A few in game questions

[Rhialto]

@Legate of Mineta: Do students from Hedi College commonly meet with fae in upper years if they are good students?

[Legate of Mineta]

Rhi;

"In an organized way?  No, not as a rule.

Are there often opportunities offered to Hedi overachievers?  Do Hedi students attract the attention of the fae more frequently than either their parents or the school itself would like?  Mayyyyyyybe.  ;)"

[Metis]

32 minutes ago, Legate of Mineta said:

Are there often opportunities offered to Hedi overachievers?  Do Hedi students attract the attention of the fae more frequently than either their parents or the school itself would like?  Mayyyyyyybe. 

Is it specifically Hedi students that end up attracting the attention of the Fae (for good or ill) or is it, more generally, Glamour students that do? Which (I imagine) end up largely being Hedi students since Glamour is Hedi's shtick.

[Legate of Mineta]

M;

"It's primarily Hedi students.  There are rumors of ancient pacts between Hedi as a college and certain Faerie powers - places where Hedi students can have safe passage in exchange for a tithe of flowers, that kind of thing - but certainly none of the Hedi students your MC know have ever experienced anything like that."

[Schwarzbart]

Are there Musical Geniuses that could stay in Godina till at last 3th or 4th year thanks to their musical talent despite bad in Incantation?

[Legate of Mineta]

"... Is that question from Katja Quinnecht?

Seriously, yes, there's precedent for that kind of generosity over the centuries - but it ultimately depends on who's the Godina Regent and how they approach the problem.  Would Leo Massioti consider an underperforming musical prodigy to be worth sheltering and encouraging beyond the bounds of what school guidelines would stipulate?  It hasn't really been put to the test yet, but signs aren't all that favorable."

[Schwarzbart]

For Katja Quinnecht wouldn't Rieulle Chastelain consider to suggest to her taking classes that she can change college to Hedi or Vernin if her Incantaion and Athletic is to bad in Y1?

Or for any other Godina Student that do extrem well in Music but don't have the necessary Attribute to stay in this college.

Looking at an old DLC 17 Grade book of me Katja have First Class Honors in Incantation and a pass in Athletics so I doubt anyone would take actions so fare to change her path. (Keep in mind it was with my class fix mod)

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

"Oh, no - Katja's not canonically in danger of flunking out at the start of her second year!  Apologies if we gave that impression.  She just worried about it behind the scenes in Y1, and we made the easy joke.

That said, as a matter of form, Professor C. almost certainly wouldn't propose any student switch Colleges - a regular professor meddling in College placement (and politics) would amount to a gross breach of decorum.  Appealing to a Regent to give a student extra help, or a second chance, or even an exemption from course requirements: that's all fair game.  But, heck, even Orso would hesitate before suggesting that a student switch College placement; historically, that's been the prerogative of the Regents and nobody else."

[Schwarzbart]

Still who would do something if it turns out that one student is clearly placed in the wrong college and never would grasp the core skill of this college while it looks like (s)he will be suitable for the core skill of a other college? 

[Metis]

I seem to recall actually writing Katja as having that exact concern in one of my Y2 adventures, so nice to see that having Team precedent .

[Rhialto]

6 hours ago, Schwarzbart said:

Still who would do something if it turns out that one student is clearly placed in the wrong college and never would grasp the core skill of this college while it looks like (s)he will be suitable for the core skill of a other college? 

Well, I have long thought that Prudence Cossins is better suited by academic achievement (or lack of it!) if not by temperament to Godina College. Have any professors or regents thought so also?

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

The Regent in question, although they or the Student might initiate a change.

Rhi;

If they have, they haven't made their thinking visible.

[Schwarzbart]

8 minutes ago, Legate of Mineta said:

S;

The Regent in question, although they or the Student might initiate a change.

Rhi;

If they have, they haven't made their thinking visible.

That a Student can initiate a college change with the help of the new Regent was clear for me from how it is supposed to work for the player.

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

Ah- that's done through the Court. You will see.

[Metis]

Are there any realistic circumstances where something Gates-created (or Gates-spawned) could hope to openly be a part of Minetan society, even as just a weird curiosity kept locked up in a mountain prison somewhere, or would any and all such things be burned on sight?

