Diarmuid Dúghall

In Raidhsénia, lives a young man by the name of Diarmuid Dúghall. Originally from Fábhcúin province,he is a man that posesses a great intelligence which belies his years. The son of a farm worker and of a miner who was verbally mute in his first few years, the source of his abilities is a mystery.  From a young age the child Dúghall was always rather aloof and had little in the way of friends or social habits preferring the company of his own projects which he became deeply enveloped in. In early childhood he developed an obsession in natural materials, especially in metals and crystals. His father, a mine worker, would pay the local merchant supervising the mine to allow him to bring young Diarmuid back nuggets of tin, copper and galena for him to collect which he did, arranging nuggets of an array of metals and crystals ranging from tin to za'ahene obsidian, in lines, from smallest to largest on his shelves in his bedroom. At the age of 8, Diarmuid constructs his own copper kiln which he uses to create elaborate metal gifts and ornaments for his parents. The local Solastic scribe is hearing of his abilities and eventually his parents are encouraged to enroll the boy at the Scoileanna of Eolas to make full use of his talents. He does so, and is given the symbolic green cloak as is the custom. At the age of 10, Diarmuid is introduced to other Solastic academics and becomes fluent in the Raidhsénian written language which he uses to document and annotate the properties of all known metals and crystals.
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Diarmuid had often pondered over the composition of things. His eyesight and sense of smell was enhanced, and he often focused on minute details in appearances. The layers of leather pieces. The composition of boats 
and what different types of wood were used to the planks and to the nails. The structure of plants.
When he had been a boy, his parents had beaten him up the three sisters knew how many times, for taking apart the toys for himself and his siblings. Brýnn Fargachal - a carpenter - had tried to put him to work as a carpenter apprentice putting things together, but Diarmuid was good for one thing, putting things apart.When he had 
been 13, he had seen a girl named Fánna gardening her goats, having a wreath of flowers in her hair. The composition of the wreath had 
interested him, so he had taken it and deconstructed it, to see how the 
flowers could be kept together. Fánna had cried and smacked him over the
 head with her herder stick, making Diarmuid fall over the milk bowl and getting a wound. In the grass, the blood and the milk mixed together, 
and he wondered whether they could be separated once again.
Once,
 when watching a funeral pyre, the wood had started to sprout liquid. It had taken him two days to realise that the wood contained small 
capillaries for transporting fluids, and that either the tree gained 
water from the clouds, by catching it with the leaves and transporting it down, or the roots transporting it up. Were the trees working like 
other plants, or were they separate? Diarmuid had a tree being dragged 
up with the roots, both to study and draw the root system, and to see 
whether it would live. It did not, even though he held it erect with 
ropes tied to other trees. Thus, he concluded that the water was led up 
through the root system.
The next question was, how could trees and plants lead water up the root system, since water seeked itself down and not up? 
Questions, questions, questions.
The next area of intense interest was stones. One could regard stones as the building blocks of the Earth, but why were there differing colours of rock? And why could for example tin and copper be extracted from the ground, and what role did they fulfill in the ground? Diarmuid decided to check whether or not they were anomalies, so he one day, when he was 18 years old, left his village and headed for the mountains on 
the coast. Hauling himself down the rocks, in rain and hail, he cut several pieces of rock away from the big seaside rocks, allowing the pebbles to fall down to a seck attached to the rope of his tunic. Hauling himself down, he suffered pneumonia for the following two months and lied incapacitated in a tavern in Fabhcúin Siar while blabbering on about rocks.
When he recuperated, he used a hammer to divide the grains, in smaller and smaller pieces, then arranging them according to colour. Then it struck him that the pieces reminded him of sand, and thus it was revealed for him that sand was really very tiny particles of
 rock. 
Diarmuid made another distinction as well, between matter (such as rock), fluids (water, milk, blood) and a third state, which he called "the empty state", being air. One could think that air was not anything, but how came he could feel the wind if it was impossible to hold on, and blow air and feel his nostrils widen, if there was nothing there? It struck him that maybe there was something smaller than sand. For example, mud became the unification of water and sand, and the result from applying hot fire was bowls and flasks which were more reminiscent of rocks than of sand, though weaker.
The heat drove away the water, and made the mud coalesce together in a new form, just like fire turned wood into coal, or allowed copper to be formed into useful things.
All this was well-known, but what interested Diarmuid was exactly what was happening. He imagined that when everything had started, when the world had been created, it had been created from applying several base elements together, and these elements had interacted in various forms and eventually produced the Earth. However, once united, they could also be divided down into their founding particles.
Diarmuid did not like stories. He preferred to see things hands on, to understand the world by deconstructing it. Everything that existed was apparently consisting of composites, and by separating the elements from one another, using fire as a medium, he could unravel the mystery that was the world.
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