Irijah Prosper Arturion

Early Life

Born in Eliria to Galehaut and Lisanor Arturion on Amnure the 13th of Kuspor in the year 1545. His parents both perished during the White Lilly Revolt and he was placed into an orphanage for four years until being adopted by the Khan of Vijayanagara and enrolled into his School for Foundlings along with four hundred and fifty-three boys and three hundred and ninety girls all between the ages of five and ten. The children, including Irijah, remained then with the School until they came of age at eighteen.

The brightest and best of these were sponsored by the House of Kalir to receive an advanced education in logic and the sciences on the forbidding ice bound isle of Raikoth. Irijah was in his fourth year of studies when Elwynn declared independence, leaving him stranded in suddenly hostile Shireroth and unable to return home. Instead he travelled to Kildare and explored the historic sites of Apollonian civilisation, until an unfortunate incident in an obscure tavern on the Raynor Isle saw him deported back to Vijayanagara, which by that time had been occupied by the forces of Shireroth and Kildare after the partition of Elwynn with the Separatists.

Travels and Authorship of the History of Elwynn

He became infamous for his boast to Conducator Royston Merrick, of visiting each and every single one of the Bailiwicks of the Elwynnese Union:

"I have so travelled in your dominions both by the sea coasts and the middle parts, sparing neither labour nor costs, by the space of these six years past, that there is almost no cape, nor bay, haven, creak or pier, river or confluence of rivers, beaches, washes, lakes, meres, fenwaters, mountains, valleys, moors, heaths, forests, woods, cities, bailiwicks, castles, principle manor places, monasteries and colleges, but I have seen them; and noted in so doing a whole world of things that were to my mind very memorable."

It was in consideration of his very 'memorable mind' that the Conducator had Arturion made subject to a Preventative Detention Order in order to keep him free of distractions, or the impulse to wander, whilst he worked on what became his 'magnum opus', the History of Elwynn, from the comfort of a fully furnished apartment in a ruined tower of Eliria Castle.

He was released after the Communist Revolution of 1613, an occasion of restored liberty that distressed him greatly, and, after some discomforted wanderings found a junior position in the Library of the People's Academy of Elwynn (Alôqoqar Etâqon Adurellion) which permitted him to continue with his work comparatively free from interruption.

His life's work was mostly a continuation and elaboration of the Histories of Ric Lyon interwoven with anecdotes relating to the various towns.

Legacy

After his demise the manuscript was unfortunately lost, however the Vice-Dean of the Library and academicians of the Alôqoqar Etâqon Adurellion are attempting a reconstruction of the work based upon the accumulated mass of research notes and the charred remains of the original tome.