Fantasy Academy of Lyrithna - Student Grimoire

[Arrt Saunders]

Please find the character sheet template below. You can use any code that you like, and if you need any help filling in the sheet send me a message. If you have a question about the Academy or any other aspect of the story that I think other people might find useful, I will answer your question in the OCC.

There is room to be flexible and creative - take advantage of that. I would love to see your take on magic.

Spoiler: Character Sheet Template

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[Only real-life photographs will be accepted.]

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Full Name:

Nickname:

Age:
[18 - 24 years.]
[N.B. Characters who are 18 at the beginning of the RP will be first years. The best thing would be to have a spread of year groups, from first to sixth.]

Birthday:

Gender:

Sexuality:

Nationality:

Languages:


Hair Colour:

Eye Colour:

Physicality:

Tattoos / Markings:

Distinguishing Features:


Parents / Guardians:

Personal Relations:


Personality:

Strengths and Virtues:
[Minimum of 3.]

Weaknesses and Vices:
[Minimum of 3.]

Fear:

Desire:

Secret:

Likes:
[Minimum of 5.]

Dislikes:
[Minimum of 3.]


Sorcerous Information:
[You can create your own secondary-level school of sorcery and 3 examination subjects. At least one subject must reflect the character's sorcerous speciality. If two players want to establish a pre-Academy background, attending the same school would be a good place to start. Please do not establish relationships until your character has been accepted.]

Sorcerous Specialities:
[Before choosing your speciality, could each player please contact me. I will try my best to say yes to as many as possible, but some will be rejected.]

Favourite Spell:
[This should reflect your character's sorcerous speciality.]

Academy College:
[Please see the Lore for the seven colleges.]

Extracurricular Academy Activities:
[Here, you can be creative. Is your character artistic? Why not join the Paintbox? Are they sporty? Well, how about dragon racing? I don't mind people having fun here, but please don't create a million different clubs and societies - especially since they won't feature heavily in the RP. If you like the sound of one someone else has created, use it in your own CS.]


Personal History:
[Again, if you require any help with world building, please don't hesitate to contact me. Your character may be a Citadel sorcerer or a mortal sorcerer. Mortal sorcerers are rarer, and if too may people chose the mortal path I will randomly assign mortality to a set number of players. The remaining mortal sorcerers will need to switch to the Citadel I understand that this may be the most difficult part of the CS but I am here to help as much as I can.]

 

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[div class=textcontainer][div class=textheader]who is she ?

⁺ [div class=textinfo]Name:

Amahle Nkoane
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Birthday | Age:[/div] February 15th | Twenty-one
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Gender:[/div] Female
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Sexuality:[/div] Demisexual
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Nationality:[/div] Citadelian
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Languages:[/div] English, Latin, Zulu, Xhosa, Runes

⁺ [div class=textinfo]Faceclaim:[/div] SouKeyna Diouf
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Eye Color:[/div] Dark brown
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Hair Color:[/div] Dark Brown
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Body Mods:[/div] Earlobe piercings
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Physicality:[/div] Amahle is five foot nine and weighs around one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. She has soft facial features with slightly defined cheekbones and a wide nose. Her eyes are a lovely shade of dark brown that are often times mistaken as black. They’re large and have been described as doe like in the past. Amahle has full lips and naturally arched brows. Her skin is a healthy shade of mahogany brown and possess a soft glow, her skin is soft and smooth due to how much she takes care of it. Amahle’s hair is shaved close to her head and brown in color. She has a slim hourglass figure. [/div][/div][/div][/div] [div class="tabsContent tabsContenttwo" style="display: none;"]

[div class=textcontainer][div class=textheader]SOMETIMES YOU WIN

⁺ [div class=textinfo]Persona:

Amahle is a studious and serious young woman. When she isn’t studying for her next test or exam she’s usually reading. Amahle is constantly looking for ways to expand her knowledge, she’s determined to become the best that she can be. She isn’t one to slack off or waste time. She’s an excellent problem solver who can keep her calm in stressful situations. Coming from a large family has made her rather observant as well. She has a knack for reading people and situations while figuring out how to go about them. Amahle is a fast learner. She soaks up information like a sponge and rarely forgets things when she’s at her best. She’s great at adapting to different situations.

