“Worlds Beyond Number” began in 2023. The first campaign, “The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One,” closed out the first book in what is sure to be an epic saga. Brennan Lee Mulligan led Lou Wilson, Erika Ishii, and Aabria Iyengar through a fantasy coming-of-age story. “The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One” follows three true friends. Having met in childhood, the trio is brought back together through loss and danger.

They soon learn that each holds an important place within the world of Umora. As they grow into their individual roles, they also discover duplicitous plots that threaten all of Umora. Eursulon (Wilson) was a spirit banished from his home in the spirit world as a child. His greatest desire was to find honor and become a knight. He grew up in the human world and lost sight of this. However, when reunited with Ame and Suvi, it reignites his desire for honor and a quest.

Throughout the first book he is a protector of his friends and slowly grows into the knight he once wished to be. However, he has a greater calling than a simple knight. Eursulon discovers that he may be the only chance Umora has to stop a war between humanity and the spirit world. In an exclusive interview with Temple of Geek, Wilson discussed Eurulon’s arc in chapter four.

Eursulon Has Found, Honor, Duty, & A Quest

Lou Wilson:

“There were moments in arc three where Eursulon needs Tefmet. There’s this moment of like, oh, this feels like I’m getting closer to who I am or what I am, or at least in that I feel pulled towards something. But it really is all in chapter four and it feels very much in Eursulon’s way, right? Brennan has described Eursulon as a freight train. Once he gets going, he can’t stop. I feel like it starts with the kids. It starts with this calling of there are these people who touch the spirit, who are trapped and they need someone to save them. There is this internal calling and desire to become that.

Saving the kids is this moment. I think this is something we’ve talked about as a cast before, of saving the kids, is this moment. Actually freeing them, actually rescuing them and bringing them back to the cottage is this moment where I think that is, to your point, Eursulon’s spirit, the element of him that is spirit. It’s like the kids must be free and thus the kids are freed. And then I think that where we see the spirit that Eursulon is becoming that bridge, that connection to the human world, is that Eursulon feels some obligation to see these children home. That freeing them is not simply his purpose or task, it is also to see them safely home.

I think that is something that is deeply human. The idea that you have taken on a task and you feel the need not just to complete it, but to see it through, to see it last, and to see it continue to manifest change in the world. I think for me, that’s kind of in that, it’s not such an articulated moment, but it is the sensation of, well, the children are free now. I have to care for them now I need to ferry them home. That is the moment in which Eursulon becomes that bridge, in understanding that.

I think we see it contrasted in interaction with the Man in Black, where the Man in Black is like, I will take them home, to the spirit world. That is the spirit understanding. It’s like, what’s up? You want freedom? I will give you a spirit’s understanding of freedom, which is that return to the infinite. But I think that Eursulon in his understanding and his desire to see them back to their families in Toma, in that quest in making that his charge. That is when he becomes that bridge.”

Eursulon became a knight and a spirit of freedom. He freed the children of Gathomai and made sure they were brought home safely. His understanding of the human world and reverence for spirits sets him apart from others. He is in the human world and of the spirit world; this allows him a unique perspective. His idealized view of knights and honor gave him a certain chivalry that has been lost within most of Umora.

This unique perspective is also the key to Eursulon’s ideology about the oncoming war. He isn’t looking to side with the Citadel or the Man In Black. He has a third perspective. Wilson was specific in Eursulon’s word choice; he wants to stop the war, not win it. Wilson explains what spurred on this need to end the war as a third contender.

Eursulon Wants To Stop A War

Lou Wilson:

“The ending is really derived from the moment with Naram. The fact that Naram makes this sacrifice and joins this war to help Eursulon complete this task of returning the children home. There’s now skin in the game for Eursulon outside of just like, my friends really care about this. It’s like this war is coming for us all. It is reaching out. It is now touching the spirit world and people are being drawn into conflict who would not necessarily want to engage in that. I think that is where Eursulon sees that he has skin in this game now and he wants to be a part of that change. The goal is not to beat down the Man in Black or the Citadel. The goal is to attempt to be a more surgical instrument in attempting to remove this rot and this sickness that is causing this greater conflict.”

Naram is a peaceful spirit. He has experienced the horrors of the Citadel and Empire. However, he still wanted to stay impartial. Naram was pushed into supporting the Man In Black in order to help Eursulon both in his quest and survival.

Eursulon Recruits His Father, The Great Bear, To His Cause

While the larger conflict is part of what motivates Eursulon, Ame, and Suvi they truly dive in when those they care about are involved. Allies were scarce in the final episodes of “The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One.” However, Wilson made a move that may change the course of their future. Wilson explained what inspired him as Eursulon to take the big swing and recruit the Great Bear to their cause.

Lou Wilson:

“I have to say I never intended for it to happen. That was not my intention to end book one. I wanted to end chapter four by planting the seed that Eursulon was going to request the aid of his father. When I say to Kalaya, I think it’s time for me to go home. I think that I am asking Brennan to be like, let’s set up, how does Eursulon traverse back through the near spirit to his home in an exciting book two, arc one scenario? Brennan said, no, let’s go right now. Come on. And we stepped through into the near spirit. I think a choice that I was ready for, that I had thought about came of, where does Kalaya go? And then the Great Bear’s here and we’re chatting. I think it did happen so fast.

Us getting there, truly something I was preparing to do in a number of years, happened all of a sudden, as soon as I asked for it. Which again, the glories of this art form. But I think that the reality that Eursulon has experienced up to that point where he speaks to his father is that these two things that we so desire to be separate. We happen to be existing at the exact moment in the history of Umora where those boundaries are being torn down.

That this in fact is the moment where this, to your earlier question, is where a person like Eursulon, a bridge, someone who is of both worlds is desperately needed to convince the spirit that this war, this incursion, what is happening at the Citadel is of our world. Will impact our family and our life and thus we have to care about it. Thank god I rolled a Nat 20, that meant he had to. The experience of this story of this first book is at least for Umora, it feels like the spirit and the real have met and are becoming one. This is the moment where Eursulon decides that he needs to start asking spirits to do something about it.”

Eursulon sees the need to step up. Not just himself, but other spirits like the Great Bear. Ame and Suvi see the need as well. Suvi wants to find a way to save what is still good within the Empire. Ame wants to protect the world as a whole. Eursulon wants to stop the war between the human and spirit worlds.

The Great Bear may be the key to turning the tide of this war. It may be years until Book 2 of “The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One” comes to fruition. Eursulon, Ame, and Suvi have grown into powerful individuals and a powerful trio. They seem to be the key to Umora’s future especially in the face of a devastating conflict on the horizon. “Worlds Beyond Number” has set up an epic fantasy saga with Eursulon potentially being one of the most important individuals in Umora.

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