Áþris "Othrys" Anžir

Dean Áþhris Anžir /ˈau̯.θɾ̥is an.ʒir/ - his forename also Euluskanised as Othrys - was an eminent scientist who studied galvanism, electricity, and machines. He mentored two great scientists - Dr Emryn Shrapnel and Prof Ralov Abraxas 
== Early Life ==
Othrys was born in Indra Eä (Greatwater), a village part of Datria's outskirts, in 178 C. He was born with a bad leg and spent most his adult life in a brass chair constructed by his father. He was born to a Rakki Antikostinese father and a Euluskan Datrian mother, both of whom were cargo merchants. His mother could trace her ancestry back to Henri Anžir, the famously murdered stage-magician whose death set in motion the events that led to the widespread adoption of Electricity. It was poetic that he would study that which his most famed ancestor, 11 generations ago, died for. 
== Academic Career ==
Othrys moved to South Halcyon in his twenties and studied for seven years at Kaveäpaïa Halcyon University, eventually earning a Sage's Degree in Galvanism - the study of electricity. In 208 C, he begun working for the Halcyon Commerce and Communications Company as Deputy Chief of Telemetry and Telegraphy, helping to maintain the flow of information and data in the ecumenopolis of Halcyon-Bygone. After three decades at the CCC, he then decided to train as a Professor of Mechanical Galvanism, the study of electrical machines. He earned his Professor's Qualification quickly, and begun teaching, eventually rising to Dean of the Chapter of Artifice. He was a keen professor and had a sharp mind. 
During the mid-240s, he collaborated on various projects with two figures - one of his doctorate students and his protégé, Dr Emryn Shrapnel, and their close friend, the Lecturer of Voltaics Studies, Professor Ralov Abraxas.
== Arrest and Exodus ==
In the year 248 C, during a routine audit by the contemporary Government of Fascist Halcyon under Queen Volterra I & Prime Minister Tahlia Kerenka, it came to light that Othrys was using some of his pay as Dean to fund an anarcho-communist pro-revolutionary group known as the Lionhearts. He was arrested and the Jackboots began taking him to jail. However, on the way over, his two fellow researchers Dr Emryn and Professor Abraxas stunned the convoy using an electrical cannon. Othrys, Emryn and Abraxas fled out of Halcyon into the Danderillon, highly wanted by the fascist government. Their reputations and posts ruined, they searched for a place to continue their work together as a trio.
== Train Work ==
Eventually, Othrys, Emryn and Abraxas came to the town of Adzvolta in southern Rakkimar, where an iron mine had lay dormant for centuries. They repaired houses to live in, and worked together for 4 years. The trio scavenged parts from the three steam trains that once served Adzvolta, turning the trains, scrap, and supplies from Bracken into one singular galvanic rail train. They named it the Saint Esmerelda, after the patron saint of lightning. The three of them worked well together, although Othrys did his best to stop Emryn and Abraxas from bickering - she thought he was too stuck in his ways, he thought she was too prone to taking risks. 
== Death ==
On one evening in early 252 C,, Othrys wrote Emryn and Abraxas each a letter and had a tinker's bot deliver it, whilst he was working late on the train. His two fellow researchers had been particularly argumentative with one another lately, and he was sick of it. The letter read,
He intended to tell them that they both needed to work together if the three of them would finish this train project. However, before he could clarify, he was eaten that night by Fat Bastard, the large 9.1ft-at-the-shoulder Xantic polar bear that lived in Adzvolta and provided an ever present danger. After this, the Dr. and the Professor began an argument that became a bitter feud, each believing that Othrys was going to ask the other one of them to leave for the sake of the project. This spiralled out of control until they were resorting to sabotage - Emryn, her various robots, and her new assistant Brakki scuffled and sabotaged with Abraxas's new hired muscle outlaw gang, and they kept stealing the train from one another or important parts.
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