Marion Cailus

Marion Cailus Stipinus is the Kabalim Primus of Taetrus, the planet's foremost authority on biotic acclimation and training. Once a cabalist of the Talae Cabal, he is a childhood friend of Desolas Arterius II and the husband of Eulia Valen. He and Eulia have had two children together, albeit only one of them survived birth; a stillborn son whom Eulia named Alasius, in honour of the couple's old Kabalim, and a daughter, Desa Cailus, whom Marion named after Desolas. 
Marion works closely with his wife's grandfather, Primarch Idus Valen, to promote tolerance and the safe integration of biotic individuals into wider Taetrian society. 
== Biography ==
Marion was born in Cipritine in 2152 CE. His father was a dockworker and his mother was a customs officer, both of whom worked at Cipritine's Interstellar Spaceport. His mother was exposed to element zero while pregnant after a troop transport crash at the spaceport; the same crash that an unknowingly pregnant Maea Abrudas was also involved in.
Marion was never trained to be a kabalim. The role was unexpectedly thrust upon him after the death of Kabalim Alasius Carteia and the mandatory transfer of his protégé, Desolas Arterius II, to the Human Systems Alliance following the massacre at Akuze. As they were the only surviving members of the Talae, Marion promoted Eulia Valen to his optio ("second-in-command"). For a long time, their cabal consisted of just the pair of them. Marion's first act as kabalim would be to oversee the burial of Alasius within the Talae vault after his remains were shipped back home.
Despite his wise-guy attitude and somewhat impertinent nature, Marion trained hard to improve his biotic abilities. He eventually learned how to cast an aegis in the same fashion that Alasius once had. He used this ability to repel a charging brute during the Final Push, saving the life of Idus Valen, the Primarch of Taetrus and grandfather of Eulia. His courage in the face of certain death earned him a medal for valour - the first medal awarded to an active cabalist in turian history. Idus would later promote Marion to the rank of Kabalim Primus following Taetrus' declaration of independence from the Aurelian Empire, granting him absolute jurisdiction over the training and welfare of all Taetrian biotics. Along with the rest of the Taetrian biotics, he was also granted the right to reclaim his family name, marry, sire children, have total freedom of movement, and wear the colonial markings of Taetrus.
Marion took full advantage of all his newfound freedoms; he wed Eulia soon after the war ended, the pair choosing to mate to life. The pair then set about training the next generation of Taetrian biotics together, now that they were free from the proverbial shackles of the Dicasterum Mutarius. Eulia would later give birth to their daughter, Desa Cailus, whom they named in honour of their childhood best friend, Desolas. 
Marion is a designated parrigogus to three of Desolas' children - Janus, Sarena, and Cassian Arterius. Desolas granted him the honour in recognition of their fraternal friendship and the fact Marion's wife had been the female donor in the conception of all three children. 
=== Search for his parents ===
==== Combing the Reaper War archives ====
Following the declaration of Taetrian independence, Desolas took Marion to Cipritine to assist him in tracking down his parents, Ferrea and Marius. Desolas had gently suggested that it would be easier to start with the names of the dead, largely because so few people had survived the war but also because the turian practice of meticulously recording the biographical data of the deceased would make it easier to find accurate information. Knowing his birth name - Cailus - Marion began searching through the official records of the Reaper War's casualties, archived in Temple Palaven. As Cailus is a fairly common Palavenian name, he was forced to trawl through the state-issued IDs of each deceased Cailus, hoping that he would still be able to recognise his parents' faces from the attached holos. 
After hours of searching, Marion unfortunately found them; both were listed as MIA and their bodies had never recovered. Marion used deductive reasoning to surmise that they must have been killed when the Reapers began targeting military installations; Cipritine's spaceport, where the couple had worked, had been one of the first targets to be wiped off the map with an orbital bombardment. Weighed down by a lifetime of unspoken words that he could now never say, Marion quietly voiced his hope that his parents had spent their final moments together. When Desolas expressed sympathy for his loss, Marion replied that Desolas needn't feel sorry as he had already avenged their deaths by defeating the Reapers. Desolas then put a hand on his oldest friend's shoulder and said gently "So did you," before hugging him tight. 
The pair would later get drunk together, enabling Marion to air out his painful feelings regarding the things he wished he could have said to his parents before they died. Desolas, who had also harboured such regrets before being reunited with his own mother, felt guilty for having been able to say his piece to her while his friend had been so cruelly denied the same chance. Marion, seeming to sense his friend's feelings, told Desolas not to beat up on himself and asked him to promise that he would always include his mother in his life, as he himself no longer could; Desolas swore this to him on Nihlus' life, a promise which he dutifully kept until his mother's untimely death. Marion later returned home to Taetrus with copies of his parents' biographical data and holo-IDs, which he tearfully shared with Eulia.
==== A favour from the Broker ====
Several weeks later, Desolas travelled to Taetrus to hand Marion an OSD. When Marion asked him what was on it, Des simply replied: "The Broker owed me a favour." When booting up the disk on his terminal, Marion found that it contained hundreds of pictures of his parents, ranging from distant CCTV footage to personal holos uploaded to social media. Most precious were a handful of pictures that featured Marion as a child, capturing precious family moments he had been too young to remember. The pictures were accompanied by a large text file including any digital correspondence his parents had written. This included everything from mundane work emails regarding suspicious shipping manifests to his father's grief-stricken posts on an online forum for the parents of biotic children, describing his and his wife's emotional suffering at the loss of their son.
== Trivia ==
=== Claims ===
==== Voice claim ====
Nathan Fillion
==== Theme claim ====
Gunslinger - Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin, Rotem Moav, Pieter Schlosser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aV-ej4gwJU)
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