Student Sheets

[supernal]

List of classes currently running in the academy for reference of continuing participants:
Core Class List.

Individual threads forthcoming.

Below is the new template for student character sheets; it is in the form of an in character application to add some more depth to the academy. Check the link for the old thread, and examples of previous character sheets: Click Here

Legal name:
Preferred name:
Birth date:
Location:
Classes taken:
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---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.



---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

-Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

-Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

-Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.

-Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.

-A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrates the importance of diversity to you.

-Topic of your choice.

Credit: Damon.

[Faustus]

Legal name: Donovan Amadeus Cutler.
Preferred name: Donny.
Birth date: June 10th (Owl)
Location: Gaian Academy.
Year: Junior.
Classes taken:
• Basic Humanoid Races.
• Introduction to the Schools of Magic.
• Squad Level Tactics with Avent Reicher.[/freshmen year]
• Gaian Cosmology with Vaile Trasimene.
• The Adventure with Ha'arksaan Sandwalker.
• Herbalism.[/sophomore year]
Classes taking:
• Terran Engineering. (0)
• Alchemy. (0)
• Elemental Theory I. (0)
Adventures undertaken:
• Explored the Underdark and briefly met a drow!
• Interned as a Cartographer in Artifacture.

Note: The following information is from Donovan's freshman file (basically I copied it from my past application).

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

Before I found the Academy, I spent my time being mentored by a number of different influences. The experience was very rich, and I learned many things. Since joining the Academy, what time I spend outside of the grounds I spend either reading or adventuring!

I love to adventure. I love going into dark caves and big forests. I love traveling to other countries to learn about their customs and their practices, and perhaps some of their lore and investigating which hold any water. If any that is.

I'm also going to be interning for Artifacture as a Cartographer while balancing my schoolwork. If I see my grades beginning to slip, I will gladly postpone my internship to focus on school. Education is the way of the future!

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

When I took my very first life I was . . . apathetic. In hindsight my indifference frightens me. Now that I better understand what it means to be human, though I suspect that my studies are not even halfway complete, it makes my stomach flip-flop to think that a human being was capable of such detached curiosity.

I did not mean to kill him. I understand now that the taking of life is sometimes necessary, many times not, and now I can act rightly and take a life when it is necessary and not sleep at night with a heart too heavy to feel. But that day I did not understand rightly. Even though it was for defense, I took that life without knowing.

It was not right.

In my mind I did not understand what I just did. So I denied it. Pushed it away where my eyes could never see. In my heart, though, many things were understood and these understood things trickled slowly into my mind while my soul was in effulgent meditation. I woke up with much pain in my heart, so much that I thought I would die then and there. So much fear filled me and so much anguish. I cried without knowing why I cried, but I understood.

Now I was very sad. I spent much time alone and cold and shivering, crying until my whole body was dry of liquid and then I would crawl to the lake I slept near and drink until my stomach bulged so that I could curl up and cry again. The blood on my hands and my clothes, which I did not know to wash off, were stuck on me know. I tried to scrub it clean but blood stains like nothing else and I knew that I was never meant to forget.

Much anger filled me. I raged. I cut many things until my blade dulled. Then I punched many things until my fists broke. Then I wept again for many days.

I woke up and finally knew what I understood. Death is as inevitable as life is. Destruction and creation must operate in concert. Destruction alone is entropy and will leave behind nothing but ruins; creation alone is chaos and chaos serves only the anarchists. Together, and together alone, do we find the medium on the continuum of life.

[soulbrand]

Legal Name: Esben es Aetheim III
Preferred Name: Esben.
Birth date: August 4th, River.
Location: Gaian Academy.
Classes Taken:
• Ars Magica
• Traps: 101
• N/A
Classes Taking:
• Terran Engineering
• Ritual Magic
• N/A

Note: The following information is from Esben's freshman file (basically I copied it from my past application).

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

I spent a fair amount of time in my father’s study, taking part complex machines (such as pocket watch, which he always hated) and then scattering the pieces in jumbled mess on his desk to see if I could put them all back together and have them work just as well—of course they did.

My friends and would also take hikes in the woods, but those had to stop when a bully tried to beat up a friend of mine and I felt the need to introduce him to a rock, but something changed when I picked the rock up, and it became a sharp blade; it was then my parents got nervous of an ‘ability’ and I was sent here, to the school. I really love music though, if I had to keep going.

