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Rhian was born into a family that explored the source of mana, and he chose to base himself on an artificial island that was not originally related to magic because it was easy to escape from land battles and sea disasters, making it easy to maintain the framework of his research. The cost of this is that the living environment is somewhat inferior to that of land, but since they are also traders, they have no trouble making a living if they give up their lives to their work.

Rhian is the third daughter of the family, with an older brother and two older sisters. She also has two younger sisters and two younger brothers.
Her curiosity about the world itself was the strongest among her nine siblings, and from the time she was old enough to remember, she had a special fondness for traveling far from home with the peddler's brigade, rather than playing with other children her age. By the time Rhian was seven years old, her parents had come to believe that she was indeed a well-traveled child, and from then on she served as a scout for the family's research.

She was 29 years old when she received information about Korou. When she was recovering from a long peddling route to the East, she heard rumors of a "ground-breaking ceremony" at a shrine along the way.
She heard that there was a fox in the area in ancient times, which was exterminated, but since then no animal of any kind has lived in the area. The story of the extermination of the fox was 1000 years ago, and during that period, this cursed and abominable "land of no power" has continued to spread, and the residents of the area do not feel threatened because all they have to do is change where they live.
Rhian wondered about this problem, which had been left unattended for a thousand years, because she was able to detect the mana spirit vein. She spent the next year investigating this land and realized that the concept of magic, which had been lost to the world, was here.
Humans of this era were aware of the source of mana, but did not have the means to draw power from it and use it.
Her family sought the great lost technology.
Therefore, Rhian prepared the following year and decided to spend a year or so alone to thoroughly investigate the area culturally. It was also to maintain the trade routes that had been restored.

By the time she turned 32 that year, she had finished her research on how these magical wards were woven together. After all, no clear system of research on this magic remained in this world, and even with the help of trade routes and the family's information network, there were no traditions or discourses on the manipulation of the mana spirit vein in this world.
In the early summer of that year, Rhian decided to enter this mysterious region, which covered some 100 square kilometers. She put her decision and will in a single envelope, entrusted the letter to a brigade of her family's traders, and set out alone into the boundary where only vegetation existed.
(01/03)
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