Her image is important to her as she believes it not only affects her but her family as a whole. Because of this she makes it a goal to always look presentable and put together. She’s a polite young woman who uses her manners often, even with those who annoy or anger her. Amahle is a rather frosty individual. With her sharp and cold gaze, she has intimidated many. She has a mouth full of silver and barbed wire. She can talk circles around most. Amahle is an ambitious person, her family has taught her that stepping on others to get to the top is a way of life and that anything must be done to stay at the top. Amahle has a competitive streak due to fighting her siblings for even an ounce of recognition.

She can be understanding and surprisingly insightful about some things. Amahle is sensitive when it comes to criticism, though she hides it well. When something doesn’t go her way or faced with failure she tends to push herself harder, mostly to the point of breaking. A perfectionist is another word that can describe her. Bottling up her emotions is her way of dealing or coping with things. Amahle has a hardened heart from growing up in the type of environment that she did. Beneath her cold exterior is a girl who just wants to know that she’s good enough, for recognition, for love. She just wants to be something to someone. Amahle would deny it though, saying that she’s perfectly fine how she is.

[div class=textheader]AND SOMETIMES YOU LEARN[/div] ⁺ [div class=textinfo]Negative Traits:[/div] Detached, Perfectionist , Insensitive, High-standards, Calculating , Prideful, Blunt, Rebellious, Stubborn
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Positive Traits:[/div] Intelligent, Observant, Polite, Creative, Logical, Charming, Responsible, Inquisitive, Adaptable
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Adores:[/div] Learning, Debating, Cats, Puzzles, The Arts, Traveling, Mystery novels, Sweets, Journaling, Meditating, Late night walks
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Abhors:[/div] Failure, Slacking off, Dogs, Cold weather, Rushing, Messes, Poor hygiene, Invasion of her personal space, Unnecessary violence, Mistakes, Rude behavior, Messes
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Desire:[/div] Amahle’s goal is to excel in the field of Amelioration, she wants to make innovative discoveries and discover all that she can.
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Secret:[/div] When she was a child Amahle ruined a very important document during a gala hosted by one of her parent’s acquaintances.
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Fear:[/div] Failure, Marriage [/div][/div][/div][/div] [div class="tabsContent tabsContentthree" style="display: none;"]

[div class=textcontainer][div class=textheader] THE TRUTH IS RARELY PURE

⁺ [div class=textinfo]History:

Amahle comes from a large family of six, with her being the youngest of the bunch. Her family is could be considered amongst the elite in the Citadel. Her parents attended the Academy of Lyrithna, as well as her siblings. From the time she could walk her parents held high expectations for her, just as they did with her siblings. Her parents were cold and stern individuals who valued hard work and being accomplished. They happened to be firm believers in tough love as well. As the youngest Amahle tended to be overlooked by her family. She worked hard to catch up with her siblings in order to be praised and grab the attention of her parents. Amahle was sure that they didn’t realize it but they favored those with the highest achievements, as it brought pride to their family name. To her parents their children are tools to raise the prestige and wealth in their family, rather than people to nurture. Amahle was taken care of by the help for most of her life. She had a governess to teach her etiquette and the ways of high society. And a variety of tutors for things like basic school subjects, instruments, and dance. She too was harsh while handling Amahle.

Amahle became worked hard during her days at Trinity, advancing with impressive speed and as a result she began one of the top students at her school. Her parents praised her but yet again her siblings outshined her. With the oldests moving on to start families and settle down finally the attention was shifted to her yet not in the way she had expected. Amahle’s parents placed a weight upon her shoulders, now it was her turn to bring honor to her family by working harder and behaving accordingly. Amahle could do little seeing as she had wanted their recognition for years, even if it becomes too much for her at times.

