Commons Academic Quarter Instruction Staff
These instructors are deliberately chosen for temperament as much as power. First-years are volatile. You don’t put war-gods in front of children unless you want casualties and legends for the wrong reasons.
This faculty tier exists to shape survival habits, not produce champions.
Origin: @Sylvaran Commonwealth
Mana Line: @Earth Type Natural (Natural)
Subject: Mana Theory & Core Stability
Location: @The Foundation Lecture Ring
Presence & Reputation:
Brey is broad-shouldered, stone-still when standing, and moves like nothing in the world is urgent enough to rush him. His voice is low, calm, and carries through a hall without amplification. Students describe him as “impossible to interrupt,” not because he’s strict, but because he radiates inevitability. When Brey speaks, the room quiets like settling dust.
Teaching Style:
He teaches mana as infrastructure, not as power. His first lecture is always the same:
“You are not learning magic. You are learning how not to die while holding it.”
He drills fundamentals: breath control, posture, core anchoring, fatigue thresholds. No spellcasting until Week Three. This frustrates students who want spectacle. It saves the ones who would otherwise burn out their cores.
Narrative Role:
Brey is the faculty member who clocks Reaper’s unusual calm immediately. He doesn’t praise it. He warns him about becoming a structure people lean on too early.
Origin: @Nivaris
Mana Line: @Fire Type Conduit Wizard (Conduit - @Silver Conduit Wand of the Ossirian Sea )
Subject: Elemental Fundamentals (Ignos Track Intro)
Location: @The Elemental Practice Courts
Presence & Reputation:
Sharp posture. Precise movements. No wasted words. Maëlle wears regulation combat robes with heat-scorched cuffs from years of frontline casting. She is known for standing too close to students when they lose focus, heat shimmering around her hands as a reminder that Fire does not forgive sloppiness.
Teaching Style:
Fire is not rage.
Fire is control under pressure.
She runs her class like a drill yard: short demonstrations, rapid repetition, strict safety thresholds. Students who posture get humiliated gently. Students who panic get pulled aside and stabilized.
Narrative Role:
Maëlle becomes one of Michelangelo’s hardest instructors. Metal and Fire do not get along by default, and she pushes him to understand how heat reshapes structure. She respects discipline. She has no patience for fantasy heroics.
Origin: @Sylvaran Commonwealth
Mana Line: @Metal Type Conduit Wizard (Conduit – Filament Gauntlet)
Subject: Practical Conduit Handling & Safety Law
Location: @The Commons Spellcraft Annex
Presence & Reputation:
Compact, wiry, permanently smudged with oil or metal dust. Oren treats conduits like loaded weapons even in storage. He is obsessive about grip discipline, conduit resonance hygiene, and legal compliance. Students joke he loves safety protocols more than people. They are mostly correct.
Teaching Style:
Every mistake becomes a lesson.
Every lesson becomes muscle memory.
He makes first-years disassemble training conduits blindfolded. He teaches them to feel resonance feedback before they ever cast. He drills the legal consequences of conduit misuse into their heads until they recite them in their sleep.
Narrative Role:
Oren will clock Michelangelo’s latent telekinetic control long before others. He quietly advises his parents on how to hide it better. He knows what happens when the wrong people notice a child who can move metal without tools.
Origin: Nivaris
Mana Line: @Ambient Type Natural
Subject: Harmonic Listening & Mana Sensory Training
Location: Defensive Casting Galleries
Presence & Reputation:
Thesryn does not announce herself. Students often realize she is present only when she speaks directly behind them. Her robes are plain. Her voice is soft. Her eyes miss nothing.
Many students find her unsettling.
She finds that useful.
Teaching Style:
No spells. No demonstrations.
Only perception drills.
Students learn to listen to mana flow, feel pressure changes, notice emotional resonance in rooms. Those who cannot quiet their minds fail this class early and often. Thesryn does not scold them. She simply waits until they learn.
Narrative Role:
She senses Vivi’s connection to her familiar before Vivi understands what she’s hearing. Thesryn does not explain it immediately. She lets Vivi arrive at the realization herself, which makes it stick.
Origin: Commonwealth
Mana Line: Earth/Metal Hybrid (Conduit – Reinforced Bracer)
Subject: Physical Conditioning & Mana Circulation
Location: @The Ascension Deck (Floating PE Structure)
Presence & Reputation:
Broad, scarred, laughs loudly. Rellan looks like a retired arena fighter who decided teaching children might be healthier than breaking adults. He runs conditioning circuits personally and demonstrates every drill before demanding students attempt it.
Teaching Style:
If you cannot move your body, you cannot move mana safely.
He integrates breathwork with physical strain. He teaches students to cast while tired, while off-balance, while emotionally rattled—because real casting never happens while rested and calm.
Narrative Role:
Rellan becomes a stabilizing adult presence for all three protagonists. He treats Reaper like a child, not a weapon. He treats Michelangelo like potential, not muscle. He treats Vivi like a strategist, not background noise.
Origin: Nivaris
Mana Line: Water (Conduit – Glass Orb)
Subject: Civic History, Bloodline Law, Academy Ethics
Location: @The Foundation Lecture Ring
Presence & Reputation:
Soft-spoken, impeccably dressed, terrifyingly thorough. Liora teaches the laws of the magical world with the quiet menace of someone who has seen what happens when those laws are ignored. Her lectures are dry. Her case studies are brutal.
Teaching Style:
She teaches consequences.
Not ideals.
Every rule is paired with a story of what happened when someone broke it. Students leave her class uneasy but informed.
Narrative Role:
She introduces the historical precedent for Mana Ghosts as a theoretical risk early in the year. No one connects the dots until it’s too late.
These teachers disagree.
Not loudly. Not publicly. But in subtle ways:
Brey believes stability comes before power.
Ardent believes power reveals character.
Thesryn believes perception determines survival.
Oren believes law is the only thing between order and disaster.
Rellan believes bodies fail before minds do.
Liora believes history repeats when ignored.
The trio will feel this tension.
They will learn from all of it.