Mousikó Koutí

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**Mousikó Koutí** (Moos-eek-oh Koo-tee) was an artificer, writer, and wanderer, travelling to and documenting strange places, strange plants, and other strange things. He is credited as the creator of the first Music Box, and other variations of the Music Box, and his books on herbalism are well-known throughout the small towns and hamlets dotting Orchestria.

## Appearance

Mousikó Koutí's most notable feature was his backpack, filled with various knickknacks, tools, and souvenirs from his travels. A majority of the contents were Music Boxes and related items, but he also carried his journals and other smaller inventions as well.

## Personality

Mousikó Koutí was very charismatic, able to talk his way out of most situations, but also a skilled fighter for when words didn't work. He was very resourceful, able to find food, remedies, and even poisons almost anywhere. His thirst for knowledge was legendary, leading him into danger after danger, but he always came out better than before.

## History

##### Contribution by PickilusChrist

In ancient times, the Key Kingdom made their first attempt at automated instruments, like the Synthesizer Sentinels, and it resulted in the Marble Primeval. This then lead to the idea of automated instruments being seen as monstrous and evil in nature. This ideal spread to the minor townships near the Key Kingdom and due to their isolation they never truly lost that ideal, even after the Keyboard Kingdom changed its policies and made the Synthesizer Sentinels. Later on, a researcher from the Key Kingdom ventured to a small town on eastern Orchestria and set up camp, eventually settling down with a wife and having Mousikó. The man instilled in his child the curiosity of a scientist, regaling stories of his homeland and their incredible machines and weapons to him. This researcher's spirit led Mousikó Koutí to creating the Idiophones. However, due to their hatred of automated instruments and his father's death, there was nobody to convince the townspeople to let him stay, and Mousiko was cast out.

##### Origin

Mousikó Koutí grew up somewhere along the east coast of Orchestria. He first distinguished himself through artifice, making small mechanical contraptions, but he didn't find an instrument for much time. His first Idiophone was concieved after he saw a Xylophone and thought "I'm gonna make it smaller", resulting in the Lamellophone. This eventually led to him integrating Idiophones into his machines, and subsequently, he created the first Music Box. After getting cast out by the village priest for blasphemy (self-playing instruments are seen as witchcraft in the *less developed* parts of Orchestria), he took to a wandering lifestyle, living off the land, the taverns, and the rich people's pockets.

#### Travels

Mousikó Koutí's journeys took him all across Orchestria, living in small town inns and taverns, he made a living selling Music Boxes, children's toys, and other mechanisms, and slowly earned his fame as a travelling artificer. While cleaning up a failed experiment involving tiny red shoes, gunpowder, and a hedgehog covered in lapis lazuli, a servant complimented the informative yet entertaining notations on Koutí's blueprints, sparking him to experiment with writing and journalism. Mousikó started inspecting and documenting the various plants that he used while on the road, and after building up a considerable number of pages about herbal remedies, poisons, and stimulants, he brought this collection of knowledge to a publisher. After some time deliberating the organizational structure of this book, it was published and released throughout the postal networks connecting the small hamlets spread over Orchestria, becoming and instant hit with cooks, doctors, and hunters alike due to the valuable information about which plants are effective for each respective profession. Searching for new and rare plants brought Mousikó into many lost or unexplored segments of the continent, many with ancient ruins and battlefields littered with strange bones and rusty instruments, and Koutí's curiosity fed on these snippets of Orchestria's hidden past. The more information he gathered, the more questions he had, and Mousikó Koutí was inexorably drawn down a very deep rabbit hole.

#### Disappearance

The last known journals of Mousikó Koutí focus on documenting Cacophony. Travelling to infamously dangerous places, Koutí was fixated on this hidden yet growing threat which was going unnoticed by the greater powers of Orchestria. Rumors and ancient carvings led Mousikó down into southern Orchestria and past the Cacophony Strait where he vanished into ambiguity.

## Quotes

* *"The only Blasphemy here is your hairline!"*

## Trivia

* Mousikó Koutí means Music Box in Greek.