List of BHI Students

A list of students who attended the Blue Heron Institute Summer of 2020 alongside the Kennet Trio.

America Tedd

16, a "Goblin Witch Princess". Rooms with her sister Liberty.<ref name=":10">Students in the Eastern Wing

Dom Driscoll, 10, Beginner Historian
Sol Ferguson, 12, Elementalist of the Great Blast

Eugene Legendre, 16, Sealer and Exterminator

Howie Legendre, 15, Exterminator and Sealer

Salvador P. Martin, 14, Shaman; Spider Breather
Zachariah Nichol, 14, Totemist; Hot Girl Totemist

Beau Austin, 14, Necromancer; Echo Drummer
Easton Songetay, 14, War Mage and Summoner
Myles Sutton, 14, Alchemist; Restoratives Specialist

Davion Reese, 15, Oni Knife Throwing
Damaryon Steyn, 14, Summoner, Eastern Approach
Mike Storey, 15, Spirit Sword / Oni Sword Fighting

Jarvis Staples, 16, Contract Practices, Summoning
Silas Vanderwerf, 16, Fae Magic, Winter’s Bidding
Maddox Willan, 16, Spellbinding, Soulbinding

Lane Gudbrand, 16, Spirit & Wraith Gardening
Maximilian Palaisy, 15, Valkalla, Ghost Weapons

Talos Leos, 13, Caller of the Glass Prison Spirit
Tymon Leos, 14, Caller of the Black Gutter Spirit

Talia Graubard, 11, Beginner Dollmaker, Enchanter
Jorja Leos, 11, Caller of the Drugstore Cowgirl Spirit

Xerxes Wilkins, 17, Duality Host with Bloody Money
Erasmus Wilkins, 15, Duality Host with Aslaug

Corbin Kierstaad, 14, Dabbler, Subversive Practices
Melody Kierstaad, 13, Dabbler, Longevity Practices

Kellen Hennigar, 15, Gore-streaked Undying Archer
Sawyer Hennigar, 14, Gore-streaked Gunslinger
Mccauleigh Hennigar, 13, Gore-streaked Dancer

Yadira Kennedy, 14, Western Kitsune/Oni Practices
Kassidy Knox, 14, Trinket-specialized Collector

Fiona Mace, 13, Astral Projector, Body Jumper
Raquel Musser, 13, ‘Soft’ Implement Collector

Daniella Rowsome, 15, Abyss Drinker, Elementalist
Natasha Scobie, 15, Snowfall Elementalist

America Tedd, 16, Goblin Witch Princess
Liberty Tedd, 15, Goblin Raider Princess

Laila Throop, 14, Large-scale Curse specialist
Fernanda Whitt, 13, Generalist, Emotion Manip.

Lucy Ellingson, 13, Wild Pract. Faerie Swordfighting
Verona Hayward, 13, Wild Practitioner, Dabbler
Avery Kelly, 13, Wild Practitioner, Finder - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref> Has the sides of her head shaved, dresses "pretty normal" in Verona's estimation.<ref name=":13">America Tedd had the sides of her head shaved, wore a sleeveless white tee and baggy black jeans, and a fair bit of eye makeup. All considered, for a self declared ‘goblin witch princess’, her outfit seemed pretty normal. Verona could only imagine what her outfit would be like if she gave the combination of Toadswallow, Bluntmunch, Cherrypop and Gashwad any say over what she wore, or if she wore stuff to appeal to them. She’d probably come out of it looking like an extra in a post-apocalyptic film. Liberty, America’s younger sister, was similar, but wore a tank top with an old bloodstain on it, and when she smiled and cheered for the doll it was apparent she’d filed her teeth down. The braces that had been on those teeth were mangled. ‘Goblin raider princess’. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref> Gives off a dangerous vibe which Verona speculated might be magical in it's intensity.<ref name=":14">It was the look in their eyes, and the sheer fervor with which they got into the craziness of the dolls and how things got out of control that put Verona off. [...]

