Psi-7 Dossier 01/17

ALPAY VOLCAN

Profesör Alpay Volcan is one of maybe three men alive who know the history of the Tsar’s Key. He’s a tenured professor of Rarified Antiquities at the small, obscure Bizans Koleji. However, the Koleji is the intellectual heir to the anomalous studies of the Romans through the Ottomans, and the seat in the Rarified Antiquities department gives him ready access to ancient libraries of material the Foundation and its sort would kill to possess. He cares not for either the Foundation or the GRU-P. If anywhere, his loyalties lie with several obscure Turkish quasi-governmental organizations. A lifelong pacifist, he would sooner burn his research than give it to either side if there was an indication that either would hurt the other for it, or intend to use it for the purpose of weaponizing the Tsar’s Key.

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BIZANS KOLEJI

One of the most impressive things anomalous research organizations were able to do was to scrub the extensive and almost common knowledge of anomalies in the Roman and Byzantine Empires from the historical record. Despite this, a few centers of research have existed more or less continuously since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Bizans Koleji is the grandest and most important of these, although it is still an incredibly small affair. If the Romans, Byzantines, or Ottomans so much as looked at an anomaly, the Koleji has a record of it that would put even the Foundation to shame. Its library probably the largest in the world on anomalies, bar none, and has famously never been infiltrated (leading to rumors that it is, itself, protected by an anomaly, although the Koleji vehemently denies this). The Koleji itself is located in an centuries old Byzantine fort a few blocks off the Bosphorus in Istanbul. It consists of a good two dozen austere, eccentric professors (of which Volcan is one), various men and women filling traditional roles incomprehensible to outsiders, and, bizarrely, no students.