The Bureaucrat's Guide to Heroism: Audio Book
Arma Verus for Auldric
Auldric — Male, crystal evaluator, indeterminate older age
Role: Supporting — recurring
Auldric is the Guild's crystal evaluator — an enthusiastic, eccentric scholar who treats every new discovery with the barely contained excitement of a man who has spent his entire career waiting for something genuinely interesting to happen and cannot quite believe his luck when it finally does. He is academically passionate to the point of occasionally forgetting that other people in the room have not spent forty years thinking about crystals.
He is not oblivious — he is simply operating at a frequency slightly above the everyday world, where the mundane details of social interaction are less compelling than whatever fascinating specimen is currently in front of him.
Voice: Animated, slightly breathless with enthusiasm, and possessed of the particular energy of someone who talks faster when excited, which is most of the time.
- english
- enthusiastic
- male senior
- Academic
- Eccentric
*Say someth"Unusual doesn't begin to cover it, crystal crawlers typically absorb and process raw magical energy from meethryl deposits, but these specimens show evidence of deliberate magical manipulation—channeling and focusing energy rather than merely storing it. Do you realise what you've brought me? These aren't just crystal crawler samples—these are magical mineralogical marvels!"ing you think would fit*
"Fascinating process, really. The queen was essentially functioning as a catalyst for concentrated magical transformation, using the smaller crawlers to channel and focus magical energy back to a central point. Given time, that entire section of the mine would have transformed into a true dungeon ecosystem."
"Thank goodness, We need someone who actually knows about these things. Nord, these crystal formations are very similar to the samples you brought back from the mine, but there are differences I can't explain."
