Arthur Newport was an ordinary software developer working in New York City.He hailed from now redundant Noble house of Newport from UK.In addition to passion in fantasy novels, anime, and fanfics he developed a newfound intrest in technological developmen of basic science since Middle ages, after reading the famous "A song of ice and fire" series novels. In his free time, he started reading and gained knowledge about various things, including agriculture, architecture, metallurgy, ship making through the ages, glass making , war tactics, etc. And he enjoyed every moment of it.
Sadly everyone have limited time to do things.His disintrest in office work started to be noted by his seniors and competitive peer.Due to world economy at that time , recession struck the nation , and very soon he lost his job.Due to his previous savings though he could live comfortably, he was in need to find a job soon for his future.Sadly with his qualification he couldn't in his field.He had to return to his home land, to save excess consumption.
He came back to London to his ancestral family home.It was the only remaining property of the once fabled Newcastle family, the rest sold off or auctioned to pay the debts.But a lame camel is still bigger than a horse.While properties, gold, silver and the likes were sold off, the older generations of the family had the foresight to not to sell and books , maps and even papers of antiquity. They still boasted the biggest private collection of knowledge since 16th century, including 1st editions and subsequent editions of many rare volumes properly maintained by a family trust.
Disheartened with job prospects , Arthur decided to stop job hunting for now and started full fledged passionate knowledge gathering from his family collection.Time rolled and nearly 5 years passed.He finished almost all of the books except some unwanted and unrelated subjects.Satisfied with that, he started his job hunting once again.On his way to one of the companies he had applied for, a freak accident happened.By divine will or mere accident, a space time collapse occurred in the centre of the universe reverberated many occasional space holes which momentarily collapsed in a fraction of a second.And by one in a billion coincidence a space hole opened right at Arthur's heart , and collapsed, along with his heart.He quickly died of internal bleeding and lack of oxygen to the brain.Thus came the end of once illustracious Newcastle family and its heir.But he had just started his next great adventure.