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

A bird, I saw a bird once that looked as if it was capable of tearing my eyes out, it swooped in; this was the first time I knew fear, I knew the power in his caw—it was something I knew I wanted, to be that bird. But now I ask how can I become something that takes to the skies, swirls only to cause both screams and awes?

I don’t know. I couldn’t begin to possibly understand, perhaps my father did?

No, he wouldn’t tell me, I broke too many of his watches. Perhaps Davis would have told me, he was always stern, a love for combat; it was he who taught me the correct way to make a fist. A shame he died but it was expected, so I didn’t cry. It wasn’t like me to cry, and in fact, that was the first time I felt anything but joy.

I didn’t feel that often either, unless I was breaking watches. Did I digress? I don’t know this either.

[|°ὺ₯₳ↄĸJONES]

Legal name: Justice Cartyr.
Preferred name: Albert Speer.
Birth date: Mid-spring.
Location: Terrenus.
Classes taken:
• /
Classes taking:
• Live Combat (I)
• Analytical Paradoxical Chronomancy
• Terran Engineering

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

As a child, I remember playing with granite blocks of various shapes and colors, stacking them high and wide. I use to create all sorts of Romanesque structures like: coliseums, pantheons, mausoleums, and such. My mother inspired me the most to build for she was the lead Architect of Nu Martyr when our land parleyed in Ayenee airspace. She was always delighted with the finished product.

I enjoyed no other hobby more until my father introduced me to a sword on my eleventh birthday. He was a stern teacher, unforgiving whenever I forgot a lesson, and scolded me when I failed. Unlike my mother, he critiqued me, heavily; I cherished his punishments and the very few times he'd praise me. I never got to spend much time with him and when I did, I tried my hardest to soak it all in.

To this day I feel that's why the art of war and swordplay grew unto me. Had I become a warrior sooner, just maybe I would've been able to spend more time with him before he passed.

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

It was cold when I came to, my body sprawled atop a primal alloy platform naked and vulnerable to the elements. My first memories were of my failures of the past and those of the present. What struck the deepest was the loss I took from Primus. I died that day. How I lost I don't remember, but what I do know is that I failed my nation when I promised my people— my son —victory.

Ashamed of myself; I refused to return home because I was afraid— embarrassed to confront my people with broken promises. So I remained here in Terrenus, weak and pathetic, in solitude hoping that someday I'd gather the strength to better myself and maybe one day return home. Maybe.

I know I'm a coward, and my father is probably turning in his grave as I write this letter. But all that matters now is the promise I made to myself. And should I break that, there's no hope for me.

[Beautiful.Story]

Legal name: Victoria Grace Blackburn
Preferred name: Victoria, or Vic
Birth date: June 23ed (Owl)
Location: Gaian Academy.
Year: Freshman
Classes taken:
• none
Classes taking:
• Alchemy
• Geomancy I
• Live Combat I

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

Before the academy I Would spend a lot of my time researching Alchemy and the art of battle. I would spend lots of time taking hikes and teaching myself of the outdoors. I learned how to hunt and to provide food for myself.

With my family, we enjoyed helping others. We spent a lot of time traveling the world and learning about customs and languages.

As of lately I have been playing with the art of Alchemy and have the desire to learn more.

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

When I realized what I had done, it was already far too late. I killed my brother with the very art I wanted to know about. I tried to play god and because of it he died. He screamed the entire time, the longest five minutes of my life.

After that tragic day I learned that it isn’t a game. Not the art of Alchemy and Magic, it was dangerous. Using knowledge of magic and the elements to bring the thermally ill back to health had backfired. Learning what the art was for was the challenge in this world. I had learned that I can only reconstruct object but I couldn’t change the cores of life.

Everything that had happened has taught me that if I learn more about Alchemy and magic, maybe I can prevent others from making the same mistake. So I aim to improve myself by attending this School and building a network of awesome people. I hope to be a useful contribution.

[circa.cipher]

Legal name: Mikhal Shay Klein
Preferred name: Shay
Birth date: June 7th (Owl)
Location: Gaian Academy
Classes taking:
• Herbalism (0)
• Elemental Theory I (0)
• Alchemy (0)

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

I love going out in nature. I will wander out into a forest or even go swimming all the time.

I will also be found in the library often, searching for books for my next classes. I like to stay one step ahead of the game.

