Omél et Goy II.

Omél et Goy II. was an Imperial Scribe of the Andorn Empire around before the 4th Andorn crisis. Although he was technically a scribe, his life's work was mapping linguistic hierarchies in the north-west part of Syltör, namely the empire of Andorn in which he lived. His idea of the Proto-Antornic language was proven to be true after his death, due to many of his contributions. Additionally Omél II. even had a carrier with a mixed success involving the manufature of cookies.
== Early life ==
Omél II. was born into the Omél family, which at the time lived in Goyburg, later renamed to Savras. In his youth Omél II. found himself in the first Andorn empire. Even at a very young age Omél was very langauge-oriented so to say. According to his autobiography, he was a man of the words. The post of a scribe was only natural for him, so at the age of 19 years he became one of the few active scribes of the empire (with Brain von Kidd and a few others). Many of the records that we view as the key resources to understanding some parts of past life of the Andornians are preserved only in his writings. Around this age he stopped believing in Karangi beliefs of his father and converted to the Twin dragon religion.
== Linguistic work ==
In spare time, when not working in the scribe's corner of Savras, Omél focused on the history of his language of Old Savyrain and other surrounding languages. Because he noticed that many of the words in seemingly far away areas were suspiciously similar to other words semantically close. To our knowlage he was the first one to write down about this idea and spread the word of it.
His hypothesis that all of the so-called Antornic langauges were once a single unified langauge, which then evolved through time by a predictable manner in grammar and vocabulary, which would later be porven correct by his son.
Although his hypothesis was correct, the execution of his work was far from perfect. He though that the only factor of language change was the distance from the language origin which, according to him, would be somewhere around Pillars of Sun. And that the Central Antornic langauge, especially the dialectal form from Pillars was the true original language. He also tried to justify his beliefs by showcasing other of these language families and pointing to their origin (namely Aurlunoren). All of these theories were later disproven by other linguists and lingustics enthusiasts.
== Fort Bethany Cookie Company ==
Later in life Omél et Goy befriended the mayor of Fort Bethany Eternalblizzard and spent much of his time in his city. One day while making a batch of cookies from cocoa beans grown in Savras, Eternalblizzard got the idea to make and sell cookies in Fort Bethany. It would be a great source of income for the town and a rarity in such cold parts of the world. The main problem was the transport of cocoa beans form elsewhere, but Omél had good enough contacts back in Savras, where the beans could grow, that they had a chance.
A small buisness was opened around a month from that time, which sold cookies. Much of both of the founders' fortunes was put into it, so they quite counted on it. From the begening only a few people came and bought the pricy delights. The company then bancrupted soon after to the sorrow of many Bethanians.
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