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Mistress Adélaïde Jameux
A rune mistress and our most promising and youngest faculty member at the University of Lille. As clever as she is charming, she is a students and the president's clear favourite and fast on her way to becoming a fully fledged professor.
What are Dark Lords
From a religious concept, "Dark Lord" has evolved to designate a leader who commits terrible crimes against nature and incite others to follow them in this life of debauchery. It is our duty to assist His Majesty in taking them down.
Academic careers
University faculty members are jewels of French society, educating our youth, improving society, & maintaining the superiority of our army. Selected through competitions, progress from Master to Professor to elected posts is fierce but highly rewarding.
Master Isadora Laguillon
An incredibly skilled rune mistress and Master at the University of Lille. Her genius is sure to take the royal court by storm sooner or later and to bring a professorship to her and prestigious patronage to Lille.
Mistress Delphine Lefebvre
A blacksmith and Master at the University of Lille who will go far if she can ever summon the professionalism and dedication necessary for any successful careers.
Structure of the French army
The French army is composed of several armies & of lone aces. Each army is led by a general & made of several corps. Each corps is led by a marshal & made of infantry divisions, 1 artillery & warder brigade, 1 cavalry brigade & 1 elite brigade.
Nicodème's disease
The child of Adélaïde's best friend is terribly sick, and nothing the doctors have done has been able to cure him. Adélaïde investigates what's going on and how to help him...
Herr Streiff's illusion-making pendant
An intriguing artefact worn by Herr Streiff. It can control te way light is reflected in its perimeter of action, thus effectively creating illusions. It makes sense for someone playing the role of a bodyguard to have something like that.
M. Aymeric de Toulouse
One of Adélaïde students at the University of Lille. An unbearable spoilt brat who's also unfortunately very clever. His mother is the king's top royal advisor, and so we're forbidden from punishing him too badly.
The Lefebvres' forge
The forge of Delphine's family, located in Roubaix, near Lille. Her parents and wife work there and she occasionally consult for them. They specialise in protection magic such as shields and armours or everyday items.
The Jameux's jewellery business
Adélaïde's family's jewellery business. Her parents combine their skills to design original, elegant and powerful jewellery for our clients, while she regularly consults for them when they need more complex rune magic and wards.
Pranking at the university
A fine & ancient tradition upheld by students since the foundation of the University of Lille. Aimed at buildings, statues, friends, disliked classmates, or even professors, they are a fun way to practice magic & gain experience in managing group project.
Adélaïde's research project
Adélaïde's research project report & the abstract for her presentation proposal for the Chinese envoys. Five years of research & hundreds of experiments into the materials used to make the runic designs traced on the ground when crafting warding amulets.
M. Flavien Rivoire
The Chosen One in person. A poor orphan who suddenly revealed amazing magic that destined him to one day vanquish the Dark Lord! Now enrolled in the officer track program at the University of Lille, where he's struggling to catch up with his classmates.
Prof. Jacques Tison
The very esteemed president of the University of Lille, successor to His Majesty itself to the title, his biggest fight is still to leave his mark on our University despite His Majesty's imposing legacy and still continued involvement with us.
M. Rémi Catteau
A scholarship student enrolled in the officer track program at the University of Lille. He is failing to live up to the promises he showed because he let himself be distracted form his work by his classmates' taunts. Now the Chosen One's best friend.
Herr Hugues Streiff
An Austrian Ward Master and diplomat, sent to help the Ottomans guide the Chinese envoys through Europe and during their sojourn in Lille. A well-educated man, curious about magic & enjoying collaborative projects.
The Drissoire incident
All runes students and practitioners should keep the Drissoire incident in mind: a full squadron of freshly-graduted officers, all wiped out in a few seconds because their arrogance led them to think they were above basic rune work practice.
Sarine fibres for ritual clothing
Special fibres containing a unique combination of lead and zinc that allows magic to pass through them without interacting with them. This has made them extremely useful for rituals and artefact crafting.
Master Eustache Ligné
An Enchantment master and faculty member at the University of Lille, he's a senior and influential member of the Artefact Department. His research is focused on weaving, and he's a close friend and ally of Adélaïde's nemesis, Laguillon.
Frequency-changing magic
The frequency of magic particles is important for determining spell effects & how different magics & artefacts work together. The Chosen One who'll defeat the Dark Lord is believed to be the next person found who's able to change them instinctively.
Faculty's apartments
Members of the faculty of the University of Lille are entitled to a furnished apartment inside the walls of the university. The size and quality of the apartments depends on your seniority, position in the hierarchy ladder, and research quality.
University buildings
All the different buildings and areas of the University of Lille, so that you can move around without getting lost!
