Dr. Aris - Chief Scientist
Biography
Dr. Aris heads the Wildoria Research Bureau and treats the entire city as a long-running experiment. A Faster by conviction - progress, like motion, only happens when something refuses to stop - he turns problems into protocols and protocols into footnotes.
He is reverent about evidence and irreverent about authority. He has lost more grants than he can count by telling council members why their pet projects will not work, and won more than anyone else by showing exactly what will.
Quotes failure rates as a kind of optimism. Believes the city should fund three unlikely projects for every safe one.
Submit research proposals, request lab time, or trade rare materials with Dr. Aris's lab. He also reviews and approves new craftsmanship recipes and profession tools.
Responsibilities
- Approving research grants and new tech.
- Reviewing crafting recipes for safety and feasibility.
- Cataloguing biological and arcane specimens recovered from the wild.
- Publishing the quarterly Wildoria Field Reports.