He's Done A Lot Of Good And Solved A Lot Of Problems And Nearly All Of It Has Been Begrudging If Not Entirely Against His Own Will - Blog Posts

See, the difficult part is that... outside of the apprentices he’s had over the years (and their families, for those who’ve stayed in contact with him) and some of his colleagues, Veric is an antisocial asshole who has to be dragged out of the house or else he’ll just sit inside all day in the company of his automatons.