Sylas Fallendrok

Sylas Fallendrok is a prominent artificer and inventor, and a friend of William and Castor Vaelin Krenting. Sylas took in Castor after his father disappeared, and has lived with Castor for the majority of the last 15 years.
== Description ==
== Biography ==
=== Background ===
Many decades ago, Sylas traveled around the world as an adventurer. After one particular adventure, Sylas met William and they immediately became close friends. After retiring from adventuring some years later, Sylas lived in a shack in The Great Desert and turned his focus towards inventing. Sylas remained friends with William and his son, Castor, up until William's disappearance 15 years ago.
=== Flipstone Network Invention ===
With the help of Castor many years ago, Sylas invented the Flipstone Network, creating 50 "flipstones" capable of instantaneous, secure, untraceable communication with each other from any location in the world. 10 of these flipstones were given to friends, 30 were sold to government officials and those in control of large organizations, and 10 were auctioned off anonymously. Each flipstone (aside from Sylas's admin flipstone and William's prototype flipstone) has a unique ID number (2 - 51) and 3-letter discriminator. A large crystalline device in Sylas's house acts as a signal repeater that all flipstone conversations are transmitted through.
=== Present Day ===
Sylas currently lives in a high-tech shack near the city of Magnostadt in The Great Desert, right next to the observatory where William used to work.