Failure, Professor Dashiell said, looking down her nose at them as though she expected nothing except a lack of success at all, is always an option. Success is not guaranteed. I am not interested in excuses, I am unconcerned about what your data shows. Somehow, she could make a person feel like he...

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70th of Ymiden
Scalvoris Campus

”Hmm?” Alexander asked as he walked through the halls. The young mage’s feet moved instinctively towards one of the rooms where the classes were being held. The tall shadow followed him, as per usual, and...

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717th Arc
The scholar stood quietly, packing up his notes after a lecture. It had been to the lowest level of students - new arrivals hoping to gain their Letter in Physics. A relatively dull topic, especially when she knew that he...

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22nd of Saun, Arc 717
From Victor Amielle’s diary:

The Institute of Metaphysics is the smallest of the educational branches in Scalvoris which is a shame. In my opinion there is hardly a science that is more important that the study of the...

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Scalvoris Campus
3rd Saun, 717

Tio had never been the scholarly type. He simply wasn't the kind of person who could stand to sit at a desk for long periods of time and listen to somebody waffle on and on, he was too naturally impatient....

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I'm not entirely sure why you study here when you have an office, Professor Carter said and sat down next to her in the library. Faith smiled at him and put her pen down.
It doesn't seem appropriate or fair to study during my work...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=6960 2nd Saun, 717 As her students walked into the lecture hall where she was going to be teaching them today, there were mutterings and questions. Faith stood behind her desk and watched them coming in, some of the students eyed the boxes on the large desk...

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Education Ledger The next level of medicine is to consider how we might change what we understand the boundaries of medicine itself to be. Faith looked at the essay title they had been given by Professor Carter and frowned. It was not...

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It had been some time since Faith had agreed to work with Professor Til'na. He had wanted her to be his student, him to be her mentor, but his area of expertise was not what she wanted. It would have been prestigious, it...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=8147 88th Ashan 717

Faith had considered this every way that she could. Having spoken to Galena, her mentor at the Order of the Adunih, she was approaching her meeting with Professor Carter, her professor at the Viden Academy campus armed with as much...

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/gallery/image.php?album_id=299&image_id=8452 50th Ashan, 717

Esme Dashiell was perturbed. It was rare that she grew perturbed, in truth, but she was. There was a series of events which she did not quite understand and so, she sat in her office and...

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13th Ashan, 717
Padraig was on the expedition in the Ice Caves, which made Faith more than a little on edge. She didn't like the idea of him being there and getting into all sorts of bother without her. However, they had a series of guest lecturers...

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The first trial of a new job might always be a daunting prospect and, in fairness, it would be unlikely that anyone faced that morning without a certain sense of apprehension. He had been given no more information than to turn up and that...

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Classes for the trial were over and Professor Firevein was watching them pack away. She picked up her own books and papers and looked down as she realised something. Putting down her books, she picked up a folded piece of parchment....

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You never get a second chance to make a first impression, Faith thought as she sat down in her chair. She had turned up to her first class late, dishevelled and out of breath. This had been unavoidable as she had been busy on Famula's...

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For as long as she could remember, she had wanted to learn. When it had been an impossibility, she had pushed it away but she had always had dreams of it. Then, on the first trial that she was allowed out of Jamal's shop, as luck and...

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It is vital, Professor Dashiell had said in her class the trial before, that we consider our subject in the broader understanding of science. We are all scientists and our disciplines are separate aspects of the same object of study....

Cylus 29, Arc 717

True to Professor Carter's distracted and disorganized nature, Faith and the rest of her classmates had received notice just that morning with only two breaks to spare, that they'd be teaching, each of them, their own classes at the Academy. Yes, that very morning. Each had been...