Daniele Astragali

Daniele Astragali was a dorlancien scholar, historian and anthropologist who lived in the kingdom of Dorlance, he is considered the father to modern Anthropology and is well known for his no-nonsense approach to historiography.

## early life

Astragali was born as the fifth son of a rich merchant family from Castello dei Fiori, one of the main settlements of Valle Dei Fiori, the region of Dorlance where the Etralian people live. His family owned a brewery, and they were known for their high-quality wine, since an early age Daniele had shown interest in the stories and legends of foreign cultures and finding logical explanations for the world around him. This attitude led to his father encouraging him to pursue the classical studies and literature.

## formation

Daniele studied abroad the mountains, his alma-mater was the "académie nationale d'études littéraires classiques" of Vantes-Lorceau, where he was a student, and later in life, would become a teacher, educating the future generations on a new subject, Anthropology.

## later life

After his immediate graduation, he returned to his homeland, where he worked at the dependence of due Fabricetti's father as a civil servant, while writing in his past time, its in that timeframe that he wrote his first treaty, "l'almanacco della cultura Etraliana", an almanac encompassing the cultural, culinary and mythical tradition of his native Etralian culture, it's in this treaty, where, for the first time in history we see the term "Antropologia", used in the prologue to refer to his studies of human society as a whole. Daniele worked here for 35 years of his life, till the death of the old duke. After the death of Fabricetti's father, Astragali resigned from his job as a civil servant to, as he put himself in "memorie d'un Etraliano", leave space for the younger generation. After he resigned from the académie nationale d'études littéraires classiques of Vantes-Lorceau, they offered him a position in the university as a teacher, to educate the youth in his beloved Anthropology, he accepted and returned to his Alma-mater, he remained in Vantes-Lorceau lorceau for another 25 years. The years as a teacher in Vantes-Lorceau were his most prolific years of writing, in fact in this period he published 2 other operas, "Storia conosciuta di Dorlance" wich was an analysis of dorlancien history from the earliest offshoots from the hunter-gatherer Yntre, to the modern kingdom, wrote in a scientific matter, refusing unlogical explanations like the popular legend that the blood rituals of the nobles made a dark magic blast that destroyed the Froiverien empire, citing how the empire was very fragile since its start and summing up the nobility's blood rituals and the fall of the empire as a mere rare coincidence. he dedicated this work to the king and to duke Fabricetti, the other work he published was "la questione froiveriena" where he tried to understand whether or not the Froiveriens were of yntre descent, he summed up that they probably were, but was left with no evidence supporting his theory, due to how little they left. At the age of 80, he also retired from the teaching job, returning to Castello dei fiori to live the last years of his life with his remaining family, in these last years he wrote "memorie d'un Etraliano", his autobiography, which he dedicated to his nephew Atlante. He died at 89 years of age, being mourned by all of Dorlance's nobility and inteligentia.

## private life and living descendants

Astragali never married in his entire life, he was known to say often to have never felt that need in his life, so much that when someone asked if he was married he is known to have answered "yes, to science and culture". Despite not having direct descendants, His nephew Atlante works in castello dei fiori like his uncle, he follows his footsteps as an anthropologist, being the one who theorized a connection between the people of venillón and dorlance, but also keeping with his family tradition, working as a brewer and chef in a high class restaurant of his homeland.