Thaddeus de Lalage

Thaddeus de Lalage is a wizard of the Mirador, and former member of the Bastion.
== Appearance ==
Thaddeus had a Kekropian accent.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 5.” Mélusine, Ace, New York, 2005. Doctrine of Labyrinths. He had dark and bright eyes in a swarthy pirate's face. He kept his hair in a tidy queue.
Sometimes, when Felix Harrowgate looked at Thaddeus while Felix was gripped by the compulsion, Thaddeus had the head of a raven.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 7.” Mélusine, Ace, New York, 2005. Doctrine of Labyrinths.
== Personality ==
“Thaddeus hated the Bastion, hated it with a raw, pure fury that itself bordered on madness." He was vindictive and petty, and would mock Gideon Thraxios about their past in the Bastion. He was also classist and paranoid.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 8.” Mélusine, Ace, New York, 2005. Doctrine of Labyrinths. Felix described him as "intolerant, close‐minded, rigid in his thinking".Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 14.” The Virtu, Ace Books, New York, 2007. Doctrine of Labyrinths. He was homophobic. He also hated being proven wrong.
“Thaddeus was only a middling-powerful wizard, and it had always been a sore point with him.”
Gideon believed that Thaddeus was a fool. Gideon later called him, "a self‐righteous idiot with a great gift for willful blindness, but he would never demean himself by lying."
== Life ==
When Thaddeus was in the Bastion, from a young age he knew Gideon. Thaddeus was beaten for asking questions.
Thaddeus eventually left the Bastion and went to the Mirador. He fell in love with Vida Eoline. He was one of the first friends Felix made, and Felix told him fragments of the truth of Felix's past with Malkar Gennadion, but swore him to secrecy.
Thaddeus tried to join the Curia, but was rejected, which made him miserable in the months before he got the position in Aurelias. When Vida was chosen to join the Curia, it nearly poisoned his love for her.
Thaddeus stayed in the wizard's tower in northern Aurelias for five years prior to the events of Mélusine, helping the local people and sending gifted people to the Mirador to study.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 1.” Mélusine, Ace, New York, 2005. Doctrine of Labyrinths. He'd been sent there “in the hopes that time might erode the sharp edges of” his hatred for the Bastion.
==== Mélusine ====
Thaddeus was recalled to Mélusine when the Virtu was broken. A couple weeks later, after Felix was sent to St. Crellifer's, Thaddeus came to visit him, and then left to fetch Vida. They discovered Malkar's compulsion to make him mad. They got Felix out and back to the Mirador. Then Thaddeus, Vida, and Gideon helped clean Felix up. Thaddeus and Vida then brought Felix before Stephen Teverius and Giancarlo, and the compulsion was removed, giving Felix back most of his control.
Shannon Teverius collected Felix from Thaddeus' suite.
Thaddeus protested letting Felix go with Shannon to see a play, but Shannon insisted.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 6.” Mélusine, Ace, New York, 2005. Doctrine of Labyrinths. Thaddeus was sitting with Vida in his suite later when Felix returned to Thaddeus' suite after a fight with Shannon.
Later, Felix had a nightmare where Malkar used magic to make him burn the Mirador and break the spells keeping the dead at rest. Thaddeus called Felix a traitor, and mocked him for blaming Malkar. Gideon interrupted Thaddeus' lecturing, and Thaddeus backed down and apologized to Felix.
Thaddeus, Gideon, Shannon, Victoria Teveria, one other person, and Felix later left Mélusine and the Mirador's destruction for Hermione, though Thaddeus did not want to come. Thaddeus persisted in asking Felix about his dreams until Gideon stepped in to talk to Thaddeus in Kekropian.
At the Courier Station, Thaddeus and Victoria argued, and then questioned Felix about how Malkar used him. Their magical examination of him was excruciating, though they seemed to either not know and/or not care.
In Hermione, Thaddeus, Gideon, and Felix shared a room at the Chimera Among the Roses. Thaddeus and Gideon argued.
On their third day in Hermione, Felix tried to tell Thaddeus that there was something wrong with the local wizard's tower, but Thaddeus only laughed at him. Felix again tried to talk about it to him the next day. The following morning Thaddeus took Felix to the tower, and was infuriated when Felix became terrified of the fantôme there. When Felix insisted on its existence, Thaddeus hit him. Thaddeus accused him of sabotage.
Thaddeus informed Victoria about his thoughts on Felix, and she also believed that Felix was a saboteur and Malkar's creature. Later that evening, Gideon argued with Thaddeus about Thaddeus' treatment of Felix.
