Cephus Mamiodes

Cephus Mamiodes is a free agent in the occult underground.

Cephus is immaculately dressed and drives a Lexus. Cephus wears gold and diamond jewellery, especially if that jewellery involves pyramids. This is mostly because Cephus cares about three things: knives, pyramids and teamwork.

Cephus either works for Mak Attax or at least is sympathetic to them. In particular, his allegiance lies with the Scotsman, as he feels that the Mermaid, the King and the Colonel do not pay enough attention to his pleas for them to work together and boost their souls through cooperation.

If you ask, Cephus will tell you at length that pyramids facilitate teamwork and bonding. He sleeps in a pyramid. He meditates in a pyramid. He stores his blades in a pyramid. He stores his fresh produce in a pyramid. Once he invited Kieran Anville up to his hotel room so he could hand-feed him diamonds and meditate (in a pyramid). No homo. Well, maybe slightly homo. When Cephus really gets going talking about pyramids, his tone of voice becomes very sensual.

Cephus appears to earnestly believe that his ancestors built the original pyramids in Egypt but that the mystic significance of pyramids was lost to the ages until being rediscovered in Florida in 1923. It is not clear what, if any, of this is true.

Cephus appears to be vaguely under the impression that The Sleepers and The New Inquisition are the same group of people, a woolly entity he refers to collectively as The Men In Black.

New Orleans
The crew first met Cephus in New Orleans when, on the eve of a war with The Mermaid, they found him offering his Sharpening services to The Scotsman group. It was shockingly easy to convince Cephus to part with one of his blades when Kieran only very lightly flattered him. It was even easier to convince him to stab a prospective Mermaid assassin through the throat. He claimed that this was because he does not support The Mermaid's more individualistic spirit, preferring the cooperation of the Scotsman. This would not under normal circumstances be considered grounds for murder.

Cephus enlisted the help of Kieran and Charlotte Odette to tie up a Duke of The Mermaid, Connie and bring her to a highway underpass to interrogate her. This interrogation yielded very little information but it did mean Charlotte ended up with Blossom's personal phone number.

Team Bonding
On return to Tallahassee, Cephus ran a team bonding session for the five leads, plus Donald McNally. Aside from the part where Kieran stormed out of the room screaming at Lucius Zann over a perceived rejection, it went quite well. Cephus invited both Kieran and Lucius back to his hotel room to sort out the root of their interpersonal drama, however this did not end up happening. Instead, Patrick Cooper summoned the gang to his apartment to have a confrontation with The Thespian.

Cephus provided remarkably little assistance with the actual confrontation, as he got distracted explaining pyramid power in great detail to Patrick. He did, however, provide a getaway vehicle for the second tying up and kidnapping of a personamancer in as many weeks. One cannot help but wonder if this is as routine a part of his life as this would imply. In the course of all this, Cephus was the subject of considerable badgering from Kieran, who wanted Cephus to take him back to Miami with him to see the pyramids.

Kieran's Breakdown
Following the launch of the Madison King Memorial Website, Cephus received a phone call from Kieran saying that he had "done something bad" and that Cephus would probably no longer want to take him to Miami. When Cephus arrived on the scene, ambulances were already present at the scene. Cephus identified himself as Kieran's next of kin and lowkey committed insurance fraud. During Kieran's subsequent hospitalisation, Cephus obliquely told Kieran that Kieran would probably be better served staying in Tallahassee, and that due to recent events, Cephus would not be returning to Miami any time soon, but extended to Kieran the opportunity to keep in touch.