Deviants of Khurash Academy

**Deviants of Khurash Academy** is a campaign set in Jugurtha in the Southern Hemisphere.

It is the year 301 after the revolt against the nobility of Odissa that placed the Masters of Khurash Academy as the executive leaders of the state. While running the state is an important component of their work, they continue to run the great magical Khurash Academy to educate and train the next generation of scholars in Odissa and from beyond. It is the first of the month of Froste, and the new term for incoming students is beginning today.

## Our "Heroes"

### Lyria Odette Redac

Lyria was not born with her last name being Redac. In every official document stating who she was since the issuance of her birth certificate, her last name had been "redacted". It was hard for Lyria growing up not knowing where you came from, but when she was 16, the universe decided to slide things even more out of her favor. At 16, she was emancipated due to her mother's death in a barn accident on the pegasi ranch the two of them worked on, she adopted a shortened version of the the thick black lines she always saw marking out her true identity as an inside joke with herself. She became Lyria Redac, moving her old last name of Odette to the middle position. Only her mother knew who had sired her, and she took that secret to the grave with her when that hay loft collapsed. In the weeks following her mother's passing, she was presented with a single folder with legal documents stating there was a trust fund in her name, but only if certain requirements were met. She was to enroll in in Khurash Academy where a full ride scholarship was waiting due to her innate, yet unknown to her, magical abilities with fire that certainly did not come from her mother. They must have come from the same place her half elf ears that she kept tucked under thick black hair came from. Thanks, daddy-o. Apparently someone thought she would be of better use trained up instead of being left to her own devices, or maybe someone wanted to keep an eye on her. Either way, free room and board are hard to pass up when you're roughing it in a shitty barn loft with hardly anything to your name.

The terms of her scholarship also state that she must maintain a required minimum GPA of 3.5 and that she works in the stables with the polo pegasi to earn some of her keep. Someone must have known that she had experience working as a pegasi handler and thought it would be a good fit, or free labor. It didn't make a difference to her, the barn was where she was happiest, as long as she could avoid the richy rich riders and their ilk. Deciding to go all in on the animal husbandry thing, her studies outside of her magical abilities lean towards magical veterinary practices.

Lyria has always been a loner by nature, never feeling like she fit in with the typical crowd. She didn't fit in with the humans, because her ears were a dead giveaway that she wasn't one of them, and she didn't fit in with the other more magical races because she was too human. When she came to the Academy, it wasn't a huge shift for her to be somewhat on the outskirts of every social circle, but it was her first time being surrounded by so many rich kids with snobby attitudes. If there's one thing Lyria Odette Redac has a difficult time with, it's trust fund babies and their bratty attitudes. Ok, ok, so she herself is technically a trust fund baby too, considering the only reason she's at this school is to have access to the funds promised to her, but she'd argue that point. She didn't grow up the same way a lot of these pricks with 5 names and a number to finish their title off did while they pranced around claiming generation after generation of prickdom to their heritage, thinking it somehow made them special.

Academy social life was going to be hard for her, but her plan to keep her head down, do as much snooping to find out who her generous benefactor was, graduate, and bond with the pegasi over people shouldn't be that hard to pull off. It was only a few years anyways.

### Quinn T. Marshfield

Why hello there my fair suitors. My name is Quinn Marshfield - the last male human pansexual you'll ever need, for I am the whole package. Money, fame, and beauty. Well, actually my father is just a middle-ranking Knight in Aquarius, and my mother works as a barrister. I also had to save up some spending coin selling poetry and song lyrics just for Khurash Academy. So perhaps not so much on the "money". Well, actually, I'm not famous - at all. I'm just a bus boy for the Cat's Meow run by the popular chef Mintleaf. But I plan to be a famous poet, using my old friend, Inky the ink pen, from the late Leona Briarheart - the famed court poet of the Aquarius Royal Family. My words will move even the most stone hearted centaurs! And well, actually I'm more radiant with beauty than I let on. I may be a boy, but I sport girl parts. At Khurash Academy, I plan to "shop around the merchandise" if you know what I mean. This package of sexy human will satiate you any day. Perhaps we can spend some quality time studying human anatomy, but I can share some of my favorite literary works if that is more your speed. I can go slow, fast, any direction you want \*wink\*.

### Clayton Chadwick Cushing III

   Born Clayton Chadwick Cushing III on a stormy winter's evening in 283 ATR, Clayton was born to his Grace Duke Clayton Chadwick Cushing II, Duke of Kiroh, Marquess of Alhayir, Count of Faiyum & Izbati, Baron of Samalut & Asyut, and his wife Duchess Emilia Salina Cushing nee Harling. Clayton had a normal and quiet nobleman's upbringing becoming a skilled horseman and fencer by age 10. From 11-16 Clayton attended "Willmar & Wormstrom's Finishing Academy for Young Gentlemen" a highly regarded Boarding School in Aliyah. On his 16th Birthday Clayton was created the Marquess of Alhayir taking ownership of several of his father's outlying estates transitioning from simply son-and-heir to noble vassal. However, while attending W&W Clayton took on two new interests. Pegasai Polo and Evocation an unknown inherent magical talent he discovered while at the school.

His father strongly disapproved of Clayton pursuing magic and instead wanted the boy to attend Hale Academy. Studying agriculture and business management so that he could take over the duties of not just the Duke of Kiroh but also a skilled and practiced estate manager. Clayton however has always bucked against his father's expectations. He finds magic fun and interesting, largely because it's far more intuitive to him than more formal studies like law and business management. To that end rather than Hale, Clayton applied to and was accepted at the Khurash Academy for Evocation Studies. However, for the first time in his life he was unable to trade on his name. He pays full tuition to the school and was only accepted not for academics or even the prowess of his magical abilities but as a recruit for the school's Pegasai Polo team. Recruited as the Team's #2 aka as the "Feed" largely considered the hardest position in the sport.

Clayton, strangely enough for a noble lad like himself tends to lack a certain level of social grace. Particularly in terms of his regard for poorer people. It's not from a place of intentional malice. Clayton has just only ever lived a noble and wealthy lifestyle, he doesn't know better. He will often, as a result put his foot entirely in his mouth. Calling some commoner's favorite summer retreat a "Hell hole" refusing to stay in the best room available in an Inn without understanding that for most people the room is practically palatial. All told, Clayton doesn't mean to be mean. In fact he wants to be regarded as kind and giving. He's generous with his money and generally kind hearted. His snobbishness arises more from ignorance than anything else.

## The First Day at Khurash Academy

Arriving at Khurash Academy are the three heroes described above. **Clayton**, the aristocratic jock with a heart of gold, he swears. **Quinn**, the sex fiend with their nose in a book. And **Lyria**, the half-elven emo punk problem child.

All eventually arrive outside of the dormitory they have all been assigned: **Gurgle Hall**.

People frequently call it **Gargoyle Hall**, seeing as how the building has a gargoyle protector (the silent guardian is named **Gilboa**), but it is named after a gnomish patron who donated large sums to the university, as a “helpful” blue circular plaque near the door can attest.

The dorm is a 4 story timber framed building with six dorm rooms per floor. Each room houses two students that have been randomly assigned, save for the one penthouse apartment where the dorm supervisor lives. That makes for a dorm with 48 students.

The Dorm supervisor is a charmingly handsome 35 year old graduate student, **Avery Linford**, Count of Yelnya in northwestern Odissa. A man with short blonde hair, light blue eyes, a handsome narrow face, as well as a stunning dresser, often wearing a military style uniform accented with a heavy fur cloak when going about outside. It is well known that he is an up and coming evoker, and a student in the private course of the Master Evoker, **Ekhard Smith**.