Theophilus

### Traits

Immortality, creation of life, control of anima in Spiritus Galaxia, the power of light

### Spore Page

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=sast-501080189882

**Theophilus Godwin Calculon**, the original maker of the Staves of Creation. Most of his history lies in mystery, but it is known that he was the one who made Xenolate, Ylate and Zyrgah in the first place, along with being the one who setup the “seeds” that would one day sprout into Urgulates, Deerstrich, Greeneaters, Redclaws, Dwarflates, and many other species of the Liskus galaxy.

Throughout history it was assumed that Theophilus was the eponymous “Steve” who hands Staves of Life to anyone who happened to visit the center of the galaxy, but recent findings by the Magus Institute and the Alvrok Department of Xenology have shed light that it might not be the case, and that the REAL Staff of Life might still be wherever Theophilus currently hides in. Rumours say it is Elysium that ZeepCol is currently hunting for, but naturally such hearsay hasn’t been able to be confirmed.

## History

Theophilus is assumed to have been born around 3,4 billion years ago, shortly after the end of the Sporid War between the Masaari and Sporix. Due to how FTL travel worked around that time, it was common to see people live on for millions, if not for tens or even hundreds of millions of years just so they could see their loved ones once their shuttle ship arrived to their star system. The Masaari had a variety of ways to counter aging and death for time periods modern-day creatures would see as “eternities”, including science, medicine, cryochambers, or even alchemy and magic through means like philosophers’ stones or the infinite supply of Fons industria (nowadays called anima) the Source provided.

Theophilus used the first 300 million years of his life to study the mysteries of the universe, gazing at distant stars, galaxies and nebulas, analyzing the lifestream of the galaxy, or even gazing into the past to see the ages of Aleph and his kingdom of titans. His ultimate goal was creating life out of nothing, but nothing came out of it without first stealing life from something else. With all of his research ending up with nothing, Theophilus travelled to planet Solum to meet with Sporix, the new God of Balance in the Masaari religion after the Sporid War.

### Creating the MAXIS Project

With the power of Sporix at his side, Theophilus realized he could draw on life energy straight out of the Source itself, but he needed a tool for it - his skills at harnessing it were still at a low level. Thus, Theophilus created three staves, with which he could cultivate life and give it form, a purpose: The Staff of Evolution, the Staff of Birth, and the most powerful of them all, the Staff of Life.

It is not know how much relation Steve’s Staff of Life has with Theophilus’s, but it is agreed upon that the latter’s staff, one of the Three Staves of Power, is far more powerful than what Steve hands out inside the Galactic Core. With the Staves of Creation, Theophilus was able to create three beings that harnessed the power of light, darkness and balance respectively: Xenolate, Ylate and Zyrgah. Each of them were a powerful and wise psionic user by their own right, but Theo decided that they should first grow in order to accumulate that wisdom by themselves, and later work as the sage trinity of the species he would create later.

For that purpose, Theophilus raised the three creatures all by himself, keeping them as well-fed as possible, and giving them everything they ever craved for, including breeding mates. However, as one such breeding mate, Xena, died shortly after mating Xeno, Theophilus decided to distance himself from the “alphabet sporeans” in order to let Xeno mourn in peace, not knowing that a darkness had arisen within the ‘keeper of light’. Some time later, disaster struck when Xeno gained intelligence, took the Staff of Life and attacked directly against Theophilus who was trying to use the Three in order to experiment with Xeno and others. After a fierce duel which ended with Xeno escaping, Theodorus decided to to abort the whole “MAXIS” project and fled into exile, seemingly afraid of his own creation.

### Million Year War

However, the shadows of his past would not leave Theophilus alone. When the Grox attacked the Stormet system and ignited the Million Year War, Theo knew that he couldn’t stand idly by any longer, and helped the Eternal Empire fight against the suddenly agitated Grox. He located the source of agitation to planet Mortar, where he came face to face with the “Emperor”. The Emperor claimed to everyone that he was the REAL Theophilus, and that the Theophilus that had currently helped them was an imposter sent by Sporix in order to send the Masaari into their doom.

Fearing execution as the Emperor’s lies sunk into his comrades, Theophilus fled into the edges of the Empire to hide from their wrath, but that turned out to be his greatest mistake. Immediately after Theophilus had left Mortar, the Emperor had executed every Masaari in the fleet, and the whole thing turned out to be a ruse set by Xenolate, his own creation, just to showcase how much of a “wimp” his creator really was. This sparked the advance of the Grox in the war, who blasted through the Masaari systems with their own technology and that of Xeno and the “Emperor”’s Death Moon superweapons all the way to the Gotisbar system, Steve’s hiding place.

Seeing no choice but to fight back, Theophilus used his wisdom in order to find a weakness in the Death Moons (their exhaust ports) and used it to destroy nearly all of the mass-produced Death Moons that Xeno had ordered the Grox to make. With reborn hope at his hands, Theophilus led the broken Masaari fleet to planet Grobium for one final battle, where he faced his rebellious creation once more and ended the Million Year War by seemingly destroying him and Grobium itself.

### Post-Million Year War

As for what happened to him afterwards, nobody really knows. Some history books and legends said that he moved to the Galactic Core in order to close the interdimensional portal hidden within it, becoming the pink spaceship we know today as Steve, but nowadays they have all been debunked by the discoveries of ADXH and their partners.

## The present age

Recently there have been theories that Theophilus later helped the mysterious Elysians in order to get their legendary “Elysium” into full working condition, but so far all of these claims have come from disingenuine and unreliable sources, meaning they aren’t taken into consideration when analyzing Theophilus’ ever-so-mysterious past. However, it is known that Theophilus has had laboratories across the universe, in places that people expect the least. There is the perfect possibility that there yet may be places that hide another one of his many post-MYW laboratories where he might’ve studied the process of life itself using the Staff of Life. As for the masaari himself, it is theorized that he may still be alive, granted eternal life or even godhood by the Lifely Hallow he is bearing.

## Adventure Appearances

Any adventure that features "Steve" before 30th April 2020 in the same context as the Three Staves is generally considered now to be about Theophilus instead. This is because of a ruling by CRASH's Captains which extends the Grox/human ban on Steve as well, considering that Steve is a popular Spore character and the previous iteration of Theophilus/Steve on CRASH Canon violated that idea.