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Eli Ivers
May 8, 2026 at 08:51 AM
Removed redundant H1 heading from article body
Eli Ivers is one of the confirmed datable characters in Witchbrook, revealed alongside Hana Sato as one of the first romance options announced for the game. Inside the fiction, he is a postgrad student at Witchbrook College, a part-time cashier at the School Shop, an occasional tutor, and, most visibly, the editor-in-chief of The Witchbrook Oracle, the illustrated newspaper that circulates through Mossport and the student body.
Chucklefish introduced Eli in the second major dev blog post of 2025, positioning him as a friendly, familiar face who turns up in several parts of campus life. The description that pins him down most cleanly is the one that ran with his reveal: if he is not on the hunt for his next headline, he can be found working a shift at the School Shop near the college. The same post flagged him as the Oracle's editor and as an eligible bachelor, which means three separate hooks point the player toward him: the paper, the shop, and the romance track.
He is written as a friendly, slightly over-committed student who keeps picking up additional responsibilities on top of his studies. The Oracle, his shop shifts, and his tutoring all get mentioned as parts of his week, and his own editor's note in Issue #2 of the paper lists them together as the work that keeps him busy. That portrait, busy, chatty, and curious, is what the early marketing leans on when it calls him charming.
Eli takes over The Witchbrook Oracle with its second issue, replacing the paper's previous editor, Dusty Inkwell, after a period without a printed edition. From Issue #2 onward he signs the lead editorial, commissions and edits the other pieces, and handles the paper's reader submissions, which are posted through the door of the editorial office at 2 Adelard Cross.
His first editor's note frames the return of the paper not as a relaunch but as a well-timed fresh start, lining the Oracle up with the beginning of a new season. He introduces himself in that note as a postgrad student, a part-time school shop cashier, and an occasional tutor, and he uses the same column to invite students and townsfolk to bring in their own stories, leads, and classifieds.
Beyond the editorial, Eli regularly writes feature articles himself. His byline sits on festival coverage like Bursting in Blooms: Annual Tulip Festival Returns, on community profiles such as a piece on civic witchcraft, and on reflective seasonal pieces like The Quiet Side of Summer, in which he uses a chance encounter at the beach to think through how witches should balance work and rest during busy stretches of the academic year.
Eli reads as genuinely enthusiastic about the community he reports on. His editorials are warm, self-deprecating, and more interested in profiling other people than in centering himself. In Issue #2 he leans on a festival piece to argue that the Tulip Festival is, in his words, the perfect excuse to spend time with your coven and make memories with the people who make the town feel like home. That framing, he turns small local events into reasons to check in on friends, is typical of the voice he writes in.
Issue #5 of the paper, The Quiet Side of Summer, offers the clearest look at his inner life. The piece is built around an afternoon where he wanders past the busy stretch of beach in Mossport and ends up chatting with Pip Marin, who is testing a seaweed-collecting contraption out on the sand. The conversation prompts an essay on the idea that occasionally, more means doing less, and that stepping back and observing a place, spotting a new ingredient, noticing how the light changes, can do as much for a young witch's practice as another hour of homework would. The column also includes a self-deprecating aside in which he politely declines a live feet-exfoliation demo, which is a good shorthand for his sense of humor: dry, willing to gently mock himself, and quick to make room for other people's enthusiasms.
Across the issues he has edited, recurring themes include community, small-scale kindness, and observation as a form of practice. He keeps finding reasons to foreground other students: a classmate quietly helping around town, a friend who runs a clothing shop, a mechanic tinkering on the beach. The Oracle's tone, under his editorship, is very much a reflection of that.
Eli's schedule moves him between three recurring stations on the map, which is part of how the player is likely to run into him before any direct conversation happens:
Place | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
The Oracle office, 2 Adelard Cross | Editor-in-Chief | Based in Mossport rather than on campus. Sorts reader submissions pushed through the door, writes the editorial, and commissions features for each new issue. |
School Shop, near Witchbrook College | Part-time cashier | Listed in his own bio as one of his regular jobs. The dev blog that introduced him describes him as being at the shop whenever he is not hunting for a headline. |
Witchbrook College campus | Occasional tutor | He names tutoring as one of his side activities in his first editor's note, which gives him a reason to be seen around classroom buildings and study spaces. |
Because he works around the shop and the college in addition to the paper, he is one of the characters most likely to keep turning up in the ordinary course of a week at school, which lines up with the game's framing of him as a romanceable NPC.
