Asterisk619
2019-01-12, 02:06 PM
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The Arcanamirium has opened it's doors once more for another year of teaching students the art of the Arcane. You lot, and many other students of varying ages have gathered to prove themselves and to hone themselves at the most prestigious school in all of Golarion. The school itself is more of a an exquisite palace really, a beautiful culmination of many culture's architectural skill. To the north are the student dorms that have been split into the four massive buildings; with 3 levels filled with just enough small bedrooms, they each house every student so they have they're own private mage's quarters of sorts. They include a large bed with fine linens, a writing desk, alchemist's table, a black brick fireplace, a large embroidered rug with your house's animal stitched on. Each house represents and is tended by one of the wealthy families in Absalom: House Crowrich, who seek only the most brave and courageous of students; House Bligwigg, who mentor and care for only the most loyal and kind mages; House Woodstar, who desire cunning and ambition above all, but have unfortunately produced more than their fair share of evil spell casters; and finally, House Bronzeguard, who have produced the most wisest mages of all time.https://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss17/mizu_makura/PZO9237%20Inner%20Sea%20Magic-page-023.jpghttps://lurkerablog.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/bedroom2.jpg?w=595&h=410http://www.dndadventure.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/young-wizard-500.jpg
The southern part of the Arcanamirium's property holds the many staff offices. These building are made more for function than comfort; almost all the architecture is the same. Their smooth stone, almost Adobe in style with brown slate rooves look to be brand new, hell almost everything looks new; they sure know what 'upkeep' means. The staff mainly use these to do their own work as well as manage anything or anyone coming in and out of the school's walls. Usually though it is just birds that fly into a large aviary where the staff sorts through for contraband and things. At times, the school can feel like a prison to some because of all it's lengthy rules, regulations and structure. For others however this is their home. From the most noble who pay to have they're children taken away so they may not bother them, to the most poor who had to send their gifted child away because they could not afford the food. That is the beauty and the disturbing thing about the Arcanamirium.
To the west of the school's main building menacingly standing higher than any tree is another large collection of buildings. The biggest of these, a tavern, shares it's name with the whole collection: Portmead. What looks like a small village is actually numerous magic shops, all who share some blood with a noble of Absalom. Not only do these people make a living here, they all were once students themselves; And through the years the Arcanamirium's leisure section has just continually grown. Finally, the east portion of the property contains many homes for the teachers and the like, but students are not permitted inside without explicit permission, say during an apprenticeship.
As all the students finish up in their studies and arrive at the front doors for the morning, they ushered inside by the 'Overseer of 1st years,' a prestigious title given only to the biggest ass kisser of the journeymen mages. This man's name happens to be Barnaby Ambrose, a Taldan noble. "Come along, come along! We musn't waste any of the new Headmaster's time! Just this way is the main dining hall. All first years please sit at the head of any of the tables. The rest of you should know where to go."
He leads everyone to two very large mahogany doors, about 15 feet high. "All first years please continue to follow me, this is the dining hall, but I need to have a brief word with all of you before you begin you're life here." He leads you no more than 60 feet away from the doors, turns to look at you and begins speaking again, "Obviously, welcome to the Arcanamirium. She welcomes you as well. That's correct. I said she. This school is so much more than a building. She is a living being on magnificent construct thousands of years ago. If you are kind to her, she will be kind to you. Help her in times of need, and she will help you. I don't mean to sound dawnting but there are so many mysterious hidden beneath her walls. Like so, we have students who decide to do dungeon crawls every now and then to gain prestige with the faculty. There are a great many things to do here! And I hope that none of you plan on screwing that up for me and everyone else here." He ends looking at you all with a small scowl. "This way please, you may go take a seat in the dining hall."
