Doctor Dio Zardeliv (or possibly Zardilev) was (and probably still technically is) a [ professor] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] at a university in Paris (probably the Paris Institute of the Extraordinary) with an obsession with clocks and time. He is the author of a six-volume treatise on Potential Widdershins Chronoparticle Spin, which was required reading in one of Agatha's classes with Doctor Beetle. He is the great-uncle of Violetta, who grew up knowing him as "Uncle Tick-tock." According to her, he has no interest in their family's endless internal power-struggles.
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| - Doctor Dio Zardeliv (or possibly Zardilev) was (and probably still technically is) a [ professor] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] at a university in Paris (probably the Paris Institute of the Extraordinary) with an obsession with clocks and time. He is the author of a six-volume treatise on Potential Widdershins Chronoparticle Spin, which was required reading in one of Agatha's classes with Doctor Beetle. He is the great-uncle of Violetta, who grew up knowing him as "Uncle Tick-tock." According to her, he has no interest in their family's endless internal power-struggles.
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| - Doctor Dio Zardeliv (or possibly Zardilev) was (and probably still technically is) a [ professor] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] at a university in Paris (probably the Paris Institute of the Extraordinary) with an obsession with clocks and time. He is the author of a six-volume treatise on Potential Widdershins Chronoparticle Spin, which was required reading in one of Agatha's classes with Doctor Beetle. He is the great-uncle of Violetta, who grew up knowing him as "Uncle Tick-tock." According to her, he has no interest in their family's endless internal power-struggles. After Mechanicsburg is sealed off in a time stasis, his lectures on the mechanics of time become incredibly popular within the school, and he becomes a celebrity in greater Paris society. This in turn leads to the first of several attempts on his life (there are many powerful individuals who do not want Mechanicsburg freed) and to his retreating into the extensive world of the Parisian Black Market, [ reportedly] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] in search of a notebook that "one of his idiot nephews lost". Despite an important missing key, his office is taken over and his clocks wound by his fellow professor Drusus Beausoleil, while his more promising students all go to assist in Gil's ongoing efforts to unseal Mechanicsburg. When Agatha arrives in Paris a year and a half later, Zardilev is still officially among the missing, though she eventually learns that he went to ground specifically in The Incorruptible Republic of the Immortal Library of the Grand Architect. However, the assassins follow him even there, leading him to go further into hiding, inside the Library's sealed-off ex-Corbettite artifact vaults; the notebook details the extensive trap network the Monks installed. Along with avoiding death (by assassin at least), it is possible that Zardilev is also seeking a semi-mythical time-manipulating object known as Prende's Chronometric Lantern. When he finally appears [ in person] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]], he is shown struggling to break into a particularly secure vault, working with the Smoke Knight and Lucrezia-follower Madwa Korel. Following the arrival of Agatha and her exploration party, he gets gassed into unconsciousness and Madwa spirits him away to parts unknown.
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