Gianluca di'Sforza the Linguist

Professor Gianluca Disforza was an old Lyskeian man - one of the survivors of the fall of the di'Sforza family, and also quite a famous linguistic scientist. He was responsible for a lot of the work on the indigenous languages of Lakay. 
Born in 1479, he was of house Disforza and well-educated in then-Felonil. He was a Professor of Linguistic Science and catalogued various languages of 16th century Indratera. His nieces and nephews included Machavellio and Anaïs Disforza amongst other equally important kids. When the family fell in the 1500s (long story), he was slated to be executed alongside his brother Colombo, patriarch of the noble family, but due to Gianluca's intelligence, the Emperor instead decided to have him sent as a scribe-slave to the Governor of Lakay, Laurena di'Ayala. 
In 1513, he got in contact with his nephew, who was leading the Lakayan Liberators. Max used his uncle as a 'man on the inside', within reason to not arouse suspicion. Max pulled strings with his uncle to have Gauward executed by firing squad to not compromise their plan - a cut throat move. During the Battle of Fort Helena, Max, Orthalas and Lee saved Gianluca from Commodore Lilac Rogers, who was about to shoot him, blaming him for her fall from grace (when it was actually the lie Gauward told). Gianluca continued to serve as scribe under the Federation, but no longer was he this indentured servant. Instead he was a sagacious fellow allowed to continue his research unbridled. He catalogued the languages of Lakay, the The Vortic Isles, The Fallo, The Horn, and the Moors, and Rakkimar. 
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