Ibn Al'Asad

Ibn Al'Asad is the Headmaster of the Keylock Academy. He defected from Dabwa several decades ago. He is widely regarded as the most intelligent  member of the Keylock Company.

Life in the Dabwa
Not much is known about Ibn Al'Asad prior to his arrival in the Keylock Company. It is said that he was born under a different name. He became advisor to the Emporer and through his great service to the Dabwa's capitol city, Al'Asad, he became known as Ibn Al'Asad, or Son of The Lion.

It is rumored that shortly after this great honor was bestowed upon him, that a great injustice was committed upon him. The nature of this incident is known only to Ibn Al'Asad and he has never  spoken of it to anyone.

Keylock Academy
After Ibn Al'Asad fled or abandoned the Dabwa, he arrived at Fort Benton during its construction. Darius Keylock was overseeing the development of the fort and met Ibn Al'Asad who offered architectural knowledge that vast outweighed anything possessed by the Keylock Company. They forged a great friendship through this period and Ibn convinced Darius to end his contracts with the mages guild in pursuit of a new kind of knowledge known as science. The cost reductions alone were enough to convince Darius to place Ibn in charge of a new division of the Keylock Company, the Keylock Academy.

Ibn made the first priority of the academy to be the accumulation of texts of knowledge. It remains the top priority to this day. As a result, the Keylock Academy is believed to have the largest library of scrolls, texts, and tomes in the world. This claim has not been verified.