Vertxsees

fun facts about the good doctor:

• he's 579 years old in that photo, and he don't look a day older than 300
• head to tail-tip, he's a good 50' long, has two armwings up in the front there with functional (if not unwieldy) hands, a big set of wings in the middle bit, and leggy wings on the back end, with fans of feathers down 'is tail along the rest
• his hoard item is information, and he's amassed a library of over 9 million separate titles, not including private diaries and journals, scrolls, calendars, and untranslated slabs (in this universe, humanity has not yet reached the digital age)
• geddit? he's a bookwyrm
• the Seiali Library, a structure he had custom built to house his hoard, is a functional public lending library, also became his home after he grew too large to inhabit most structures built for human inhabitants.
• he's a compulsive reader; he just itches to read anything near him he's not read before
• he's actually got a fairly poor memory for most things, and started keeping journals as a fledgling to combat this
• as a result, he's responsible for the single largest autobiographical work in history by a landslide
• he loves learning and teaching, so he lets the local college use his hoard freely
• he's traveled the world countless times, studying on every continent hundreds of times each
• he got his PHD in Linguistics practically on accident, he sat as substitute once for the class on a study day with little effort, but realized that he could teach the course after reviewing the material the class was working on
• the students ask him endless questions about everything
• he loves it so much he made it his job, and takes great pride in being able to answer pretty much everything they toss at him
• some dragons just want to watch the world learn