https://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss17/mizu_makura/B1-background.jpgOnce you make your way through the tall doors, you are all presented with a miraculous sight: A massive lit dining hall filled with laughing and chatting students. Numerous floating candles light up the vast majority of the room. In front of the back wall is a smaller long table where all the teachers are sitting and quietly eating their breakfast. The middle chair for the Headmaster is surprisingly vacant though. The four very long tables are split into the 4 school houses as well. They are dressed to the nines in their house colors whilst eating the various foods on the tables for breakfast: waffles, pancakes, eggs, hash browns, sausage links (and vegetarian alternatives lol), fruits, and hot cereals. The list goes on because 90% of everything here, was actually cooked here by the very special group known simply as, the 'Wiz-Chefs.' Once you all have choose a seat at the very front near the teacher's table, a simple black cauldron rises out of the floor from nowhere. It stands and walks about like a large spider with spindly iron legs. It walks around the first years before setting itself 10 feet in front of the Headmaster's seat.
"Welcome students!" A disembodied voice booms throughout the dining hall. A figures walks out behind the teachers wearing what looks to be an Arcanamirium student uniform but is mostly white lined with gold and silver charms hanging from fur sashes. The figure wears a decorated mask made of iron that shows only two arcane markings that could be equivalents to eyes. "I am your new Headmaster. My full name is Ko' Tor, but feel free to call me Ko. I am oh so eager to get this year started and to get to know many of you, old and knew," to that he looks back and forth to the other teachers. "I'm sure my presence can be unsettling, but be aware, this is nothing more than my own way of magic. You all have such independent qualities amongst yourselves and that makes you all fantastic. But what truly makes us whole is this power we hold inside of us, no matter how we may have learned it or used it. We are what makes this place special, to me and everyone. Now please, won't the first years come up once they've had a bite to eat and we shall begin this school year with the ever great 'Sorting Ceremony!'"https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/narutofanon/images/5/5e/PKH_DaichiKorimachi_Masked.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180113060509
The Headmaster begins to read off name after name; he gets to all of your names which are surprisingly one after another. One by one you step toward the cauldron as all the others had and look into the murky dark liquid that fills it. In your minds you do not hear a voice or see occult visions, but you do feel a presence. Another intelligence inside your own mind's eye, looking through your memories. In an instant it is over, and you pull yourself away from whatever that was that didn't write feel like you were there. Talanna sees a the cauldron before her start to bubble madly as a tiny figure rises out of the liquid. As soon as she realizes that the figure is but a little wooden Sphinx, a creature old and as wise as time, set on a base the liquids change color as it continues to boil over. Bright bronze-gold and brown colors begin to shoot out of the cauldron in the form of a discolored rainbow. "Bronzeguard!!!" The Headmaster proclaims in his booming voice. Everyone else is rather the same: Caprice is met with vibrant reds and yellows then picks up a small figurine of the magestic powerful Phoenix, "Crrroooowrich!". Kavu upon freeing his mind is met with a figurine of a Dragon Turtle, a beast made of both might & mystery, the rainbow turns into a colorful mix of blues and greens symbolizing the oceans, "BliiigWiiigg!!" And finally the last three, Keziah, Omari, & Ayana who all receive the same figure; a wooden replica of the massive unstoppable Juggernaut. Like the others you three are met with a rather dark rainbow, that of black and silver. It looks more like an evil fire coming out from the cauldron, "Ah quite a few more to add to House Woodstar!"
Once every first year has come forward you notice your robes beginning to shift in coloration to your corresponding house, and Ko' Tor begins speaking once more, "This is just one of the many wonders of the school. We will discuss more once you have all eaten. Once breakfast has ended you shall make your way down the hall following mister Ambrose. There you will begin your first test and be told where your role will play part here in our school. And to all the older students, I assure you I will make every attempt to try and fill the shoes of the first spell lord, Sir Gyr. Welcome to the week of Hell everyone!" He then steps away and leaves the dining hall.
Margot Drovergun: Dwarven Female Battle Mage
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Camelia Camilla: Gnome Enchantress
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Jurgen Pelloal: Chelexian Conjurer
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Wandaatra Kittouch: Halfling Sorceress
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As well as about 50 others!