[div class=textheader]AND NEVER SIMPLE[/div] ⁺ [div class=textinfo]Parents:[/div]

• Bakari Nkoane - Father - Council of Magic
• Kamaria Nkoane - Mother - Decoctioner

⁺ [div class=textinfo]Siblings:[/div]

• Afiya Nkoane - Older sister - Professor
• Obasi Nkoane - Older Brother - Legislator
• Femi Nkoane - Older sister - Magizoologist

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[div class=textcontainer][div class=textheader] QUESTION THE ANSWERS

⁺ [div class=textinfo]Previous Education

Trinity School of Magic - Ran by the intimidating Ms. Fatima Siad, the Trinity School of Magic is known for its prestigious and strict ways. Students were expected to accomplish nothing but the best in their studies and behave like respectable individuals. For her sorcerette Amahle focused on Transformation, Amelioration, and Decoction. She graduated at the top of her class before going on to attend Lyrithna.
⁺ [div class=textinfo]Sorcerous Speciality:[/div] Amelioration - Biological Magic
“Those who are gifted with the ability of Biological Magic, with the right guidance and dedication, go on to become extraordinary healers if that is their associated branch/es. Those who are focused on the human body, with the help of complex spells and potions, are able to treat and cure some of the most ghastly diseases that plague the body and mind, though at the same time they are able to create some deadly diseases and viruses if they so choose. Biological Magic comes with a wide variety of branches and subcategories.”

⁺ [div class=textinfo]Favorite Spell:[/div] Revelare - At a beginner’s level it is rather simple spell but highly effective. The word Revelare is the Latin word for reveal. When cast on a living thing, say a person or animal, their medical history is revealed via a magical scroll. From broken bones to illness, all is revealed including the age at which it happened. The spell is also great in emergencies, for example if someone is having a heart attack the spell can show this. It is a great spell to use during emergencies and is used often during medical procedures or checkups.

⁺ [div class=textinfo]Academy House :[/div] Pallas - “Learn or Leave.”
⁺ [div class=textinfo] Extracurricular Activities: [/div] Pallas Study Group - A club dedicated to all things work related, from projects to homework, the group is sought out by many in hopes of joining or getting help on assignments. The club consists of some of the top minds at Pallas and a small few of the other colleges. Seeing as the former leader as graduated the position has been passed down to Pallas' own Amahle Nkoane.

Amelioraters of Tomorrow Program aka AOTP - This program is dedicated to those studying the field of Amelioration. Students have the opportunity to witness the wonders of magical medicine and healing. The program holds a number of seminars and live procedures to better the students' learning and prepare them for what awaits them after graduation. The program is also a great away to secure apprenticeships.
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[Arrt Saunders]

D'aran Dimytro Dragomir
"Even dragons have their endings."

General Information

Name:
D'aran Dimytro Dragomir.

Age:
22.

Birthday:
6th January.

Gender:
Male.

Sexuality:
Bisexual.

Nationality:
Citadelian.

Languages:
English (Proficiency) || Latin (Proficiency) || Greek (Intermediate).

Hair Colour:
Chocolate brown.

Eye Colour:
Slate gray.

Distinguishing Feature:
Several duelling scars decorate the fibrous skin of his arms and shoulders, and a pitted mark can be found on his wrist from where a dragon hatchling accidentally bit him.

Relational Information

Parents:
Drazik Dragomir - Father
A forbidding Judicator of the Grandstand, Drazik Dragomir rose to power following a number of felicitous resignations. Judicator Dragomir's relationship with his children, particularly D'aran, has been described as 'cold' and 'distant' by the Citadelian Gazette, but no sorcerer can deny his efficacious influence on the the legislature of the Circus.

Ameliana Dragomir (née Lotuswood) - Mother
Ameliana Dragomir is compassionate and protective sorceress who, unlike her husband, separated herself from the scrutiny of the world. Content with the simple things in life, the greatest source of pride for Ameliana is her three sons.

Personal Relations:
D'roxel Dragomir - Brother
A sorcerer of the Stage, D'roxel is a member of the Custodians - the police service of the Citadel.

D'izgar Odenkirk - Brother
The youngest member of the Dragomir family, studying at the School of Arcanis in the Citadel.

