Ossirian Deep Academy
“You are not here to become powerful.
You are here to become stable.”
First Year is not combat training.
It is structural conditioning.
Students entering Ossirian Deep carry unstable Mana Cores, untested conduits, and inherited habits that can injure themselves, others, or destabilize infrastructure. The Commons Track exists to standardize those risks before specialization occurs.
Mana is not treated as a tool.
Mana is treated as a pressure system.
If pressure is misapplied, something fails.
Usually the caster.
(All First-Year Students Are Enrolled in These Courses)
Instructor: Professor @Halcyon Brey (Earth Natural, Commonwealth)
Location: @The Foundation Lecture Ring
This course teaches students to sense their Mana Core without attempting to wield it.
The first three weeks involve no active casting.
Students are trained to recognize the internal mechanics of mana circulation before they are allowed to manipulate output. This is the primary injury-prevention course of the Commons Track.
Students learn to:
Perceive mana flow through the meridian network
Identify early indicators of overload and core strain
Halt a spell mid-cast without rebound
Vent residual mana safely into inert grounding fields
Recognize when emotional state is distorting output
Typical exercises:
Maintaining a controlled 10% mana channel for sixty seconds
Interrupting a forming cantrip without backlash
Grounding surplus mana into neutral conduits
Stabilizing breath during forced channel disruption
Failure consequences:
Headaches, tremors, nosebleeds, emotional instability, minor core bruising.
Medical staff and Professor Brey intervene before permanent damage occurs.
Students are permitted to experience discomfort so they learn what “too far” feels like before it becomes lethal.
Instructor Note (Brey):
“Power without containment is just structural damage with ambition attached.”
Instructor: Archivist-Adjunct @Liora Hem (Water Conduit, Nivaris)
Location: @The Commons Spellcraft Annex
This course teaches that spells are not words, intentions, or emotions.
Spells are geometry imposed on energy.
Students do not release mana during the first month. They learn to construct spell frames in empty space, then within inert mana fields that cannot activate.
Students learn to:
Form stable spell frames without release
Draw spell geometries in air using inert mana
Identify unstable geometries visually
Diagnose collapse points in failed spell structures
Understand why most miscasts are structural errors, not power surges
First-Year spell structures taught:
Empty Channels
Holding Runes
Frame Locks
Release Gates (without release permission)
These drills appear boring.
They prevent catastrophic casting later.
Instructor Note (Hem):
“Structure determines consequence. Intent does not protect you from physics.”
Instructor: Instructor @Maelle Ardent (Fire Conduit, Nivaris)
Location: @The Elemental Practice Courts
All first-years are introduced to all Six Mana Lines.
Students do not cast foreign mana.
They observe behavior under controlled conditions.
This course exists to prevent later cross-line accidents and to instill respect for elements students cannot wield.
Observed behaviors:
Fire resisting restraint under compression
Water resisting imposed shape
Metal resisting subtle manipulation
Wood resisting stillness
Earth resisting rapid direction change
Ambient resisting sustained control
Students learn to identify danger patterns when operating near incompatible mana lines.
Field demonstrations include:
Controlled combustion tests
Pressure distortion in water channels
Metal resonance instability
Ambient interference fields
Instructor Note (Ardent):
“You will respect what you cannot touch. Or it will teach you why.”
Instructor: Lecturer @Oren Valecrest (Metal Conduit, Commonwealth)
Location: @The Commons Spellcraft Annex
This course applies only to conduit-bound students and Archivists.
The goal is not power.
The goal is preventing conduit trauma and legal violations.
Students learn:
Proper conduit channel entry and exit
Safe pressure release without rebound
Identifying early signs of conduit fatigue
Recognizing resonance mismatch
Legal restrictions on conduit modification
Emergency decoupling procedures
First-Year Prohibitions:
Overclocking
Spell storage
Legacy spell activation
Soul resonance
Conduit sharing
Unauthorized modification
Students who attempt to bypass these rules are removed from conduit access until cleared by the Arcane Regulation Council.
Instructor Note (Valecrest):
“Conduits do not forgive misuse. They remember it.”
Instructor: Sister-Calibrator @Thesryn (Ambient Natural, Nivaris)
Location: @The Defensive Casting Galleries
This course teaches perception before action.
No casting.
No release.
Only awareness.
Students learn to detect mana pressure changes, emotional resonance in spaces, structural instability, and ambient distortion.
Students train to:
Sense mana before it manifests
Identify pressure fluctuations in rooms
Recognize emotional feedback loops
Hear conduit resonance interference
Detect ambient distortion fields
This class is deliberately uncomfortable for students who rely on instinct.
Those who cannot quiet their minds fail repeatedly until they learn to listen.
Instructor Note (Thesryn):
“If you cannot hear mana before it moves, you are already late.”
Instructor: Coach-Adjunct @Rellan Forge (Earth/Metal Conduit, Commonwealth)
Location: Ascension Deck (Floating Structure above the Commons)
This course is physically demanding.
Students learn to move, stabilize, and circulate mana under strain.
Fatigue is part of the curriculum.
Students train:
Breath control during physical stress
Channeling mana while off-balance
Recovery after controlled exhaustion
Stabilizing core output under movement
Controlled casting while emotionally unsettled
The purpose is simple:
Mana is rarely used while rested.
Instructor Note (Forge):
“If your body collapses, your casting collapses. There is no spell that fixes weak lungs.”
Instructor: Archivist-Adjunct @Liora Hem
Location: Foundation Lecture Ring
This course teaches bloodline law, Academy conduct, and survival precedent.
Students learn:
Legal consequences of miscasting
Civic infrastructure risk
Historical examples of first-year fatalities
Protocols for mana incidents
Reporting thresholds
Why concealment is punishable
No student completes Year One without understanding that Ossirian Deep is not a playground.
Instructor Note (Hem):
“History is the longest safety briefing you will ever receive.”
First-years may not:
Duel unsupervised
Cast above certified thresholds
Modify conduits
Enter containment sectors
Access legacy spell archives
Experiment with Ambient synthesis
Violations are logged.
Repeated violations result in restriction of mana privileges.
By the end of Year One, students will not be powerful.
They will be stable.
They will be able to:
Halt spells mid-cast
Identify structural instability
Ground mana safely
Recognize conduit fatigue
Sense environmental mana pressure
Survive their own mistakes
Ossirian Deep does not measure first-year success by victories.
It measures success by the absence of funerals.