...Asking for a friend. Totally .

[Schwarzbart]

Will we encounter receipt that need extract something from living creatures or even human while the extraction is painful for the creature and it become severely damaged or even killed? Like the still beating heart of a human.

[Legate of Mineta]

M;

"We had way too much fun coming up with snarky answers to this, but the straight answer is: it's hard to imagine what it would be, but if something came through that seemed to have divine provenance or support, the temples of Mineta might have enough pull to make the Captain think twice about setting it on fire and kicking it off the side of the island.  Or if someone or something staggered out of a portal dragging a severed Dragon head behind it.  And, of course, a baby or very young child might end up exiled to a wizard's tower somewhere for study and protection.

Note that there have been historical controversies about music and languages heard through Gates, and there is precedent for those being recorded for private collections (albeit sometimes with very unusual Glamour secondary effects).

But, yeah, as a rule, your friend should probably be... discreet.  ;)"

And S:

"In terms of alchemical processes that require, say, small amounts of blood or saliva: yeah, that isn't uncommon at all, particularly in work with medical applications.

If you're talking about workings that require maiming or taking the life of a living creature: it's not unheard of within or adjacent to some very specialized Astrology traditions (and Mastery).  As potioncraft taught in the general Academy curriculum, though, you probably wouldn't come across it as a practical exercise.

... Probably.  ;)"

[Schwarzbart]

Are material components general a thing for high level magic to supplement it with extra energy?

Anyway that still quite the info we got here, that some high level Astrology actual also need Alchemy knowledge.

[Legate of Mineta]

S;

"Material components usually aren't explicitly necessary, but they can be extraordinarily helpful because they can enable a more direct connection to the Phemes and the general magical composition of the Spell at hand. This is why wands that have received preparation for certain kinds of magic can take considerable strain off wizards and familiars. And, indeed, why substances that can be consumed to accelerate incantations might trim entire bridging Phemes from a Spell - and so on.

First-year students would be discouraged from this kind of experimentation while they're mastering the basics, as there can be significant unintended consequences.

One reasonably well-known case in point: there's a windstorm that's been raging non-stop for a hundred and thirty years in the basement of a certain tavern in the Undergate ("The Singing Wolves") that's attributed directly to a Vernin student experimenting with the use of essential magna lyngurii to draw in "the severest zephyrs" to simplify a minor spell meant to regulate the temperature of a personal forge; his family essentially bankrupted itself to contain the effects before they could collapse the sewage and storm drainage systems around the surrounding neighborhoods. And they got off relatively easy; magical philosophers now debate whether the incorporation of the additional element actually triggered the creation of an "atmospheric quasi-gate.""

[Metis]

Are there any records of human children ending up raised by fey communities? If there are how do those children tend to function (or fail to) upon returning to/visiting human cities/etc.?

[Legate of Mineta]

M;

"Human children do end up in faerie realms, either by invitation or trickery or fate; relatively few successfully reintegrate into their old places in the societies they left behind.  A handful come back charmed, often wealthy, and destined for success (though many of those cases return to the shining lands near the ends of their lives); others find it difficult to focus on mundane things and alienated from their former families and friends, and ultimately just... fade away.

Very rare is the person raised in the faerie realms who leaves them permanently."

[Metis]

How would the Academagia treat such a child if they ended up attending as a student?

[Legate of Mineta]

M;

"Such a student would almost certainly end up in Hedi - actually, Leopold is, in many ways, a useful parallel.  There's no formal mentoring or outreach program, but Professor Piaxenza (and from some accounts his wife) would keep a kindly eye on the kid.

And once in a while the Venalicium Library might intervene as well; in its own way, it has a lot in common with some faerie realms, and it can be a haven."

[Metis]

Hmm...if such a student were to join the Academagia one year after Leopold, would the latter be assigned as a mentor? Though whether he'd be more mentor or mentored in that respect is debatable, I suppose.

[Legate of Mineta]

M;

"It would depend on the new student in question, perhaps - but the odds of Leopold getting "Oan detail" for such a kid would be pretty high."