Personal Information

Personality:
For the most part, D'aran Dragomir is not the easiest person to get along with. He is an austere sorcerer, with a rigid grasp on his emotions and his rationality. His insatiable appetite for success has strained his social capabilities, and he prefers to spend time improving rather than engage in pitiful conversation about unimportant or uncontroversial matters. He often leaves without warning, and very few people are afforded 'common decency'; he simply doesn't know how to behave when he is surrounded by others. Loudness and noisiness grate with him -- except when he is racing -- and, although he enjoys a glass of silver-scotch in the evening, he usually savours it in isolation - if other scholars are loitering around, he will make himself scare, taking his whiskey with him.

Beneath the stricture of his countenance, D'aran can be a rather compassionate, but very few people have peeled through enough layers to notice. Since arriving at the Academy, he has made a few close friends and allies, and his propensity to solitude has gradually faded, replaced by an independent personality just beginning to grow and develop. Although, D'aran is known to lash out with the ferocity of a dragon when aggravated - most people typically give him a wide berth, unless absolutely necessary.

Strengths and Virtues:
Courageous || Loyal || Supportive || Judicious.

Weaknesses and Vices:
Strict || Austere || Competitive || Grudge-bearing.

Fear:
Failing to achieve his true desire.

Desire:
It is said that D'aran hopes to join the Custodians alongside his brother. The Custodial Examinations are considered to be the hardest viva voce assessment in the Citadel, with the questions and methods a closely guarded secret. All participants are sworn - and mortally cursed - to secrecy.

Secret:
Hidden in his bedroom, D'aran has a chest sealed with a powerful blood-lock. Inside is an ancient grimoire he stole from his father before attending Lyrithna. He was challenged by D'roxel, his eldest brother, to steal the book. Although the grimoire itself is available in the library, D'aran's version is filled with Circus secrets written in a code he has yet to crack.

Likes:
Dragons || Racing || Petrichor || Black tea || Fizzy sweets || Warm fires.

Dislikes:
Rudeness and Loudness || Smalltalk || Divination || Arithmancy || Herbalogy || Seafood || Pollen.

Sorcerous Information

Previous Education:
D'aran attended the School of Arcanis, one of the most respectable schools of sorcery in the Citadel. He was a member of the prefectorial body, known as the ‘The Arcanis Society’, and acted as a praepostor. Members were considered the elite of the elite, entitled to wear sorcerous robes of any colour rather than the traditional black and favoured by the professors.

For his Sorcerette, he studied Martial Magic, Conjuration, and Transformation. He received top honours in his examinations, with special commendations for his mastery of meteorological magic.

Sorcerous Speciality:
Conjuration || Meterological Magic

An extract from ‘Advanced Practices in Meterological Magic’ (Lord Squall Cannonade, 1938):

"Meterological sorcerers, if educated faithfully, can competently control atmospheric conditions and manipulate atmospheric patterns. The five fundamentals of meterologism are:

1. Anemokineses [Air];
2. Fulgurkinesis [Electricity];
3. Thermokinesis [Heat];
4. Hydrokinesis [Water];
5. Pagokinesis [Ice].

The power of a meteorological sorcerer is gauged not by the extensiveness of their magical repertoire but by their sheer capacity to influence atmospheric conditions on a grand scale; the sorcerer that masterfully changes continental patterns with the ferocity of a bobsnail is far more competent than the sorcerer that changes localised patterns with the untamed, unbroken aggression of a hookbiter."

Favourite Spell:
"Fulignis"
[Requiring complex gesticulation, this spell creates an animalistic spark of electricity - the more intricate the hand gestures performed, the greater the electrical voltage generated. 'Fulignis majura' and 'Fulignis totalura' are increasingly strenuous variants of the fundamental 'fulignis' spell, which manipulate or conjure increasingly powerful electrical fields.]

Academy College:
Alnus House.
"Protect and preserve."

Extracurricular Academy Activities:
Alnus Duelling Club.
[The Alnus Duelling Club is the oldest club at the Academy. Founded by the first members of the Academy, martial sorcerers practice their dangerous art under the cover of darkness. As a duellist, if you do not have at least one scar, you are considered to be a novice.]

