

He also had a quick sense of humor, casually poking fun at regular customers. Reda had an acute business acumen and respect for his customers. As enigmatic in the 'dream world' as he was outside of it, Reda told Odin that he had studied under Loki and would apply the lessons in an unconventional way which he claimed would let him survive Ragnarök, but remained vague and did not share more. Eivor encountered Reda and the Thousand Eyes again in her dreams of Svartálfaheimr while exploring her visions of Odin's efforts there to rescue his son Baldr. In 879, Reda later expanded his business' reach to Ireland and established a shop in the heart of Dublin's market square, though he would not stay for long, moving again merely six years later into Francia during Rollo's siege of Paris in 885 and placing another shop in Melunois on an island in the Seine. Eivor heard his story as she passed by and stopped to listen, commenting after he had finished on its fanciful nature, to which he replied that all his tales were simultaneously "perfectly and mostly true". Shortly after setting up shop, Reda entertained Sylvi, Eira, and Knud with an exaggerated tale of Bayek and Amunet's mission to seek justice for the murder of their son Khemu. Reda explained to Eivor how his guild operated, wherein completing contracts for him was rewarded with opals, which could then be traded for rare and exotic gear. While passing through the Mercian county of Ledecestrescire in 873 accompanied by an Anglo-Saxon man, he came upon the settlement of Ravensthorpe and met the Viking shieldmaiden Eivor Varinsdottir as she assisted the Raven Clan in making their new home. Without any known aid, Reda somehow survived into the late 9th century, by which time he had founded the Thousand Eyes, a secret merchant guild run by local orphans. By 38 BCE, Reda also extended his travels to the Sinai and Upper Egypt, yet strangely had not seemed to have aged a day in the ten years since Bayek had last seen him. Reda introduced himself to Bayek, offering to sell his goods to the Medjay if he needed them. In 48 BCE, Reda came across the Medjay Bayek of Siwa in Yamu, who was passing through the village towards Alexandria. Also a gambler, Reda proposed customers to buy the random content of the Heka chest, a mystery box. Allegedly an orphan, Reda travelled throughout Egypt with his camel, mostly selling rare and legendary weapons and carbon crystals.
