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You are a denizen of Candlemont, a bustling port city an ocean away from Old Albion; thankfully, due to the distance, mostly spared from the ongoing conflict between the Monarchists and the New Regime. Though Candlemont was unfortunately not spared from its own myriad of conflicts: the rich and poor, academics and businessmen, constables and the occult, and of course academics and other academics. Not one resident would decree Candlemont perfect, but the city was undoubtedly alive; crowds and carriages in the streets, boats in the canals, even into the late hours of the night.
Like many other young dilettantes, you were drawn to the city by the academia. St. Auve’s Hospital was argued to be the best medical school in the New World, while Charnel River University had such vast facilities it bogarted nearly an entire city district with its sheer area. Philosophy, biology, astronomy, and literature were its most famous faculties; but you were drawn to the university’s more unique programmes.
Because of its discovery in the New World, there was a particular field that would never take on in Old Albion as well as it did in Candlemont: the Immortal Sciences.
The Immortal Sciences were a strange (and rather broad) field of paracausal science, primarily beginning with alchemy and later introducing geistery and other supernatural pursuits. Creating gold from lead, fixing spirits into jars, speaking to the dead; the Immortal Sciences were shunned from the public eye for decades, before several impassioned speeches from Charnel River University’s faculty convinced restrictions to be loosened. They were still seen as strange, even blasphemous to the more devout evangelicals, but there was a spreading understanding; in the most recent decades, Candlemont had been siphoning electrical power directly out of the spirit fields.
Candlemont was rife with another supernatural interest as well: the Invisible Arts. But, speaking publicly of those would still have constables showing up at your door. Some insist that one day they will be as commonplace as the Immortal Sciences, but many in the Know are certain that the Invisible Arts should remain just that: invisible.
You are nobody of particular note or fame, but your interest in the Immortal Sciences and Invisible Arts is an interest in power. These paths could lead to vast fortune, but there was more at stake than money; especially in the case of the latter of the two disciplines.
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Like many other young dilettantes, you were drawn to the city by the academia. St. Auve’s Hospital was argued to be the best medical school in the New World, while Charnel River University had such vast facilities it bogarted nearly an entire city district with its sheer area. Philosophy, biology, astronomy, and literature were its most famous faculties; but you were drawn to the university’s more unique programmes.
Because of its discovery in the New World, there was a particular field that would never take on in Old Albion as well as it did in Candlemont: the Immortal Sciences.
The Immortal Sciences were a strange (and rather broad) field of paracausal science, primarily beginning with alchemy and later introducing geistery and other supernatural pursuits. Creating gold from lead, fixing spirits into jars, speaking to the dead; the Immortal Sciences were shunned from the public eye for decades, before several impassioned speeches from Charnel River University’s faculty convinced restrictions to be loosened. They were still seen as strange, even blasphemous to the more devout evangelicals, but there was a spreading understanding; in the most recent decades, Candlemont had been siphoning electrical power directly out of the spirit fields.
Candlemont was rife with another supernatural interest as well: the Invisible Arts. But, speaking publicly of those would still have constables showing up at your door. Some insist that one day they will be as commonplace as the Immortal Sciences, but many in the Know are certain that the Invisible Arts should remain just that: invisible.
You are nobody of particular note or fame, but your interest in the Immortal Sciences and Invisible Arts is an interest in power. These paths could lead to vast fortune, but there was more at stake than money; especially in the case of the latter of the two disciplines.
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