Exquaestio Biographies

Note: the deities followed by Exquaestio can be found in the Glossary.

Geros Haram (1423 - ?)

Geros was born to a family of shopkeepers in a small trade port on the north Junder coast. His family became quaestae in 1438, one of the first in their community to do so. He was made a Seeker in 1439 and sent to aid the primate Hugo Crespi, whereupon Feroze made him Scout, the first of the Scirus gleam. He married one of Hugo Crespi's daughters in 1442. In 1447, before the Grand Conclave, Feroze made him Pioneer. He remains associated with the Primacy.

Hugo Crespi (1386 - 1447)

A prosperous farmer of Southern Junder, Hugo was deeply interested by the teachings of the stranger and spent a great deal of time discussing them in 1435 and 1436. Shortly after the appearance of the first espiri and rohain in 1436, he was chosen as primate over the anradan section of the faith.
Hugo proved to be an extremely competant administrator until his death. He died in 1447 on his way to the first Grand Conclave, where he would undoubtedly been re-chosen as primate.

Lars Venekson (1397 - 1454)

Made rohain in 1435. The first rohain preceptor, Lars decided upon a system of slow growth. He also decided on the pattern of training for Exquaestio's militia. He died at the Battle of Lildra.

Mirafelle (1422 - ?) [Mira of Lowfells, Mira Fells]

The child of a peasant family in the village of Lowfells in southern Junder, Mira spared whatever time she could to listen to Feroze when he visited the village in 1435. When she adopted Exquastio in 1436 she was immediately made scout. She was the third espiri to be gifted and the first of the Motus gleam. She married the rohain Tallas Fells in 1437, and the two of them were sent to Crisaeda as missionaries. She lived in Crisaeda from 1438 to 1440, and moved to Mirabalpur in 1441 where she has lived since. She became the elder espiri after the year of mourning in 1444. Her first child was born in 1440. Other children followed in 1447 (a daughter) and 1452 (a son). In 1452 she discovered the rite to halt aging.

Olivia of Lowfells (1409 - 1444)

Olivia's family emigrated to the village of Lowfells in Southern Junder in 1416. She was married in 1424 and bore 7 children before her husband died of a farming accident in 1434. She began working as a midwife in 1432, and under the tutelage of the disguised Feroze she was made the first espiri on Celandra (and Exquaestio's espiri elder) in 1336. She was made Pioneer in 1337 when she realized Feroze's disguise.
Her gleam as a Scout was Salubrus, and her dedication to healing became a lifelong quest. Her death was due to her efforts to seek a rite for healing infections as well as injuries. She caught a fever from a family she attempted to heal in the winter of 1443, and died shortly thereafter. She was mourned throughout the year of 1444.

Rojez Lafwe (1418 - ?)

Rojez was born to a family of construction carpenters in Crisaeda. Apprenticed as a boatbuilder, he traveled to Junder in 1436 and converted to Exquaestio in 1438. Returning to Crisaeda in 1440 he took a leadership role in the quaestae community while Mira and Tallas were indisposed. When Mira and Tallas traveled to Mirabalpur in 1440 he was appointed the leading anradan in Crisaeda.
He played a leading role during the first Grand Conclave in 1447, and was chosen Primate. It was at his suggestion that the advisory council was composed of relatively young quaestae serving for relatively short terms.

Tallas Fells (1405 - 1454)

Tallas was one of the mercenaries who came upon the village of Lowfells in 1435 and became rohain in 1436. In 1437 he married the espiri Mirafelle. He participated in the Third Goblin War (1449 - 1456) under Mirrish command and died at the Battle of Lildra.

Tania Kerili (1436 - )

Tania Kerili is the bastard daughter of a Parglugi nobleman and a Laresian merchantwoman (she uses the surname of the man her mother married). Though never formally acknowledged, her birth was an "open secret," and her father saw that she received a good education for her sex and family. She became a salubrus Scout in 1452 while listening to Exquaestio teachings. In 1453 the Sedonian forces in Parglug for the Third Goblin War accepted her as a healer. In 1454 she solved the problem of sepsis and gained Pioneer rank, but her original message to Mirafelle was lost and the technique didn't spread until after 1457. In 1454, after the Battle of Ha'ash Et Ura, she transferred to assist Parglug's military. She remains unmarried.

Ulysses Fells (1440 - )

The child of Tallas and Mira Fells, Ulysses displayed magical ability in the womb and his resistance to his birth would have killed both him and his mother if not for her own magical ability. He entered the Sorcerer's college in Mirabalpur in 1452 and was officially made an apprentice sorcerer in 1456.