Osiyrin was a Techno-mage and lived sometime around 1200.[1]
Osiyrin had secretly studied the Drakh, long-standing allies of the Shadows, around the time of the First Shadow War and became the first Techno-mage to be reprimanded by The Circle for his actions. Osiyrin's work detailed much of the Drakh's biology--their imposing physical structure, that there are two types of Drakh (an upper caste of Drakh that speak and a lower soldier caste of Drakh that are incapable of speech), and the unusual structure of their brains. Analysis by future techno-mages Galen and Isabelle revealed that the Drakh brain structure was specially designed to receive direct communications from their masters, the Shadows.
Osiyrin's research into the Drakh included special cultural insights, namely the Drakh religion. In the Drakh religion, the Shadows are indeed their lords and masters, but are not their gods. The Drakh do believe in a single god, the appearance of which is apparently a black sun with four malevolent balefully glowing eyes angled in the manner of the Shadows. This Drakh god is not a Shadow, but the source/creator of the Shadows. The Drakh think of the Shadows as their god's "high servants" and like the Shadows, the Drakh god is the embodiment of chaos and destruction.
These cultural observations were crucial during Galen's visit to Zafran VIII in late 2258. At the time, Galen and Isabelle had been sent to the planet by the Circle to search for any signs of activity by the Shadows and their allies. Both techno-mages located a Drakh working with a human named Brown and a failed techno-mage, a Centauri named Tilar. Galen and Isabelle stealthily tracked the Drakh to his secret hideaway under a seemingly abandoned building in an impoverished neighborhood inhabited by the native Wychad. Late at night, Galen and Isabelle infiltrated the Drakh's hideout and tranquilized the Drakh. Using Osiyrin's research into the Drakh brain, they were able to stimulate the Drakh's frontal lobe while unconscious, making the Drakh believe he was either dreaming or having a vision. Galen then created an elaborate illusion of the Drakh god, using the illusion to extract information from the Drakh. Unfortunately for both Galen and Isabelle, their efforts to probe the Drakh for information were interrupted by the sudden appearance of a Shadow that was lurking in the seemingly abandoned building.
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- ↑ Casting Shadows, (pg. 212)