Life in the Academy
Students of the Magaambya
As the new semester at the Magaambya is about to get started, the head of the Magaambya, High Sun-Mage Oyamba,meets with you to congratulate you and answer any questions you have. He’s a tall, charming man with a perpetually distracted look, as the business of running the Magaambya is a time-consuming one. He mentions absently that your exploits as students haven’t made his job any easier, but they’ve made the school significantly safer, and for that he’s grateful. Oyamba also introduces you to your cohort of students, offering a bit of background on each of them.
Among your students are a handful of familiar faces. Two of your former classmates, Ignaci Canterells and Mariama Keitana, are both close to becoming lore-speakers themselves, but haven’t yet fulfilled their final requirements. The cohort also includes the anadis whom you got to know during the last year, as well as Fire-Pot Ubanu.
The other students are unfamiliar to you. Jumimo has been a student at the academy since before some members of the faculty were even born. While the Ekujae elf is more than qualified to become a lore‑speaker, he refuses to take the last steps that would lead to graduation. Onyiji’s entire life path had already been plotted out by her elders before she even came to the academy. As the most accomplished spellcaster and fighter in her home village, the half-orc was chosen over a number of rivals to attend the Magaambya. She has the makings of a talented magus, but she’s a bit arrogant and makes no effort to earn friends. Fardrik and Selozè, two tieflings, are rarely seen without one another. Fardrik is disarmingly charismatic and loves to gossip, making him the perfect Emerald Bough. He uses humor to deflect questions of his past, but has opened up to those closest to him about the oppression he faced as a tiefling in the formerly Cheliax-held colony of Sargava. Fardrik knows Ignaci from those prerevolution days, but the two didn’t move in the same circles and even today don’t get along. Selozè’s parents are Bekyar devil-binders, and his birth was the condition of one of their pacts. He ran away from home at a young age, and arrived at the Magaambya after honing his talents on his own. Fardrik and Selozè met shortly after enrolling at the academy and formed an instant bond that slowly grew into romance. The final new member of their student group is I’boko. I’boko is a brilliant student who excels at nearly every subject but always seems distant. She often spaces out during class, although her work never seems to suffer for it. However, I’boko never seems to get any satisfaction from her work; in fact, the more successful the dwarf is, the more dejected she becomes. She feels incredibly guilty about attending the Magaambya, worried that she’s taking the “easy path” while her family labors in Kiutu.