The Arcanamirium has opened it's doors once more for another year of teaching students the art of the Arcane. You lot, and many other students of varying ages have gathered to prove themselves and to hone themselves at the most prestigious school in all of Golarion. The school itself is more of a an exquisite palace really, a beautiful culmination of many culture's architectural skill. To the north are the student dorms that have been split into the four massive buildings; with 3 levels filled with just enough small bedrooms, they each house every student so they have they're own private mage's quarters of sorts. They include a large bed with fine linens, a writing desk, alchemist's table, a black brick fireplace, a large embroidered rug with your house's animal stitched on. Each house represents and is tended by one of the wealthy families in Absalom: House Crowrich, who seek only the most brave and courageous of students; House Bligwigg, who mentor and care for only the most loyal and kind mages; House Woodstar, who desire cunning and ambition above all, but have unfortunately produced more than their fair share of evil spell casters; and finally, House Bronzeguard, who have produced the most wisest mages of all time.https://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss17/mizu_makura/PZO9237%20Inner%20Sea%20Magic-page-023.jpghttps://lurkerablog.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/bedroom2.jpg?w=595&h=410http://www.dndadventure.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/young-wizard-500.jpg
The southern part of the Arcanamirium's property holds the many staff offices. These building are made more for function than comfort; almost all the architecture is the same. Their smooth stone, almost Adobe in style with brown slate rooves look to be brand new, hell almost everything looks new; they sure know what 'upkeep' means. The staff mainly use these to do their own work as well as manage anything or anyone coming in and out of the school's walls. Usually though it is just birds that fly into a large aviary where the staff sorts through for contraband and things. At times, the school can feel like a prison to some because of all it's lengthy rules, regulations and structure. For others however this is their home. From the most noble who pay to have they're children taken away so they may not bother them, to the most poor who had to send their gifted child away because they could not afford the food. That is the beauty and the disturbing thing about the Arcanamirium.
To the west of the school's main building menacingly standing higher than any tree is another large collection of buildings. The biggest of these, a tavern, shares it's name with the whole collection: Portmead. What looks like a small village is actually numerous magic shops, all who share some blood with a noble of Absalom. Not only do these people make a living here, they all were once students themselves; And through the years the Arcanamirium's leisure section has just continually grown. Finally, the east portion of the property contains many homes for the teachers and the like, but students are not permitted inside without explicit permission, say during an apprenticeship.
As all the students finish up in their studies and arrive at the front doors for the morning, they ushered inside by the 'Overseer of 1st years,' a prestigious title given only to the biggest ass kisser of the journeymen mages. This man's name happens to be Barnaby Ambrose, a Taldan noble. "Come along, come along! We musn't waste any of the new Headmaster's time! Just this way is the main dining hall. All first years please sit at the head of any of the tables. The rest of you should know where to go."
He leads everyone to two very large mahogany doors, about 15 feet high. "All first years please continue to follow me, this is the dining hall, but I need to have a brief word with all of you before you begin you're life here." He leads you no more than 60 feet away from the doors, turns to look at you and begins speaking again, "Obviously, welcome to the Arcanamirium. She welcomes you as well. That's correct. I said she. This school is so much more than a building. She is a living being on magnificent construct thousands of years ago. If you are kind to her, she will be kind to you. Help her in times of need, and she will help you. I don't mean to sound dawnting but there are so many mysterious hidden beneath her walls. Like so, we have students who decide to do dungeon crawls every now and then to gain prestige with the faculty. There are a great many things to do here! And I hope that none of you plan on screwing that up for me and everyone else here." He ends looking at you all with a small scowl. "This way please, you may go take a seat in the dining hall."