The Tedds made her feel like she’d felt like she’d felt in John’s house, with Lucy at gunpoint. It felt like things when the Hungry Choir stuff had gone crazy and Brie, who she hadn’t known was Brie, was screaming and crying, convinced she was going to die. It felt like she was in the same room as her dad, while he was melting down in the worst way.

She wondered if part of that was some effect they wore, like they’d earned their stripes and now they had a bad vibe that most people could feel, intimidating others.

She had zero idea if that was true, and her Sight couldn’t see anything on them, aside from more bloodstains, but imagining it was true helped her to deal with it. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref>

She and her sister disrupted a Dollmaking class when their doll became murderous; they laughed and cheered it on as it battled the teacher's dolls restraining it.<ref name=":15">Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref> She was able to cast something which made the doll vomit and weakened it.<ref>The older Tedd sister said something Verona couldn’t hear, and touched finger to lips and moved it away like she was blowing a kiss, but her expression twisted, and it was her middle finger.

The Gothic doll the Tedds and their groupmate had made vomited onto a doll that was trying to grab it. It seemed to break the connection between the doll and its power supply, because the doll collapsed.

Maybe not so subtle.

America Tedd casually spat out a bit of something green, chewing what she didn’t spit out.

[...]

Off to the side, the Tedds’ doll seemed to run out of steam. It didn’t look like it was cut off from its power supply so much as it was getting more and more tired, and slower. It was pinned down by others until it sagged, fell over, and belched out another bucketful of green slime, covering its front and face. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref>

Amine Roscio

Main article: Amine

Apprentice of Durocher. Part of Zed's social circle. Godslayer. A senior frequently found in the study nook of the school.<ref>Amine Roscio
A rare case of our esteemed Mrs. Durocher inviting someone on as an apprentice. Amine took the name of a true god and forced it to unmake its two divine sons before unmaking itself. A perpetual resident of the study nook. He attends Advanced classes. - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref>

Braxton Hart

Goblin King. Although technically a senior student, and he's rented a workshop for projects, he's in jail as of the start of the 2020 summer term.<ref name=":11">Special Students
(Graduate, Workshop, Itinerant, etc.)

Elizabeth Driscoll, Historian
Currently leading a special project, ritual city design

Braxton Hart, Goblin King
Paid for workshop for 2 years time, currently serving a 9 month jail sentence. Workshop is not to be disturbed.

Judah Greer, Technomancer
Apprentice of Raymond Sunshine, using one workshop as a relay point for quick world travel, doing preliminary work for special project that is to begin next year.

Milly Legendre, Dabbler, Sealer, Exterminator
Residing in the rear of Workshop C while taking Advanced classes, for privacy and to be closer to certain projects; is doing contract work for other students to safeguard sensitive special projects.

Omarion Chant, Calendar Ritualist
Graduated student, rented one workshop for a year. - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref>

Beau Austin

14. Necromancer (Echo Drummer).<ref name=":10" />

Brie Callie

Main Article: Brie Callie

Associate of Zed's empowered by the Hungry Choir.

Chase Whitt

Member of the Belanger Circle, the one who brought Nicolette into the Circle as her sponsor. Slightly overweight, and with a swoop of black hair. A member of a prominent non-Belanger family.<ref>He swayed a bit, and his eyes were visibly red even by candlelight. Alcohol and drugs lowered defenses, which was part of why she couldn’t indulge. Chase hinted at his motives in how he looked at her, and in the faint frustration he evidenced. His hair was a bit messy, and his shirt was unbuttoned. He’d been a guy who had been good looking, and could be again, but for the time being, was about thirty pounds overweight, wearing pants that didn’t fit. He thought he was being subtle, unbuttoning his pants to alleviate the pressure on his waistline, and using his belt to keep his pants up, but the ‘v’ of the zipper pulling open at the top betrayed his ploy. His hair remained styled, an older-fashioned swoop of black hair at the brow, his chin shaven, his clothes business casual, even in ‘leisure’.

