Johann

Johann is a character that appears in the Ascendance of a Bookworm series. He's a leherl smith in Ehrenfest (City). Main considers him to be the Gutenberg of metal letter types.

Personality
His diligence for detail allows him to craft products with precise measurements. He will press his customers for more information on the product they want him to craft till he's satisfied. However, this causes his patrons to believe he's inept for not using his own judgment to determine the details.

Story
Johann encounters Main when she needed a diptych and stylus crafted, which the former bombarded her with questions on, but she was more than happy to answer them.

When Main began creating picture books, she ordered precision knives for cutting paper into stencils.

When leherls come of age in the Smithing Guild, they must pass a test to be recognized as an adult. Failure would result in the nullification of their leherl contract along with the demotion to a lehange position. Due to his finicky personality, the only patron who returned and could assign him a task for his test was Main. She decided to give him the tall task of forging fifty of each vowel and twenty of each consonant letter types from the thirty-five letter alphabet language. Upon completion of the task over the winter season, Johann presented the letter types to Main who gave him the title of 'Gutenberg'. His coworkers would go on to tease him as 'Gutenberg' till it stuck as a nickname.

Just when he thought he was free from making letter types, Main would go on to order symbol letter types as well as varying font sizes. He would cry tears of joy when Main orders an iron (the tool used for clothes) or small bells for stuffed animals, giving him a short respite from forging letter types.