Juli
Legacy Name: Juli

For most men, their work was a way to sustain life, but as many saw it, Julien Riley was more of a machine than a man. As far as he was concerned, he lived to sustain his work, and it was a passion that never rested if he could help it. His profession lay in the art of aeronautical design in a land where flight was still only but a dream just within reach. His dream reached lofty heights but if they were within his grasp he would see them through to completion.

His work posed many a challenge, however, and he saw as many failures as he had successes. In his study where he most often stayed were tens of hundreds of pages -- blueprints, schematics, sketches -- strewn about wherever they could possibly fit in no order whatsoever. His failures, successes, learning experience, and very life lay in those discarded pages. Plans that never made it to fruition, plans built, plans destroyed, they stood as a record of his work.

Leading a team of nine of all types and walks of life, his visions came to life up from his pages of designs. Julien demanded perfections in these works of his own art, which often caused frustration among his team -- he was met with hostility often among them save a select few.

Those successes that had happened had nothing short of changed his life. While sustained flight still remained quite the issue for him to solve, he remains one of the few on Era to have flown even if it had been brief.

Though he was not the friendly type by any sort of means, far too engrossed in his work for much regular social contact, he'd finally come to terms with the fact that the state of his records and designs in his study was simply unworkable. It was then that he'd begun to seek out an assistant -- his errand boy, Deacon, had declined the job straight away and Julien had gone through many potential hires before running across quite an unlikely boy within the market one day. Though the boy, whose name he'd later learned to be Luca, had no home to speak of he had a streak of pride anyone could see miles away, and a certain defiance that set him so apart that Julien simply couldn't resist offering him the job, and thus a place to stay.

Wary though he was at first, the boy had accepted and thus began quite an awkward and, at times, frustrating cooperation and perhaps even friendship.