Pessimal Tomes

Pessinmal Tomes was a Durhian, the founder and head reporter of the Alabastra Daily Newspaper (then called the Cravian Daily) and inventor of the printing press in The First Age. He worked with mainly with a Milteo bird-keeper named Mileena Birdsong and a Dwarf photographer named Torbin Goodfeed during the Monster King Crisis.

Later married and started a family with Mileena, giving rise to the prominent Tomes Family.

Personality
Pessimal was brash and very nearly unflappable, always looking for the next big scoop. When faced with death, he just kept writing even while fearing for his life.

Trivia

 * The Story of Millena and Pessimal was adapted into a romance novel by their Granddaughter Nefetari Tomes. The book is written from Mileena's point of view as she admires the man from afar, afraid to express her own feelings. Though it takes certain liberties with the truth (adding, among other things, a Durhian rival for Pessimals affection, an unscrupulous competing newspaper as the villain, and, as one reviewer put it, "altogether to many swordfights") the book, On Wings of Love, remains popular to the modern day, with some holding it up as the first protest agaist Durhian/Milteo inequality.