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Edward Hawthorne is a Human scavenger-turned-scientist, and the co-founder of the University Institutive Authority located in Plagos. While not regarded as too important or influential in the affairs of Plagos or his home country of Seaside, he is credited for the creation of several University of Baronov (UoB) projects involving moving machines.

Beginnings
Not much can be said of SeemsVeryLegit's (or Edward Hawthorne's) early years - for it wasn't grand or impressive. Born in a small village on an unnamed city state in the Shattered Sea under the watchful eye of then Seaside-Baronov, he grew up under the teachings of a deviant branch of the Krellr Gǫfugr faith. Regardless, he paid this religion very little mind as he focused more on what little he was taught from the village.

Growing Up
To help maintain and feed the small nameless village, Edward helped his father at sea, fishing for what little they could - and mining in the endless and brutal tunnels underneath the Shattered Sea itself. Edward grew up with no dreams of greatness, nor had any desire to do so. First and foremost was his family and his studies, anything to help bring some level of prosperity to the ones he cared for. Life for him wasn't brutal nor kind, and while his village had escaped many of the wars that raged in the Shattered Sea and across Plagos, it was only a matter of time before it was caught.

Wandering
When of age, Edward was allowed to go fishing and mining in the tunnels on his lonesome, which he did far more often the most other villagers. His studies had stagnated and what little he could learn went to trying to ensure that he knew the Traveler's Tongue. One fateful day Edward's constant trips on his lonesome outside the village had saved him. In his absence, a recent skirmish from roaming bandits had passed through his village on their way to the Seaside district of Seaside-Baronov. Upon returning to what remained of his village, Edward grieved for his family that he had lost, and buried what he could - but in a way he was liberated. His family and livelihood were gone, and all he may have had to show for it were blistered hands and tired eyes, but Edward turned his attention to Seaside City nearby. As Edward had learned from what little his village taught him, "The End is just the Beginning".

Making Headway
Seaside at this point of time was suffering from depopulation, a fact which Edward Hawthorne was unawares of but nonetheless inadvertently took advantage of. Being welcomed with open arms by St. Acol - then leader of Seaside. Happily tasked as "miner", due to Edward truly only knowing the trades of mining and fishing, Edward took back to the tunnels under the Shattered Sea like a fish to water. For months following his integration into Seaside, Edward had done nothing but mine and accumulate what wealth he could. Donating to the village in the past meant he had little for himself but now he was able to construct himself better tools, armor. In a deal with St. Acol himself he was able to acquire a "God Rod" - leading him to have fished for days on end.

Redstone
To say all Edward did was fish and mine as he did before was a lie - before he only sought out gold, diamonds, and iron, but one fateful day he came across redstone in the dilapidated tunnels. His father had shown them to be weak sources of lighting during emergencies, and that they could power some machinery (if not sporadically). Despite this lack of understanding, Edward began to hoard whatever redstone he came across and had begun to test it back in the small apartment lent to him by the country. Constructing such devices as pistons and lanterns that worked seemingly at random - judged by Edward himself as a near total failure. Regardless, Edward had persevered, and continued attempting to learn how redstone functioned - even being commissioned to create a glass tunnel railroad to Baronov from Seaside (Sadly despite the tunnel being completed, this project was abandoned due to the restoral of teleportation).

University
Edward's near sporatic and somewhat disappointing attempts to harness (read as attempting to use) redstone had caught the attention of Baronovian Shwointshounburg, who proposed for Edward to take up the mantle of a scientist under then University of Baronov. Edward had readily accepted this proposal and submitted a blueprint for a prototype flying machine - which while accepted, was also told to construct to show to the higher ups under Baronov.

Civil War
While Edward should've been more then ready to construct said flying machine, he had realized that the machine itself was near inoperable and had begun to set out to construct better variants, many of which required the illusive (to Plagos) material: honey. While Edward had begun efforts to gather bees and construct the machines, civil strife had been brewing in the Seasde-Baronov union, mostly due to breakdown in communications between the newly risen-to-power St. Acol and the near entirety of the Baronovian administration. With a coup in the works from Baronov and Loyalist Seasiders, Edward Hawthorne was brought in as an advisor to the plan itself and was considered a Loyalist - despite not being present in the battle.

Independence
Following the Seaside Civil War ending, and peace returning to the Shattered Sea, both Seaside and Baronov found themselves weaker and poorer then before the war. Theocrat St. Acol was thrown from the nation and had retreated to Lunaris (unknown at the time) but the damage had been done, leading to many former members of Seaside resigning and leaving. Edward himself felt the drain of the war, and with the Shattered Sea having suffered major resource deficits, had begun to desire to go to greener pastures, and in a joint agreement with close-friend Shwointshounburg, had proposed an indepedent nation arising from the University of Baronov - the aptly named Universal Institutive Authority.

Burn Out
Sadly, despite this newly attempted nation being a source of excitement for Edward and Shwointshounburg, it was short-lived. Further Shattered Sea/Plagos conflicts had arisen, and the nation had been suffering from lack of international recognition and loss of population. Following an accident in which Shwoinshounburg was lost - Edward had decided he had enough. Being the new head of the UIA he had announced its short disbanding and begun plans to leave Plagos to head west, for what he thought had greener pastures. He knew of redstone and what little he gleaned off the University, but he found himself wandering once more into the unknown.