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Despite his various abilities, Doctor Know claimed to be a [[human]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over- There]]'': ''[[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out (short story)|Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out]]'') although by the time of his involvement with the [[M.F.S. Scottish Division]] he claimed to have “lived a thousand lives and journeyed to a thousand wolds”. ([[PROSE]]: [[Open Sourcing (short story)|''Open Source'' (2024 reedit)]]) | Despite his various abilities, Doctor Know claimed to be a [[human]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (novel)|Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over- There]]'': ''[[Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out (short story)|Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out]]'') although by the time of his involvement with the [[M.F.S. Scottish Division]] he claimed to have “lived a thousand lives and journeyed to a thousand wolds”. ([[PROSE]]: [[Open Sourcing (short story)|''Open Source'' (2024 reedit)]]) | ||
Prior to joining the Scottish Division, Doctor Know accrued the title of [[Grand Mayoral Authority]] of [[ | Prior to joining the Scottish Division, Doctor Know accrued the title of [[Grand Mayoral Authority]] of [[Knowheresville]]. He also served as “co-writer of the ''[[Necronomicon]]'', editor of ''[[Necronomics for Dummies]]''”, and “writer of the video essay ‘[[The King in Yellow is a Bad Play and Here's Why]]’”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division (short story)|Good Crieff - The Tribulations of the Scottish Division]]'') | ||
Around the beginning of the 20th century, he was headhunted by the [[Great Higher-Up]]s, but declined to join their numbers, not wanting it to interfere with his other responsibilities. He would nevertheless later apply to join the [[Guardians of Time (925th Universe)|Guardians of Time]], though his email went without reply. By this time, he was already teaching at the [[Royal College of Oz]] as “[[Professor Nowitall]]”, living under Monarch [[Pastoria]], in what was then known as [[the Central City]]. He grew bored, however, of this fairly stagnant era of Oz's history, and began looking for replacements. [[Northern Cardinal]] [[Gayelette]] eventually helped him to realise that no living Ozian who would be up to his standards would be likely to ''want'' the position, prompting him to create a successor out of whole cloth — or, as the case may be, having dismissed the option of a living scarecrow or a [[Frankenstein]]-style construct, out of a clutch of [[wogglebug]] eggs that happened to catch his line of sight in a corner of his rather derelict laboratory. Experimenting ruthlessly upon them for decades, he eventually managed to create “[[Professor Wogglebug (925th Universe)|Professor Wogglebug]]”, a sapient, talkative, human-sized wogglebug. | Around the beginning of the 20th century, he was headhunted by the [[Great Higher-Up]]s, but declined to join their numbers, not wanting it to interfere with his other responsibilities. He would nevertheless later apply to join the [[Guardians of Time (925th Universe)|Guardians of Time]], though his email went without reply. By this time, he was already teaching at the [[Royal College of Oz]] as “[[Professor Nowitall]]”, living under Monarch [[Pastoria]], in what was then known as [[the Central City]]. He grew bored, however, of this fairly stagnant era of Oz's history, and began looking for replacements. [[Northern Cardinal]] [[Gayelette]] eventually helped him to realise that no living Ozian who would be up to his standards would be likely to ''want'' the position, prompting him to create a successor out of whole cloth — or, as the case may be, having dismissed the option of a living scarecrow or a [[Frankenstein]]-style construct, out of a clutch of [[wogglebug]] eggs that happened to catch his line of sight in a corner of his rather derelict laboratory. Experimenting ruthlessly upon them for decades, he eventually managed to create “[[Professor Wogglebug (925th Universe)|Professor Wogglebug]]”, a sapient, talkative, human-sized wogglebug. | ||
