Professor Wrin

**Wayan Shuntaro Wrin** is considered to be the father of modern Sahul with his discovery of the practical application of makanium which led to the Makanium Revolution. At twenty three Wayan Wrin managed to graduated from the university of Greta as a professor in history after which he began to work at the cities archives where he researched and ordered the city's collection of old tomes. During his life Wrin owned a small cat called Cakar, a black oriental short hair cat who he brought on all his journeys, including to Frroep which in the end doomed the rest of the worlds felines.

The biggest mistake that Wrin ever made in his own eyes was also what gave him his biggest success: Stealing books from Frroep. While it might have given him fame and riches at first it would eventually cost him everything he really held dear. His children, his cats, his brothers and sisters and their children, all had to pay the price for his folly. Professor Wrin used the knowledge he learned from the library of Frroep to research and develop makanium based technology. He discovered that green makanium conducts Arcane Mana which it could either store in orange makanium or pass on to other crystals or devices. From this discovery the makanium revolution was birthed.

## History

Wayan Shuntaro Wrin was born in the year 1369 AD as first born of a bureaucrat family in the city of Greta. Wayan was a bright young man, constantly spending his time at the city library. While his family wasn't particularly well off they did recognise this young man's talents and sent him of to the local university to study at his 18th birthday: here he studied for seven years until he eventually graduated as a professor in history.

After his graduation he began to work at the local archives: studying the dusty tomes for a living. In one of these tomes he found stories about a legendary library in the middle of the Coarse Sea, this library was said to contain long lost knowledge from before the great disappearance. Everyone he talked with said the library was just a legend, but Wrin was too stubborn to listen to them and he packed his stuff and his cat Cakar to set of to Scorch Gate.
When they arrived in Scorch Gate Wrin went straight for the cities archives again, using his own rank inside of Greta to get access to the ancient map section. Wrin studied and compared maps thousands of years old, comparing each small discrepancy or small detail that could be the library until he would pinpoint the location. He hired a Sand-Botter with the last of his coins and set of for his spot. For nine days and nine nights Wrin and Cakar sailed over the waves of sand until he was forced to admit to himself that he had no idea how to navigate. He turned back but as he was he saw something in the distance. A tower sticking out of sand; exactly what he was looking for.

With haste he sailed to the lonely tower, and walked through the doors of the tower. Inside he was met by a bird men, who welcomed him with a hundred different voices. The creature put him off at first, but Cakar quickly slipped in before Wrin could react. He quickly explained why he was here and the bird men, a kenku, agreed to let him in on one condition: No book might leave this sacred place. Wrin agreed and went to search the library. Eventually he found Cakar in one of the darker sections of the library, and as he picked a book from the shelf and began to read it he discovered that it was. as he had hoped, a book from before the disappearance of Al-Kanish. Tome after tome he read, about everything from the economy of forgotten kingdoms to interracial relationships until he found a special book. It was sitting on a pedestal inside of a glass box, obviously forbidden to be read. He asked Cakar, his trusty friend, to make a scene and send the cat on its way. Cakar ran to the other side of the library, scratching walls and pulling books of the shelves. The kenkus went to check on the animal, and Wrin quickly pulled the book from under its case and into his bag before any of them should be able to notice.

But the kenkus did notice, by the mercy of Tenno did they notice. The entire building began to shake, the air with the sounds of screaming that got harder and softer in waves and different voices screaming alarm as Wrin quickly ran to grab Cakar. Ravenblack birdman jumped from the bookcases at Wrin as he rushed by. He felt the entire building beginning to sink and knew his time was short. As a kenku prepared to skewer little Cakar Wrin body checked him into the wall. The two of them ran through the library halls until the reached the central chamber, there they saw their way out: a window on the central peak. Wrin climbed upon the bookcases into the rafters, climbing from plank to plank with the mad crowing creeping closer and closer. They reached the final planks, and the sunlight of the desert beyond burned on their faces. He climbed on but something was sharp pulling him. He turned around and saw a talon and the enraged beak of a kenku, with its beady eyes which had turned red. It kept screaming execute as it tried to pull Wrin and Cakar down and Wrin for his part tried to shake him of with all his might. Cakar jumped out of Wrin's bag and ran across his leg to the talon, Cakar began to scratch the face of the birdman like no cat had ever scratched a face before. The kenku assailant lost his grip and felt down, far down to his doom in the library below.

Wrin and Cakar jumped out of the window, and felt face first on the sand just below them. They turned to see the Library of Frroep disappear into the sands below, and quickly ran for their Sand-Botter to escape. As they sailed away Wrin could not help but think about the Kenku and their mad crowing, each speaking with a hundred voices at once. And he could do nothing but hope that they would stay in Frroep, far beneath the sandy waves of the Coarse Sea. But the Kenku did not stay down there, and they did not forget. They declared execution on Wrin, on Cakar, and everyone with a similar genetic build as them. In the years to come all of Wrin's kinsman and all cats would be hunted down by the Kenku, just as retribution for the breaking of their oat.

After many nights of studying the book, Professor Wrin managed to translate it. Inside were notes about ways a material called makanium could be used in everyday life. After experimenting with a crystal his mother used to wear as an earring, he discovered that makanium can be used as an type of conductor for magic. The crystal allows magic to be stored and to be guided to another location, like an machine.

At the end of his life Wayan Wrin was just a shell of a man. He was constantly paranoid that a Kenku would assassinate him as they did to his brother and eventually locked himself in a room without windows. He would eventually die alone in his house at the age of 55 in the year 1424 AD.