Irrumator’s betrayal of Covenant Acus Doris, he left the Inceptum for a time to join the hunt for him. There, he met and became friendly with Incitus and the other Ne Interiran founders, although he chose to return to the Inceptum, rather than joining with them in the founding of the covenant, in 402. Two years later, in 404, he enlisted their aid in the plan to abduct suspect apprentices and infiltrate Covenant Nonae Fidelitatis.
He was among the invaders of Nonae Fidelitatis in 405, in the course of which he battled and killed one of that covenant’s magi: the Litan Savacion [S106], who had come to the West and joined the covenant only three years previous, and who was the only of the Fidelitatans to attempt violent resistance. He was one of the first to object to the Opacan Lemmite Frenum Lenis’ treatment of the ex- Inceptumite Ossa, a conflict which escalated quickly into an all-out fight between the two magi and in the course of which a few of the covenant’s captives were able to escape and alert the rest of the Order to the situation.
After a winter spent beseiged by troops from Covenant Nox Facis Caelestis led by his cousin Strages Diluculi, he and the other invaders were forced to surrender. The Inceptum was forcibly disbanded in 406, and Ex Orientem retired to Ne Interire, where he raised his first student, Pugnus Suavis.
At the Savacion gauntlet of 410, he was called out by the Litan Aurifex, who demanded satisfaction for his uncle [S106]’s death at Nonae Fidelitatis four years previous. Ex Orientem won the duel, and made much of the fact that in doing so, he had passed on a number of opportunities to, well, slaughter this young upstart. He then demanded a public apology for having been referred to as a “murderer,” a designation at which he had taken sincere umbrage. He got one.
Throughout the 410s he was an advocate of the need of a First Sword for House Savacion, a position for which he strongly supported Boccaccio of Leo Compulsus.
In 422, he and his colleagues at Ne Interire fell under suspicion of membership in the Last Hope Conspiracy; thereafter, they joined the second Savacion rogue hunt, where they were by far the loudest voices calling for the execution of Hugh Trachidis of Fenestra Arcadia, who had been convicted of violating the House’s edict regarding the rogue Tenellus in 421. Their calls for justice may well have done more to help Hugh’s cause than to harm it: in the wake of the second rogue hunt, the Ne Interirans were not very popular with the House, many of whose members suspected that although no evidence had ever been found to prove it, they had been up to their necks in the Last Hope Conspiracy.
Ex Orientem’s student Pugnus Suavis was the one to reap the full measure of this hostility, though. At his gauntlet in 423, he was shown up both by the female Derlethian Sentis Rosea and by the pacifist Corrobor. Ex Orientem was so humiliated by this that he all but disowned his student, casting him from Covenant Ne Interire and commanding that he go forth to do something to prove himself worthy of consideration.
At the Savacion House Restructure of 423/424, he became a member of Gens Draconis, under the leadership of his ally Incitus.
Also, he has feathers.
Not that anyone sees anything unusual about that, mind.
- Pugnus Suavis, from 407 to 422
