[Location] Scholar's Asylum

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Scholar's Asylum The College of Djed tries its very best to ensure the safety of its students and teaching staff - but all magic comes with risks. Taking a walk round the Scholars' Asylum is warning enough for most. Overgiving with all kinds of magic comes with severe consequences. Some go deaf, blind, or mute. Some lose their minds completely. When a person overgives with magic, their mind can splinter into various parts, causing multiple personalities or extreme lunacy. These people must be kept in the asylum for their own, and others' safety. There is a mixture of students and staff incarcerated in the asylum. Many over ambitious students have fallen foul to the whispers of temptation, and scholars have broken their own minds with experimental magic use. All students within the College of Djed spend several weeks at the asylum near the beginning of their tenure. They help care for the calmer patients, and see the consequences of overgiving first hand. It is hoped that this experience will act as a deterrent against irresponsible magic use in future. Staff : Bethany Age: 24 Race: Human Languages: Common Interrogation: 80 Hypnotism: 65 Persuasion: 43 Auristics: 40 Seduction: 30 Appearance: Bethany is a woman of average height, standing at 5'6". Her youthful face is considered by many to be attractive and is often slight accentuated with cosmetics. Smiles and compassionate expressions fit naturally on her face and her green eyes seem to be willing to accept most anything. Her red hair is often kept just at her shoulders, and though she is not technically a professor she often wears robes that would denote her as one. Concept: Bethany was born to a rather wealthy member of the Sailor's Guild, the youngest of three children. She was originally sent to the University to study at the College of Navigation, like her two brothers, that she might one day pick up the family tradition. Her interests, however, were quickly wrapped up in the Arcane. Despite the disapproval of her family, Bethany enter the College of Djed and attempted to learn more of the ways of magic. Hypnotism became the primary subject of her studies, she looked apt to one day become a professor herself as her way with handling others and breaking up conflict was looked upon with approval. That all changed when she pushed herself far too much one day, almost shattering her mind completely. She spent the next two years of her life in the Scholar's Asylum, screaming and raving. After those two years her stability had been somewhat returned to her and she was considered no longer a danger to society as a whole. Due to her Overgiving however she received a need to dominate the minds of others, learning their secrets and playing with their emotions. The woman also gained an obsession with figuring out exactly what caused wizards to be as they were, and to understand Overgiving itself. She kept her urge to dominate hidden and with her new knowledge and skill in handling those whose minds were fractured with Overgiving she was essentially given oversight over the Asylum, although under the watchful eyes of the Board of Regents and especially Professor Stonemiller. Bethany herself is all smiles to either patients or students, a pleasant person with an outwardly positive outlook. She is often consider infectiously likeable, rarely getting down or depressed. Her insight into the minds of Wizards is considered second to none in Zeltiva, the reason she is so valuable to the Asylum. However one should be careful about extended dealings with her as her desire to dominant others is very strong. She won't give a second thought to crushing another's hopes and dreams if it makes them have to rely on her more. However she is very careful about this urge, she toes the line and makes very certain to chose her targets carefully. A wolf in sheep's clothing in most any sense of the phrase, but a careful wolf. She is also considered one of the most powerful individuals in the University, for it is ironically she who evaluates those who would enter the College of Djed. Notable Patients : Jordan Rayner Reimancy 23 Voiding 26 Rhetoric 32 Language Common This promising young student from Syliras had been renowned for his public speaking, and efficient learning of the magical skills of reimancy and voiding. But this only pushed him to try harder. He experimented with both arts all day and all night. One morning, despite exhaustion, he attended a voiding lecture. His fellow students noted he was deteriorating, and encouraged him to go home and rest. Ignoring them, he tore a void open in the middle of the lecture hall, killing three people, including his teacher. It was only the quick actions of his fellow students that prevented more deaths. Once he was restrained and taken to the asylum, it was discovered that Jordan's mind had splintered into two. One half was pushing him to use his magic to become a God. He was dangerous, and so he was given a permanent position in the asylum. Somedays, he seems perfectly fine, chatting away to all who care to speak to him. Others, he can be violent, threaten to kill, and display his broken mind to fresh magic students, warning them of the dangers of overgiving. Xailus Wakefield Age/Birthdate: 56, Summer 15th 457 AV Reimancy: 56 (Fire, earth, air) Teaching: 72 Glyphing: 29 Language: Common A professor of Reimancy, Xailus was highly respected among his colleagues for his dedication to his work. Unfortunately, this would lead to his downfall. Early one morning, in the fall of 510, a fellow professor went in to check on Professor Wakefield, who had been working all night on different intensities of Reimancy-produced fire. He discovered him a blubbering incoherent mess, his eyes on fire and pouring out a dark black res. While his eyes were put out fairly quickly, Xailus had lost his sense of sight completely from the ordeal. In the asylum, Xailus could be considered one of the calmer patients. He spends his days speaking to himself in mumbled, jumbled words and stays relatively still. However, he has been known to attempt to attack assistants and is usually only handled by those with combat skills. Credit to Ella Wakefield for Xailus Wakefield.