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===Early career=== | ===Early career=== | ||
[[File:HTMCC-H4 Terminals DidactArmor.png|thumb|250px|The Didact's form for the majority of his career.]] | [[File:HTMCC-H4 Terminals DidactArmor.png|thumb|250px|The Didact's form for the majority of his career.]] | ||
Later in life, | Later in life, Shadow became a [[Promethean]], a member of the highest and most powerful class of [[Warrior-Servant]]s. He was trained by [[Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished]], a legendary Promethean far older than Shadow himself.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=246}} As a cadet, he apprenticed on ''[[Deep Reverence]]''.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=145}} Early in his career, the [[Confirmer]] provided Shadow a [[Forerunner mutation|brevet mutation]] to his second [[form]]. This occurred on the ''Deep Reverence'' in the chaos of battle. Without that quick and immensely painful mutation, the young cadet might not have survived.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=178}}{{Ref/Reuse|Epi9}} He gained the name "Didact" while teaching at the [[College of Strategic Defense of the Mantle]]; his students gave him the name because they found him to be a strict and demanding teacher.{{Ref/Novel|Cry|Page=227-228}} | ||
The Didact was elevated to the rank of [[protector of the ecumene]] around 2,000 years before the war with the humans.{{Ref/Reuse|protector}} He had a romantic relationship with another Promethean commander, known as [[Endurance-of-Will]], and would most likely have married her had he not met the [[Librarian]], a [[Lifeworker]]. Despite the unconventional practice of marrying outside one's own rate, the Didact ultimately married the Librarian.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=284, 290-291}} They lived on [[Nomdagro]], a world populated mainly by Warrior-Servants, in a mansion designed by the Didact himself in a grandiose style traditional of Warrior-Servants.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=49-50}} They had several children, all of whom followed in their father's footsteps and became Warrior-Servants.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=219}} | The Didact was elevated to the rank of [[protector of the ecumene]] around 2,000 years before the war with the humans.{{Ref/Reuse|protector}} He had a romantic relationship with another Promethean commander, known as [[Endurance-of-Will]], and would most likely have married her had he not met the [[Librarian]], a [[Lifeworker]]. Despite the unconventional practice of marrying outside one's own rate, the Didact ultimately married the Librarian.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=284, 290-291}} They lived on [[Nomdagro]], a world populated mainly by Warrior-Servants, in a mansion designed by the Didact himself in a grandiose style traditional of Warrior-Servants.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=49-50}} They had several children, all of whom followed in their father's footsteps and became Warrior-Servants.{{Ref/Novel|Sil|Page=219}} | ||