Editing Extraordinary Comics Places (section)

== '''Place:''' Hickory University ==


'''Qualities:'''

''It's all there - if you can find it.''

''Higher learning just means higher costs.''

''Old hickory has deep roots.''

'''Description:''' Hickory University is one of the oldest colleges in the state. Its sprawling, stately campus is home to nearly 15,000 students year round, and "Old Hickory" has a luminous list of alumni that refer to their time at the school as one of the most important parts of their life. With degree programs in most existing fields and even emerging ones and well-trained tenured staff, Hickory University is in many ways the platonic ideal of higher education.

But not all of its reputation is quite so straight-laced.

Hickory University has a long tradition of occult activity, ranging from cantrips used to prank incoming freshmen to full blown alchemical research laboratories. Numerous faculty members specialize in magic - both curricular and extracurricular - and more than a few cults to ancient gods with unpronounceable names have formed beneath the shade of the shagbarks. The university even sports a dedicated eldritch library, but it is so charged with arcane power that finding what you're looking for might be a life or death situation.

People: Dean Aisha Paulson - Hickory University's preeminent scholar on enchanted artifacts and one of the youngest Prima Magicas in history, Dean Paulson is every bit a prodigy. Her reputation is sterling and her record speaks for itself. Most potent wizards earn reputations as eccentric sorcerers or power-hungry egotists. Aisha is neither. In fact, she is the de facto face of the university and leads numerous community benefits that have raised the school's already impressive profile ever higher. Of course, her desire to acquire, assess, and archive magical objects borders on the obsessive. Some say it is dangerous to chase down that many items of power and keep them all in one place - particularly beneath a school, no matter how warded it may be. But Aisha is confident she can handle whatever trouble might come her way.

'''Qualities:'''

''The youngest Prima Magica in history''.

''A grand archive.''

''"Let me take a look at that..."''

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