If I'm not outside or in the library, I'll be eating or in my dorm room studying.

I haven't contacted my family since I left for the Academy.


---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

I've had a long, dark scar on my eye ever since I can remember. As a child, the other neighborhood kids would avoid me and say I was possessed or infected. Whenever I asked my parents what happened, they said it was a farming accident, but I didn't understand how a baby could end up in the middle of a field where the farming was actually going on.

Because the kids in the neighborhood only treated me with the utmost disgust, I was left with my little brother Sam to play with. While we often played happily together, I couldn't help but feel I was missing out on something in the community. I suppose the other children's treatment of me is what made me decide I would be nothing but nice to people I met. Then again, they're also the reason I hide my scar from people with a mask, or maybe it was the shame of my mother that covered my face.

Unfortunately, I overheard a conversation between my parents about the real reason I got this scar. That was when I discovered my "father" was not my biological parent and begged my parents to send me to the Academy. They still have no idea I know the truth, and I plan on keeping it that way until they feel I'm old enough to know. I suppose I'll never know when I'm actually old enough to know because that night left more than just this ugly, black scar on my face.

[Batikblu]

Legal name: Jetta Bright
Preferred name: ...Jetta
Birth date: March 22nd [Scorpion]
Location: Gaian Academy
Classes taken: n/a
Classes taking:
• Elemental Theory I
• Ritual Magic
• Live Combat I

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

Jazz.

Oh, I suppose I need more than a single word.

My first hobby is probably music. I love listening to it, singing to it, trying my very best to play along, and ignoring the glares from people that perhaps aren't as enthusiastic about music... or my renditions of them. I can only play the flute, but that doesn't mean I won't try other instruments as enthusiastically as possible. I'm in the process of learning the strings (old and new, cithara to guitar). I have a soft spot for jazz and traditional, a weird combination.

As a healer and vessel for my God, most of my work is volunteering. Carrying the spirit of the divine light, I travel to amass experience and learn more of the beauty in the world around me. As much as I say that though, a person's innards are not really that pretty, per say, and being covered in them isn't either. For the sake of granting others another day in the light and beauty of the world, sometimes you have to put your own appearances aside. Not everything is solved with a dose of magic. Sometimes you need to align the rib cage before you can fix it. It's a fascinating occupation with both its messy and pristine moments. Apollo has blessed me with opportunity, and I'll continue working hard until I can become one of his blessed Celedones.

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

Quite a few lines have been messily scribbled out.

I think the hardest lesson for a healer to learn is that not everyone shares your beliefs or your God's lessons, especially when it comes to the value of life and strength. Some people do not value their own life and do not want you to help. Some people do not value the lives of others and are not conflicted in taking it. One refuses your gift, the other abuses it.

It's a bitter pill to swallow and it can be hard to trust the people who first teach you of it. Even your closest friends.

[Fallen Joy]

Legal name: Aaliyah Cianna Marigold
Preferred name: Liyah
Birth date: May 22th
Location: Gaian Academy
Year: Freshman
Classes taken:
• N/A
Classes taking:
• The Adventure
• Live Combat I
• Alchemy

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

The call of the wild has always been strong within me. Perhaps the wording may sound discomfited to you my dear reader, but nothing is more physically and mentally arousing than the sheer experience of something new. Civilization only has so much to offer to a girl creature like me. To adventure, travel to places I have never been before, tasting, smelling, and feeling the ambiance of the mysterious is a craving too strong for me to resist. I have a lot of animalistic desires and motives, more than I can list or describe, but none stand more prominent than the instinct to live a life untamed and unafraid of what the world has to offer.

But perhaps I am being too philosophical. Forgive me. I have seen the world through too many pairs of eyes. Muse on that for a moment, would you? Ultimately, I am a creature that enjoys understanding. Understanding who you are, and understanding who I am. Adventure, study, and every so often a simplistic relaxing day on the beach, in the forest, or within the arms of another person tickles this fancy.

As for hobbies? Forgive me, when I think of the things I like to do, my mind tends to overload with contradictions. In a sense, I love and hate everything I do. You’ll have to interpret that on your own. I just do things as they come, you know? I never really stuck to anything specific.

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

I have nothing to say.

Who am I

Sometimes I feel as if I'm not nor

I just want to know who I am.

