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== Background ==
Rastandius was a great Soothsayer, who told the fortunes of monarchs, and was so famous he was known by different names. He once read [[Eloise du Havin|Eloise]]'s future in a teacup when she was still a [Lady], and was gifted chopsticks by the previous emperor of [[Drath Archipelago|Drath]].
He once told the future of the King of [[Hellios]], Treland, in the Great Desert of Zeikhal. He told him that his ambitions of ruling the continent would be realized by [[Flos Reimarch|Flos]] instead. When he was threatened with execution, he told the king that he could change his fate by killing the young Flos and taking that destiny for himself, resulting in Hellios' invasion of [[Reim]] and starting the King of Destruction's rise to power. For this, the previous [[Quarass]] plucked out his eye.
When he was desperate, he gambled fortunes, betting a finger on setting someone to glory or fame, in exchange for a cut of what they received. He tried five times, and on the fifth he enjoyed two decades of happiness. But he stopped taking chances and failed to predict the Goblin King. When [[Velan]] arrived on Izril, he left his patron and laid low. He's been looking for someone who will be pivotal since.
Fifteen years ago, he tried to attach himself to the [[Earthtenders]] in [[Oteslia]]. But he overplayed his hand by revealing he knew too much about [[Cirediel Anvi’dualln Olicuemerdn|Cire]], so he was thrown from a rooftop and had to flee the city.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/12/04/9-27-rc/ Chapter 9.27 RC]</ref>
He's given unfavorable readings to [[Pryde Ulta]], [[Magnolia Reinhart]], [[Tyrion Veltras]], and [[Ulva Terland]]. Forty years after predicting Eloise's future, he met her again as a [Witch] and she returned the service with the same teacup. He got a scar from a man who did not like the possible futures involving his lover. He's sold, lost or given away most of his tools.<ref name=":0">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/08/20/9-09-p/ Chapter 9.09 P]</ref>
