Talk:Kirin Jindosh/@comment-30895737-20161230182747/@comment-26536672-20161230225649

Don't forget Roseburrow. It seems that primarily medical physicians of Galvani and Hypatia's ilk are the only respectable scientists in the Empire. :/

That being said, our own world's 19th and early 20th century history is likewise speckled with crackpot inventors whose creations sparked technological revolutions. Thus, the preponderance of polymaths isn't so much cliche as somewhat realistic.