Many people wonder whether Dr. Quintrell is actually a doctor of anything, or if it's just an affected title. In fact, he is! While many are tempted, it's bad form among the Sons of Ether to pretend to honors you haven't earned.
Ambrose was something of a childhood prodigy, but credits his father Kyle with teaching him courage and the value of hard work, without which he would not be alive today. Graduating from high school at the age of 15, he went on to earn a degree in Physics from CalTech. He was listed in the 1999 edition of Who's Who in America as a student to watch.
A professor at CalTech recognized the lad's potential and helped him Awaken. Now open to the true possibilities of Science, Ambrose eagerly pursued post-graduate studies in materials science at MIT, intent on developing a theory for energy/matter conversion. His doctoral thesis on the subject was welcomed by fellow scientists, who eagerly followed his unfolding research.
But in fact, he was too successful. A year after receiving his Ph.D., he planned to go public with his discoveries* at an upcoming conference. He did not realize, however, that he had verged a little too close to the Technocracy's designs, and that the
Shortly before the conference, Ambrose was caught in a lab accident that, probably not coincidentally, destroyed all his work. He himself was believed to be dead for several weeks (and he is told there was a very nice memorial for him in lieu of his burial), before he was discovered stumbling along a back road in Montana, babbling what sounded like nonsense. Rather than killing him, as he believes the accident was meant to do, the combination of unleashed forces had opened a hole into another dimension--one filled with what he recognized as etheric constructs of a form and purity unlike anything he had seen before!
Today, Dr. Quintrell knows that pursuing his old energy/matter conversion work may well be nothing less than a death sentence. He must assume the Technocracy is watching him. But while (for the time being) they have killed his old dreams, they unwittingly birthed a new one. He has dedicated himself to studying the etheric realms and their phenomena, cataloguing and researching until he can find a way to introduce humanity to this brave new discovery!
* Etherites know the truth: one does not discover scientific principles, one invents them!
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