I am Famous Person, a professor of history at Maadigan’s Royal University—though I am known by another name in that world. My passion for history and storytelling has brought me into contact with manuscripts and records penned not only by scholars from my homeland of Cendomvita, but from realms and universes beyond even my imagining.
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Authors
I work with authors from several worlds. Currently, however, I’ve been focusing on the fascinating works from Thalevir
From the world of Thalevir
I have had the honor of reviewing and editing the works of the following authors from the world called Thalevir, Though Herte never knew there was more to his world than his continent, Cendomvita, or the Seven Kingdoms.
Herte of Maadigan
Herte of Maadigan was a distinguished scholar of history at Maadigan’s prestigious Royal University, widely regarded as one of the finest institutions in all of Cendomvita. He rose to prominence for his incisive studies of Cendomvitian uprisings, culminating in his seminal work, Unity or Slavery: An Explanation of the Failure of Rebellion in Cendomvita. Herte mysteriously disappeared during celebrations marking his twentieth anniversary at the University and was long presumed dead. Recent discoveries, however, suggest that his final project was an ethnographic biography of Mushinek—commissioned by Mushinek himself.
Hile of Eslading
Hile of Eslading was a deliberate and steady-minded individual who quietly built a reputation as both a fair businessman and a thorough scholar. In business, he expanded his father’s modest transportation enterprise—originally serving local routes connecting Vidora, Elowen, and eastern Rusmaria via Eslading—into a continent-wide network incorporating both land and water routes. As his company grew, so did his influence within the Transportation Guild.
Scholarship, however, mattered more to Hile than trade. His business existed to support his family and fund his scholarly pursuits, which stirred his deepest passion. He devoted his studies to history, politics, and geography, and his careful research made him both an asset to and a frequent collaborator with the Eslading Information Guild.
The true center of Hile’s life—the cause for which he would sacrifice everything—was his family. He was husband to Ashira and father to four sons: Aylman, Mellue, Sealum, and Phine. It was for their sake, and for the generations to come, that Hile chronicled the contemporary uprising of his time using the best information he could gather. Though Famous Person has since added insights to which Hile had no access, the volumes known as The Vidoran Crisis and Axis and Allies are, in essence, Hile’s original work.
Phine of Cendomvita
Phine is best known as the youngest son of the respected scholar and tradesman, Hile of Eslading. From an early age, Phine demonstrated a quiet fascination with his father’s maps, records, and annotated histories—often choosing to pore over scrolls while others played at sport. Though not trained formally, he absorbed much through observation, conversation, and his own curious nature.
Following his father’s death, Phine took up the mantle of record keeping with a diligence far beyond his years. His writings, while sparse at first, gradually developed into a disciplined body of observation and reflection—an effort that preserved the continuity of his father’s work while slowly finding a voice of its own. Those familiar with his early manuscripts speak of a careful eye, a questioning spirit, and a style that balances detail with restraint.
Phine’s later contributions would not merely catalog events but grapple with the meaning and memory of them—reminding future generations that even in uncertain times, the act of bearing witness is a form of courage.