Parisian Blue—the new fashionable dye
Chemical research is a top priority for the glory of France and the supremacy of our industry and army. But in addition to its serious aspects, it can also be fun & lucrative, as exemplified by the invention of the new Parisian blue dye.
The Two Spanish Wars
Two wars have opposed us to Spain in the past 50 years. Started for the possession of a mine in the Pyrénnées where some of the new primes elements had been discovered, they have brought us glory but also a Dark Lord's apparition & the current civil war.
Prime elements and magic
The elements that are the base of all matter & determine how an object will interact with magic: no interaction, weak to very good conduction, absorption, repulsion, & weird interaction. A quest to discover new elements & their application is ongoing.
His Majesty, King Bernard Flahaut
Our elected and very popular king, the previous president of the University of Lille and a war hero. He has led us to 2 victories against Spain and revolutionised society by outlawing rituals and banishing the Dark Lord from France.
Melle Jeanne Elleboudt
A student in the officer track at the University of Lille. She's de Toulouse's best friend and ally and is very conceited and convinced she knows best. This makes it very difficult to teach her anything despite her talents and seriousness.
Clothilde Berthier
The Dark Lord's most trusted lieutenant and a former member of the lone ace division. She is known to have a twisted and cruel mind and to reveal in tormenting the people around her and in setting traps for foes and allies alike.
Captain Sagette
The lead duelling instructor at the University of Lille and an ex-captain of the lone ace division of the army. He's known as a the most terrifying faculty member of the university, a well-deserved reputation...
Prof. Martin Debruyne
A highly esteemed professor of medicine, a good friend of the king & the 2nd most important at the University of Lille. He isn't happy about being forced by the king to teach a first aid class in the officer track & is not afraid of letting it known.
Master Germaline Tellier
A Rune Master and teacher at the University of Lille. She's a big gossip and Laguillon's best friend and ally. She also leads a workshop that provides the university with fabrics for practicals and experiments and the army with officers' uniforms.
Mme Hortense de Toulouse, First Royal Advisor
The King's First Advisor, known for her sharp mind, cutting comments, & arrogance. She played an important role in the Spanish Wars & in the Dark Lord's banishment from France. Her son is in his first year in the officer track at the University of Lille.
University Programs
Content of the officer track program of the University of Lille, main modules taught by the diverse faculties, and their teachers.
Forging magic
Forging magic is the combination of chemistry, alchemy, enchantment, and it aims to imbue deeply a material with magic to make this magic stronger and more resistant. The material is then ready to be either used directly or worked on by other Masters.
Rune-based magic
Runic magic is the combination of a symbolic script & geometric patterns to affect the flow & properties of magic. It fixes & stabilises magic & makes it flow more efficiently. It is used to make wards or craft magical artefacts but is hard & dangerous.
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Romantic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fantasy, Alternate History (especially 19th century France). Profiles
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I'm working on The Magical University of Lille.Main WIPs
1) The Empire of the Covenant: Set in a huge federal empire ruled by powerful mages linked to the ancestral magic of their Lands. One Fantasy Romance short story written.2) The Magical University of Lille: Alternate 1850s France. Set in a university with lecturer characters.
3) Portal to Sérannie: Portal Fantasy, going from France to a secondary world influenced by Roman culture and that is on the brink of a civil revolution.
4) The Engineering Corps: Science Fantasy, Alternate 1845 France. Focus on the engineering corps of the French army during the French revolutionary wars.
5) Rome and the Sasanians: Alternative 340s Roman Empire.
6) Divine Tyranny: Set in world where gods are all-powerful, walk among mortals, and mess up with their lives.
7) Soul Jars: Merchants-Mages steal the soul jars of the ancient Mages-Kings from their mausoleum and use their souls to power artificial bodies that are enslaved to their will.
8) Dark Lord Seduction Plan: in a world where Light & Dark magic and political parties are on the break of war, set on the the Dark side.
9) Challenges of Magical University Life: slice-of-life in a magical university.
10) Victorian Evil Scientists: 19th century Europe, evil scientists work fun experiments in the service of a Dark Lord.
11) Magical Maths: magic is practice through complex maths, making mathematician extremely prestigious. Also deals with disability and discrimination.
12) The City of the Hundred Fiefs: each fief of the city is controlled by one powerful mage, and all are at war against each other. To thrive in limited areas peaople have built upwards.
13) Imperial Soulmates: Sci-Fi Fantasy with magitech anchored in plants and fungi, with everyone having a few soulmates all over the world (people with identical magic).
14) Metas: for WA events and list of challenge articles. See my author world for more info about them or just click on their names.
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