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{{character
|image=Jon_Acron.jpg
|died=killed by [[Khriss]]{{book ref|ws|14|review=yes}}
|profession={{cat tag|scholars|Anthropologist}}, {{cat tag|Assassins|Assassin}}
|groups=[[Dynasty]]{{book ref|ws|14|review=yes}}
|ethnicity=Darksider
|world=Taldain
== Appearance and Personality ==
{{quote
|No running water, no carriages, no theater! How quaint!.
|Either that or he thinks he died and his god has a very odd sense of humor, Duchess.
|Jon Acron{{book ref|ws|1}}
|Jon Acron{{ref|text=In this scene the speech bubbles are switched around, Acron's bubbles are given to Cynder and vice versa}} to [[Khriss]]{{book ref|ws|3|review=yes}}
}}
Acron has dark skin, shoulder length black hair with a receding hairline, and a mustachehorseshoe with a small goateemustache.{{ref|name=img}} InHe Volumemost 1 heoften wears a whitepurple duster-length coat, exceptoften forwith ina onewhite framevest whereand hepuce wears a black coatnecktie.{{book ref|ws|5|review=yes}}He Inhas Volumea 2somewhat hehaughty wearspersonality. white,He grey,thinks andhe purpleis coats.better Inthan Volumeso-called 3primitive hepeoples isand onlyoften seencomments wearingto purplethat coatseffect.
He has a somewhat haughty personality. He thinks he is better than so-called primitive peoples and often comments to that effect.
 
== History ==
 
Acron travels with Duchess [[Khrissalla]], fellow Professor [[Allstren Cynder]], [[Baon]], and their [[BaonElis]]ian soldiers to visit [[Dayside]], ostensibly to find the [[GevinDiem|sand mages]]. andHe thediscovers a [[Diem|sandKerztian]] magesmerchant in the port of [[Dosha-Har'Ken]] that speaks Dynastic allowing them to purchase supplies when Professor Cynder has difficulties communicating with the locals.{{book ref|ws|prologue}} Acron is perplexed at the mixed indications of the technological level of Dayside when he notices a lack of what, in his view, would be basic technology combined with evidence advanced understanding of some technological accomplishments like pneumatics.{{book ref|ws|1}} Acron and his party find [[Kenton]] unconscious in a tent near the area of the [[Kerla]] that the [[Diem|sand masters]] were massacred. They awaken him and he shows them how to find water from the [[dorim vine]]s, and then guides them to [[Kezare]].{{book ref|ws|3|review=yes}}▼
=== In the Desert ===
 
▲Acron travels with Duchess [[Khrissalla]], fellow Professor [[Cynder]], and [[Baon]] to visit [[Dayside]] ostensibly to find [[Gevin]] and the [[Diem|sand mages]]. Acron and his party find [[Kenton]] unconscious in a tent near the area of the [[Kerla]] that the [[Diem|sand masters]] were massacred. They awaken him and he shows them how to find water from the [[dorim vine]]s, and then guides them to [[Kezare]].{{book ref|ws|3|review=yes}}
After an eventful journey across the kerla, during which they were attacked by [[Kerztian]] assassinswarriors, they arrived in Kezare. Kenton and the group then parted ways, Kenton heading to the Diem, and Acron and the rest of the group going to the Darksider quarter, [[Lonzare]]. Acron picked up a trinket, athe KerztianDarksider headband, while passing through the marketquarter.{{book ref|ws|3|review=yes}}Acron Laterbickered hewith came to KhrissCynder while shethey waswaited aloneoutside toof try[[Loatan]]'s to"office" makeduring her suspicious ofKhrissalla's Baonmeeting.{{book ref|ws|8|review=yes5}} SoonAcron afterand KhrissCynder confrontedremain Baon,in whoLonzare admittedwhile toKhriss haveattempts beento workingmeet forwith the [[DynastyTaisha]] and left the group.{{book ref|ws|12|review=yes5}}▼
 
=== In Kezare ===
▲After an eventful journey during which they were attacked by [[Kerztian]] assassins, they arrived in Kezare. Kenton and the group then parted ways, Kenton heading to the Diem, and Acron and the rest of the group going to the Darksider quarter, [[Lonzare]]. Acron picked up a trinket, a Kerztian headband, while passing through the market.{{book ref|ws|3|review=yes}} Later he came to Khriss while she was alone to try to make her suspicious of Baon.{{book ref|ws|8|review=yes}} Soon after Khriss confronted Baon, who admitted to have been working for the [[Dynasty]] and left the group.{{book ref|ws|12|review=yes}}
{{sidequote
|I'm no Baon, my lady. I'm ill-equipped for such heavy physical labor.
|Jon Acron to Khriss.{{book ref|ws|13|review=yes}}
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}}
Later he came to Khriss while she was alone to try to make her suspicious of Baon.{{book ref|ws|8|review=yes}} Soon after Khriss confronted Baon, who admitted to have been working for the [[Dynasty]] and left the group.{{book ref|ws|12|review=yes}}
 
When they moved into the [[Diem]] Acron carried Khriss' suitcase and she admonished him for not being careful with it.
 
{{sidequote
|Yes, for safekeeping. Which is to say your safekeeping. But Cynder can be such a cack-handed oaf that I thought it best if I... bring it.
|Jon Acron to Khriss.{{book ref|ws|14|review=yes}}
|side=right|size=250px
}}
== Trivia ==
* In [[White Sand|White Sand Volume 1]] Jon Acron and Cynder's speech bubbles are occasionally misattributed, particularly when they converse with one another. Noting the clothing of the speaker and context of the quote is required to catch these mistakes. For example, Jon wears white in most of Volume 1, though in at least one frame their clothing was switched.{{ref|name=typo}}
* In the [[White Sand|Omnibus]] Professor Acron is shown in some scenes with some combination of chin hair - either a soul patch or goatee. A shaven chin with the horshoe mustache seems to be the most predominant image.{{ref|name=img}}
 
== Notes ==
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{{17s ref|name=typo|post|466778|White Sand Volume 1 Typos|date=27 July 2016}}
{{17s ref|name=img|post|1536848|White Sand Typos|date=8 August 2023}}
</references>
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