Editing Sorcerous Arts:Characters (section)

==College Personalities==

All characters who are commonly found at the College of Sorcerous Arts go here, including professors, students, groundskeepers, bound demons, and so forth. All in all, less than a hundred persons live, work, and learn at the college, including about two dozen teachers and researchers, an equal number of servants, and about twice as many pupils. Unless noted otherwise, any wizard in this section who has chosen to specialize in a particular school of magic has given up the ability to use necromancy. 

===Headmaster Adrian Tolze===

Ever since the previous headmaster, Fidelio the Fearless, was devoured by the Water Wyrm of the Raining River three years ago, Adrian Tolze has served as the leader of the College of Sorcerous Arts. One of the most powerful magicians in the land, Headmaster Tolze is not yet fifty. His skill as a diviner is unparalleled, but he is perhaps best known for recovering the Sword of Xaxamodes from the Demon-Lords of the star Phiroth, and using it to slay the Crawling Nautilus in the southern reaches of the Plain of Shells.

Adrian Tolze has, however, displayed very little skill as an administrator. He spends most of his time away from the campus on private business, leaving most of the work to the professors under his nominal leadership. 

===Chana the Seeress===

A recent addition to the College's staff, Chana is an adept of divination and enchantment. She is beautiful, whimsical, and distant; in terms of raw power, she is among the most potent of the institution's acolytes, yet has not deigned to master offensive sorceries. Her age and origin are not certain, but it is widely accepted that her home lies somewhere within the Hundred Principalities. Abundant rumors place her age at either well over a hundred or just shy of twenty three years -- the genie Nandao, her one time consort, is said to know the truth of the matter, but none have called upon his manse in the Plain of Shells in many years.

===Vaum the Alchemist===

Vaum is a conjurer, alchemist, and astronomer; a doddering old professor who hides his advancing years under simple illusions. His Theory of Sidereal Metallurgy, which holds that metals are created by the interactions between various types of stone and the light of different constellations, is his chief claim to fame. Vaum believes this to be a meagre and boring accomplishment, and has therefore decided to become the supreme ruler of the universe before he dies. His plan is simple: given that Mother Moon is the center of all things, and that his Thousandfold Magnifying Apparatus reveals its surface to be uninhabited, he must merely travel to the celestial body and plant his flag upon its crust.

To this end, Vaum expends his efforts in the pursuit of two main projects. Firstly, he seeks to design a spell to support life in a thin, cold atmosphere, so that he may survive Mother Moon's surface conditions. Secondly, he attempts to persuade Headmaster Tolze to set down his Greater Teleport spell upon a magical scroll, so that he may travel to Mother Moon. Tolze fears that the Alchemist will prefer being supreme ruler of the universe to life as a mere professor. Not wishing to lose Vaum's services, Tolze has thusfar denied the man's request.

===Fehin Addabar===

The protege of the College's former Master of Enchantment, Orsino of the Emerald Serpent, Fehin Addabar is a quiet and reserved man. Rather than gathering a circle of friends and allies about him, he keeps his own counsel, stewing in a broth of resentment and bitter memory. Chief among the many who have sleighted him is Khalid Sihkari, the new Master of Enchantment: Fehin feels that ''he'' was more deserving of the position, that Headmaster Tolze denied him his right by appointing the Adaamite to the coveted position.

===Lord Devlin Hetcross===

Son of a Local lord, Devlin had developed a level of skill at potion making. He was the darling of the faculty until Kokada Ab Ekavrka arrived. Devlin has grown jealous of Kokada's abilities and feels that Kokada is stealing his position in the College.

===Ezzin the Assassin===

Ezzin the Assassin has killed many powerful arcanists, but has only recently taken up the art. A foreigner from the Setting Sun Continent, he has applied for tutelage at not only the College of Sorcerous Arts, but also the Tetrahedral Fortress and Conservatory of Conjury and Invocation. None would have him, and he was forced to turn to the solitary maqe Irro, Master of Green Fire, for tutelage. Ezzin has been residing at the College for some weeks as a guest; Irro had charged him with bringing a message to Headmaster Tolze, and the assassin waits patiently for the man to return from whatever foreign business he currently attends to.

Ezzin is arrogant, quick-witted, and charming, but above all else, cruel. He is slick, talented, and affluent, having taken the IOUN Stones of each of his victims as trophies. The faculty fear him or regard him as an enigma, and many of hinted that his departure would be preferred -- but he insists upon an audience with the Headmaster.

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