The Alnus Racers.
[The Alnus Racers are a dragon-racing team at the Academy. Established in 1834, the Racers have a checkered history: many sorcerers have died during the weekly training sessions; many more have perished, often at the hands of their own dragons, during the quarterly Inter-House Tournaments.]

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Full Name:
Akane Hasegawa

Nickname:
Akachan (family only)

Age:
23

Birthday:
09/02/1997

Gender:
Female

Sexuality:
Pansexual

Nationality:
Citadelian

Languages:
Proficient - Runes, English
Intermediate - French
Novice - Japanese

Hair Colour:
Naturally black, she plays with its colour regularly using magic.

Eye Colour:
Same as above.

Physicality:
Akane is a sharp and slender 5’6. She moves with a gentle grace that betrays her sharp appearance. In conversation, she maintains unnervingly strong eye contact, when speaking her mouth moves only a little.

Tattoos / Markings:
She has a series of scars on her abdomen from when one of her kidneys was removed. The advanced runic form of her favourite spell, Coltatio, is inscribed on the inside of her wrists - her left wrist’s rune controls her hair colour, and the right wrist’s rune her eye colour.

Distinguishing Features:
Her bright hair and alternative fashion sense make her very easy to pick out of a crowd.

Parents / Guardians:
Akane’s father - Hisashi - was a noble and gentle healer, former graduate of the academy, and second-generation sorcerer. His devotion to his work often meant forgoing both payment and time with his family, for which his mortal wife - Akane’s struggling mother Amane - was regularly resentful. Amane during this time was dutiful, protective, fierce, and compassionate. Following Hisashi’s young death however, Amane’s unspoken frustrations and regrets hardened her heart, abandoning the daughters she’d once loved more than anything. Upon her brief return into Akane’s life years later, Amane appeared remorseful and tender, but truly was desperate and cowardly, using deceit for her own ruthless ends with no regards to her daughter’s wellbeing.
After the death of her father and disappearance of her mother, Akane and her sister moved in with a distant relative from a branch family and another second-generation sorcerer, Ken Satami, commonly known as Ken Slick - a disgraced dropout of the Academy living in a small village south of Silex, named Cania. Neither of the sisters know what exactly he was expelled for, but they knew it must have been bad, as their parents had never mentioned him. He’s actually got a natural flair for transformative magic but it’s clear that he’s unrefined, with most of his work entering the uncanny valley. He greatly struggles with his past and the responsibility of two young women being placed under his care, but his toothy smile and the sparkle in his eye do a fairly good job of hiding it. He and the girls get on well, he regularly mocks them in good nature and attempts to embarrass them in public (he says they need to be kept humble); they give as good as they get, which amuses him to no end. Much more of a slobby older brother figure than a dependable guardian.

Personal Relations:
Akane’s sister, Fuyumi, is only a couple of years younger than her. Fuyuchan is a simple, meek girl with little ambition and a lotta love. She’s always naturally attracted friends and admirers with her easy going nature, though it often brought her into conflict with demanding teachers - needless to say, she is not a student of Lyrithna. She’s currently doing oddjobs around Cania, mainly washing clothes, preparing food, painting fences, babysitting and the like. She and Akane are close enough in both their relationship and appearance that many mistake them for twins, or did before Akane’s alternative fashion and bright hair took hold.
Akane's closest friend from her teenage years, Aurora, is a mortal sorcerer from France, who introduced her to mortal culture and kickstarted her future obsession with alternative fashion. Aurora is a decent arcane duelist but academically challenged, and did not get the grades required to even be considered for Lyrithna. Aurora was Akane’s first romantic and sexual partner, but the two eventually decided to just remain friends. Akane created a pair of scrolls connected with Linked Runes (see ‘Sorcerous Specialties’) that allow them to write on one scroll and have the writing immediately appear on the other as her main project in her fourth year at Lyrithna.