“Sir,” she said, acknowledging him, as though he’d spoken.

He continued to study her, as if he could decipher something about her that would answer his frustrations. He was her sponsor. The one who had brought her into the circle. Alexander, in turn, was the one who had brought Chase in; Chase had been brought in because he was very, very good at dealing with certain kinds of Other, owing to his family ties, and because of the politics of it. Making Chase an apprentice and teaching him all sorts of things about Seeing made for strong ties with Chase’s family. -Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z</ref> Seventeen.<ref>He had expected something very different when he had found her. Leverage against Alexander, maybe. More power. A grateful girl a year younger than him. Instead, Chase had had to go to school, he’d left her here to act as eyes, ears, and hands on things here, and Alexander had started to barter with her, making her more Alexander’s apprentice than Chase’s.-Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z</ref>

Corbin Kierstaad

14, a Dabbler specializing in Subversive Practices<ref name=":10" />

Damaryon Steyn

14. Summoner (Eastern Approach)<ref name=":10" />, Dabbler<ref name=":20">Talos nodded as he continued, “They found a box, fancy and locked. One of them, Mike, is a lockpicker. He grabbed the box with the idea he’d use it for practice and see what was inside. But when he looked through the keyhole, an eye looked back at him. It whispered things to him. It promised to teach him ancient ways of fighting. And it did. Oni style. [...] It could only teach him so much, apparently. To unshackle its own knowledge he was asked to free some other unfairly trapped Others. He ended up recruiting Reese, because one of the projects required getting onto someone’s property in a minor heist type thing. And they did that for a year. Steyn was a dabbling summoner before, from a super minor family practice, and he stumbled onto them and got onboard. They transferred about twenty Others and moved them to the box, and for each success they each got taught a new trick. Box eventually broke, the Others escaped, and they were all different. Practitioners had to step in.” - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.1</ref>

A scion of an extremely weak Practitioner family,<ref name=":21">“You had that disorganized, offbeat approach that they did. Wide eyed about certain stuff that’s everyday for us. Except then you started throwing around power like it was nothing. These three? They’re not strong, two of them aren’t even from a family dynasty.”

“I wouldn’t call Steyn’s family a dynasty either,” Melody chimd in. - Excerpt from Gone Ahead 7.1</ref> trained only in basic Summoning, Damaryon stumbled upon the Ronin Oni Mages Mike Storey and Davion Reese. The boys had found a locked box inhabited by an Oni and were releasing bound Others and feeding them to the box in exchange for knowledge. The box ultimately broke and released all the Others, many of which had been bound because they were dangerous, all transformed into Oni.<ref name=":20" />

Mike and his friends had a disorganized, offbeat, inexperienced approach to things, wielding quirky but not particularly strong magic. They reminded other students of the Kennet Trio, albeit less powerful.<ref name=":21" />

Daniella Rowsome

15. An "Abyss Drinker" and Elementalist.<ref name=":10" />

Davion Reese

15, specializes in Oni Knife Throwing.<ref name=":10" />

Reese was a friend of Mike Storey, who recruited him to help free bound Others and feed them to an Oni in a box Mike had found in exchange for knowledge. They were eventually joined by weak Practitioner Damaryon Steyn. After a year the box ultimately broke and released all the Others, many of which had been bound because they were dangerous, all transformed into Oni.<ref name=":20" />

Davion and his friends had a disorganized, offbeat, inexperienced approach to things, wielding quirky but not particularly strong magic.<ref name=":21" />

Dom Driscoll

2020 freshman. Ten,<ref name=":3">Are the other newbies as young as her?”

“Yeah, kinda? Dom and Talia are ten and eleven, I think.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4</ref> a beginner City Mage and Historian.<ref>“You’ve been coming here a while?” Avery asked.

“Three years. Dom is from a family of historians. They study patterns in history, to see if any accidental rituals emerge.”

“Accidental rituals?” Verona asked.

