The Six Houses

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The Six Houses Those unfamiliar with the Magicademy Order are frequently shocked to discover that the system of dividing students into Houses and setting them at odds with vastly different culture, expected rivalries, fierce loyalty, and constant competition was in fact developed as a unifying system. But in fact, the Grand Codifications led the Architects of the Magicademy Order to realize that on the one hand, the students of Magicademies needed to view themselves as part of the greater whole of magic than as pawns of country and creed, and on the other, that it simply made more sense to group students who would best be able to support and learn from each other’s studies. Thus, every Magicademy has a house, named for the Codifier of the school of magic that house focuses on. Unity comes in that every Magicademy has the same houses, and thus, students of a house are invited to see it as a fraternity and order spanning and transcending the Tenscore Kingdoms. This works surprisingly well -- a wizard from far western Sinorm can travel to the eastern side of the map to Noa, and if he hasn’t already corresponded with someone of his House there, can instantly strike up a conversation on common merits with the first wizard he finds who shares that solidarity. These common bonds do a fair job of diminishing wizard influence in warfare, politics, and other kingdom-against-kingdom venues, which in turn depoliticizes the Magicademies significantly. All in all, a good and beneficial system, which entirely justifies the extra stress and pressure it puts on every student in the views of those who are no longer students. Gekronus Maius Housemaster: Professor Antonius Trammel Colors: Gold fore, green back. School: Discovery Named after the most powerful and influential of the Codifiers, Gekronus Maius considers itself to be the premier of the Houses, studying the most capable and powerful school of magic, and overall takes a better than you approach to life in Diatu Magicademy. That can manifest as arrogant snobbery or noblesse oblige depending on the individual; Gekronus Maius produces kind and helpful wizards at least as often as it produces arrogant and self-centered ones. Whatever their bent, though, Gekronus Maius wizards are urged to conduct themselves impeccably, dress snappily, obey rules of etiquette and decorum, and generally comport themselves to the high, high standards of the house. Gekronus Maius takes the pursuit of the Colormarch seriously, and holds the record for most awarded displays over the Magicademy’s history. Rival House: Purifeul. Gekronis Maius takes particular issue with the snobbishness and arrogance of wizards who practice Modification, viewing them as lessers persuading themselves that they deserve esteem because they know some math, not because of their conduct and attitude. Valhudor Housemaster: Professor Sicenzi Trent Colors: Red fore, orange back. School: Fantastics Valhudor is a larger than life House, as befits the masters of Fantastics, and because its members all need to know at least some music for their school, a fairly loud and chaotic one as well. Most Valhudor students seek to command attention, eager to put themselves first and foremost for everything in classes or hobbies or everyday life; in a House of performers, audience is a measure of success. These competitions are always friendly as a rule (save those involving Eiather students), since Fantastics is also a cooperative school. Some few Valhudor students, however, take the opposite approach -- going quiet, blending in, and being forgotten. Oftentimes even other Valhudor students half-forget their quieter fellows exists, and the loud environment of the House at large is excellent training for one who takes the subtle approach to Fantastics. Rival House: Eiather. Quite unsurprisingly, Valhudor takes incredible affront at those who focus on boring old truth and facts over a good show, feeling that the users of Intimations often go out of their way to spoil stories and ruin performances just for the sake of being ‘right’. Aer et Calculum Housemaster: Professor Dumar Loshakle Colors: Silver fore, black aft. School: Thaumaturgy Aer et Calculum wizards consider themselves the purest magical practitioners of the land, so this is a House which more than any welds magic into its everyday life. Their dormitory is far more enchanted than any other, and Aer et Calculum wizards are expected both by their exemplars and their detractors to whip out a Thaumaturgical solution to any troubles they encounter even when a more mundane reaction would be quicker and easier. Second in the Colormatch competition over Diatu Magicademy’s lifetime, Aer et Calculum wizards feel they embody the true nature of magic best, (Yes, calculus is a Factor of Modification, not Thaumaturgy; Codifier Aer et Calculum was seven generations removed from her descendent Volandris et Calculum, for whom the math is named.) Rival House: Ka. Though no traditional opposition exists, the reinstatement of Sunderings to the curriculum and Ka to the Magicademy have Aer et Calculum students keeping a mindful eye on all of this; Thaumaturgy is often necessary and effective to correct the worst excesses and consequences of Sunderings. Purifeul Housemaster: Professor MarEt Kith Colors: White fore, royal blue aft. School: Modification Most Purifeul wizards claim they are not the math-obsessed maniacs that jokes portray them as, and to that extreme they’re right -- but they cannot pretend they do not live in a house built on fractal principles and geometric patterns. Even the door locks are equations. So Purifeul wizards inevitably have math on the brain no matter what, growing worse as they grow older and more skilled and educated. Perhaps to counter this, or perhaps simply because of Modification’s diversity, Purifeul wizards have very little to unite them besides their magic and its Factors. They range the gamut from solemn theoretical mathematicians to maniac inventors transforming things into new things for the joy of doing so, and all sorts of variations in between. Rival House:Gekronus Maius. Purifeul wizards take offense to the stodgy always-on etiquette of Gekronus Maius, feeling that it is an inhibition to magical development and that wizards should be wizards first and politicians second. Eiather Housemaster: Professor Immiriam Mala Colors: Azure fore, cobalt aft. School: Intimation The ‘know-it-all’ cracks tend to write themselves. Eiather is the most academically-oriented House, in keeping with their magic of knowledge and discovery. Thanks to Intimation’s Factors, it also comes off as a highly religious House, though in the majority of cases the supplications and prayers are self-consciously hollow. Very few wizards actually believe in the gods anymore, and even though Eiather students only must act devoted to cast their spells, they nonetheless receive a fair amount of mockery from other students. Consequently, they also tend to be reclusive and introverted, tending to prefer writing papers and debating academics over socialization. Interestingly enough, however, Eiather students have a fierce rulebreaking streak within them. Laws and rules are secondary to truth and right, and Eiather students are often the first to break into some mystery area on campus or plunder a professor’s classroom for some piece of obscure knowledge they think they need. Rival House: Valhudor. It isn’t that Eiather students hate stories, they just want them to be told correctly -- and since Valhudor goes for style over substance, Eiather wizards consider them little better than con artists. Reality is so much more interesting, even if it isn’t always so prettily symbolic. Ka Housemaster: Professor Cassingale King Colors: Red fore, black aft. School: Sunderings With the study of Sundering unbanned, Ka was resurrected from five hundred years of antiquity. As such, this House has no real identity any more save for “the House of the Sundered” -- unfairly, since the Sundered are in all Houses -- and as a House of dangerous weirdos all inches away from unleashing demonic hordes into the Tenscore Kingdoms. As such, students and staff both tend to shun and scorn Ka wizards. Rival House: Aer et Calculum. The rivalry at the moment is primarily one-sided, with Aer et Calculum students acting like the guards and wardens of Ka, but likely resentment will build amply enough to cement hostility among Ka students quite firmly in turn. Main Community  Network Community  OOC Community Premise  Rules  Game Guide and FAQ  Reserves  Applications  Taken Magic  The Six Houses  Diatu Magicademy  NPCs  Familiars Anastara    (First Ring    Second Ring    Third Ring) Adventures  Classes and Student Teaching Hiatus/Drop  Suggestions and Feedback