https://i557.photobucket.com/albums/ss17/mizu_makura/B1-background.jpgOnce you make your way through the tall doors, you are all presented with a miraculous sight: A massive lit dining hall filled with laughing and chatting students. Numerous floating candles light up the vast majority of the room. In front of the back wall is a smaller long table where all the teachers are sitting and quietly eating their breakfast. The middle chair for the Headmaster is surprisingly vacant though. The four very long tables are split into the 4 school houses as well. They are dressed to the nines in their house colors whilst eating the various foods on the tables for breakfast: waffles, pancakes, eggs, hash browns, sausage links (and vegetarian alternatives lol), fruits, and hot cereals. The list goes on because 90% of everything here, was actually cooked here by the very special group known simply as, the 'Wiz-Chefs.' Once you all have choose a seat at the very front near the teacher's table, a simple black cauldron rises out of the floor from nowhere. It stands and walks about like a large spider with spindly iron legs. It walks around the first years before setting itself 10 feet in front of the Headmaster's seat.
"Welcome students!" A disembodied voice booms throughout the dining hall. A figures walks out behind the teachers wearing what looks to be an Arcanamirium student uniform but is mostly white lined with gold and silver charms hanging from fur sashes. The figure wears a decorated mask made of iron that shows only two arcane markings that could be equivalents to eyes. "I am your new Headmaster. My full name is Ko' Tor, but feel free to call me Ko. I am oh so eager to get this year started and to get to know many of you, old and knew," to that he looks back and forth to the other teachers. "I'm sure my presence can be unsettling, but be aware, this is nothing more than my own way of magic. You all have such independent qualities amongst yourselves and that makes you all fantastic. But what truly makes us whole is this power we hold inside of us, no matter how we may have learned it or used it. We are what makes this place special, to me and everyone. Now please, won't the first years come up once they've had a bite to eat and we shall begin this school year with the ever great 'Sorting Ceremony!'"https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/narutofanon/images/5/5e/PKH_DaichiKorimachi_Masked.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180113060509
The Headmaster begins to read off name after name; he gets to all of your names which are surprisingly one after another. One by one you step toward the cauldron as all the others had and look into the murky dark liquid that fills it. In your minds you do not hear a voice or see occult visions, but you do feel a presence. Another intelligence inside your own mind's eye, looking through your memories. In an instant it is over, and you pull yourself away from whatever that was that didn't write feel like you were there. Talanna sees a the cauldron before her start to bubble madly as a tiny figure rises out of the liquid. As soon as she realizes that the figure is but a little wooden Sphinx, a creature old and as wise as time, set on a base the liquids change color as it continues to boil over. Bright bronze-gold and brown colors begin to shoot out of the cauldron in the form of a discolored rainbow. "Bronzeguard!!!" The Headmaster proclaims in his booming voice. Everyone else is rather the same: Caprice is met with vibrant reds and yellows then picks up a small figurine of the magestic powerful Phoenix, "Crrroooowrich!". Kavu upon freeing his mind is met with a figurine of a Dragon Turtle, a beast made of both might & mystery, the rainbow turns into a colorful mix of blues and greens symbolizing the oceans, "BliiigWiiigg!!" And finally the last three, Keziah, Omari, & Ayana who all receive the same figure; a wooden replica of the massive unstoppable Juggernaut. Like the others you three are met with a rather dark rainbow, that of black and silver. It looks more like an evil fire coming out from the cauldron, "Ah quite a few more to add to House Woodstar!"
Once every first year has come forward you notice your robes beginning to shift in coloration to your corresponding house, and Ko' Tor begins speaking once more, "This is just one of the many wonders of the school. We will discuss more once you have all eaten. Once breakfast has ended you shall make your way down the hall following mister Ambrose. There you will begin your first test and be told where your role will play part here in our school. And to all the older students, I assure you I will make every attempt to try and fill the shoes of the first spell lord, Sir Gyr. Welcome to the week of Hell everyone!" He then steps away and leaves the dining hall.
Margot Drovergun: Dwarven Female Battle Mage
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Camelia Camilla: Gnome Enchantress
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Jurgen Pelloal: Chelexian Conjurer
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Wandaatra Kittouch: Halfling Sorceress
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As well as about 50 others!