Profile: Constantine
January 12, 2007
His parents were set against it.
Both the Matriarch Apostolic Oracle and the Reverend Bishop Judge Advocate urged their only son to reconsider. His tutors pleaded with him. His fellow cleric Faith boys at Temple-at-Attica thought him humor-struck or fever-sick.
But Constantine tauValez knew his own mind and was determined to live his life his way.
Constantine had been born into Faith, to parents accomplished, respected and well bred. A gift for scholarship and a keen intellect were apparent even as a child.
Constantine was blessed a prodigy.
At an early age his parents set Constantine on a track toward position and authority. His Faithful tutors saw the potential to rise as far as the Principalities, or even the Seraphim. However, by the time Constantine reached thirteen and inducted into the Disciple of Michael, other ideas begun to preoccupy him.
Constantine wearied of life behind monastic walls, of the isolation of academia, and of the pretensions of privilege. A student of history, the romance of Faith’s warrior priests in ancient times—the so-called Soldiers of Paradise—enthralled the adolescent. The old stories of swordsmen on gryphon-back riding the open countryside and enforcing the will of Faith struck a cord.
He daydreamed of a life of adventure and intrigue, and of service to Faith that would take him far away from the sanctimonious world he’d grown up in.
Against all better judgment, Michael Constantine tauValez enlisted in the Order of the Knights Templar.
Characters: The Principles
January 2, 2007
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Constantine lived his entire life behind mannered monastic walls. Growing up he had little contact with people outside of Faith. Upon completing studies at temple, his family expected Constantine to take a position with great opportunities to ascend in authority. Instead he chose a protectorate career path in the Knights Templar, entering the Order at its lowest level. Constantine compromised with his family and accepted a commission at the caustic Court-at-Columbia rather than a more violent provincial garrison. |
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| House: | tau |
| Family: | Valez |
| Allegiance: | Faith |
| Allegiance Status: | Faith born |
| Covenant: | Discipline of Michael |
| Commission: | Knights Templar, Garrison-at-Court-at-Columbia |
| Rank: | Constable First Class |
| Service: | Just commissioned |
| Current Assignment: | Special Assignment File Restricted by order of Templar Prefect |
| Education: | Temple-at-Attica |
| Academic Notation: | History, Angelic Studies, Law |
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| Sebastian | |
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Sebastian’s four-year tour in the provinces earned him numerous citations for bravery. Over his eighteen years of commissioned Templar service he refused senior leadership promotions three times, preferring to remain a field operative, and effectively sabotaged the protection of superiors and advancement someone with his experience and honors desires. |
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| House: | xi |
| Family: | Duang |
| Allegiance: | Faith |
| Allegiance Status: | Faith Indentured |
| Covenant: | Discipline of Paul |
| Commission: | Knights Templar, Garrison-at-Court-at-Columbia |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Service: | 18 years |
| Current Assignment: | Special Assignment File Restricted by order of Templar Prefect |
| Education: | Temple-at-Corinth |
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| The Archangel | |
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The singular sense of purpose and being that comes with inclusive in the collective fades with each passing day. Daily experiences seem both familiar and foreign. It’s the ultimate déjà vu for an entity to whom past, present and future normally is fluid. |
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| Designation: | Divinity |
| Origin: | Celestial Collective |
| Species Type: | Meta-terrestrial |
| Nomenclature: | Unknown |
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Extremely dangerous Do Not Approach |
| Angela | |
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| House: | psi |
| Family: | Sawade |
| Allegiance: | Faith |
| Allegiance Status: | Faith born |
| Covenant: | Discipline of Rachel |
| Commission: | Order of the Oracle, Garrison-at-Court-at-Columbia |
| Rank: | Vestal Sister |
| Current Assignment: | Altar-at-Parliamentary |
| Education: | Temple-at-Delphi |
| Specialties: | Twelfth Level Oracle |
| Daria | |
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| House: | omega |
| Family: | Marat |
| Status: | Aristocrat |
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| Seneca | |
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| House: | omega |
| Family: | Marat |
| Status: | Aristocrat |
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| Horus | |
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| House: | omega; del bastard Tribe branch |
| Family: | Gaul |
| Status: | Underclass |
| Background: |
Record Sealed |
| Probationary: | Softech Guild Omega; draftsman |
| Status: | Rehabilitated by certification of Faith Records Sealed |
| Valentine | |
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| House: | alpha |
| Family: | Cervantes |
| Allegiance: | Faith |
| Allegiance Status: | Faith indentured |
| Covenant: | Discipline of Mathew |
| Commission: | Knights Templar, Court-at-Columbia |
| Rank: | Prefect Apostolic |
| Service: | 20 years |
| Current Assignment: | Command, Garrison-at-Court-at-Columbia |
| Education: | Temple-at-Alysia |
| Specialties: | Law; History; Literature |
| Katrina | |
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| House: | zeta |
| Family: | Petriss |
| Allegiance: | Faith |
| Allegiance Status: | Faith born |
| Covenant: | Discipline of Mary |
| Commission: | Order of the Oracle, Seraphim |
| Rank: | Cardinal Mother |
| Service: | 43 years |
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| Education: | Temple-at-Delphi |
| Specialties: | Ninth Level Oracle |
| Gregory | |
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| House: | alpha |
| Family: | Osloe |
| Allegiance: | Faith |
| Allegiance Status: | Faith volunteer |
| Covenant: | Discipline of John |
| Commission: | Knights Templar, Garrison-at-Court-at-Columbia |
| Rank: | Lance Sergeant |
| Service: | 6 years |
| Current Assignment: | Special Assignment File Restricted by order of Templar Prefect |
| Education: | Temple-at-Corinth |
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| Citations: | Special Merit |
