Joseph Cognard asked Juho Pohjalainen:

Do you have a favorite character that you like when you are writing? Why?

Juho Pohjalainen I have a soft spot for Aurel, on account of being many years - almost a full decade - older than anyone else in the cast, and having a fair bit of backstory and other traits that did not really come up in the bit part he played in the actually published work. But he's also one of those badass swordsmen, charming and muscular, flawless in almost every way, that fantasy genre is rather full of as it is, so I don't think I'll ever write anything actually starring him. He mostly works as a contrast, an unreachable ideal, to his far more flawed and underdog-ish successor: I'm glad I can continue keeping him around in that function if nothing else.

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