![]() Revision, turning things into other things? Nobody’s going to complain if you fix a tear in your shirt or make your shoe the size of a house. Glamour, the work of illusionists and con artists and ambitious lovers of every stripe? It causes problems, but it’s legal enough. Negation, the magic of deflection, evaluation, and stillness? Love it. Incantation, the stuff of magical creation? Try not to entomb the city in a horrific magical winter, but otherwise have fun. Good luck with all that.Īt least you'll have magic too. You have towers frozen in time at the moment of their collapse, you have professors plotting against one another, and you’ll have dynamic, incredibly complicated relationships between the eighty-some students themselves in your year – and every enemy you make is going to know how to make fireballs with just a stick and a bad attitude. I’d say it’s safer to explore the Academy of Mineta itself, but let’s be real: the school’s seventeen hundred years old, and it’s been the center of wizard uprisings, undead invasions, and Gods know what all else. And, of course, off at the fringes are the Dragons: the scaly old creatures that enslaved humanity, shattered the first generation of Gods, and are now just waiting for the chance to pick up where they left off. All the other flying islands that make up civilization as we know it? Just as bad as ours, only with worse food. The skies are mostly dominated by air pirates on enchanted ships of war. Best you don’t even think about the Sphinx. ![]() The old forest is full of monsters and trapped tombs and fey politics and more crazy wizards, and the old Imperial Palace… well, it’s the size of a city all on its own, and it’s still straining to contain all its ghosts and twitchy soldiers and skulking bandits.Īnd the Sphinx. That whole place was left to brew in its own shadows since the Empire of Man shook itself apart – and, honestly, it wasn’t exactly safe even when the Empire was at its peak. The city is a mess.Īlso, watch out for the Imperial Reserve. There are crazy wizards and bickering vampires and haunted restaurants and Gods only know what else. There are conspirators trying to drive our good Captain out of high office, and there’s our Captain trying to drive conspiracies nuts. There’s a thieves’ guild – or maybe several, depending on how you look at it. Watch out for Mineta, the oldest, greatest, meanest city in the world. It's ancient and rich and it looms over the world of magic like no other institution humanity has ever made.Īnd this is what you need to know to make it through your freshman year:
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |