Anselm Trobe

**Anselm Trobe** was a Mage Prince geneticist at the twilight of the Mage Imperium. His genetically engineered "children" were intended as a new race of superhuman warriors and rulers, destined to lead a new Imperium.

## History

### Early Life

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### Milgravian Civil War

*Main article: Milgravian Civil War*
Trobe and his eldest children, Recroprose and Flazel, arrived at the Court of Milgar shortly before the Milgravian Civil War and became quickly embroiled in the events surrounding the deaths of Tam Antelv (assassinated by Recroprose) and Statler Semokku.

During the civil war, Recroprose became part of Lady Keith's faction, offering her biological weapons against the Gul'Dan as well as performing his own experiments on indigenous Milgravians. After the civil war, Trobe and his children fled Milgar with Lady Keith and remained secretly in her employ: Trobe rose to become Lady Petra Keith's chief biologist and geneticist, producing agents and shock troops to protect her black projects and infiltrate enemy organizations, as well as devising an arsenal of viral weaponry (including a fail-safe of his own which Trobe could activate to kill off most of the Keith organization).

### Twilight of the Mage Imperium

*Main articles: Mage Imperium II, Mage Imperium III*
In the events of the Second Episurian War, the Hybern Succession Crisis and the Third Kirvan Crusade, Trobe played a significant background role, eventually leaving the Hybern Sector altogether to study the secrets of psionics. He ultimately devised a means of inducing psionic power through a combination of Mind Eel implants, extreme brain surgery and careful exposure to the maddening visions of the Pin-Jump.

When Petra Keith and her Foundation Project fled Hybern for the far reaches of known space, they found a small Second Imperium already in the making, staffed by exiled scientists and the various children of Anselm Trobe. For a short time, the Encyclopedia Foundation flourished as Petra had dreamed it would. However, the seeds of the Foundation's destruction lay in its able cadre of genetically engineered civil servants and the widespread psionic grafts offered by Trobe.

What Trobe did not know was that the Mind Eel, weak, blind, swarming, is but larval stage of the far more terrible Naga. What form the Naga would naturally take was unclear, but the grafts in the minds of Trobe's induced-psychic children slowly transformed them, and the true form of the Naga became hinted at in the inhuman surgical reshaping these Naga-hybrids inflicted on themselves to match a hideous vision of perfection. Trobe's supreme arrogance had not been in tampering with genetics and crafting the most perfect human form possible, but in believing that his creations could never turn on him.

The hybrids disappeared from Trobe's notice, hiding away to "perfect themselves" as they called out across the ether to their true Naga cousins and plied their mundane siblings against Trobe. At last, Trobe was lured by his favorite children, the Perfect Princes, to see what had become of the hybrids.  It is perhaps a mercy that whatever final vision Trobe saw has not gone recorded in detail. Those of Trobe's children who remained loyal did not long survive their father. Flazel, Trobe's eldest daughter would perish attempting to warn the Encyclopedia Foundation.

What followed was the rapid destruction of the Encyclopedia Foundation, as Trobe's children and their Naga allies seized facilities and murdered scientists. Trobe's legacy would be creating the administrators and generals of a Naga Empire in Celestial Space; perhaps he would have been satisfied by such an outcome.