Personality:
Akane is protective, compassionate, and fierce - to a degree that greatly discomforts her when she reminds herself or others of her mother. These comparisons and her stress over them have contributed to a very self-conscious young woman that often avoids expressing herself, resulting in her coming across as cold, distant, and unnerving. Because of this repressed emotional state, when she truly expresses her feelings, she has outbursts of emotion and energy that make her appear manic or aggressive. She believes in moderation when it comes to her school life - she wants to do well but not at the expense of her own health, a lesson hard learned from her father’s untimely demise. She’s found a comfortable balance between the unyielding ambition of her parents and the docile indulgence of her sister and uncle - she has an endless curiosity, that she satiates with both academic and creative pursuits. If something particularly catches her interests, certain common courtesies may be forgotten, though she’ll be terribly embarrassed afterwards. When overwhelmed with fear and anxiety, she has a tendency to lock up, unable to flee, fight, or make any true decision. She has a great love for the alternative cultures of the mortal realm, experimenting wildly with her appearance.

Strengths and Virtues:

• Graceful. In spite of her often unnerving behaviour, her body moves like water, and her control over it is extraordinary. She aces the hand movements required for spell weaving and can paint the lines of a rune accurately to the tenth of a mm.​
• Compassionate. Akane can’t bear to see another person struggling or in pain, even if the “rational” side of her mind poisoned by the fate of her parents fights it. She’ll try her best to protect and serve others, and is incredibly loyal to those who return that kindness in turn.​
• Curious. Akane has a love of everything natural and magical in her day-to-day life, and just generally in both her academic and creative worlds. The subjects taught in all her classes that put other students to sleep? Great. The terrible artwork of the first-year students? Engrossing. The swirl of the snow through her open dorm window, ruining all her unfinished sketchbooks and lecture notes? Beautiful.​
• Artistic. She’s a creative all-rounder with genuine talent in cosmetics, fashion, dancing, and painting. It’s the only way she properly expresses her emotions, but her paintings are abstract and her dancing wildly improvisational, so very few are able to interpret them.​
• Growing Enchantress. Her magical specialty, usually utilising runes painted onto paper for portable uses, though she’s also trained in directly engraving runes into stone and metal too. She’s sewn rune patches into the interiors of all her favourite clothes, to allow on the fly modification of her appearance.​
• Wide magical expertise. Due to her area of specialty, Akane has had to learn a large number of spells from a wide range of schools, however . . ..​

Weaknesses and Vices:

• Shallow magical expertise. Her broad areas of study means she knows a lot of spells, yes, but none of them are particularly powerful. She has to be inventive with a wide range of limited spells rather than relying on raw power.​
• Self-hatred. Akane feels responsible for her father’s death and is unable to forgive herself. Her resemblance in both appearance and personality to her mother is also not unnoticed. She only forgets her anxieties when absorbed in her curiosities.​
• Distrustful. She is suspicious of other people’s intentions ever since her mother conned her out of a kidney. Even basic acts of kindness can be misconstrued by her paranoid mind as tricks of some kind, and she finds it impossible anyone could want to be friendly with someone like her.​
• Rude. Even if her behaviour is rooted in very sympathetic causes, ultimately to most other people her general attitude will seem disinterested and blunt, if not outright misanthropic.​
• Curious (Cont.) Her curiosity is a strength in many ways, yes. It becomes an issue however, when she misses classes or other social expectations because she loses track of time.​
• Pragmatic and ruthlessness. The failure of her father has put a harsh limit on her optimism in regards to the actions of others - and worse still, the betrayal of her mother has left its mark on her ability to forgive and forget those who wrong her.​

Fear:
That she’ll lose her sister and anyone she ever grows to care for.

Desire:
To get filthy rich and get her only remaining family a secure home in Lumaria.

Secret:
She watched her father die and did nothing, and worse, was relieved at his loss.

Likes:
Art; Runes; Money; Her sister; Nature; Studying; Fashion; Hot drinks

Dislikes:
Lying; Honesty; Her mother; Herself; People who invade her privacy and personal space.

