Assassination. ON behalf of the Empire. Trent Ikithon is the Archmage of Civil Influence who is in charge of training recruits, whom he handpicks from promising candidates at the Soltryce Academy. It's a school run by the Cerberus Assembly, who is a council of mages.

I failed the training when I... eh... botched the last test, so to speak. I did it, but then broke. And realized that he had altered our memories in order to get us to do it.

So yes, he is someone who needs to be... cut out. And the rest of the Assembly, for the most part.