filius [T59b], of Houses Touccio and Derleth
apprenticed 391; declared mage 407; vanished 412
Bethelion's only Touccian Loriat to date, [T80a]'s final project was a teleportation portal linking the University to the library at Annalum. One might think that this alone would have ensured his acclamation as the year's Loriat, but in actuality, [T80a]'s assumption to the position was a matter of some controversy within the University. To create his project, [T80a] had worked heavily in conjunct with both his fellow student [T80b] and with the covenant's Touccian elders; furthermore, while there was no question that [T80a] was terrifyingly talented at the traditional Touccian arts of enchantment, he exhibited the usual corresponding Touccian weaknesses with other sorts of magic. The Council had therefore originally intended to give the honour to the considerably less talented, but more evenly skilled, Savacion candidate Praesul. This, however, raised so much anger among the Touccian members of the Council, who saw it as proof-positive of the University's anti-Touccian bias, that they threatened to call for a House-wide boycott of the University. When the rest of the Council perceived that they were in deadly earnest, they gave way. This conflict was one of the factors that helped to fuel enthusiasm for the founding of the neo-Amicitian covenant Legatum Grigori three years later.
Upon his graduation to magehood, [T80a] joined with the rest of his class in signing on with Flos Crastinus, with the full intention of later returning to Bethelion to serve as a lecturer. In 411, however, he became concerned about the fate of Covenant Rockroot, the home of his Touccian lineage, which had fallen strangely silent, and in 412 he joined with his parens [T59b] in leading an expedition into the Skulstorren to investigate the fate of the covenant. None from that expedition ever returned, and after multiple attempts to restore contact with the party failed, its members were regretfully presumed dead.
