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Ambrose
was born in the slums of Byzantium Secundus around 4955,
and orphaned at an early age. Left on the doorstep of an
orphanage run by the Urth Orthodox sect, he came to hold
the priests who raised him in high esteem, and sought to
follow in their footsteps. A bright student with an agile
mind and an abiding faith, he finished his seminary training
at the top of his class and thereafter rose quickly through
the ranks. Finding the Mahayana Orthodoxy to be most in line
with his personal beliefs, he pursued that school of thought,
although he tends to be more conservative than many of his
fellow Mahayana. Once he was ordained into the White Priesthood,
he devoted much of his time to working with the poor of ByzSec,
bringing some measure of spiritual solace and physical comfort
to those who live in the slums where he was born.
Until
his assigment to Vargo almost all of his life was spent on
the world of his birth, his only offworld travel a pilgrimage
to Holy Terra. For several years he had served as rector
to the seminary chapel of the University of Veridian, offering
spiritual counsel to the students who came to him for confession.
It was in this role that he came to the attention of Hierophant
Marcus Aurelius Palamon, Archbishop of ByzSec, who later
remembered Ambrose when he was looking for reliable priests
to send to Vargo to fulfill the Church's mission there. Ambrose's
tenure on Vargo was troubled. The native populace, resentful
of the brutal treatment their own priests had received at
the hands of the Inquisition, proved more intractable than
Ambrose had expected. Furthermore, the heavy-handed leadership
of Ambrose's superior, Archbishop Kraelian, only served to
inflame the Vargen populace further.
Though
discouraged, Ambrose rededicated himself to his mission,
remaining on
Vargo after Kraelian left his post for reasons of health
(amidst rumors that he had been poisoned). In the end, Ambrose's
disillusionment caused him to stumble in matters spiritual:
he had a brief love affair with an al-Malik Countess, and
lost sight of his mission on Vargo. After confessing his
misstep to his superiors, he undertook a pilgrimage to Holy
Terra as penance. He spent several years there, seeking enlightenment
in mountaintop monastery in the Atlas mountains. Finally,
his faith restored, Ambrose asked to be sent back to Vargo.
He has returned there in the wake of the Vau interdiciton,
committed to the task of steering Vargo's lost souls back into
the warmth of the Light.
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