My mother told me that the first thing I did when I was born was transform into a rabbit. A few moments later I transformed into duckling. And the shifts just continued and continued until I stabilized a week later.

I suppose due the nature of my existence, I never really understood what I was meant to be. This has always been a personal dilemma of mine. Imagine seeing the world through the minds of different animals. I could feel their animalistic desires course through my mind and body, tempting me into action from the very beginning. I held the killer instinct of a predator, and the frightened demeanor of prey.

I had a lot of identity crises in my youth. A lot of murders accidents.

The most bemusing event in my life was taking one. One moment enjoying experiencing the taste of their blood, the cry of their scream, and squirm of their body…than the next I was revolted, scared, and traumatized. Too many times has the animal daunted the logic moral of my mind. Too many times has it daunted me in the presence of a friend an innocent.

I could go day after day, month after month, even year after year as a particular animal, losing my sense of being before an unknown source triggers me into a transformation and I suddenly remember I am a shape shifter something else. I discovered this is more than my physical appearance. Normal shape shifters harness the body of the creature, I harness the spirit. I have transformed into the Suujali of the Wastelands and discovered more to the beast than a violent, mindless, being. Perhaps this is why I have limitations and time intervals. Some spirits can never be copied. Not for long anyway.

In the end, I had have no identity. I am everything within me, and anything I have yet to become. I could be you by tomorrow. This is why I love to understand. Because I can understand. I can understand creatures; wild and chaotic beasts that people seek to kill and destroy. I can find a reason for them to be saved.

But who am I? is Aaliyah Cianna Marigold? What part of me is the animal I become and what part is…me? There must be more to me.

So here I am, constantly exploring, searching, waiting for the day I discover my true face.

[Alexei]

Legal name: Alexei Serov
Preferred name: Alexei or Sasha
Birth date: August 23 [River]
Location: Gaian Academy
Classes taken:
•N/A
Classes taking:
• Live Combat I
• The Adventure
• Traps 101

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

Fighting.

I wish to always test myself, and push myself. Communication wise, I have a hard time understanding people, and their actions. It also seems people have trouble understanding me themselves. I fight, not solely for the sake of it, but to express myself through the use of my body, and my blade. Learning new techniques, and strategies, and learning to implement tactics both in one on one fights, and against multiple opponents. Be it in the streets, a ring, or on the field of battle. Personally, I do not seek to kill others, but I myself will not allow myself to be killed, so if the need arises, I will not hesitate.

Even though I have traveled, I have found it only as a necessary solution for my need to test myself, rather than for enjoyment. Not that I don't enjoy it, getting to see new places, smell new smells, and even eat new foods, there is always different things in other areas of the world. One town could prepare a meal one way, while one no more than a few miles away, could prepare it. So if anything, I guess it's just simply that I like to eat new foods. Never know when I might eat again, so I find in necessary to enjoy every bite.

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

As a fighter, I have come to understand the different meanings behind conflicts. Many fighters hold certain reasons for entering combat. Some for money, some to sate the blood lust that fills them, and flows from them in waves of deep anger. Many, like me, do it to test themselves, and to become stronger than they are. The hardest thing for a fighter to handle, is loss. To lose a battle, can effect a fighter a great deal, even I, having experienced losing, have tried to cope with it. Some are unlucky enough that once they lose, they also lose the desire to continue fighting. Luckily, my masters had made sure to direct me on the right path, and taught me to continue.

To stand up again, after falling, training and pushing oneself to continue, is the greatest asset of a true fighter. To stand, and to continue moving, is what keeps me from becoming weak, as long as I continue moving, and testing myself, I will continue to become stronger.

[Casanova]

Legal name: Andro Sixx
Preferred name: Dro
Birth date: Early-summer
Location: Gaian Academy
Year: Freshmen
Classes taken:
• N/A
Classes taking:
• Elemental Theory (I)
• Live Combat (I)
• Traps 101

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

I've been given an opportunity to learn. Thankfully, I want to become a master. I need to know more. Be the best. Have no equal. These sound like the qualities of a good student because they are.

My hobby consumes my life, so, not all of this form will be complete.

In my leisure time, I enjoy a tall glass of sweet tea, hot.