“I don’t know how much to explain, because I don’t know how much you know, and I’m not the best teacher. Uh, when non-practitioners do stuff, they can still create rituals. We call them accidental or emergent rituals. If you find a big enough or ancient enough one, you can tweak it or harness it. City layouts forming diagrams that influence economy? Big money, potentially. Patterns in, I dunno, wars followed by baby booms? That could potentially be a whole generation that’s special. They came here to deal with Ray, the guy I’m apprenticing under, so I’ve got the scoop there.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4</ref><ref name=":1" />

Easton Songetay

14. War Mage and Summoner.<ref name=":10" />

Elizabeth Driscoll

A Historian doing a project on city planning. Senior student.<ref name=":11" />

Eloise Miraz

Main article: Eloise

Ulysse's fiance. Part of Zed's social circle through Ulysse.

Erasmus Wilkins

15. Duality Host bonded with a being named Aslaug.<ref name=":10" />

Estrella Vanderwerf

17. Leads her family after the adults were killed by Witch Hunters. A skilled Faerie Magic practitioner focusing on the Winter Court.<ref>Estrella Vanderwerf
Estrella leads her family practice at 17, after all family practitioners over the age of eighteen were executed by the Montreal Witch Hunters. The Vanderwerfs have long dealt with the regimented Winter Court of Faerie, and Estrella puts practitioners with three times her experience to shame as she keeps track of hundreds of plots, many of which have run for centuries. She heads a special Senior project - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref>

Eugene Legendre

16. Sealer and Goblin Exterminator<ref name=":10" />

Fernanda Whitt

13. Generalist, Emotion Manipulator.<ref name=":10" /> 13 or so but acts younger and spoiled. Wears her hair in a ponytail, has glittery makeup, pretty.<ref>Mrs. Graubard was taking her time getting around to them. It looked like she was stuck with a spoiled brat, who Verona judged was about the same age as the three of them, but acted younger.

“That would be Fernanda,” Zach said. “My mom and her mom were kind of conspiring to have me and Fernanda spend time together, a bit ago. Our families are on more or less the same level. Or were. Not a lot of power, no big library, not a lot of contacts, none of that.”

Fernanda had her hair in a ponytail. She wore a top that left her shoulders bare, with little flappy short sleeves that extended to the arms, and skinny jeans. Whatever makeup she’d put on had a tiny bit of glitter to it, from how the light caught on her shoulder.

“She’s pretty,” Verona observed. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref>

Was being strongly considered to marry Zach Nichol before her family got a bump in status from Chase and decided the Nichols were no longer worth it.<ref name=":16">“She is. And it’s more like they were feeling things out before starting to talk arranged marriage,” Zachariah said.

“All of this practitioner stuff is stuck centuries in the past,” Lucy muttered.
“It really is,” Zach said. “You’re new to it, but try living it, and going back and forth from regular high school to your dad telling your kid sister that he’s not sure if he wants the family to break tradition and bring the family’s women into the practice.”

Lucy made a face.

“Yeah,” Zach said. “Exactly.”

“It doesn’t sound like it went anywhere,” Avery said. “The marriage?”

“It didn’t. Her brother got a bump in status, and her family stopped talking to our family. The talks about the two of us stopped being as frequent, then stopped all the way.”

[...]

“I think you dodged a bullet, Zach,” Avery said.

“I’m not one hundred percent sure the bullet’s dodged,” he replied. “Depends on how well her big brother does. If he elevates their family, I might be in the clear.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref>

Fiona Mace

13. Astral Projector, Body Jumper<ref name=":10" />

Hadley Hennigar

A "Gore-Strewn" who "Death refuses to claim", she studies War Magic and Elementalism among other fields. Hunts Witch Hunters.<ref>Hadley Hennigar
Eldest of this generation of the Hennigar clan, Hadley does not shy away from the family practice of the Gore-Strewn. Death refuses to claim her, but War certainly seems to have his hold on her. She gets her sport targeting Witch Hunters. That she’s still with us as the loudest student in the Western Wing is a testament to her talents. She attends Advanced classes, emphasizing war, elemental and price-based fields - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref> Eldest sister of Kellen, Sawyer and Mccauleigh.<ref name=":10" />

Howie Legendre

15. Exterminator and Sealer<ref name=":10" />

Jarvis Staples

16. Focuses on Contract Practices and Summoning<ref name=":10" />

Jessica Casabien

Main Article: Jessica

Partly self-taught, not tied to any of the teachers. A generalist with some focus on the Ruins. Part of Zed's social circle.

