Flauvius

Thematics
IV. DEATH BY WATER

Phlebas the Phoenecian, a fortnight dead,

Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell

And the profit and loss.

A current under sea

Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell

He passed the stages of his age and youth

Entering the whirlpool.

[...]

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,

Consider Phlebas, who was oce handsome and tall as you.

--T.S. Elliot' "The Wasteland".

Details
Flauvius was a resident of the middle lower hive, and was able to attend a university in the Slagersfeld spire due to several generations of mercantile conniving on his family's part. While at university, Flauvius was enrolled in the Mercantile program, and was studying in order to improve his family's position within the hive, a rare instance of progress in the slow crawl of Scintillan social mobiility. Things were going relatively well until Flauvius befriended fellow student Gloria Faustus. Flauvius desired Gloria's affections, but her class standing enabled her to scoff at his proposals. Spurned, he attempted to force himself onto Faustus. By this point in her studies, Faustus was considerably far into her occult studies, and had already invited a destructive daemon of Slaanesh to inhabit her corporeal form. Upon making contact with Faustus, the daemon forced itself uponn Flauvius' form in turn, inserting shards of itself into the man's soul. Flauvius' form twisted itself into the grotesqu shape of a carniverous but humanoid beast. Flauvius' psychic potential was also awakened, and he became a powerful biomancer. However, he seemed to have lost all human intelligence and communication, and does not appear to be aware of his own psychic powers. He is able to shape his own form to his exacting will, and can be somewhat unreliably utilized as a destructive war machine, and is often sent to fight alongside Enoch, the servitor of Sir Edwin Mandus. Flauvius is psychically bound to Feyd Beaumont, who cares for Flauvius' needs and is capable of keeping him calm when he must be interacted with. Flauvius was taken from the university along with Faustus by Inquisitor Hettesh Kaine, and was handpicked by Kaine for Faustus' cell, possibly as a perverse joke. He typically travels in a large pressure- and temperature-regulated crate with his cell, sedated to the point of utter oblivion, to be released when the scenario calls for violence on the part of Faustus' acolytes.