Gral Lra

Gral Lra was a master spy and scientist of the Primate Principality that lived from 280 to 325 AB.

Life
Lra was born in 280 AB, in a family of policemen. He himself was fascinated with science, especially observation, from his earliest days; one story describes him, at five years old, looking at a tree from several meters away and counting the fruits (sources disagree on what they were), including the ones on the back of the tree. By 25, when the First Small War started, Lra was a well-known scientist; he is known as one of the first philosophers to learn by observation, and is thus considered to be one of the inventors of the Scientific Method on Pulasia. As such it was somewhat of a surprise to his family when he became a soldier.

As a soldier, he was best-known for finding exactly the right terrain. Soon he became the chief of gathering intelligence in his unit, and his fame grew even among his enemies. Personally he always doubted the veracity of the "copying machine" of the Turtle Tyranny; he made several missions to that point, but his superiors distrusted him. Finally, in 316 AB, Lra managed to capture an important turtle; he did this absolutely secretly, from a major villa. Under duress, the turtle confessed the device was deliberate misinformation.

When the turtle in question was about to be executed, Lra stole him from the Principality's forces and returned him to the villa. Due to this fact, he is generally respected as great even among non-primates. Also due to this, he was exiled for treason. He found refuge in the Turtle Tyranny, where he devised a strategy that would win them the First Small War; it did. By this time, Lra was a sickly old chimpanzee and died one year after the conclusion of the war. Legend says that in the last day of his life, he wrote out the Observation Method, the first version of the Scientific Method on Pulasia.