Adenor of Rutai

Adenor Gracion vahr Rutavida, known today as Adenor of Rutai, (971 - 1055) was a Rutickk Dinoranian anthropologist, philosopher, anatomist, biologist, theologian, ellurologist, poet, astronomer and zoologist.   Adenor is often referred to as the Father of Anthropology, and Father of Human Philosophy.  

Biography

Adenor was born to Rutickk Parents in Esteko, in the Rutai Province of the Dinoranian Empire. He was paraxian-educated and extensively well traveled. Beginning his career as a thredven bone-sculptor, Adenor lived with his aunt in a windmill on the Vidann Plains which he transformed, over the course of five decades, into a grand observatory, now the site of the Vidann Esteck Museum of Science.   Adenor’s Paraxian education contributed to orthodox human divisionist views in his youth, which arguably led to his early theories of human classification. He later abandoned these beliefs in favor of a rationalist approach, which was rare amid the climate of irrational hatred of the early Kolsagadt Period.   Adenor mentored the Emperor Dejnus III, who later adopted his Anthropological Division System and incorporated it into formal education. Thus, the existence of the Four Nations or Four Races of Mankind became common knowledge, albeit in negative contexts - Dejnus III altered the theory to justify the conquest of the Sithenians and Australs as ‘alien races.’   
Later in his life, around 1043, came Adenor’s grand synthesis of theology, archaeology, anthropology, paleomechanics and zoology. It led to the proposition of what came to be known as Adenor’s Four Classes: ‘Man, Beast, God and Automaton’ - According to Adenor, each ‘being’ or 'living entity' falls under one of these four categories, or under their intersections.   They were then classified into two temporo-mortal realms: Living, and Dead. In the intersection were undead beings such as Dejnus III’s Crow-guards (Korva), and post-ellurotic 'living dead' cadavers, which Adenor often dissected in his studies.   These Four Classes were at first dismissed.    

Criticism

Though his theories, (and, indeed his questionable methods as a scientist,) have been the subject of much debate, Adenor’s theories underpinned much of what we understand about anthropology, as well as the nature of being in the age of totality.   In his time, Adenor was the subject of ridicule owing to his ‘balding’ head, for baldness was very uncommon among Rutare.   He has come under fire by modern scholars and Neo-Helians for his early divisionist theories, his Paraxian Education, and his advocacy for imperialism, slavery and feudalism (Though he rejected these beliefs later in his life, and they are only magnified as his teachings due to their adoption by Dejnus III).