Overview

Sir Ruprecht 2RG works behind the bar at the Black-Eyed Fey while maintaining the records of Day Quest Administration. He combines practical hospitality, knightly training, historical research, and a sharp awareness of how reputations are made.

When Count Munchausen sends ELM to Pintoburg, Ruprecht provides the former dark lord with his first officially assigned public-service quest: investigate the disappearance of left socks across the Beandom.

The Black-Eyed Fey

The Black-Eyed Fey serves as both tavern and informal questing office. Ruprecht can pour drinks, prepare food, hear local complaints, and open an enormous leather-bound ledger without leaving his place behind the bar.

His apron conceals a golden key used to unlock the DQA book. The arrangement allows citizens to submit smaller problems in an accessible setting rather than petitioning a palace or waiting for a celebrity knight to notice them.

Day Quest Administration

Day Quest Administration collects requests that can be addressed through short, focused adventures. Ruprecht rejects the phrase “minor quest,” preferring “brief quests done with great valor.”

The ledger contains reports, names, locations, unresolved cases, and enough public need to keep an ambitious anti-hero occupied for years. It becomes a map of the ordinary problems neglected by grand prophecies and royal campaigns.

At the conclusion of Book Four, ELM steals the ledger—not to destroy it, but to use it as the operating plan for returning every stolen sock and completing the remaining unfulfilled quests.

The Leftbeard Assignment

Ruprecht has studied Captain Leftbeard for years and possesses the pirate’s last known diary. He notices that sock thefts across the Beandom follow an oddly specific pattern: only left socks disappear.

The theory connects the thefts to a pirate who lost his right leg and therefore had no use for a matching right sock. Ruprecht gives ELM a left sock from one of the victims and sends him toward the last known location of Leftbeard’s treasure.

What begins as a deliberately modest assignment expands into a contest over a legendary hoard, an EBI blockade, a cursed artifact, and a wreck protected by sea monsters and mimic chests.

Brother of Sir Roderick

Ruprecht shares a recognizable family resemblance with Sir Roderick and carries a similar knightly title. Their relationship, however, includes comparison and rivalry. Roderick’s fame creates a standard Ruprecht wants to equal or surpass.

Book Four introduces that ambition without resolving it. Ruprecht is observant, capable, and helpful, but he also pursues the Leftbeard case independently and develops connections that place him closer to power, official agencies, and future conflict.

Relationship with ELM

Ruprecht and ELM recognize one another as clever, competitive, and willing to work outside standard heroic expectations. Each believes he can reach the treasure first. Their cooperation therefore carries the energy of a race even when both claim to serve the public.

Ruprecht gives ELM the quest, evidence, and direction needed to begin. ELM ultimately rejects Ruprecht’s ownership of the process by taking the ledger and transforming day questing into the mission of his new pirate crew.

Skills and Resources

• Quest administration: Organizes unresolved public requests.
• Historical research: Studies Leftbeard’s diary and legends.
• Bartending: Maintains an approachable information network.
• Knightly combat: Carries a sword and can use bright banishing magic.
• Institutional access: Communicates with investigators and official authorities.
• Ambition: Pursues opportunities beyond the limits of his assigned role.

Sir Ruprecht believes no quest is minor. Some are merely brief, badly paid, and hidden beneath a tavern counter.

—The Chronicler

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