Cam

Cam was born in the Perubian Ocean and the slave island of Kleith. At birth, he was immediately sold into slavery and just by chance was purchased by the tyrant king himself; Fenross Altomar who raised him himself. At an early age, Fenross gave the child to his councilor and cousin Barnoss Altomar who began work on augmenting the nameless child and developed him into a walking recording and feedback device.

All slave children at the age of 8 are given their job and a name to accompany it, usualy related to their given job. the child, already having been altered already had a job by the age of 8, but was still nameless. One of Fenross' diplomats, while seeing the child for the first time, coined the phrase "Camera" which is an Runic Nehamian word meaning "Chamber"; when in context refered to the way his head looked like hollow, dark chamber when one looked through the lens. This was later given to him as a name, and was soon shortened to 'Cam'.

The child worked for many years under both Fenross and Barnoss acting not only as an experiment in body augmentation, but also as a practical device; recording conversations between diplomats, taking pictures of schematics and prototypes and also transferring messages between people.

Augmentation
The alterations made to him by Barnoss were torturous and continued over the period of around 2 years. The first development was the child's projector eye which involved inserting a very small slide-feeding system as well as a light-bulb within the child's skull, also resulting in a significant amount of brain tissue to be damaged or removed altogether. This resulted in a lowered intelligence to the child, which did not matter to the tyrant king or his cousin as they ultimately considered slaves to lack intelligence anyway.

The device uses the soul-energy power system developed by Barnoss to maintain it, but it also collects a significant amount of solar energy using the lens itself to magnify sunlight which enters the eye. The solar-energy was necessary during the early development of the soul-energy power system as previous iterations of the system created very low amounts of energy in comparison to the amount produced by modern soul-energy systems.

The slides which the projector uses are microscopic in size, and are imprinted which images formed using a device attached to the part of the child's brain which recognizes memory. Everything the child witnesses is recorded on the small slides, and can be called forth by either the child, or anyone who knows the call-codes which activate the device.

The second part of the augmentation was also to record and produce sound. This works by saving audio wavelengths to microscopic cylindrical "sound-batteries" which are engraved which pitch, volume and wavelength data. These "sound-batteries" are fed into the microphone which is attached to the child's throat. The child is them forced to produce a vibration as if he was talking, which is then interupted by the microphone which produces the sounds necessary. Usually both sound and video data is recorded or projected at the same time, but the child can specialize in one field at any given time.

The child would very rarely be expected to talk, but if he was, he would have to use snippets of recorded audio to string together a coherant sentence. Because of his damaged brain however, the child lacks many of the social skills necessary to hold a normal conversation.