Previous Education:
Outer Selix Secondary - a sorcerous school whose student body hailed from all the smaller towns and villages in the greater area outside of Selix. Thanks to the old connections of the headmaster, Akane’s potential was fostered by sending her on extracurricular lessons at the more accomplished schools within Silex itself.
Her three examination subjects were:

• Runic Language, which taught the foundational runes and their uses.​
• Basic Enchanting, an explanation of the most common enchantment spells and the various ways they can be permanently inscribed.​
• Arcane Anthropology, an exploration of the collective cultural history of sorcerers and the Citadel.​

Sorcerous Specialities:
Linked runes. These are runes whose regular inscription needs to be modified to include a unique symbol shared only by them, allowing objects the runes are applied to to share both mundane and magical characteristics across long distances. The simpler and most common linked runes allow them to be used for long-range communication, such as copying the contents of a piece of paper in one location onto another or causing words spoken to one rune to be played by the other, etc. More advanced linked runes may allow ‘domino effects’ - if an intruder triggers an alarm rune, it might communicate with a linked elemental rune to attack the intruder, while a location tracking rune ‘aims’ at the unlucky evildoer. Since linked runes are modified versions of existing spells, this requires a wide area of study - most don’t become masters of this discipline until a couple of decades after they began studying.

Favourite Spell:
Coltatio - A common spell among novice enchanters with very simple hand gestures and vocalisation, this spell allows the caster to change what colour is reflected by an object for up to an hour. The simple runic form allows the colour change to be permanent; a more advanced and modified version of the rune allows you to change the colour at will.

Academy College:
Lilium House. “Eternally Vigilant”
As she’s only third-generation, she appreciates that they were the first college to accept mortal sorcerers.

Extracurricular Academy Activities:

• The Paintbox. Her work is abstract and not very appealing to most, but her brushwork is exquisite. When they do life paintings, she usually creates horror works where the model’s skin has been removed to expose the muscle and bone beneath.​
• Lyrithna Theatre Company. The company hosts many clubs and types of performances - dramatic, comedic, musical, etc. The long-term projects are hosted towards the end of the year as a month-long public festival. Akane participates in none of that, but frequents ‘Open-Stage Sundays’, where she practices improvisational dancing.​
• Dragon Racing. She isn’t a member and doesn’t participate, but likes to watch the dragons from the sidelines.​

Personal History:
Akane’s parents lived in a squalid flat in the poorest corner of Lumaria. Her father was a doctor that worked for free, determined to make the lives of his neighbours easier, only receiving pay on the rare occasion his clients could afford to ‘donate’. Her mother would have to work overtime in her role as a housemaid and even at a young age, Akane suspected her mother stole from her employers to secretly support the family. She’d regularly overhear her mother crying when she thought no one else was home and did her best to look after her younger sister and reduce her mother’s stress and workload. Despite regular heated arguments between her parents, her father would never agree to reduce his workload or demand proper payment. As his reputation grew he became busier and busier and Akane would regularly have to go to his clinic after closing time to collect him, as he’d still be treating patients. During this time, his complexion soured and he seemed to struggle with physical labour he’d previously done with ease. Still, he did not reduce his workload, not even to assess his own health, in complete denial anything was wrong.
At 12, Akane came to collect her father as had become usual, and found him barely conscious, writhing on the floor. Panicked, Akane was paralysed and did nothing, and he was dead by the time her mother and sister came to see why she’d yet to return. Akane thought their life would improve with her father gone, as her mother had a more pragmatic approach to caring for the family. However, the relationship between mother and daughter grew cold, and Akane suspected her mother knew what had happened. Less than a month after her husband’s death, Amane disappeared. Akane and Fuyumi’s only remaining relative was Ken, so they moved from the bustling city to the quiet country village of Cania.
Akane’s life in Cania was uneventful for the first few years. She devoted herself to study, determined to provide a good life for Fuyumi when they became adults, who had to regularly remind her not to overwork herself as her father had. At 16 she began attending Outer Selix and met Aurora . . . and was reconnected with her mother. Amane was more than believable as the remorseful mother reconnecting with her little girls, and both Akane and Fuyumi were eager to welcome her home. Amane claimed her remorse had been brought on after she’d discovered she had a life-threatening malady, and Akane gladly offered her kidney for the corrective surgery (as they could not afford to have it magically treated and she could not wait on a transplant list). When she awoke after the transplant surgery, her mother had already fled again.
Akane has been withdrawn since and has made little in the way of true social connections at Lyrithna.