Poor Yaakub. When he was but a child, he was a bright lad, but too eager to try to please his family. The explosion in the lab burned most of his body, and it was a miracle that he lived.

With burn scars over 70% of his body, many of his nerves damaged, and gaining a crippling fear of coming near laboratories, Yaakub was forever separated from the practice of alchemy, and has had to find other ways of being useful to his House.