Dr. Charles Engel – Professor of anthropology at Georgia Perimeter College. He is a short, balding, eccentric German in his 70's who is notorious for mixing up facts and misremembering events, even within his own field of expertise. He really should have retired a decade ago but insists he'll keep teaching just the one course at the small university until the day he dies or is fired, whichever happens first. It's rumored that the only reason the school hasn't forcibly ousted him yet is because he gives them a sizable annual donation which keeps the institution financially afloat. Dr. Engel is habitually seen nursing his elaborate ivory smoking pipe, but never actually packs it with tobacco nor lights it. He lives alone in Milton with his pet hedgehog Barley. The professor is evidently an oracle of some kind.