His families estate in Trollfork had always been large. They were wealthy and important and people always smiled at them. This changed after the fire at the mill. His parents gone, Nanaki poured himself into his work, often achieving astounding results but without heed for cost, financial or moral. He took risks and caused a number of people great pain with his experimentations, all for the right cause of course as his families fortunate dwindled.
Squandering the wealth on exotic samples and strange reagents had given him quite the reputation, but he was down to the last little bit of his families wealth...