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Use this thread to create "classmate" or "student" NPCs. This will allow consistency between players and will mean that you can have more skilled NPCs than the usual "faceless" ones being played consistently without needing to go through the full approval process. If you use your skills against them, however, this submission MUST be linked in your review request to ensure that our Peer Reviewers can confirm.

As long as the NPC meets the requirements / restrictions below, you may play them immediately and don't need to wait for approval. It is perfectly ok for you to post them here after you finish your thread with them! Professors and other academic staff need to go through the usual city approval process.

All NPCs of this kind have up to 8 skills, it's just the levels that change. If you wish your classmates to progress with you, use the code below. PLEASE NOTE: These are the maximum skill levels. It's fine for an NPC to have lower skill levels than this.

Clarification: Consider these "flavour" NPCs. They follow the same rules as flavour NPCs with 2 differences.
1. They can be a significant presence in university study / teaching threads. If you want to have one student who is your buddy or nemesis or the joker of the class etc be with you all the way from Letter to Licentiate, that's fine.
2. They are more skilled than usual flavour NPCs.

Outside of the University threads, the same rules as Flavour NPCs apply. You can meet them, see them in passing. Someone who isnt studying at the university or who isn't studying with this person might use them in passing. If, however, an NPC becomes a significant part of your story, then they should be submitted as a personal NPC or a city one.

Letter

Letter students may have 8 non-magic skills (3 competent, 5 novice).
Celine, Alchemy, Cylus 722
Name of NPC: Celine
Level: Letter
Subject Studying: Alchemy
Date started: Cylus 722
Skills: Competent Alchemy, Competent Science, Competent Research, Novice Detection, Novice Writing, Novice Jewelry Making, Novice Cosmetology, Novice Etiquette
Brief Description of Personality: Blonde Celine is a little stuck up, but she is willing to change her mind if it makes sense. Her parents are jewelers, and they are spoiling her a bit too much. They fulfill her every wish and buy her all the books she needs for university so that she doesn’t have to sit in the library with her classmates. Celine is an intelligent young woman and a good student.
Links to threads where used: An Excursion
Lyah, Animal Training, Cylus 721
Name of NPC: Lyah Parka
Level: Letter
Subject Studying: Animal Training
Date started: Cylus 721
Skills: Animal Husbandry, Surgery, Business Management (C) Animal Training, Hunting, Intimidation, Navigation, Field Craft (N)
Brief Description of Personality: A seemingly snobby and unkind girl, she’s just upset that her parents only let her take the course because they want her to be a vet instead of a hunter. Once you get past that she’s actually quite nice and not a bad person- she’s just a little… rough around the edges.
Links to threads where used: Furry Friends, Furry Friends II
Sanders, History, Cylus 720
Name of NPC Sanders Allinson
Level Letter
Subject Studying History
Date started Cylus 721
Skills
Competent (x3)
Writing
Research
Linguistics

Novice (x5)
Rhetoric
Resistance
Cooking
Discipline
Dance

Brief Description of Personality: Sanders is a man in his late 50s. He's decided to start studying history because he has time to do so, now. He's a well-presented human fellow with a slightly ruddy complexion and a well-maintained white beard and neat white hair. He's slightly portly and rather well-spoken. He's kind and has a quirky sense of humour but he's worried that the other students are all so very young.

Links to threads where used:
Letter 2 History Teaching 1: History Is.....
Letter 3 History Teaching 2: The Gallery

Certificate

Certificate students may have 8 non-magic skills (5 competent, 3 novice).
Stephan, Alchemy, Vhalar 722
Name of NPC: Stephan
Level: Certificate
Subject Studying: Alchemy
Date started:Vhalar 722
Skills: Competent Alchemy, Competent Science, Competent Detection, Competent Research, Competent Animal Husbandry, Novice Writing, Novice Gardening, Novice Medicine
Brief Description of Personality: Stephan is a young human male with dark eyes and dark brown hair. He grew up on a farm just outside Scalvoris Town and still lives there with his parents and his little sister.

While his sister wants to become a farmer when she grows up, Stephan has always wanted to become a scientist. Despite the fact that his parents are simple people, they’ve always been supportive of him.

Stephan is an intelligent young man, but his curiosity often gets the better of him – which causes him to ask a lot of questions in class. A lot of them are good, but some of them are at least slightly off-topic. Stephan usually sits at the back of the classroom, but not because he’s shy or lazy. He’s neither. He just thinks that the last row is especially cozy!

