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Silverquill
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Shaile Talonrook, Dean of Radiance
Home Realm: Faerun
Subjects Taught: Literature, linguistics.
Dean Shaile Talonrook is a perennially optimistic orator. A master of literature, she often quotes obscure passages from famous texts. Her soul-filling advice and educated references have been known to make people literally glow.
Shaile believes that all people have the potential for good and wishes to teach her students how to make the world a better place. She and Dean Lu often clash over Silverquill’s curriculum, but the balance found between them is far more eloquent than even their words can describe.
Embrose Lu, Dean of Shadow
Home Realm: Ravnica
Subjects Taught: Poetry, creative writing, inkcasting, rhetoric.
Dean Embrose Lu is a master poet whose ink magic is merciless. Scant with praise and quick with a cutting remark, Dean Lu has seen many mage-students scrub out of Strixhaven and has nothing good to say about those who can’t hack it.
A cynic, Embrose believes that most people are in it for themselves. He demands his students learn how to use language-based magic to “get what they deserve.” While he often argues with Dean Talonrook, he holds a deep (if begrudging) respect for the owlin professor.
Breena
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Breena has a talent for getting her way. If she wants you to do something, you won’t just do it—you’ll be sure it was your idea all along. Her students and colleagues alike hang on her every word, and in front of a crowd, she’s a powerhouse of charisma, enhancing her speeches with elegant swirls of ink magic. Though she’s an elite mage who can easily hold her own in a fight, Breena prefers to defeat her foes with words alone.
Nils
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Nils is an optimist, as he believes in every student’s potential for greatness. However, this outlook also means he’s constantly disappointed by their suboptimal choices, and he is well known for his strictness and abrupt scoldings.
Brenneth Blackstone
Home Realm: Zendikar
Subjects Taught: Scrivening, scriptology.
Brenneth Blackstone is a rising star in the study of magical writing and symbols. With a dynamic lecturing style, she attracts students from across Strixhaven's colleges purely for her lessons’ value as performance art.
Fain, the Broker
Home Realm: Ravnica
Subjects taught: Communications, marketing.
Lost an important textbook? Craving some rare delicacy from home? Need something inconveniently forbidden? Enter Fain. He has an extensive network of connections on and off campus, and he can procure just about anything—so long as you can afford his price.
Students
Felisa Fang
Cohort: Senior
Lineage: Vampire
Home Realm: Faerun
Activities: Mage Tower cheer squad
The reigning queen bee of Silverquill. She's stylish, popular, and devastatingly witty. When you're in her good graces, as everyone wants to be, she's the picture of charm—but get on her bad side, and she (and her loyal entourage) can be absolutely vicious. If she can't crush you with words alone, she'll do it in an after-hours mage duel.
Grayson Wildemere
Cohort: Sophomore
Lineage: Human
Home Realm: New Capenna
Activities: Future Entrepreneurs of Strixhaven, Strixhaven Star
Grayson comes from an old, moneyed, and influential family. To him, studying at Strixhaven is a means to an end. Learning business acumen is just as important to Grayson as his classes, so he has joined the Future Entrepreneurs of Strixhaven. Grayson makes a point to know as much about everyone as possible, gathering information until he finds the best circumstance to use it. Having learned to pick locks, he often accesses places where he’s unauthorized, searching for secrets.
Grayson has become a writer for the Strixhaven Star, where he’s responsible for the gossip column. His writing style is biting, and he uses this platform to expose bullies and mock ignorance.
Killian Lu
Cohort: Senior
Lineage: Human
Home Realm: Ravnica
Activities: Student Government (President), RA, Dead Languages Society.
The son of Dean Embrose Lu, Killian holds himself and everybody else to very high standards. Respected by everyone, but close with few, he's a mysterious figure on campus. If students or friend groups get into particularly nasty social disputes, Killian is oftentimes called upon to mediate.
Mina Lee
Cohort: Sophomore
Lineage: Human
Home Realm: Eldraine
Activities: Strixhaven Star, Firejolt Cafe server
Mina’s greatest love is the use of language; she adores how subtle differences in intonation and vocabulary can shape one’s perception of reality. Her fascination with language extends to spells and verbal components. After graduation, she plans to conduct research on the variance of language in spells and how one might tweak verbal components that the greater magical community considers immutable.
Mina’s love of language and nuance has led her to join the Strixhaven Star as an investigative journalist. Here, she reveals truth, corrects misconceptions, and combats injustice. She has also taken a job as a server at Firejolt Café, which not only provides some cash but also puts her in a position to overhear snippets of conversation that might provide leads for her journalistic investigations.
Rubina Larkingdale
Cohort: Junior
Lineage: Human
Home Realm: Innistrad
Activities: Playactors Drama Guild, Strixhaven Show Band Association
When Rubina walks into a room, people take notice. A measured performer with gravitas beyond her years, Rubina is a valued member of the Playactors Drama Guild who can handle weightier roles that more melodramatic actors can’t. This has caused friction within the guild as members vie for parts. Rubina’s stage presence extends to delivering presentations in class. When she orates, one can almost imagine a hardened general marshaling her bloodied and exhausted troops for a final push against a far superior foe.
Rubina is part of the Strixhaven Show Band Association and has moved from playing to conducting. No previous student conductor has demanded and received such unwavering respect as Rubina. With merely a look and a raised eyebrow, she can quiet even the most raucous orchestra sections.
Shuvadri Glintmantle
Cohort: Junior
Lineage: Owlin
Home Realm: Kaldheim
Activities: Student-Mages of Faith, Campus Grounds graffiti eraser
Her peers are often surprised when they learn Shuvadri is in Silverquill College, since its members sometimes earn a reputation as abrasive. Shuvadri, on the other hand, exhibits an air of absolute serenity. Anything that might frustrate or delight another student, whether it’s a poor test score or success at a competition, elicits little outward response from Shuvadri. A deep thinker, Shuvadri is rarely surprised by such an outcome, and she enjoys being a centering presence for her peers.
Also a member of the Student-Mages of Faith, Shuvadri is happy to talk about her appreciation of deities who are devoted to service and community. Many of her peers think she is destined to hold high rank in a temple.