Mordecai

He is a level 50 Guild Master and currently Princess Donut's Manager. He is currently on his last tour of crawl duty.

Description
Mordecai is Carl and Donut’s guide for the dungeon. He is an indentured servant for Borant, tasked with helping the corporation run crawls. Originally an avian race called a Skyfowl, Mordecai chose Changeling as his race when he was a crawler. Now as a guide he is forced into a different race each floor. His chosen area of expertise during his crawl was potion making, but since becoming a guide, that expertise has grown over hundreds of years to cover most aspects of the crawl. According to Odette, he is one of the most knowledgeable guides there are.

Normally Mordecai is a tutorial guide for the first two floors and serves as a guild master on the later floors, where he has relative freedom to follow his own pursuits in potion making and catch up with friends. Following Odette’s advice, Carl and Donut made Mordecai into Donut’s Manager during the class selection process, meaning he must stay on as advisor even after the second floor. They had to make it look like an accident. He didn't take it well, but he didn't blame them. Odette warns them that he is only useful to them if he wants to help, and if he ever learns that they made him Manager on purpose, he will turn his resentment to them and refuse to help any further.

Mordecai is generally grumpy but tends to perk up when talking about potions. He gets emotional when he’s drunk, thinking about the loss of his family. He was traumatized during his time as a crawler. Hundreds of years later, he still holds a grudge against his former allies, whom he blames for the death of his brother. This includes Odette, his former Manager. It is implied that part of why he hates the idea of being Manager is because of his resentment toward her. He lashes out against his former allies when given a chance.

He is committed to helping Carl and Donut survive the crawl, even if they don’t always take his advice. Potion brewing is a time-consuming process, but he regularly brews potions for them, which have helped The Royal Court out of many situations. His specific knowledge about the crawl is very useful when Carl is trying to make plans or understand how dangerous a situation is. Since getting the Anarchist’s Cookbook, Carl has begun hiding some of his use of the book by guiding conversations to make it look like Mordecai is providing the information instead. Mordecai’s general advice is conservative, aimed at surviving as long as possible while minimizing risk. This is increasingly at odds with Carl’s desire to take risks to accumulate power, save as many lives as possible, and tear down the whole concept of the crawl. The many unprecedented situations Carl gets himself into are starting to make Mordecai feel irrelevant.