Interal

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A very powerful wizard who was one of the contenders for the title of Saffier during the Conclave Dispute.

721PE: Interal granted the rank of sarrif in the Sapphire Wizards' Guild.

729PE: Interal involved in fighting on the Toran border. He proved very effective in direct conflict and gained notoriety and acclaim amongst the sarrifs stationed there.

742PE: Interal granted the title Archamage after he proved his skill in the appropriate trails.

749PE: Interal made one of the Conclave and is granted title of Master Magi.

753PE: Facts of this event were disputed in various histories. Most agree that at least five some suggest six and some seven of the eight archmages that make up the Conclave of the Sapphire Wizards' Guild (known as the Master Magi) attempted to remove the current Saffier Repletan. Naturally, he resisted this move and it resulted in a cold war. Mages were not blasting each other in the corridors, but there were deaths even in the early months. One of these was Interal.

754PE: The dispute ran on with no end in sight. Multiple factions vied for supremacy and Interal as the leader of one of the more powerful. Some including Interal's rival Feint start claimed the title Saffier.

755PE: Interal benefited from the fall of the Splinters of Bone faction after their murders were exposed.

756PE: The year of three Saffiers. Interal declared himself Saffier claiming widespread popular support and the need to bring the dispute to an end. Repletan instantly reacted declaring his statement invalid and demanding his arrest and exile. Many wizards refused to support his declaration and this failure openly ended his claim to rulership of the guild. However Interal overstepped believing that the refusal to arrest him gave him a mandate to rule. His attempt to seize control of the Conclave was utterly ignored by the other archmages. He had widespread support among sarrifs but not among the most powerful such as the Master Magi. Feint directly opposed him and ended up using tricks to embarrass Interal which damaged his popularity and political viability.

At the end of the year, during Fallsal, Repletan was killed in mysterious circumstances. Interal was blamed for this. At first he openly denied resposibility but after realising he could not proove his innocence he attempted to turn it to his gain. Overstepping his hand once again he tried to claim the killing as proof he was more powerful than had been believed. However no sooner did Intreral commit himself to claiming the execution as his own doing than the soulcrafter Lethe revealed his involvement. This exposed Interal as a weak pretender. Interal fled a direct confrontation with Lethe but the other was forced to leave also as several dozen sarrifs combine their forces against him and several officers in the Red Protectoran lead their troops against Lethe and his 'minions' now his schemes have been brought into the open.

757PE: The dispute ran on, with multiple factions vying for supremacy. The Conclave was officially suspended by the Emperor Jarlath. The wizards' rivals: the Senate, the military and the church start to take over the running of the country. Chareye came out of retirement in disgust over the events. He officially re-took his rightful title of archmage back and called on the sarrifs to end the petty bickering. He refused to lead a faction and openly stated he would not seek the title of Saffier or sit on the reorganised Conclave. Interal specifically avoided facing Chareye as he had known him in his days as an apprentice.

758PE: Multiple factions still vied for supremacy. Lethe deceived Interal into thinking that Feint had enchanted the Emperor. Interal still hiding from Chareye then signed the Letter of Regicide. He claimed it was to restore the Guild and to save the Empire. The directives contained in the letter were carried out by a small elite strike group, who became known as the Regicide. Using Interal's magical support they infiltrated the palace, killed 17Red Protectoran elites, 3 Knights of the Empire, 4 sarrifs (including one archmage) as well as 8 royal bodyguards some or all of whom may have been Knight Stalkers. The Emperor Jarlath and two of his children were killed as a result.

The Empress reigned in the absence of the heir, her other son Coriam the absent was out of Tor Honarik at the time. She declared a state of emergency and called on the Protectorans and the Church to help her bring those responsible to judgement. She announced that the Guild itself should consider its re-institution as under threat unless it brought the dispute to an end. Interal has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams but again he found he had overstepped. He had killed the Emperor but not the succession as he had hoped. Intead of backing down and allowing the guild to reform the IMperial Leadership had hardened their stance. So rather than claim the coup and decalre himself the liberator of the sarrifs as he had hoped, Interal tried to hide his involvement, even to an attempt to dispose of the Regicide.

759PE: The archmage Ivory returned from retirement at the Empress' request. She prevented the killing of the Empress. Danil Durova discovered the Letter of Regicide. Interal was declared guilty of treason by unanimous vote of the Senate. The new law was enacted, the Traitor's Knot that any one hiding, assisting or even associating with Interal, other than to bring him to justice, was also a traitor to the crown. The Empress assigned a group of Templar and Red Protectoran Elites (Who may have been Knight Stalkers) to her younger brother Renis and 'asked' Ivory to accompany them. These were joined by Renis' bodyguard, which was made up of Red Blades under the command of Blademark Trent Fell. There were also a huge assortment of clerics assigned to them as well. Renis named the unit in its entirety the Loyal Force.

Less than a month later, Renis, Ivory and the Loyal Force successfully found and killed Interal and his inner circle.