Jorja Leos

2020 freshman, ten. Straight black hair, pale, wears mismatched clothes.<ref name=":2" />

An already-powerful Caller who channels a powerful urban drug-spirit<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> named the Drugstore Cowgirl.<ref name=":4">“My brother calls Glass Prison, and rescued Helei, a naiad. A more bubbly and pleasant companion to help keep his spirits up. Jorja taps Drugstore Cowgirl, and she took a bogeyman. Uhh… doing the opposite of Talos, kind of.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6</ref> She has a bogeyman familiar to help mellow out it's influence<ref name=":4" /> which looks like a large, blank-eyed man in a trenchcoat who seems to glide over the ground,<ref name=":2" /><ref>A ten year old girl ran over to hug a boy of about the same age. Behind her was a guy that was six feet tall, hunched over, with an expression like stone. He wore a black trenchcoat that was very weirdly fit around his body, buttoned up from ground to neck, the bottom of the coat grazing the ground and hiding his feet. He also had baseball cap that seemed to small for him, set askew. His eyes were entirely white, except for the narrow pupils, which didn’t rove or move to look around at anything. He followed behind her, the movements of his legs not visible, his head not bobbing with any steps. Like he was floating. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4</ref> or a dog in animal form.<ref>Avery watched as Jorja’s familiar, which had been the floaty guy with the backwards baseball cap, now a terrier, followed the movement of birds through the air. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.7</ref> Looking to learn primarily from Durocher.<ref name=":0" />

To Avery's Sight she is covered in black handprints, with one holding her eyelid down, with black veins radiating from them.<ref name=":2" /> In the Spirit World she appeared to have bright pastel pellets dusting her.<ref>The room’s appearance shifted, to become something very much like the spirit world Lucy had visited together with Verona and Avery. The floor was covered in an inch of water, littered with flower petals. She could see the nose of the ‘mask’ she wore in spirit, and her hair was far longer, pale pink tendrils blowing across her shoulder.

Other students changed as well. Avery had the deer mask. [...] Jorja had little pastel pellets littering her hair and shoulders, in stark contrast to how dark her clothes and hair were, and how grim her expression was. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6</ref>

Judah Greer

Senior, Technomancer.<ref name=":11" />

Kassidy Knox

14. Trinket-specialized Collector<ref name=":10" /> from a minor family of Collectors.<ref name=":22">The girls sitting behind them were a white girl with chopsticks in her straight blonde hair, a girl with an expensive looking sleeveless top with a high neck, and a brunette with an unironic bowler hat, dense freckles, and wild eye makeup that included sky blue eyeshadow and heavy eyeliner. A bit Clockwork Orange. They looked just a bit older.

[...]

“We know. And Verona and Avery,” Chopsticks said. “I’m Yadira Kennedy, that’s Kassidy but we call her Kass, and that’s Raquel Musser.”

Kass was the bowler hat girl. Raquel had the nice top. “I notice you left my last name out of the introductions. Classist,” Kass said.

“Is it classist if I’m being practical? Your family doesn’t matter.”

“Be nice in front of the new practitioners,” Raquel said, closing her eyes for a moment.

“So Yadira Kennedy… the Kennedys are a big family?” Avery asked.

“A good size,” Yadira said, smiling. “We’re not the Kennedys, but we have a presence. After the Oni Wars, my family was the apparent first to successfully re-establish a working relationship with the new Others out East.” - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1</ref><ref name=":23">“You’re a collector? Two of you are collectors?” Verona asked.

