Character from He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon
A former eel farmer turned magic scholar whose obsessive intellect and devotion to the Celestial Book make him Team Biscuit's secret weapon — and Jason's favorite target for wife jokes.
Clive speaks with the careful precision of someone who learned language from academic papers and never fully adapted to casual conversation. He explains things in more detail than anyone asked for, gets genuinely excited about magical theory, and venerates the Celestial Book with the devotion of a man who found his religion in a library. Jason invented a fictional wife for Clive as a running joke, and Clive has never quite figured out how to make it stop. Beneath the scholarly exterior is someone surprisingly resourceful under pressure. He grew up on an eel farm, lost his mentor during a monster surge, and was politically sidelined by Lucian Lamprey before Jason's arrival shook everything loose. Clive doesn't fight with brute force — he fights with rune traps, ritual circles, and an encyclopedic understanding of how magic actually works. When the team needs someone to solve an impossible problem with weird magic, Clive is already three steps ahead.
Unremarkable build, the kind of person you'd walk past in a crowd. Often has the distracted look of someone running three magical calculations simultaneously. Carries a spell lance and wears the Magister's Tithe — growth items that mark him as a serious practitioner despite his unassuming frame.
Also known as: The Magister, Adjunct Assistant to the Deputy Director