Funa Onochar

Funa Onochar (5987 - 6055) was a writer of the Middle Age, best known as the author of the fake history The Life & Times of Onochar the Great (6038), which was believed to be a scholarly source for hundreds of years before it was discovered to be, in fact, gross exaggeration at best and outright lies at worst.

Early Life

Funa Onochar was born on the 8th of Setasset, 5987, during the mid Middle Era, in a small town in present-day Rayleigh. His family was among the most priveleged and wealthy in his hometown, and Funa grew up surrounded by luxury, especially when contrasted with the rest of his humble town.
Funa's family was descended from minor nobility, and could trace their lineage back to a few decently notable local figures. The family inflated this into tales of descendence from heroes and kings, and liked to cast themselves as being of legendery lineage. Though this does not seem to be have been given much credence by the rest of their town ("If those Onochars really is from royalty, then why are they here?" a neighbor's journal asked), the Onochar family was locally believed to be aristocratic and of old money.
Funa was considered a good student as a child. As a teenager, he began writing fictional stories. He decided that he wanted to become a writer.

At the age of 19, Funa left his small town to move to the largest city in the area, where he attempted to make his way as a writer. His efforts were unsuccessful, and Funa's works, including a lost novel, were rejected multiple times by different publishing houses.
Despite his failure to break into the writing world, Funa lived at the time in an expensive apartment in a good area of the city, funded by his parents. Based upon multiple letters that Funa wrote during this time, he felt frustration that the city was "too close-minded" to appreciate his writing. He also found himself excluded from the social scene of the city's wealthy elite, looked down upon for being "a villager" from an unknown, backwater town.

Early Adult Life & Career

After a few years in the city and finding himself with only the most meager of progress in his writing career, Funa became enamored with the northwestern remote desert wildernesses, particularly western Ghazia. He began researching the ancient history of the area when he wrote an article on the subject.
This led Funa to decide that he wished to pursue a career as an archaeologist and historian.

Funa embarked on a caravan to @Ghazia, and first attempted to apprentice himself to an archaeologist in Ghazalbad. Finding this extremely competitive, he decided to enroll in traditional schooling in archaeology instead. However, archaeology was quite the rage at the time, and nowhere was it more en vogue than in the ancient city of Ghazalbad. Funa, without any distinctions save for a supposedly illustrious family history, found himself overshadowed by multitudes of young candidates who seemed to already possess a bogglingly vast store of knowledge in the subject.
Funa traveled instead to the nearby Ghazian city of Bachmat, where he was accepted into a university. This was funded by his parents for 2 of his 4 years, after which he made a living writing and doing schoarly odd jobs.

Archaeologist

Upon graduating from his archaeology studies, Funa took part in a substantial archaeological mission into the desert wilderness of Ghazia. The party took a long caravan journey, venturing west into the Fal'cavara Ox canyon area.
Though accompanying the mission as a lowly junior member, Funa did remarkably well on the trip, and was so enthusiastic about the work that he was asked to embark upon a second, more exclusive sub-trip farther into the canyon.
When Funa returned to Bachmat months later, he was aflame with inspiration from his trip, the artifacts that had been found, and the adventurous excitement of the journey. His letters during this period increased drastically, and his writing became far more vivid and absorbing. He began to find more success in his writing, and suddenly found himself published in numerous archaeology and history publications in a flurry of productivity.
Within seven years, Funa had been on multiple other archaeology missions and was made writer of a weekly history section of the top newspaper in Bachmat.

Species

Human

Date of Birth

8th of Setasset, 5987 M.E.

Date of Death

5th of Virset, 6055 M.E.

Life

5987 6055 68 years old

Birthplace

present-day Rayleigh

Sex

male