Tommaso da Capua, Pontifex Maximus

Tommaso is the Major Penitentiary, or leader of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the tribunal of the Roman Curia that oversees issues of forgiveness of sins in the Church. A native of Capua, a commune located further south along the Italian peninsula in Campania, Tommaso is a highly educated man. To his undoing, he loves classical literature, such as Boethius, Ovid, and Cicero, especially the metaphysical passages that mix natural philosophy with the heavenly bodies. Fate is unkind ― Tommaso is the perfect foil for the Planetary Divinities, and he immediately believes their promises.

As Pontifex Maximus, Tommaso receives the blessing of the Planetary Divinities, who can use their faerie magic to raise his Characteristics to +5. He is currently favored by Venus, who has raised Tommaso's Communication to +5.

Nominally, Tommaso is a Guelph and will trigger Buonacorsus' Suffer the Judgment of Jericho if he is elected pope.