Introducing Dardan Kela, a 36 year engineer born in Cairo, of Albanian ethnicity.
A typical child of the European middle class, in British administered Egypt, Dardan went to university to study engineering, and graduated at 24. He saw duty in the Great War, as part of the British armies engineering corps, but was lucky to escape seeing heavy action. Companionable and friendly, Dardan often has a smile on his face, and is quick to laughter.
He considers himself a man of the modern age, and believes everything can be explained by science. But he does retain some of the religious beliefs, and superstitions, from his culture. This extends to his lucky monkey wrench, which he always carries around with him. People who notice this will often make fun of this affectation, which he laughs along with. But he still continues to carry his lucky wrench.
He has an equal interest in both history and the occult, and this in turn has led to him seeking work with the archaeological digs in Egypt and Libya. Dardan has a working knowledge of Arabic, something considered valuable to the many American and European nationals who run the digs.
His greatest hero is Giles Lambert, an reknowned British engineer who has worked extensively in Egypt and the middle east, and who was for a time involved in Howard Carter's famous dig. It is his ambition to be part of a dig which unearths a treasure as famous as Carter's. Not so much because of the treasure, but because of the approval he would hope to get from Lambert for Dardan's own engineering skills in making it possible.
Married with 3 young children, he spends most of his time working away from home. He takes his work seriously, and is always open to new knowledge. The times when he is not working in the field he will spend at home with his extended family. He will regularly visit with his fellow engineers in the various clubs, and in the British university at Cairo, learning of advances in the field. He has a love of animals, and some skill in handling them, so will often take European tourists on treks out to the pyramids on his small stable of camels.
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