Walisi functioned as a Toydarian merchant, dealing in the trade of uncommon items, for instance, the Tragic Hope sculpture, and managed Walisi's Elegant and Exotic Artifacts. Not long after he made public his intention to put the statue up for sale, Walisi vanished. The Gorensla kajidic, an associate of Walisi's, launched an inquiry into his vanishing and wrongly concluded that their rival, the Desilijic kajidic, was the culprit. The truth was that Jerserra had kidnapped him.