After Bernard Heber, Mavortian von Heber, and Mildmay met with Victoria and Shannon at the Chimera Among the Roses, Thaddeus, Gideon, and Felix joined them. Thaddeus insisted that the fantôme didn't exist.
Afterward, when Felix was in their bedroom, Thaddeus visited him, and interrogated him about his background. He grabbed Felix and demanded to know how Felix had fooled everyone, until Gideon intervened.
==== The Virtu ====
After Felix and Mildmay returned to the Mirador, Thaddeus told Mildmay that Felix wasn't kind to his friends, and gave Mildmay a message for Felix, warning Felix to stop associating with Gideon.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 10.” The Virtu, Ace Books, New York, 2007. Doctrine of Labyrinths.
Thaddeus was in his workroom when Felix came to visit him, and Thaddeus insisted that Gideon was a spy. When Gideon was staying in Felix's suite, Thaddeus came looking for him, but Felix's servants seemingly lied that Gideon wasn't there.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 16.” The Virtu, Ace Books, New York, 2007. Doctrine of Labyrinths. 
==== The Mirador ====
When Aias Perrault brought Thaddeus a letter of amnesty from the Bastion, “Thaddeus tore up his letter of amnesty on the spot and threatened to feed it to Aias”.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 3.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths. Thaddeus argued that the Bastion didn't want peace.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 4.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths.
Thaddeus later found Mildmay and questioned him about Gideon's reaction to the Bastion's offer of amnesty.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 9.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths. Thaddeus spoke more of his paranoia about Eusebian wizards, while holding Mildmay hard.
In court, Thaddeus argued they should be more careful about Bastion spies, and spouted more of his paranoia, until Felix stepped in and said that was nonsense.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 12.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths. Stephen agreed to form a committee to investigate the matter, and then dismissed it.
A former friend in the Bastion sent Thaddeus "a message with the caefidus" to show that there were spies in the Mirador.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 18.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths. After Gideon was murdered, Thaddeus received an anonymous message under his door about Gideon's location, and after seemingly visiting the body, assumed spies were trying suborn Isaac Garamond, and then went with Agnes Bellarmyn and the Protectorate Guard to Isaac's rooms to arrest Felix for treason and murdering Gideon.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 17.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths. He witnessed Felix destroy Isaac's mind, and Mildmay attacking the Guard. Thaddeus then told Mehitabel Parr that Felix was a "plausible liar". When Mehitabel tried to rebut this, Thaddeus dismissed her.
During Felix's trial, after Felix explained that he destroyed Isaac's mind out of revenge for Isaac murdering Gideon, Thaddeus shouted that this was a lie. Stephen told Thaddeus to be quiet. When Mildmay testified that he knew Isaac worked for the Bastion, Thaddeus called this a lie as well. Stephen demanded to know how Thaddeus learned about the location of Gideon's corpse. When Thaddeus revealed that he hadn't gone to anyone else with his "evidence", Stephen dismissed him.
== Skills ==
Thaddeus could speak Midlander and Kekropian.
Thaddeus was a middling wizard, but could identify certain compulsions and summon witchlight.
He wrote in a "square, jagged Kekropian hand".
== Relationships ==
==== Agnes Bellarmyn ====
Agnes was close with Thaddeus.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 5.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths.
==== Aias Perrault ====
Thaddeus hated Aias for his association with the Bastion.
==== Felix Harrogate ====
Thaddeus was one of Felix's first friends in the Mirador, and they had a trusting relationship prior to Felix destroying the Virtu. They knew each other for around 7-8 years by the time of The Virtu. When Felix was mad, he thought of Thaddeus as a raven.
==== Gideon Thraxios ====
Thaddeus and Gideon hated each other. Thaddeus was suspicious of him and regularly harassed him. Gideon had some kind of blackmail on Thaddeus.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 10.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths.
==== Louis Goliath ====
Thaddeus had a low opinion of Louis.
==== Mildmay ====
Mildmay had a low opinion of Thaddeus.Monette, Sarah. “Chapter 2.” The Mirador, Ace Books, New York, 2008. Doctrine of Labyrinths. When Mildmay resided in the Mirador, Thaddeus would seek him out to interrogate him about different topics.
==== Victoria Teveria ====
Thaddeus and Victoria worked together on their way from Mélusine to Hermione, and they largely agreed with each other, though Victoria considered Thaddeus overly suspicious at times.
==== Vida Eoline ====
Thaddeus and Vida were friends and lovers.
== Trivia ==
* Thaddeus signed his letters "as most wizards did, with an intricately involved sigil instead of his name."
* Thaddeus had a workroom in the Mirador.
== References ==
Category:Characters
Category:Mélusine
Category:The Virtu
Category:The Mirador