---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

There was a dream that I cannot forget. It reminded me of war but there were no soldiers, only me and a few others with me. Together, we slaughtered what I believe was a prison. People locked themselves inside a room and we hunted them down. When I found them, my viewpoint switched. I saw through the eyes of one of the scared people behind the metal bars that barricaded the room from myself and the people with me. I sensed the full extent of their fear and felt the heaviness in their chest. I saw my body stand and smile behind the door and a jet-black arm moved across the room like a streak of lightning, grabbing the man's face who's eyes I saw through. Everything became black and I woke, frightened by death. I came to the conclusion that I only have one thing to fear...

[Morgan]

Legal name: Marianna Juniper
Preferred name: Marie
Birth date: June 6 (Tree)
Location: Gaian Academy
Classes taken:
• None
Classes taking:
• Gainism I
• Elemental Theory I
• Herbalism

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

Father says I have a natural talent with plants and nature in general. I'm inclined to agree. At home, I tend to my gardens and there is always an abundance of fruit and vegetables which we give to those who haven't been as fortunate as us.

I have a tendency to find injured or stray animals; that or they seem to find me. Father says they're more apt to find me since I have a tendency to lose my way quite often. But, I manage to mend their wounds and find them suitable homes or reintroduce them to their natural homes.



-----Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.


When I was five or so, Father took me to the Temple of Gaia for the first time. I was angry with him, my father. There were many things a child my age could have been doing at that time; like swimming in the small watering hole near our village or playing tag beneath the cool shade of sycamore trees while Mother served sweet lemonade and cinnamon dusted starcookies. Instead, I was making that difficult trek across Terrenus, with Father, to hear a wise man speak of grown up things.

For days I said not a word to him as we travelled on foot. An eternity seemed to pass before we finally reached the Temple and, even then, relief wasn't granted as the scorching heat blazed down on us, tanning our skin like animal hides as we waited outside the Temple for a chance to hear the man speak. I clung to Father's hand with my own, afraid of getting lost in the gathering crowd, and as I remember seeing my hand in his and noting how different they were. His were large, deeply tanned with scars that ran across gnarled knuckles while his palms were rough and calloused. Mine were soft and pale, despite the reddening from being in the sun's rays for too long, and there was barely a scar; save the one I got when I fell out of one of Mother's fig trees. Father had been there, too, ready to scoop me up into his arms and hold me until I'd stopped crying. I resolved that day that Father was the strongest man I knew.

Finally, we began to make progress as I followed Father across the threshold of the Temple's double doors and I thought how wonderfully cool it would be inside. But, it was not. As Father ushered me into one of the pews, I could feel my clothes sticking to my skin and suddenly, I wished we were still outside where at least we had a hot breeze to dry the sweat from our bodies. Exhausted, I laid my head on Father's shoulder and fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but when I woke up, there was a man on the pulpit. The strong, noble features of his face were framed by gold locks of hair that fell past his ears and when he turned his head, the light from above caught the golden strands and it seemed to cast a halo around him. He had raised his hand and the people grew quiet. But, when I turned to ask Father who he was, I noticed the man cast no shadow and I gasped. The man heard me, I think, because when I looked at his face again he was smiling and his eyes seemed to stare right into my soul. From that moment, I was captivated. His sermon that day was about a young girl and hundreds of starfish that washed up on a beach one day.

When the sermon was over, Father lifted me into his arms and, silently, we left the Temple. We were quiet until we reached the small inn where Father had retained a room for us. It wasn't until after we ate our supper and I had bathed, that Father tucked me into bed for the night. I could see the exhaustion etched into the fine lines that skirted his eyes as he patted my head and wished me sweet dreams. I realized, then, how much Father cared for me. I thought about how we made our journey across Terrenus and whenever I complained of my feet aching or the muscles of my legs tiring, Father would lift me up onto his shoulders and carry me. I had rested, but Father had not.

I was foolish and selfish in my anger for Father and it wasn't until I heard Odin Haze's sermon did I realize how much Father loved me.

You see, -I- was Father's starfish.

[The Hound]

Legal name: Mortimer Valerius Drake
Preferred name: Mort, Drake,
Birth date: December 13th
Location: Gaian Academy
Classes taken:
• None
•
•
Classes taking:
•Undead Physiology and Sociology
• Introduction to Necromancy
• The Adventure

---- Please list your principal extracurricular, community, volunteer and family activities and hobbies in the order of their interest to you.

Ever since I was young, I have always enjoyed reading. In life it is the only place I found a haven, the only place I could truly call home... I remember every page, every text I have ever read, just as if it was fresh in my mind... My books were my only friends, and in many ways they still are my escape... Only within their pages I find... Haven... Sanity.


