According to the local paper, Kashal Daily News, the questions of where Master Tolcharde came from is up in the air. His accent is funny (French) and his mannerisms are strange. Clearly he is foreign
Asking Thane of Grellan's Grove gets only a tight-lipped, "Who cares," response and asking Dr. Dee isn't any better. He waves one hand in the air and dismisses the subject by bringing up the subject about the origins of Dwarves, upon which he can discourse for far too long.
Master Tolcharde once gifted Senator Vatha a mechanical falcon, but failed to program in a homing instinct. It flew to the North and never returned.
He lives in isolation in the Tinker's Tower far outside the city where he can think and where people will not bother him.
A GREAT THINKER
As a modern Halikarnian thought leader, Master Tolcharde, is focused on anomalous fluctuations in astronomical data, finding subtle but undeniable geometrical evidence for the Multiverse. He argues that the gravitational and magical laws of our world are subtly "leaking" due to interference from a parallel, "more-hylaean" worldtrack.
His research is a direct mathematical proof of Complex Protism. Tolchard believes Dr. Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica is not just a symbol of unity, but an imperfectly transcribed map of the "coupling point" between worldtracks, proving that direct, even dangerous, communication with the Multiverse is possible. Tolchard's pursuit is to find the Form of Travel—the theoretical key to intentionally shifting or observing other worldtracks, effectively making inter-cosmic travel a matter of applied geometry.