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Henzler Senior had been Head Chimericist of the Hawksong Mages’ Tower for decades, nearly a century… But she was Archmage now. And when had THAT happened? With the death of the previous Archmage, and the ‘restructuring’ of the tower faculty after the Demonology faculty were purged and the Tower Inquisition stripped of authority beyond the Iniates’ Village. All THAT had taken place during the fateful years of the Southern Demonist and goblinoid terrorist attacks which had destroyed the Endless Fountain during a major gala—back when the Tower still HELD such large and audacious public festivals. At that very same gala, you found records of the Chimerical Studies faculty producing a number of unique and especially marketable ‘pet chimeras’…
And all of this had taken place APPROXIMATELY TWENTY YEARS AGO.
How old was Izirina Henzler? Eighteen and a half? Her mother had become Archmage just a year—or less!—before that. Power had consolidated around her department and discipline at JUST the same time, as those tasked with investigating magical crimes had been neutered of their authority and another prominent department—with its OWN rising star, a prominent head Demonologist—going missing, believed KILLED. The official sources said it was the work of Southern terrorists who had infiltrated the Tower…
But gazettes and other less-reputable periodicals told other tales.
