Sorcerous Arts:Characters
This page describes the characters of the College of Sorcerous Arts campaign, including PC descriptions and statistics. For the most part, NPC stats won't be found here. Rather, the info on this page will be what the PCs know or can easily find out about their various associates.
Player Characters
Forthcoming!
Non-Player Characters
Information on NPCs can be found below.
College Staff
All characters who work at the College of Sorcerous Arts go here, including professors, teachers, and researchers; servants, assistants, groundskeepers, and functionaries; and so on and so forth. 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.
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.
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