Eli was announced as the second romanceable character in Witchbrook, following Hana Sato, and the two of them share a coven with the player in early reveals. That connection helps explain how often their names appear together in community coverage: Hana's work at the Calico clothing shop has been profiled in the Oracle under Eli's editorship, and his own writing treats her shop as part of the town's everyday fabric.
His wider social network, as shown through the paper, includes classmates like Pip Marin, whose beachfront tinkering becomes the anchor of The Quiet Side of Summer, and Dusty Inkwell, the previous Oracle editor whose shoes he is quietly filling. Editorial correspondence also implies regular contact with Mossport shopkeepers, festival organizers, and anonymous reader-submission writers who push notes through his door.
Within the romance system, he is one of the bachelors the player can pursue. Chucklefish has said that each romanceable character will have their own storyline, personality, and reason for being in Mossport, and that relationships deepen through conversations, quests, and shared experiences rather than gift-giving alone. Time spent reading the Oracle, dropping by the School Shop, and helping with stories he is chasing all fit that loop naturally for Eli.
As a postgrad at Witchbrook, Eli is past the earliest coursework that the player character is arriving to take. Official materials have not spelled out a fixed schedule of classes he attends, but his writing and tutoring interests lean toward the observational and community-focused branches of magic: civic witchcraft gets an explicit feature in the paper under his byline, and his essays lean on divination style lessons, reading signs from the environment and the mood of a season, alongside the broader arcane arts that the college teaches. His tutoring work places him close to students working through those same subjects.
Eli is rendered in the same pixel-art style as the rest of the cast, with a character portrait used for his initial reveal on Chucklefish's social channels and in the Back to School dev blog. The reveal art presents him as a friendly, approachable figure in student clothes suited to campus life, with the tidy, slightly journalistic styling that his role at the paper implies. Specific customizable features like hair and outfit tweaks depend on the full character creator and have not been detailed for Eli individually.
Much of what is currently public about Eli's voice comes from the Oracle itself, where his editorials and features have been published for readers. A few traits come through consistently across issues:
Warm and conversational: his editor's notes read more like letters to a friend than formal columns, and he tends to open with a small, human observation about the season before getting to the news.
Self-deprecating: he is comfortable making himself the punchline, whether that is flagging how busy his week has gotten or joking about what he is not willing to put in the paper.
Community-minded: recurring features profile other students and townsfolk rather than himself, and he uses the paper to promote community events, classifieds, and open calls for reader contributions.
Reflective: essays like The Quiet Side of Summer show him using small, quiet moments to think out loud about what it means to practice magic well, rather than simply reporting facts.
Players who want to pursue Eli romantically work through the same relationship loop as the other bachelors and bachelorettes in Witchbrook. That loop is built on conversation, on taking part in his day-to-day life, and on completing quests and shared experiences that raise his opinion of the player character over the course of the academic year. The romance system article covers the general mechanics, including how gifts, dates, and story events interact.
Even for players not pursuing a romance, Eli is an unusually useful friendship target because he is the main author of a paper the player will want to keep reading anyway. Every new issue of the Oracle is, in effect, another chance to hear his voice, learn which events are coming up, and pick up hooks for side content. Subscribing to the in-world paper through Chucklefish's communications, for players who want more character lore before launch, has been flagged as a way to see him and a few other residents earlier than the main reveals.
Eli's first formal reveal came in the Back to School dev blog on August 12, 2025, where a short animated portrait and a paragraph of description confirmed him as a bachelor and as the Oracle's editor. He has since been referenced in follow-up dev blogs, most notably the Express Yourself update, and continues to appear in each new issue of the Oracle both as an editor and as the byline on cover stories and columns.
