Travis Baldree does an excellent job with the narration and the story is fine, but it is constantly repeated that Artorian is an “Academic”: The Academic, The Old Academic, As an Academic. It gets so annoying that I’m tempted to quit the series. Why are the authors so obsessed with “Academics”? They refuse to substitute Academic EVER with synonyms like Scholar, or even philosopher. Artorian practices philosophy, but is always described as an academic and not a scholar or philosopher.