Legomenon for the career soldier ARIC

Aric is first mentioned in the Archives as one of the co-conspirators in the so-called 'Rescue Plot' that freed the Historian and disgraced the Good Doctor.

The Writing {Testimony of Praetor Aric} is a transcript, either in deposition or in open court, given during the investigation into the affair. It follows the traditional format of a scriptor's 'realization', wherein only the utterances of the interview subject are recorded — but, as in most realizations, the interlocutor's questions are not difficult to infer.

Later, in the epistolary {Aric: Aftermath}, Aric describes to Egderus what really happened when his commander Robenc confronted the Good Doctor at the latter's lodgings.

According to the problematic {Postscript in Aric's own hand} found among the Last Writings of Egderus, it was Aric who carried out the assassination of the 8th Superius Frater of Mountain House, Egderus' mentor and predecessor in that office — the motivation of which remains a mystery.

There is also ambiguous evidence in The Missionary's Writings that implicate Aric as the man who broke his spirit and set him on the road to conversion.