Jotham Lentillus

Lifepath:

Noble Born -> Vaunted -> Zealot -> High Vendetta -> Pride -> Missionary.

• Noble Born - Jotham's comes from a wealthy family with strong connections in the Fleet, the Guard, and various civilian trades.

• Vaunted - despite those connections, Jotham always felt the call of the God-Emperor in his soul. Raised by such a powerful family, surrounded by ambition, he thought his long term destiny must be to become a Cardinal of the Adeptus Ministorum. His parents understood, as he did not, that without connections in the Ecclesiarchy, any such dream was nonsensical. Rather than simply forbidding him from pursuing a religious career, they sought to distract him with idle pleasures.

• Zealot - Jotham possessed the same curiousities as any young man, and gave into temptation on many small occasions, but proved immovable on the greater scale. His growing religious fanaticism (Unnerving Clarity) convinced his family that allowing him his chosen path would be the least troublesome course. He joined the Ecclesiarchy and was assigned to missionary duty on a Fleet explorer ship. The expedition was still in the planning phase, but Jotham showed great promise. As his family feared, this attracted the attention of the family's political enemies.

• High Vendetta - Rival families with strong Ecclesiarchical ties struck at him, then at his friends, and then at his family. Those enemies chose poorly, for in the service of the Omnissiah, Jotham counts not the cost, in wealth, in pain, nor in spilt blood. The vendetta ended in mutual exhaustion.

• Pride - Jotham accepts that his determination to serve has cost his family and its allies dearly. He feels no guilt over this, but believes that any deviation from faith or mission would be to dishonor the sacrifices made thus far.

• Missionary - cleanse.