Professor Edric Elderwood

The stalwart and heroic professor of Cursebreaking and Poetic Casting at Tragicomedy Academy- he is never late to a class, grades fairly and only for the benefit of his students' improvement, and cares deeply about training anyone, be they good or evil, in the ways of breaking the curses he seems to know everything about.

Elderwood seems to be the very model of a Good Man- though insistence in his heroics and altruism find him fiddling with the bracelet on his wrist and insisting that he merely does what must be done. He is calm, patient, and surprisingly tolerant of his students' antics... But why does he duck out of the room whenever a lantern floats by his class' windows? Why does he cancel classes out of the blue? And why is it that his personal study is decorated with so many figurines of lambs??

In truth- Elderwood is a former villain, previously serving under the Dread Curator before discovering that he was aiding in the end of the world. Disgusted and terrified, he fled villainy altogether- and, as his first heroic act, locked the Incarnate of Dreams(Elijah Playfair, for those playing at home) in a mortal form. This act of heroics came at a great cost- he is now bound to Elijah, forced by the laws arcane to serve as a henchman to the Slumbering Ram no matter what dark bidding is asked of him. 

Though for years, Elderwood was fine with the arrangement- being a martyr is a burden he was willing to bear- Elijah has regained his full power- and though Edric is trying to get along more amicably with him.... there's a tension to the way the two act around each other.

And stirring deep within him, beneath the grief and remorse... Elderwood still feels the calling to do what he loves. To embrace the curses and villainy that bring him so much joy- the role he's been locked into.

But.... he has a path to walk. And he will NOT become that monster again.

Even if he's miserable as a hero.