Pai'Guan was the only man to visit every continent of our world, but he never saw them properly. Born blind, he grew up in a wealthy family, the middle child of seven. His blindness made him an unfashionable heir and most often he was consigned with a single maid, whose job it was to keep him from wandering too far. He fought this and sometimes groped his way to the cherry trees in the neighbor’s yard before he was hauled back. This was, to the best of our knowledge, the beginning of a career as a traveler.

The next step came when the family visited the Northeast Academy, a popular school their father wanted Pai’s younger brother to attend. Pai strayed from his mother’s side at the first change. It took them hours of searching the dark halls, but the darkness was no trouble to him – he couldn’t see anything anyway. His father found him three hours later, behind one of the bookshelves in the library with the bumpy-paged spell books, his fingers racing over the pages. They claimed he couldn’t read the mere indentations of letters with his fingertips. He proved them wrong on the ride home when he made himself and his two younger sisters levitate.

He was admitted to the academy the following season. That same semester he concocted magical stones to give him vision in his right eye. He believed he could not see green properly, but had no point of reference to know for certain. Conjuring the stones is now part of the first semester final exam at the Northeast Academy.

He did not make it to his final exams, though. With vision, he ditched school and headed south. Some say it was in pursuit of a girl, but if so, she’s kept quiet about it. To the best anyone knows, he went alone.

The southern continent proved difficult, as just one season into his tour he was blinded by wyvern fire. It was only thanks to local rangers that he slew the creature and survived. Its blood trickled into his face, and though his right eye was burned and useless, vision flickered in the left. He could only see black and white, but it was enough. He stayed in the area for another two weeks, looking at wyverns, giant porcupines and every other odd creature available.

After a stay with medicine men, he boarded the first ship for any place that didn’t have so many monsters. That began his sojourn across the ice lands. The glare of snow was too bright for most people, but his eye was so weak that it didn’t bother him. He bought climbing and jumped onto the mountain. He remained in the mountains for two seasons before reaching the very top of the world. The closeness of the sun scorched him, and he lost nearly all vision. Without glasses, he could make nothing but the outline of his own body.

He stayed on the top of the world and looked at himself. He wondered long just what the view from the top of the world was like. But rather than mope, he descended the mountain and began cutting down pine trees. He needed the wood for a boat, you see. There were two more continents left to visit.

By the time he returned home he had an unhealthy reputation for defying governments and gods by crossing every border in the known world. He visited with his siblings, made a couple nieces levitate, and was on his way before law or newsmen could show up. One reporter chased him down and finally got a word with him, at the cost of two ship tickets across the ocean. When asked where he was going now that he had been everywhere, Pai'Guan adjusted his glasses, so thick that no one else could see through them, and chortled, "I haven't seen enough yet."