Fatandor Revouse
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Šm Fatandor Revouse [fa ˈtan dor rɛ vo ˈu sɛ] was an enthusiastic scholar of Caďinor, chiefly known for his Pere aluatas i Caďinor (‘First grammar of Caďinor”), an introductory grammar for avisar students.
He was born in Ulian, a small town on the Svetla in Šerian province, in 3369, the second son of a merchant. A devout pagan, he considered becoming a priest, but when his avisar teachers discovered his intellectual capacities, they urged him to attend university. Somewhat unusually, he took his suméria at the University of Šerian, and his scrifteca at the University of Verduria.
For some years he taught Caďinor and Caďinorian history at the University, then succumbed to his longtime desire to see the major Caďinorian ruins, in Aites, Žésifo, and Aránicer. His first book, Leleî soe elorë (“Views of the empire”), described his impressions of these sights; as the text appeared in both Verdurian and in Caďinor translation, he later used it as a primer for his own students.
He spent nearly a year in Žésifo, and based on some hints in his book it is conjectured that he became involved with a woman there— perhaps the unnamed telnë redelcë the book is dedicated to. He never married.
Afterward he returned to Verduria city, bought a house in the Biško, and dedicated the rest of his life to the study and teaching of Caďinor and the cataloguing of antiquities. He was one of the scholars responsible for the University’s publications of standard editions of Caďinor classics, and he published several monographs on these works; for the general public he wrote Este Žendrom (“Great Genremos”), an introduction to the greatest of the Caďinorian philosophers.
His grammar of Caďinor was published in 3417, and though scholars might smile at its conservative approach and lack of interest in other Eastern languages, it was enormously popular with beginning students, not least because he wrote in a simple though dry style; previously, students had had to make do either with ponderous reference grammars or with simplistic and inaccurate primers.
The grammar brought him additional income, which he used to purchase a larger and very old house, and have it refurbished in imitation of the great house of ancient Ctesifon, complete with frescos, niches for the household gods, and a colonnaded interior pool. He died there in 3441, while preparing his masterwork, a catalog of surviving Caďinorian murals, with copious engravings; students still debate whether his carefully sexless descriptions of the erotic ones is a case of tongue-in-cheek irony or genuine denial.
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