Professor

**Professor** is a padfoot wizard who is the leader of the party of rookies Young Warrior meets.

## Appearance

Professor has very prominent beast features including a wolflike face, claws, full-body fur, and a tail. He wears a weathered coat and a relatively small pair of glasses. He looks to be approaching middle age.

## Personality

Professor has a calm and restrained demeanor, and he has the ability to keep a cool head. He is able to wisely take initiative without order, such as when he had already prepared a spell to disarm a hobgoblin when he saw Martial Artist in danger.

## Chronology

### Year One Volume 2

On his party's quest to map out an abandoned mine, Marital Artist invites Young Warrior to join them because he was more seasoned than the rest of her Party, something Professor agreed with.

Inside the mine, Professor diligently mapped out the mine while lending out his sagely advice to his Party. When Goblins attacked, Professor remained on the back row, waiting for his moment to utilize his spells in case of emergency. When Martial Artist's leg was caught by a Hobgoblin, he used his *Fumble* spell to disarm the Hobgoblin and give Martial Artist a chance to kill it. Once the Goblins were cleared, he finds evidence of a warlock inside the mine.

*Note: Events in this point occur only in the manga*.
When a Warlock attacks from the darkness of the mine, Professor quickly uses Counter-Spell to protect the party. He quickly came up with a plan for their front line fighters to approach and stop the Warlock as well as advised them on the nature of the Warlock's *Shadow Self* spell. After Young Warrior wounds the Warlock, Professor carries the injured Dwarf Scout on his back as the party makes their escape. Afterwards, he, as well as the rest of the party, pleads Young Warrior to stay in their party.

*Note: End of Manga only events*.
### Year One Volume 3

Later on, Professor was asked by Young Warrior and others in his Party to teach them how to read and write, which she did with great care; being a strict but caring educator to them. Eventually, when Heavy Warrior collapsed from exhaustion, Scout Boy comes to him asking for help. After his evaluation, Professor deduced that Heavy Warrior was overworked and needed some rest, sending him to bed. With this, Martial Artist volunteers herself and the rest of the Party to take over their Quest to help Heavy Warrior's Party out; a plan Professor agreed with.

*Note: Events in this point occur only in the manga*.
Journeying into a cave and falling into a *massive* underground city, Young Warrior questions if the city had anything to do with the recent earthquakes to which Professor sounds several theories about the hypothesis. As he and his Party investigate, they are joined by Gold-Ranked Adventurer Barbarian who aids the Party against the surprise attack of Chaos worshipping Dark Elves riding atop large spiders.

Professor and his Party were able to fend off the Dark Elves with Barbarian's help and learn about the Dark Elves' plans to revive an old powerful king and his undead army for their plans. This goes horribly wrong though as the Undead King slays the Dark Elves and attacks everyone around him, causing a massive collapse of the cave. Professor and his Party just make it out in the nick of time, ending the Dark Elves' plot and stopping the earthquakes.

*Note: End of Manga only events*.
A couple days later, Young Warrior claimed a quest that, according to Inspector, the requestor would be thrilled a magical scholar like Professor would be handling it.

## Abilities

An accomplished wizard, Professor has quite few spells under his belt. Young Warrior also deduces that he may have been a lecturer in his youth.

### Spells

* **Fumble**: A spell that can cause an enemy to drop their weapon.
* **Counter-Spell**

### Other

* **Cartography**: Professor doubles as the Party's cartographer, making detailed maps on caves, mines, and ancient ruins.

## Trivia

* Like many *Goblin Slayer* characters, Professor is a reference to a popular character in fiction, unlike the rest though, he is a reference to a American Superhero Comic Book character and not a Fantasy one.
	+ Professor is an obvious homage to Dr. Henry McCoy aka "Beast" from the "*X-Men*" line of comic books, being an extremely intelligent individual with a deceptive "Beast" like appearance.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One* Light Novel - Volume 2, Interlude: Of How They’re Unable to Come Home Because the Map Is Unfinished
2. ↑ *Goblin Slayer Year One Manga* - Chapter 29