---- Please write a short personal essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data.

-Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.

-Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

Have you ever felt as if you were never quite yourself... Have you ever had dreams so vivid, so different that you woke up thinking you were another person? If not, consider yourself lucky, because when your mind is no longer a safe haven, you have nowhere to truly hide. There must be something wrong with me, or I must be insane... But if I were truly insane how would I know?

It all started when I was 10 years of age, after I read our family history. Turns out the Drake Family produced several weathered warriors, muscular and powerful.. Like my father, who looks rather like a bear. All of the generations of men in our family are big, muscular, and tall... Except for me. Hell, I can barely carry a sword, and it kills my father... I remember finishing the book when an onslaught of images assaulted my head.

The first anomaly is that the room I was in disappeared and I saw an enormous creature, a dragon if I am not mistaken... Second anomaly: I was fighting said dragon, with a sword in hand and a staff in the other... Third...

--Third, I was not in my body. I remembered feeling the worn sword's hilt in my huge calloused hand... I remember my war cry, and the taste of venison I hunted, skinned, and killed. I remember the lovely kiss of a woman in the winter's
night, and I remember the ring which the dragon was trapped upon. I am a warrior! I am Valerius Drak--

I gasped as I came to, finding myself dripping sweat and cursing loudly, as I had when I slaye-... I had not slain anything. I had never tasted venison I hunted myself, wielded a sword in my calloused hands, or even kissed a woman. Hell's Bell's, I was ten... I remember running from the library, followed by whispers I could not quite place and seeing shadows where none were...

That night, the first dream hit me like a brick, and I felt old age take a toll in my body... I saw a flash of a lovely smile, a drain upon my body, and I woke up thinking of my wife... Or his wife.

I need help. Ever since then it's been like this, and when I sought help my family cast me out, with nothing but a bag full of coins, a change of clothes, and the blasted Drake Family Ring... Am I insane? Is what seems real...? And why do I feel as if this part of me is growing... I feel things around me move, I hear they speak.... And now I always hear the same thing...

"Release us!"

[Neru Amhran]

Legal name: Livsli, Veronica
Preferred name:Raven
Birth date:08:12
Location:Gaian Academy
Classes taken:
• N/A
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Classes taking:
• Elemental Theory I
• Traps 101
• Live Combat I

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How am I supposed to answer this? Crow would say it isn't a matter of what I do best, or enjoy the most as it's No. I need to answer, not argue. I suppose I enjoy being out in the wilds, feeling close to whatever you call it around here, nature I guess. Nothing compares to the freedom of exploring the world.

That doesn’t make sense. I should keep it simple, these people aren’t him, they wouldn’t understand.


I like flowers and the wind… and kittens.


If anyone brings this up I’ll deny it. Don’t even try.

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(There is half a page of various starts, comments, and things scratched out)


I’m afraid of myself. I know magic is all around us, in us and all that. I’ve seen strange things and met stranger people, who can kill me with thoughts, and things too horrible to imagine, but what I fear most is that from all my experience growing up and being taught by an old man named Crow, is that in the end I have no purpose beyond being fuel for the fire that’s another person’s flames. Yes, I’m special as I’m touched too, but I’m not terribly special. I want to be though. It was a dead man’s wish I come here to you people to make sure I don’t end up the same.

[maddenedhatter]

Legal name: Broderick Caelan Worthington
Preferred name: Brody
Birth date: March 3rd
Location: Gaian Academy
Classes taken:
N/A
Classes taking:
• Elemental Theory (I)
• Alchemy
• Runes (I)

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I love to explore and find new things in the world.

I like to pick apart various objects and figure out how they work, and what makes them able to work. I enjoy understanding the makeup of things and having knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses.

I love discovering new creatures throughout Terrenus and facing ferocious beasts in battle.

I enjoy blacksmithing, as my family is composed of blacksmiths, and I've also received training from my elder family members in ways of combat. I am well-practised in dual-wielding.

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(In this essay exists a lot of ink splatters and places that look like quills have broken. Some places in the parchment have indents so deep they could've ripped holes through it.)

