# Aurelian — World’s End character guide

> Aurelian in World’s End by Richard Jefferies.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Clever Aurelian

**First appearance:** 0000-book-i-facts

## Who they are

Lucia's brother and strategist, a fashionable physician whose cleverness serves his sister's ambitions and his own advancement.

## Relationships

### [Lucia Marese Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/lucia_marese_baskette)

_romantic_

Aurelian and Lucia Marese Baskette are lovers or a married couple, given their high interaction count and shared surname.

### [Lucia Marese Baskette](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/characters/lucia_marese_baskette)

_romantic_

Aurelian and Lucia Marese Baskette are lovers or a married couple, given their high interaction count and shared surname.

## In the story

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/vii)

Lucia's clever brother, a mad doctor who establishes a private asylum and advises Lucia on securing property and invalidating Sternhold's will.

### [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/viii)

Devises the plan to drive Sternhold mad and orchestrates Lucia's Parisian performance.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/ix)

Arranges Lucia's theatrical appearances, manages the boy's guardianship, and oversees Sternhold's will; later caught in a religious controversy.

### [Chapter X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/x)

Deceased by this chapter, but his strategic papers and warnings—about the Sibbold claim, the lost deed, and the companies—continue to influence Marese and Theodore.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xiii)

Theodore's father, who spent time with insane patients and initiated Theodore into the study of mental deficiencies.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/world_s_end_se/chapters/xv)

His papers detail the descendants of Arthur Sibbold; his asylum at Stirmingham houses Odo Lechester.

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