Fifth Series - Thaddeus 'Tad' Pyrestark

With a name like Thaddeus Augustus Winslow Holofernes Pyrestark, I think you can tell that he’s one of the poshest, most cowardly Mages around. He has no real idea what politics govern the world, barely understanding anything beyond his own existence.

Though he starts out as the victim of a poorly-planned kidnapping, within a short space of time, and partly through some Stockholm syndrome, he comes around to helping Humanity. In fact, it is through him that the group discovers the mysterious ‘Pact’, the one secret which their whole crusade rests on.

Despite the fact that they refer to him as ‘Tad’, he still manages to slowly come around to liking the group. But he’s still a Mage, even if he is a fairly useless one. He often argues against causing trouble or excessive violence toward the Mages, but also reminds everyone that most Mages aren’t aware of how bad the situation is.

He is extremely selfish and nasty, often being more trouble than he’s worth, especially when he’s first kidnapped. It is only when he’s truly made to understand what sort of terrible things his father and the other Arch Mages are up to, that he comes around.

The name Thaddeus, and the shortened ‘Tad’ had been going around my head at the time that I imagined the Fifth Series. Much like the Stratigent Jep and Hermes, it was just one those odd words that had been bouncing around my head for a while, that I had been desperate to indulge. The rest of his name was just a bit of fun silliness.