The disappearance of my older brother, Elric, came as a sudden shock to me. He and I had never really gotten along very well, and the very day he died I remember telling him that I didn't want a brother if it was one like him. We had both gone out to Timber Creek and I'd stormed off in a sudden fit after he'd bossed me around one-too-many times. It was a very clear day, but the creek was particularly rough. I could hear Elric calling my name in search of me. In my frustration I began throwing sticks, rocks, anything I could across the creek, swearing to myself and making a lot of noise. I remember hearing a rustle in the bushes, and suddenly a lycanthrope leaped at me, claws outstretched. I had heard legends of these vile beasts but had never seen one up close. I was a small child and it overpowered me easily. I screamed out in agony and tried to dodge its jaws. I wasn't under its power long, but it felt like an eternity before Elric showed up and knocked the thing off of me. He, like my father, was on the larger side of the family, very tall and weighing well over 200 pounds. Saliva dripped from the lycanthrope's jaws and Elric grabbed my wrist and dragged me onto my feet. He told me to run, as fast as I possibly could. So, for once in my life, I did as he told me. I remember having to tell my parents what happened, the looks of dismay on their faces, and disappointment on my father's. My brother was never seen again. I don't know if he survived the attack. Perhaps he became a lycanthrope himself and could not bring himself to return home. That day, I learned that as much as I hated my brother, as much as I hated my father for treating me as a lesser to him all those years, I had to be more like him. Not in size, strength, or skill, but in his will, and his courage. From then on I learned to be brave, to protect others, to fight against forces of darkness and wickedness, and dangerous creatures. Alas, my training is not over yet.

[Clairssida]

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Legal name: Circe Moore (A longer profile on my character can be found linked on my profile page)
Preferred name: Circe (Or Circ as a nickname sounds like Cer-s)
Birth date: June 12, 1994
Location: Gaian Academy (Or soon to be there anyways)
Classes taken: N/A

Classes taking:
• The Adventure
• Live Combat I
• Herbalism

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Um well sirs and madams not sure how its best to do this.
Being raised by gypsys and all i guess I like to travel as a hobby. And I enjoy performing. (The gypsy thing comes in later as a part of her character development. She doesn't know shes a Harpy.) I always cooked for myself and made my own clothes. And I was a guard for our caravan.
I like to just wak in the woods.
I enjoy fire walking or dancing. Oh I love to dance. And i enjoy hunting and faloning.


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-Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.


-Topic of your choice.

(The parchment is slightly torn and old. Wax has dripped on parts of it slightly obscurring a few nonnecessary words. The hand writting is surprising clear and fluid.)

The first thing I remeber is waking up, alone in the middle of the woods. I was in a sort of nest like structure with red feathers strewn about. It was oh so very warm.
But I knew I had to leave. I guess I was about 7 or 8 at the time and as I wandered the forest alone nothing attacked me. A marvel in itself because I later found out that the forest was teeming with dangerous creatures. I came across a group of gypsy hunters after a time. I'm not sure of the time span though. I was different from what they were used to, gypsy women had dark skin and eyes. Along with dark hair. My flame bright hair was something of a commodity as were my golden eyes. My pale skin, which to this day has not burned or tanned, was odd. Incendiu fiica were their name for me until I told them my real name. It meant Fire Daughter.
From that day onward the gypsys took me in teaching me about life. How it was every man for himself. To take what I could and earn when I couldn't. I had to learn how to make myself useful, or be left at the side of the road.
But my true techer was the wife of the caravan leader. The head man acted like he controlled the whole caravan but it was really his wife who controlled it. From her I learned most of what I know today. She was the one who taught me how to disguise my hair under a boys hat and steal from those who never look down. She taught me how to cheat others out of their money. How to bargain until I got the price I desired. And how to be a winning act. How to draw all eyes in a room to me. She taught me how to dance, and she devised my act. At first they taught me how to dance, adding a little magic to make it look like I was surrounded by flames or emerging from them. Later in my life she found out I had an affinity for the element. And that the fire itself couldn't do damage to me. (Although if I spent overlong periods of time in the fire it would start to hurt.) So our act changes and I started dancing in the fire, drawing large crowds to our acts. The woman was no mother to me, she made me learn how to make my own clothes or steal them from others. And I had to gather, and cook my own food from the day I was taken in. I paid for my stay with the money I earned and stole, the rest I saved up for cloth or clothes or potions incase I got sick.
But without her I wouldn't have learned how to support myself. I learned from her how to make myself useful using my natural talents to my advantage.