He spoke of magic too intimately. That was the warning sign for Fallon. As the evidence of character built up in her head, her own experience and knowledge of the mages she had met over the years prickled in her mind. It would make sense, based upon the simple mannerisms, the words used and presented before the class. It did not go past her to notice the small glances of other students, the seeming shuffle in their seats. Hesitation? Worry? She could not blame them for the nerves being tickled.
"Auristics? Res?" she questioned. Of course, she knew what it was. Just as she knew what autistics was, but the maintaining of not being so knowledgeable of such subjects was advantageous at present. Though where he obtained such himself was beyond her, she suspected a teacher or tutor of some form. His presumptions did not help either, her own mind clicking and considering in thought. She raised an eyebrow before speaking.
"And where are you basing the logic of the personality of mages? I have met enough people in my time to have seen such traits in them, from the smallest child to the elderly... each are that way for their own reasons. Trauma, mistrust, protection, association, poor upbringing, or no upbringing at all. Even I, during my youngest of years, would have been described as near mute and reluctant to engage. Few friends? That could be for any reason, perhaps the individual is shy, or the elderly has had all their friends die, or perhaps they are new to a city. Maybe they even do not speak the common tongue as fluent as you and I. Does that then make all who display automatically worthy of suspicion?" There was the smallest snort then, "You may find yourself creating yet still a very long list of names."
Fallon gave a nod to the class, hand turning in gesture to Salara, "You are correct and such is true. By painting such with biased you begin to isolate those around you. By isolation you are cutting off potential ties for information. None of which are of any help during an investigation. Neigh, what you speak of is profiling and creating unnecessary bias. Something we will not fall into, for it solves nothing."
It was at that moment Fallon stopped, cleared her throat and moved on, "So, where were we?" She turned her head to the board then, "We have discussed weapons, divulged into the basis of magic, and now... Hair. We will incorporate not just hair in this but various related things. Fur, pieces of broken nail, strands of fabric being examples. So, what can they tell us?" She took up the chalk once more, turning it between her fingers, "Well, length of hair and colouration could help pick out a person it belongs to. Blonde, dark haired, so forth. Fur, the involvement of an animal somewhere in the scenario. It is all rather self explanatory."