Roanhannon is an ancient soul. He has lived several centuries as is his lot being one of the species of elder races. They are unusually gifted with long life by Mereliah. He was given the position of Imperial Arbiter of the Royal Library in Al-Talkar. He was both director and teacher at the grand athenaeum. He became an expert at all things history, politics and Script, with prophecy being only a recent field of expertise he was delving into. Being selected to be the private and trusted tutor and mentor to many guildsreptiles, merchants, princes, princesses, senators and more, he was well versed in handling all manner of temperaments and personalities.
In his younger years, one of his particularly favorite subjects to teach was the formal rites of the knowing - a ritual mandated by an old decree of a dead empress centuries ago. Every person of important merit or station was to 'know' each other before any formal or legal proceedings could happen. There were a variety of reasons for this, all catalogued in dull history texts and tomes. He would often require his students to perform the knowing with him so as to set expectations for what they'd be required to do when it came time to enact the rites for real. Roanhannon certainly wasn't going to complain about his teaching duties when it came to this subject!
