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Deacon of Letters

Little is known of this scholar, whose reclusive nature left him without friends early in his life, and at his death found him without an heir. It is not even clear whether "Deacon of Letters" was his name or some sort of title; indeed, the Deacon's very gender has at times been a matter of debate. He (or she, or it, or maybe even Ooamp) was first a student, and later a research professor, at the Elvangella School of Elemenstation and remains perhaps the most famous scholar of Elemenstation to have never attended the Cerulean Citadel.

From 18,083 to around 18,120, the Deacon produced papers of extremely high quality on a wide variety of topics in Physiks, though they were often too advanced for more than half a dozen people in Battal to truly understand, let alone fully appreciate. The Deacon's most famous work, of course, had to do with Brainmanglement Elemenstation, proving that an imbalanced Brainmanglement could, at times, fuse itself with produce vegetation to ill effect. But he (she... you get the picture) also provided an extraordinarily elegant proof for the Magickian Theory of Conservation of Unreality (in which one ought not be a lazy ass and cast a Bassal Gear to light one's fireplace when a match would do just as well). He also did groundbreaking work on the Big United Theory of Thramaturgy, though he was unable to construct a complete proof. Toward the end of his life, he was consumed by the Octahedric Hyperprism Hypothesis. In the margins of his copy of Elemenstophosy, Planar Physiks, and Farming 4 Dummiez, he wrote:

He died before constructing this proof.

At any rate, because his work was so groundbreaking, the Deacon was a minor celebrity in his day, invited to all the best parties even though he never accepted an invitation. In the ElemenstorLance novel The Forgotten Faction, Benedeir the Mediocre actually poses as the Deacon in order to gain entry to a party being held at one of the Item Law Makers Guild headquarters. Because few people were capable of truly understanding this reclusive scholar, it was remarkably easy for Benedeir to fake it.