“You studied us, did you?”

“Isn’t that normal?” Verona asked.

“Kass picked up a family practice,” Yadira said, since Kass and Raquel weren’t volunteering anything. “Collectors pick up magic items and arrange them in tableaus and diagrams, transfer power between them. But it’s very cutthroat. A lot of the time, if you need something to complete a set, you have to take it from someone else. Without getting into details-”

“Oh, why not get into details?” Raquel asked. “Sparing her feelings?”

“-these two became unlikely friends.”

Kass retorted, “Raquel’s family and their friends made like they wanted a marriage to unite collections, then reneged, took my family’s shit and killed my grandfather when he tried to stop them.”

“He was an abusive scumbag, Kass. You shouldn’t expect the marriage to go through when that comes to light.”

[...]

“Are they like this all the time?” Lucy asked.

“No,” Yadira said. “No, this is a new-ish thing. At least at this intensity.” - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1</ref>

Brunette, wears a bowler hat and exaggerated makeup.<ref name=":22" />

Bristow tutored her in Collecting.<ref name=":24">“What’s up?” Raquel asked. “You guys smell like blood, you know.”

“Maybe eat, nap and shower,” Lucy murmured to Verona.

Avery talked while walking backward, “I wanted to ask, you’re a magic item collector, right?”

“I got some training.”

“Was that training with Bristow? Or was Kass’s?”

“Uhh… yeah? I awoke at ten, spent a year with family, got training with him for a year after. Families as big as mine find it useful to have at least one person with the know-how for magic item handling in-house. Why?”

“Trying to figure out how things connect here,” Avery said. “How was it?”

“He rambles, but he’s a good guy. Knows his stuff. If you end up studying with him, either as an apprentice or as a student in classes here, be prepared for him to get distracted for chunks of time. When I was apprenticing, it was new tech, errands, passion projects. Try to keep asking what you should be working on next, so you’re ready if he forgets about you for a bit.” - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1</ref>

Friends with Yadira and Raquel. The Musser family once stole a bunch of magic items from the Knox family after a deal went sour, which remains a sore spot for them both.<ref name=":23" />

Kellen Hennigar

15. Gore-streaked Undying Archer<ref name=":10" />

Laila Throop

14. Large-scale Curse specialist<ref name=":10" />

Lane Gudbrand

16. Spirit & Wraith Gardening.<ref name=":10" /> Possible relative of Gudbrand from Pact.

Liberty Tedd

15. Goblin Raider Princess.<ref name=":10" /> She's filed her teeth down, and wore a top with an old bloodstain on it.<ref name=":13" /> Gives off a dangerous vibe which Verona speculated might be magical in it's intensity.<ref name=":14" />

She and her sister disrupted a Dollmaking class when their doll became murderous; they laughed and cheered it on as it battled the teacher's dolls restraining it.<ref name=":15" />

Maddox Willan

16. Spellbinding, Soulbinding<ref name=":10" />

Maximilian Palaisy

15. Valkalla (Ghost Weapons)<ref name=":10" />

Mccauleigh Hennigar

13. Gore-streaked Dancer<ref name=":10" />

Melody Kierstaad

13. Dabbler, Longevity Practices<ref name=":10" />

Mike Storey

15. Spirit Sword / Oni Sword Fighting<ref name=":10" />

Mike was an amateur lockpicker who, practicing on a locked box, found it inhabited by an Oni. He helped it by releasing bound Others and feeding them to the box in exchange for knowledge, recruiting Davion Reese to help him, and eventually being joined by weak Practitioner Damaryon Steyn. The box ultimately broke and released all the Others, many of which had been bound because they were dangerous, all transformed into Oni.<ref name=":20" />

Mike and his friends had a disorganized, offbeat, inexperienced approach to things, wielding quirky but not particularly strong magic.<ref name=":21" />

Milly Legendre

A knight of seals. She and her family go around sealing powerful evils, maintaining the existing seals and fighting Warrens incursions; unglamarous work she compares to "magic janitors".<ref>“Milly Legendre.”

