User:PhineasCrank

Doctor Phineas Crank, Ghyll Scholar

An odd, rather nervous looking fellow who is usually found with a book in hand. Most often a very obscure book on an even more obscure subject. Frequently, such books contain Things Mankind Was Not Meant To Know. But, just as often, they're books of non-rhyming poetry from some quotidian age.

"Doctor" Crank specializes in occult lore and linguistics. If possible, occult lore regarding linguistics or the linguistics of occult lore. His "credentials" are often questioned by more traditional scholars, but, as far as he's concerned, they can, well, the less said about that, the better. The Doctor has also spent some considerable time seeking strange tomes and observing the more unique flora and fauna in the Evesque Valley and the Sarfelogian Mountains and improving his marksmanship with the smooth-bore musket, which the natives there like so well.

Phineas Crank, Person

Phineas Crank is the alter-ego of J.K. Hoffman, who hopes to be as pretentious as "Doctor" Crank one day, though he realizes that his spelling must improve quite a bit first. You can find more of his rantings at http://www.fantasist.net/scroll/ and even more computer "science" polemics at http://www.ryumaou.com/hoffman/netgeek/index.html

I've decided I need to keep track of interesting ideas for stuff for Ghyll in a notepad.