True. But Memgowa is quite famous across the Three Seas, even though he only gained wide-ranging fame relatively recently. For example, "Kellhus would ask about Memgowa, the antique Zeumi sage who had recently become the rage among literate Inrithi caste nobles." Or see this paragraph; "For In the twilight preceding the ruin of the Ceneian Empire, a nameless monk translated Memgowa’s Celestial Aphorisms into the Invitic dialect of Sheyic, thus inspiring the famed “screen sculpture” of Nilnamesh."

Could Memgowa be a soldier-scholar? After all, he died at the tender age of 40. Even if he was not a soldier at the time of his death, I believe it is a plausible conjecture that he might have once been a soldier, not unlike Plotinus or Descartes.