#centurion longinus

[inquisitor-gayfax]

this meme brought to you by me being reminded that Our Martyred Lady is actually a comedy

[lexsnotdead]

centurion longinus in our martyred lady and custodian amon tauromachian, later renamed into longinus in the first wall, appear to be the same man (custodians are too few to have repeating names, and oml and tfw are both written by gav thorpe, so it makes sense he would make a reference to this character) and it really makes everything click into place. longinus, who was tasked by malcador during the siege of terra to keep watch on the spreading lectitio divinitatus, who had his hand in putting the age of apostasy to stop for that exact reason, continues his duty even in m41, which must have been the reasoning behind him accompanying celestine and inquisitor greyfax to ophelia VII, both to keep the ecclesiarchy in check and to oversee legitimacy of celestine's sainthood as he did with euphrati keeler and alicia dominica.

as a side note. we also know that in celestine: the living saint andy clark writes that celestine's first death happened during the siege of terra, in the emperor's palace, and she was not a warrior back then — probably one of the refugees that were accommodated in the chamber of senatorum imperialis?

which leaves a very small chance that they have crossed paths ten thousand years before the events of oml, though i doubt that even if this had happened, this meeting would have been meaningful, considering she was just one refugee among many. unless she had been a follower of the lectitio divinitatus even then, which longinus/amon was investigating. really lots of interesting possibilities here.