filius Sonorus, of House Touccio
apprenticed 305, mage 320
Fortifier of Lapidis
Founder St. Kevin
Founder Hall of Touccio
Plenilunium: 305-320
Lapidis: 320-327
St. Kevin: 327-349
Hall of Touccio: 349-387
died 387
Raised at Plenilunium Album, he was sent to Lapidis upon his graduation by the Savacion Wendell, to improve Lapidis's defenses (a minor war was heating up among the local lords, and there was concern that it would spread to Lapidis). For seven years, he designed a serious of massive improvements in Lapidis's defenses, but before he could complete the execution of his plans, the Lapidis mages ordered him to accompany the Aegidian founders of St. Kevin of the Apples, leaving his plans to be implemented by his brother Martin.
Raised to be a dutiful believer in Touccian Obligation, Rollin regretfully accepted the commands of the Aegidians and moved on to St. Kevin, where he built their basic facilities, designed their gardens, and basically went about his duties as covenant Touccian. His garden designs, radically different from the famous gardens of Lapidis, are highly regarded, even though the degree to which they would function as military defenses in the event of war is not generally recognized. While there, he took on an apprentice (in 328) and wrote one of the great works of Touccian theory, Laying the Foundations, a work of profound insight and eloquence. The work contains a complex and bittersweet undercurrent concerning the Touccian Obligation, so it is not necessarily a surprise that his apprentice, who graduated in 343 to become the magus Caldwell, one year later wrote "Grandchildren of Balbo," a stinging rejection of Touccian Obligation.
Perhaps unsurprisingly in retrospect, but greatly surprising his fellow mages at St. Kevin at the time, Rollin took his student's objections to heart and utterly rejected the Touccian Obligation. When Caldwell and Hugh of Hampsburg founded Hall of Touccio in 349, Rollin joined them.
While he remained at Hall of Touccio for the rest of his life (another 38 years), it is clear that in his last years he missed the light and greenery of the Aegidian covenants of his youth. He spent the last years of his life writting The Gardens of Aegidius, a painstakingly detailed desciption of the physical structures and enchantments of the gardens of Lapidis (as of 327) and of St. Kevin of the Apples (as of 349), clearly written from memory. However, the atypical last chapter, a fantastical description of the Gardens of Vestra on the morning of the Day of Knowledge of the Year One, suggests that Rollin had grown even more strongly hostile to the concept of the Touccian Obligation over the years, and harbored a deep resentment of his treatment by the Aegidians to his last days.
Descendants: Caldwell
Rollin
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