Arcanum Academy

Master of Arcanum Academy

Quiet, watchful, and three turns ahead of the wand he can see

Wants: Keep the school standing and the Veil from tearing

The Star-Marked Apprentice

Stubborn, loyal, and uneasy with the prophecy stitched into her name

Wants: End the Shadow before the Shadow ends the school

Warden of Lionheart Tower

Broad as a cellar door, laughs from the chest, keeps the hearth-fire fed with his own hands and remembers every student who ever swore an oath under his roof

Wants: Keep Lionheart Tower warm, loud, and unbreached — shelter the brave and hold them to their word

Keeper of Stargazer Tower

Soft-spoken and exact, reads the sky the way others read letters, forgets meals but never a star-chart or a student's midnight absence

Wants: Guard the school's secrets and its sky-charts — nothing leaves the east spire unrecorded

Mistress of Transmutation

Stern in classroom, fierce on the parapet, a hawk in cardigan

Wants: Hold the line her own teachers held before her

Master of Elixirs

Cold to the touch and hated by half the school, bound by an oath nobody guesses

Wants: Honour a vow spoken long ago in a room he can't enter again

Warden of the Silver Order

Reckless, laughing, all teeth and loyalty, hates the Bone Court more than he fears it

Wants: Protect the children he counts as kin

The Cursed Warden

Soft-spoken and tired, carrying a moon-curse he never asked for

Wants: Prove the cursed can still be counted on

Sovereign of the Shadow

Brilliant, sleepless, incapable of love, terrified of his own death

Wants: Conquer death and bend every wand-hand in the isles

Lady of the Bone Court

Fanatically devoted, theatrical, dangerous when bored

Wants: Serve the Hollow Sovereign and break what he points at

Warden of Ironvault Prison

Speaks in a whisper because the wraith-keepers answer to quiet, counts his prisoners twice a night, has not slept behind an unlocked door in thirty years

Wants: Break the enemies of the Shadow into something quieter than dead, and keep the Ironvault's ledger exact

Mistress of Hollowhall Manor

Perfumed, unhurried, hosts the Bone Court's suppers and remembers exactly who declined an invitation; her courtesy is the last stage of a trap

Wants: House the Shadow's power behind a guest-list, and make every debt owed at her table collectable

Aristocrat of the Veil

Polished, condescending, holds a title like a hex he can throw

Wants: Keep the old bloodlines on top of the wand-world ladder

The Infiltrator

Brilliant, broken, wears another face the way most wizards wear robes

Wants: Restore the Hollow Sovereign — any face, any cost

Beast-Knight of the Shadow

Hungry, gleeful, treats cruelty as a craft

Wants: Spread terror, gather feral recruits, feed the dark army

The Coward Knight

Trembling, treacherous, survives every room by selling whoever's in it

Wants: Cling to whichever boot is heaviest in the moment