Links to threads where used:
Snowstorm
Ashan's Walk
An Excursion
The Four Wives of Doran T
Prudence, Arcana Studies, Saun, 720
Name of NPC: Prudence
Level: Certificate
Subject Studying: Arcana
Date started: Saun 720
Skills: Competent Teaching, Competent Research, Competent Writing, Competent Etiquette, Competent Discipline, Novice Detection, Novice Linguistics, Novice Rhetoric
Brief Description of Personality: Prudence is a very proper young woman that usually thinks that she knows better and doesn't hesitate to criticze her teachers - if they are just Diploma, Charter or Licentiate students rather than actual professors. When it comes to the latter, she is very well-behaved and tries to get on their good side - because she wants to get good grades. Prudence hardly ever criticizes the teachers for no reason though. Most of the time she kind of has a point - she actually knows something about teaching. She does it in a way that is not very pleasant though. On the bright side, Prudence is a very intelligent and hard-working young woman, and she possesses a nearly insatiable thirst for knowledge. That's why she's still doing her Certificate after more than half an arc. She wants to know everything and take all the classes - and she takes a lot of electives on top of it.
Notes: Prudence is human and has brown hair.
Links to threads where used: Duplicity, Borrowed Echoes
Lanse Vorgen, Toxicology (Medicine), Vhalar 721
Name of NPC: Lanse Vorgen
Level: Certificate
Subject Studying: Toxicology (Medicine)
Date started: Vhalar 721
Skills:
Competent: Medicine, Larceny, Stealth, Socialization, Resistance.
Novice: Athletics, Research, Teaching.
Brief Description of Personality: A troublemaker and class clown of sorts, Lanse is an eidisi with dark blue skin and charcoal black hair. He stands 5'7" tall, with a light build. He's mostly played minor pranks on other students and professors that are more tolerant of such antics. But he wouldn't be opposed to stealing staff secrets in order to sell them to the highest bidder. He hasn't done anything that bold just yet, however, but his delinquency has been noted by some higher ups.

Links to threads where used:

Diploma

Diploma students may have 8 non-magic skills (3 expert, 5 competent).
Enid "Charlie" Blighty, Literacy
Name of NPC: Enid Charles Blighty.

Level: Diploma

Subject Studying: Literacy

Skills:
- Intelligence (Expert)
- Investigation (Expert))
- Writing (Expert)
- Socialisation (Competent)
- Tactics (Competent)
- Research (Competent)
- Psychology (Competent)
- Deception (Competent)

Career: Reporter

Race: Human / Male

Appearance:
Average hight. Short black hair, swept to one side and bushy eyebrows. Brown eyes. Always carries a knapsack across his chest and often wears a well-worn, but serviceable suit when on the job.

Personality:
Enid is a person that has read everything there is to read on being an investigator, but when it comes to spotting the noes in front of his own face, he can come up a little short. This often leads to him following a leads with a skilled doggedness that would usually be commendable, if it were not for that 6 foot pit in the ground...

He has an amiable demeanour with an unassuming approach to most things, but beneath this thin veil lies a sharp mind and a devious determination to get to the truth of a thing.

He has very mixed emotions regarding his career as a reporter. On the one hand, it fuels his desire to hunt for the truth at the root of all manner of things and satisfies his need to pick at a mystery like a newly healed scab. But on the other hand, it does require him more often than not to write 'fluff pieces' that he would much rather ignore. Either way, it pays the bills and his inclinations always tend to end up digging up more than the fluff would have you believe, even if he cannot print half of it.

He's genuinely 'in it' to expose the truth of a thing, but has a habbit of getting carried away and his 'go-to tenacity' to get the job done often leads to his 20/20 hind-sign leaving his conciounce not as clear as he would like.

Quirks:
- His friends call him Charlie because he's not a fan of the name Enid.
- He has an uncanny ability to seemingly summon a pencil out of thin air. He's always got one on his person, behind his ear, in his pocket, in the back of his shoe. Whenever needed, it often would appear in his hand without a moment's notice.

Links to threads where used:
- /viewtopic.php?t=29808
- /viewtopic.php?t=29922

Kelaeno, Music, Rebirth 720
Name of NPC: Kelaeno
Level: Diploma
Subject Studying: Art: Music
Date started: Rebirth 720
Skills:

Expert: Singing, Detection, Musical Instrument (Wind).
Competent: Teaching, Discipline, Persuasion, Fieldcraft, Hunting.

Brief Description of Personality: An adventurous Avriel woman that enjoys field excursions above class-room lectures. She's long since purged the savage nature during her earlier years, hunting and camping in the woods of Sweetvine, and has become a sophisticated and elegant Avriel person. Yet she's not unkind or judgmental toward non-avriel, and will even interact well with half-breed avriels, to a point. She has blue and green feathers, brilliant in their plumage, which grow also from her hair. her skin is a soft blue, while her eyes are like black pearls. She's one of Ilpa De Fleur's favorite students, and gets on well with their professor of Music.
Links to threads where used: The Ballad of Captain Fenix

