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Mordichai Alamede

The self-described "World's Happiest Mortician," Mordichai Alamede is one of the main characters of Book 11. Born into a poor family, he first showed signs of the Knack at the tender age of 10, when he was still shovelling graves for his father. Having heard much about the boy's talent, Sierra Vanity employs him during Book 11 to help fight the Hierarch Wars.

While sending a 10-year-old boy into combat may seem either hilarious or terrible/hilarious, Mordichai had astonishing skill at Stream elemenstation; he was technically a Mage, having also learned minor Sorcery from Earth, Death, and Carry. Further, while other Elemenstors sported intimidating battlestaves, Mordichai was secure enough in his power as Elemenstor to wield a delicate silver bell as his focus. Further, when not pitched in battle, he could play a merry bell-tune to liven up circumstances. His "amazing jingle" was perhaps the "selling point" for Sierra Vanity, who just couldn't say no to a good jingle. Disturbingly, his amazing jingle was what pulled the Epic Wolf Men of Mount Wor out of the frying pan during their battle against the Gorthmaugs, rather than his skill at magic or his myriad other magical items.

After the Hierarch Wars end, Mordichai retired to bury people, and lots of them.

In The Wizbits Cartoon

A tribute character--implied to be an ancestor of Mordichai--is Mordechai, the gallant Jewish (seriously) Apothecarist and gravedigger friend to the Wizbits. Instead of aptitude with bells, however, Mordechai is adept at grave-robbing and sporting mysterious tentacles, as expounded upon in the classic hard-rock album Tentacles of Mysterious Origin.