Voliast

A Vollistan doctor at Winston Memorial Hospital, Voliast is one of the few people who is a qualified practitioner of Vollistan medicine. Not only that, but he's pretty much the only one who does so and isn't found on Vollista. He's well-known, locally, both for being known to prefer herbal medication or "alternative" treatments (such as wrapping a radiation or burn patient in green, leaf 'bandages' from Vollista) and for being a curmudgeon to just about everyone. The only known exception to this curmudgeonliness is his Bonded, Volouscheur. He's also known to be very, very good at what he does. Lesser known, perhaps, is the fact that he's insomniac and has a photographic memory, allowing him to pick up information quickly (as long as it's in a visual form). Within the hospital itself, he's reputed to have psionically tampered with the minds of those interns who were foolish enough to a) get into his herbs for recreational purposes or b) just mess up his herbal supplies in general. Such interns are rumoured to have believed that they were anything from furniture, small animals, or even vegetables, until the effects wore off. As a result, most of the staff is wary of entering his office - especially the area where he grows his herbal supplies - without his permission. His age is estimated at around 120, and he's known to work with the NLM on a contract basis. Encyclopedia Intergalactica