Caelia Varistus

Lean, durable. Wore suppression cuffs voluntarily during high-energy lectures. Walked with a slight limp after Rift exposure in 386 AR.

Ritual scarification along the forearms in Arcanii hexameter. Aetherburn trace on her left palm.

Sharp cheekbones, lined with concentration. Often carried ink-smudged glasses she never wore.

Carried a custom Veinwand etched with layered runes known only to herself.

• Original Aegisblood Circuit prototype embedded in portable stabilizer plate
• Codex Pendant bonded to her private archive
• Mirror Lens used to scan Rift-charged tissue

Caelia was born into the Riftwatch Quarter to unknown parents, her early life sealed by Arcanii writ. She rose quickly through Scholae Arcanii ranks, publishing her first aetheric resonance theory at 17. By 27, she had patented six arcane instruments and rewritten portions of the Codex Praxis regarding ethical containment. Her development of the Aegisblood Circuit—fusing arcane technology with hematurgic modulation—came after a personal incident in 382 AR involving a Riftborn child and uncontrolled magical trauma.

• Scholae Arcanii, graduate with quadruple laureates
• Apprenticed under Magister Helvus Tharn
• Authored the suppressed codex “Blood as Memory, Mutation as Message”
• Contributed anonymously to the Commentarii Arcanii under the pseudonym Aevum Vestrix

• Magister of Experimental Arcanii Rituals
• Senate Advisor for Magical Ethics and Biostabilization
• Codex Vault Lead Compiler (387–389 AR)
• Riftfront Research Overseer (briefly, 388 AR)

• Invented the Aegisblood Circuit
• Drafted the Arcanii Delay Doctrine
• Prevented three known transformations during the Rift Plague of 386 AR
• Proposed ethical schema for “Staged Sapience” in pre-sapient Riftborn forms

• Early iterations of the Circuit caused harmonic seizures in Riftborn twins
• Her ethical framework was rejected by the Riftborn Senate Circle in 389 AR
• Accused (and cleared) of memory imprint violations during closed circuit trials

• Experienced post-resonance fatigue for much of her mid-career
• Privately recorded episodes of timeline dissociation (possibly self-induced for experimentation)

Highly abstract thinker. Extremely formal in public. Privately imaginative, even whimsical in marginalia.

Believed that knowledge must be protected from power until power earns it. Fused strict ethics with radical experimentation.

Refused all public worship. Opposed soul-binding even for high treason cases.

To preserve the self in the face of transformation—to give others the time she never had.

Her effigy stands in the Basilica Arcanii, not as a statue but as a suspended lens surrounded by layered blood-glyphs. Scholars mark her disappearance annually with silence and flickering violet lamps.

Dominated Arcanii policy from 380–390 AR. Led all theoretical research on rift suppression tech.

Privately intrigued by divine myth as symbolic resonance patterns. Never officially worshiped.

Officially modest. All funds were redirected into research trusts. Rumors persist of a personal laboratory beneath the Basilica sealed by living glyph.