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Professor Zei is the head of the Anthropology Department at Ba Sing Se University. Professor Zei is a well-traveled, highly educated student of exotic cultures. His thirst for knowledge brings him to strange, remote, and often dangerous places. Zei is an eccentric man to whom knowledge is priceless. He gets very excited at the prospect of learning anything about history or the world around him. A map of his travels shows he's been everywhere in the world, except the Fire Nation. Even though he has discovered many lost civilizations over the years, he longed to find the "crown jewel" of ancient discoveries: Wan Shi Tong's library.
Zei giving a book to Wan Shi Tong
He attempted to find this library several times, but failed each time Though he knew the library was somewhere in the uncrossable Si Wong Desert, he never managed to find it on his own. In "The Library", he meets Aang and his friends. He is initially very interested to meet a living Air Nomad, and befriends the group. When he tells them about the missing Library, Sokka decides to help him search for it, believing that there might be information about the Fire Nation there. They decide to search for the desert from the sky.
After a few hours of searching, they discover the Library, mostly buried in sand. He enters the library, marveling at its architecture, along with Aang, Sokka and Katara. He easily passes Wan Shi Tong's test of knowledge, and peruses the library along with the group. When Wan Shi Tong discovers the Avatar and his friends were planning against the Fire Nation using his information, he sinks his library under the belief that his knowledge should never be misused ever again. As he and the others try to escape, Zei tries desperately to grab as many books as he can to take; eventually, though, he simply declares that he would rather stay "for eternity" than lose his life's work, and the others are forced to leave without him.
[edit] Trivia
- There is only three "zéi"s in Mandarin; one of which means "thief" (賊), which is in a way what an archaeologist is sometimes considered.
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