Crick Wellsley

"*The world is a cruel and irrational place. I wanted something to believe in. Something to hold fast to. I want to extend a hand to the weak and cleave the wickedness from this world. I wish to be that sword for the people.*" —*Crick*

**Crick** is a character in *Octopath Traveler II*.

A newly anointed Sanctum Knight. He meets Temenos after being tasked with guarding the cathedral, and together they
investigate the strange incident within.

## Profile

### Appearance

Crick is a young man with blue eyes and shaggy beige hair. He is always dressed head-to-toe in a standard issue Sanctum Knight uniform, complete with a full set of body armor and a knightsword.

### Personality

Being newly anointed, Crick does his best to prove his worth as a Sanctum Knight. However, he often does this to the point of being somewhat of a suck up to his superiors. He is very cordial and is a stout believer of following rules. Crick finds Temenos’s habits to be frustrating, particularly his tendencies to call him a lamb, wander off into thought, engage in banter with the Sacred Guard, and tampering with crime scenes. At some moments, this causes Crick to question whether Temenos is truly the Inquisitor that he claims to be. After witnessing Temenos’s impressive investigative abilities firsthand, Crick begins to view him in a more positive light. By the time that the pair finish their investigations, they are on much better footing, although Crick does not go as far to consider them much more than acquaintances.

## Prior to Story

Crick and his friend Ort would work and train to be members of the Sacred Guard so as to make a difference and have something to believe in. Both knights would be anointed personally by Captain Kaldena after a final test, though Ort would be moved up the ranks faster as he followed Kaldena's orders without question.

## Story

Crick is first seen in Flamechurch where he defended a small group of townspeople from a band of heretics who shun the Sacred Flame's teachings. As he did so, a local cleric attempted to intervene, only for him to be taken hostage by the heretic leader. Before Crick could react further, the cleric knocked out his captor with a powerful blast of light. After introducing themselves, with the cleric being none other than the church's inquisitor Temenos, both made their way to the cathedral, where Temenos was due to meet Pontiff Jörg. However, they found the door locked and after a small argument, they found Vados, an architect that constructed an underground path to the cathedral, who gave them information after some coercion. Inside the cathedral, they found the pontiff dead and a Felvarg, the beast responsible for his death, who attacked them immediately. After killing it, they investigated the area and as they concluded that the pontiff's death was deliberate, Deputy Cubaryi of the Sacred Guard arrived and told the two men to leave and take nothing with them.

Several days after the attack and shortly after the pontiff's funeral, Temenos and Crick were confronted by Deputy Cubaryi again, who asked them about anything unusual from the scene, which the former denied before both left for the library, where they discovered a note in the book that Temenos took from the scene with the words "*Soon, night shall fall*". Shortly after leaving, Cubaryi approached them, telling Crick he had been reassigned and to pack up. After bidding Temenos farewell, he left Flamechurch.

Crick reappeared in Canalbrine, where he would run into Temenos again after seeing him being questioned by the local guards. There, both men would make their way to the scholar Lucian's home, where they found him dead. After investigating the home and finding that the assailant was killing people of specific fields in an order to trigger an ancient dark curse, they went to the tavern, where the famous dancer Hermes was performing, they stopped the assailant, who was revealed to be Vados. After pursuing him to the Sacred Guard's ship, they confronted and defeated him in battle, where he was then subdued and taken into custody by members of the Sacred Guard led by Captain Kaldena. Later, Crick was ordered by Kaldena to return to the Sanctum Knight's headquarters in Stormhail as Vados' escort. Shortly after a brief reunion with his friend Ort, he found Temenos and said his farewells, but not before informing him that he managed to convince Captain Kaldena to allow Temenos to interrogate him when he arrived at Stormhail.

In Stormhail, Crick would run into Temenos yet again when the latter showed up to begin his interrogation. However, they discovered that there was no record of Vados being in the Sacred Guard's custody despite Crick personally escorting him to headquarters. Feeling something was off, both men investigated the area and found Vados' body outside near the graveyard, half-buried in snow. Later, both went their separate ways, with Crick checking the library for any information and eventually coming across a secret passage that led him to a chamber that contained forbidden tomes. After finding out what he needed, he left, but was discovered by members of the Sacred Guard loyal to Kaldena's true cause. He managed to fight many off, but he was confronted by Kaldena personally, who, using her shadow power, defeated and killed Crick, leaving his body outside the headquarters.

Crick's death was not in vain, as he left Temenos a clue and trail to follow, eventually leading Temenos to the same location. {| class="toccolours" align="center" width=99% style="border:1px solid #000; margin-bottom:5px;" title="OT2 Navigation"

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