Embi is a performer with Master Payne's Circus of Adventure who performs sleight-of-hand, some musical numbers, tells stories... but mostly, is short. He is from a small town somewhere in Africa and decided to travel the more exotic areas of the world, i.e., Europa. He [ ascribed] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]], possibly in jest, his great age to a sacred vow he made "to see the world before he died" and which he took very seriously. How this enabled him to keep himself young through the force of his will, or whether this is due to the agency of that to which he made his vow, is unknown.