Professor Surgeon hails from the Strandwalker tribe, nomads who roam the eastern shore of the peninsula. The unwarranted attentions of Enhancement barbarians rendered him oversensitive to nasal stimuli, and he has been forced to wear a gas mask since fleeing to the sanctuary of the Overlord's thunderdome.
After spending two years in exile for unspecified crimes, Damascus has been allowed to return to the south, where he has established a hydroponic hallucinogen herborium.
(Contributor to the Lexicon of the Rubble - player: d@vid)