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Septis was born to a wealthy merchant family, the youngest of two children. His older sister Vivian was always following the straight and narrow, but Septis liked to live on the wild side. Growing up he had the best education that money could buy and was happy to live the life of lavish that his family provided, but he was always getting into trouble for one thing or another, most commonly involving some girl. He never had to really worry though because his family had money and he was the heir apparent. When his father passed away, he would take over the family business. However, there were two issues with this for Septis. First, his father was a healthy man and who knew how long it would be before he kicked the bucket. Second, the whole merchant thing, all those numbers, and contracts, and everything else he felt was rather dull. He much rather preferred socializing, going to parties, meeting new people - especially if they were beautiful women – and living it up.

So, he spent most of his youth on debauchery and ate away at his family’s fortunes. It wasn’t until he offended the honor of one of the family’s largest suppliers that his family had had enough. The impact to the family business was severe and with it his family’s reaction. His father disowned him, gave him a pouch of gold and kicked him to the curb. It was then that Septis’s life changed. Over the next several years he toiled away doing any work he could find luckily his schooling had given him a rather useful talent at deciphering documents and translating pages, but most importantly creating forgeries. Between his linguistic skills, his formal education, and his background of living and working among merchants he knew how to create some high-quality forgeries. It wasn’t enough to make him wealthy or get him back to the lifestyle he had previously enjoyed, but it was enough for him to live off while continuing his studies into the arcane. He wasn’t as suited for all the tomes and papers like many who sought to study magic, no for him it was a little more natural and he seemed to have a knack for conjuration, so this is where he focused. He did everything he could to learn about summoning creatures from other realms and bending them to his will. Eventually, his studies lead him down a dark path in pursuit of his power, because here was the quickest and easiest route to achieving his goals. The ritual he worked was for a powerful being that would grant him immense power. However, he wasn’t quiet up to the task to complete the ritual. Luckily for him as opposed to the many, many horrible things that could have done wrong he ended up instead conjuring the essence of some lesser minor demon. This demon wasn’t powerful enough to manifest itself on the material plane alone so it struck a bargain with Septis that should he use the power he had to help bring the demon to being that the demon would serve Septis so long as their relationship was mutually beneficial. Knowing that having a demon around to do his bidding could be rather useful Septis accepted the agreement.

Over the next few months Septis worked with this demon to further his knowledge of summoning and help the demon manifest. In this time the demon also learned a lot about Septis and the best ways to tempt the man into doing what the demon wanted. The demon was patient, it had eternity after all, so it was happy to work with Septis while he continued to conjure its full essence into the material plane. Septis toiled away fusing the knowledge and skills that he had with what the demon was teaching him and shaped the essence of the demon into a creature of his liking, this is how Liloria was born. Modelled after all the best qualities he had found in previous female companions, with a devilish twist Septis created his very own succubus. Of course, Liloria had her own plans, but for now Septis was a useful tool in harnessing her demonic essence and he proved he could do much to keep her anchored in the material plane, more so than would be the case for many other demons. So, Liloria was happy to serve Septis while she used him to accomplish her own ends.

With his new companion in tow and their continued work together he decided it was time to once again change his life. He had spent too long living in a crumby flat and missed the luxuries he enjoyed as a youth. Even though he was in his mid-thirties he still had plenty of life ahead of him and he planned to spend it lavishly. He started to do one other thing he could do well, make connections whether through duplicity or diplomacy he worked his way back into proper society, with the goal of gaining a seat on the senate. Septis knows it’ll be a long journey, but has already begun learning which hands to shake and how to listen carefully when others tell him what they want.