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Za\u2019kar \u2013 Student of the Scroll<\/h2>\n

A Lionfolk that was purchased as a slave by a Sudd Tohsti scholar. Za\u2019kar was one of the few of his kin that could read and write, and was thus used as a scribe and translator, until his freedom was brought about with the untimely end of his master. Chance would then bring Za\u2019kar to the University of Canos after, as the institution desperately sought students after Dragonblight tore through its ranks. He is the only one of his kind to ever attend there, and may be the only one for decades, if not centuries more.<\/p>\n

Za\u2019kar, in his homeland, was considered an archivist. A record keeper used to chronicle the tales of his people, be they mundane or grand. When his clan was defeated, and he was sold into slavery far across the sea, Za\u2019kar was appointed as a scribe and translator by his scholarly master. Many of the pieces he wrote were spell scrolls, learning to imbue them with Minera\u2019s Breath just as any masterful scribe might. Whilst his position was as a slave, he was treated more akin to a loyal servant, having his own quarters separate from the other slaves, and eating the same meals as the servants themselves, much to the contempt of the labouring slaves that worked the fields. Still, it did not spare him from the whip in the times that his works were brought in late, or he erred in his writings.<\/p>\n

Fortune would smile upon Za\u2019kar, however, for the social hierarchy within the lawless lands of Sudd Tohst is turbulent at best. For five years he served under his master, until he was slain in a petty feud with a rival scholar, who razed his estate and took many of the slaves for himself. When he saw Za\u2019kar among them, he saw no need to bring another scribe into his midst, nor trusted the beastman, and left him to perish in the sun-beatan savannah. Za\u2019kar endured, however. The savannah was not unlike his home in Zandoriel. For the first time in years, he was free, unchained, and journeyed north through the desert, in hopes he might find sea. In Dornat Al Karit, he instead found two professors of the University of Canos, who had journey afar in search of students following the suffering Draksborne had endured in Dragonblight.<\/p>\n

The pair were fascinated by Za\u2019kar, offering him a place at their University, in exchange for his services as a scroll scrawler. Whilst he was hesitant at first to accept such a role, and return to the same life he had only just escaped, he now did so by his own will. So he pays his tuition in services rendered for the University, spending each evening translating and inscribing spell scrolls in the Library. A year on, he has become accustomed to life at the University; even the gawking stares. Whilst those within the University tolerate him and his novelty, those in the city beyond are more frightened of the Lion-man than anything.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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The University of Canos is one of the oldest and most prestigious arcane institutions on the continent of Tharador. It is a vessel for transforming raw, unrefined magic-users into elite mages, either of the court or lab, whilst some paths also exist for those who intend to use magic in creative pursuits. It is currently rebuilding itself, two years after Dragonblight tore it down. Whilst campus life continues in a strange, quiet peace, something sinister stirs within. Students continue to go missing, and the staff are turning to desperate measures to find out why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In The Arcane University the party must enter the University of Canos undercover as students, investigating a series of mysterious disappearances with six students currently missing in the school. Only her and one other investigating staff member are aware of their status, and the party will have to go through all the highs and lows of life at the Arcane University to immerse themselves in their roles, and uncover what has happened to the missing students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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