Phrenic the innervated was a cruel joke from his parents. His parents had been working with alchemy and magic, trying to create new poltices and well to just get fertility magic to work... to say the least things never went well for him even before his birth.
Even before he was expelled into this cruel world you could hear his hiccups from across the room! like clockwork every hr *hic*
Born deaf he spent every waking moment just trying to understand what the blast people were talking about. Soon he could hear whisperings of peoples voices, he knows he can listen to their thoughts if he can just concentrate harder.
Thankfully there were no outside noises to ever distract him from his academic pursuants. He has climbed his way up through the academic world, in particular for his prized research in Aquatic animal magic. He even succesfully created a new line of hypoallergenic poodles, merged with electric eels. The effect was an instant hit with nobility, as now their hypoallergenic poodles maintained a perfect frizz, even if they occasionally shocked their owners, the effect was immaculate looking hair at all times!
With new found money backing him the sky is the limit, and that's when he found himself here. More and more alchemy seems the key rather than that unreliable magic, but he just can't help but scratch that itch... maybe there's a way to mix magic and gunpowder! And of course electric eels into the mix too! Or with the right DNA, the phyrokeets that live in the ocean vents on sulfur, might be able to lay pre-mixed eggs of gunpowder, a sort of caviar round!
