Vergilius was born at the Chiadovini Demesne in 2015 to his father Ricardo Benvolio and mother Terezija Mirel Schiavone as a result of the reinnervation of a blood pact between their two houses. He became a dual-citizen of Italy and Slovenia due to his lineage and was raised primarily in his mother's ancestral home in Lepena, Slovenia despite tutorship in Venice, Italy at the Chiadovini Demesne after his first incident of magic occurred.

The Chiadovinis were a formerly powerful and infamous family of pure-blooded Seers obsessed with maintaining purity and the presence of the gift of the third eye in their family. When their eldest son seemed to shirk that duty, Ricardo determined that it was time to resort to desperate measures, commanding that the Schiavones uphold their end of the blood pact and allow him to produce a son with one of their daughters. A middle child, Terezija, was offered to the Chiadovini patriarch, and it was she who would bear him a son that he would name Vergilius.

The Schiavones were a family originally from the Slavic regions who found themselves indebted to the Chiadovinis who broke their chains and freed them from their former masters. In exchange for granting them freedom from chattel slavery, the Chiadovinis commanded that if their lineage and blood was required, it would be given to them without question. The oath between the families was sworn in blood and magic, and thus stood for all time with a symbol of this oath being the gifting of the name "Schiavone" to the subserviant family. Throughout the Chiadovini line there have been daughters of Schiavones married into the family under dire circumstances where there were no worthy families to breed with or if an heir was a necessity. In time, the Schiavones gained a reputation as a "barter" family who offered services to desperate pureblood families in need of "pure lineages" to breed with. They also became known as a family of artists and enchanters of all varieties.

After a first incident of magic featuring the temporary animation of a yet-unenchanted portrait, the child was set up to attend Durmstrang and attended his foundation year before the change in schooling standards. To adhere to the guidelines, his residence was listed as his Slovenian address.

Possesses heterochomatic eyes (right is a light sky blue and the left is pale lilac due to ocular albinism) and off-black brown hair with notable piebald forelocks. Does not possess easily visible scars or birthmarks. Pale with healthy tan undertones, with a build that while slight is strongly wiry and & deceptively strong. He stands slightly taller than his average male peers at a rounded 5' (1.5 meters) and 84lbs(38kg).

Vergilius' first instance of magic occurred as a result of admiring fine works being made in the Schiavone house's residence. His mother, being a famed painter and enchantress, was working on a bit of commissioned art for another family and had been away to collect more supplies for "touching up" the final product before it was enchanted.

The face of the portrait was mostly complete save for a few improperly shaded places, and the background was soon to be completed. Vergilius was reading that unfinished face, the curves and the dips in it--the shadows and the places that light danced... and his eye narrowed. It had motion, but it had no depth.

His glove's fingers brushed the canvas, bumpy and fibered beneath his hand. How was it that the canvas' pores possessed more depth than this image? It seemed incomplete...

Until the face under his fingertips sneezed once and exclaimed in surprise at the four-year-old that had pulled his hand away in shock and disgust at the thing suddenly coming to life. Terezija arrived just in time to usher Vergilius away from the piece of art, which gradually slowed and then returned to an inanimate state. She did not chastise the child, but softly praised him.

This was what his father had been waiting for all along, she told him. It was now finally time for him to meet his true benefactor.