Lord Aldric Voss – Royal Chamberlain

Name: Lord Aldric Voss
Race: Human
Role/Class: Royal Chamberlain
Appearance: Lord Aldric Voss is a man of precise presentation in his mid-fifties, with silver-streaked dark hair swept back from a high forehead and a narrow, well-maintained beard trimmed to a clean, flat edge. His posture is impeccable — the kind earned not from military discipline but from decades of standing at the shoulder of power and never once looking out of place. He wears Brightcrown's court colors in layered doublets of deep burgundy and charcoal grey, always pressed, always fastened to the throat. A golden signet ring bearing the Crown's chamberlain seal sits on his right hand, and a slim leather scheduling folio is almost never absent from his left. His eyes are pale grey and watchful, the sort that catalog everything they land on and forget nothing.

Backstory

Aldric Voss did not inherit his position — he constructed it, brick by careful brick, over thirty years of court service beginning as a page to the previous chamberlain. Born to a minor merchant family with enough standing to place him in the palace and not enough to guarantee he stayed, Aldric learned early that access is its own currency. He mastered the art of the schedule, the seating arrangement, and the strategically delayed message. By his fortieth year he had outlasted three chamberlains and one attempted coup — the last of which he quietly helped defuse by ensuring the conspirators' petition never reached the throne room floor.

He serves the current Crown not out of devotion to any individual monarch but out of genuine belief that order, process, and managed access are what stand between civilization and chaos. He has seen what happens when the wrong voice reaches the throne at the wrong moment. He does not intend to let it happen again.