Charter

Charter students may have 8 non-magic skills (5 expert, 3 competent).
Adrie, Medicine, Ymiden 721
Name of NPC: Adrie Tallash
Level: Charter
Subject Studying: Medicine
Date started: Ymiden, 721
Skills: Expert Medicine, Expert Researcher, Expert Writing, Expert Science, Expert Discipline, Competent Psychology, Competent Gardening, Novice Teaching
Brief Description of Personality: Adrie is desperate to prove herself by any means possible ― she is a hardworking, dedicated and smart woman in her early 30s, but often try too hard to prove herself. She tries to hide her insecurities behind a mask of confidence, becoming extremely stubborn if contradicted on anything. Other than that, though, she is kind and always ready to help, although she still struggles with sharing her knowledge.
Other Things: Long, straight dirty blond hair, thick glasses. Pale skin due to the lack of sunlight. Light brown eyes. Skinny.
Thread Used: Amidst Notes and Papers and More Notes
Lysander. Arcana. Started Zida 720
Name of NPC: Lysander
Level: Charter
Subject Studying: Arcana
Date started: Zi'da 720
Skills: Expert Research, Expert Writing, Expert Detection, Expert Discipline, Expert Lingustics, Competent Musical Instrument (String), Competent Woodworking, Competent Seduction
Brief Description of Personality: Lysander is a friendly and open-minded young man who is curious about the world around him. He loves music. While he prefers women, he occasionally flirts with members of his own gender.
Other Things: Lysander has pale blonde, light blue eyes and black nails. On the inner side of his left wrist is a tattoo of a harp. His father sells musical instruments.
Links to threads where used: Hone Shmone (Diploma), We are all etherists! (Charter), We are all etherists! (Part 2), Abrogators Abolish
Lucia, Arcana, Started Zida 720
Name of NPC: Lucia
Level: Charter
Subject Studying: Arcana
Date started: Zi'da 720
Skills: Expert Research, Expert Writing, Expert Detection, Expert Discipline, Expert Rhetoric, Competent Meditation, Competent Investigation, Competent Linguistics
Brief Description of Personality:Lucia is a very intelligent young woman, but unfortunately a bit of a know-it-all. She has a tendency to immediately raise her hand if she even suspects that the professor might ask the students a question, and wave it excitedly. She is also a bit narrow-minded, but very hard-working and diligent.
Other Things: Lucia has curly red hair.
Links to threads where used: Hone Shmone (Diploma), We are all etherists! (Charter) We are all etherists! (Part 2), Abrogators Abolish

Licentiate

Licentiate students may have 8 non-magic skills (2 master, 3 expert, 2 competent).
Magdalene, Medicine, Ashan 721
Name of NPC: Magdalene
Level: Licentiate
Subject Studying: Medicine
Date started: Ashan 721
Skills: Master Medicine, Master Gardening, Expert Animal Husbandry, Expert Research, Expert Discipline, Competent Detection, Competent Writing
Brief Description of Personality: Magdalene is an intelligent young woman, and a diligent student, but she’s unfortunately a bit uncreative and pretty much the opposite of quirky. She’s mostly accepting of other people’s quirks though, and what more, she’s a loyal friend. While some of her fellow medical students are occasionally grossed out, she rarely is. Apart from studying medicine, Magdalene is also taking courses in agriculture as she has realized the importance of the use of plants in medicine.
Other Things: Magdalene has red hair and looks a lot like Lucia, one of the students at the Institute of Metaphysics.
Links to threads where used: Dissection (Charter), Heartless (Charter), Otorhinolaryngo … whatever! (Licentiate)
Laura, Medicine, Ashan 721
Name of NPC: Laura
Date started: Licentiate
Subject Studying: Medicine
Date started: Ashan 721
Skills: Master Medicine, Master Needlework, Expert Textile Production, Expert Detection, Expert Research, Competent Writing, Competent Caregiving
Brief Description of Personality: Laura is a very shy young woman and unfortunately a bit of a hypochondriac. She’s very friendly and polite though and very curious about the people around her. Two of her hobbies are sewing and knitting which sure comes in handy when you have to give people stitches!
Other Things: Laura has very light blonde hair and big grey eyes.
Links to threads where used: Otorhinolaryngo … whatever! (Licentiate)
Moe, Geology, Vhalar 722
Name of NPC: Moe Loaming
Level: Licentiate
Subject Studying: Geology (Science)
Date started: Vhalar 722
Skills:

Fieldcraft: Master
Mining: Master
Endurance: Expert
Teaching: Expert
Research: Expert
Investigation: Competent
Hunting: Competent
Endurance: Novice


Brief Description of Personality: A cadouri with a mole phenotype, and with poor eyesight. He always has a pair of very large and extra-thick spectacles to make up for his visual problems. Other than that, he's a swiftly rising researcher and student of the Geology of Scalvoris. He's fascinated by the mineral wealth that is said to lie just beneath the surface. He is often seen on field-trips around the island, either working with locals to prospect, or studying the strange sands of the beaches.

He's a little suspicious of others, particularly of people just out of eyeshot who he can hear but not see. Yet he's friendly enough when approached, and treated with some respect. While he's happy to help on expeditions related to geology and exploration of such, he is quite protective of his notebooks and texts and notes. He will not let anyone else handle them.


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