Alaric, Hero of Hrunegandr

Male, 19

Video Game: Hrunegandr Series

Alaric is the Chosen Hero of Hrunegandr, a boy picked by the gods as oneof their two champions to battle the Demon Emperor Thordrig. (The other is the Grand Duchess Elspeth.) He came from a rural village and grew up a farm boy until his destiny was revealed by the design of the gods when he turned twelve. Alaric, now just nineteen, has struggled both in-and out-of-game to adjust to his new role as “The Saviour of Hrunegandr”, and is often a disappointment to those he meets when the desperate expectations of others meet with the reality of a real person who is doing his best but never asked for this life and doesn’t really want it, either. When not-in-game, Alaric is a reluctant hero who prefers to be a homebody, spending his hours cooking, crafting, and reading.

Although in the fictional Hrunegandr games Alaric and Elspeth are a loving, devoted couple, when they’re off-duty the pair are VERY far from that. In fact, they fight constantly—more like squabbling siblings than romantic partners.Curiously, though, each one is also jealously possessive of the other–if Alaric flirts with or gets too close to another lady in the Waiting Room Elspeth will freak out, and vice versa.

Voice: High-to-medium pitched male. He sounds young (he’s just 19) and heroic but also somewhat innocent in-game, and tired and shy out-of-game.