“Avery Kelly.” Avery shook her hand.

“Lucy. I’d shake your hand but mine’s covered in conditioner.”

“Cool last name,” Avery said.

“Meh. If you asked around you’d probably hear something like how my family’s a bunch of magic janitors.”

“Janitors? What do you do?”

“I’m a knight of seals. If something too big to kill gets defeated around here, they’ll call my family and we’ll put up a barrier around it. Or on it, depending. Which is a once every few years type thing. The rest of the time, we travel around, checking the old barriers aren’t growing legs or wearing out, and corking up any warren holes.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref> She hopes to find a more pleasant focus at the Institute, but worries she'll flunk and end up a lowly goblin exterminator. She's been helping her family seal the Warrens since she was 12, and has no highschool education.<ref>“I don’t want to take up the family practice,” Milly said. “It’s so dull, and when it’s not dull it’s traumatizing. I’m hoping to find something else I’m good at.”
“Sounds hard,” Avery said.
“If I’m not really good at it, then I’ll get either dragged back or kicked out, and I’m not sure which is worse. If I got kicked out, no high school education or anything, then I’d probably end up a goblin exterminator.”
[...]
“Sounds like you know a lot about it,” Avery said, diplomatically.
“Have to. My dad’s had me doing it for the last three years. Ever since I was twelve.”
“What if the goblins don’t deserve it?” Lucy asked. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref>

Myles Sutton

14. Alchemist; Restoratives Specialist <ref name=":10" />

Natasha Scobie

15. Snowfall Elementalist,<ref name=":10" /> has an animalistic familiar named Lallie.<ref>“Lallie?” Verona asked.

“She’s very human, with no antlers, fangs, claws, fur, or bloody screamy bits. She’s so cute, and small, and very chill. Which isn’t the best pun, considering who her master is.”

“Get dressed,” [...]Lucy said, [...] “That was a cold pun? Vanderwerf? Winter Faerie person?”

“Yeah!”

“Scobie, then. Snowfall elementalist?”

“Nah,” Snowdrop said, blatantly stealing from Lucy’s plate.

“Were you getting along with the familiars? - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.4</ref>

Nicolette

Main article: Nicolette

A young member of the Belanger Circle. Friends with Zed.

Omarion Chant

Graduate. Calendar Ritualist working in one of the workshops.<ref name=":11" />

Raquel Musser

13. A "'Soft' Implement Collector",<ref name=":10" /> possibly employs the same family secret as Reid.<ref name=":12" /> However it has been noted that she isn't close with her family<ref>“You guys are really close,” the chopsticks girl said.

“Pretty close,” Avery said. “Is that weird?”

“No, not weird, that’s the wrong word,” the chopsticks girl said. She had just a bit too perfect of a way of pronouncing words and inflecting that Lucy couldn’t help but notice.

“Some siblings aren’t as close and trusting as you three seem to be,” the girl with the nice top said.

“She’s speaking about herself and her family,” Bowler Hat whispered loudly, hand cupped by her mouth. The girl with the nice top gave her a push, so she fell sideways onto the bench. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1</ref> and that Musser women don't get the full benefit of their family Practice the way the men do. She's Reid's cousin but raised by her uncle Mr. Musser, his father, after her mother was cast out of the family.<ref>“It’s my job to keep these two from puffing themselves up too much,” Kass said, indicating the other two on her bench with a swish of her thumb. “They talk fancy and dress nice but they lean too much on the family name. You aren’t defined by the family you come from.”

"You’re a little bit defined by the family you come from,” Raquel said. “If you try, you can be the best bits of it.”

“You’re going to have to try awfully hard, Raquel,” Kass said, sitting back against the bench. “You’re not a boy, and only boys get the best of what the Mussers have to offer.”[...]

“Was it your dad that was a school founder?” Avery asked.

Raquel looked over, still clearly very pissed, and pissed in a way that made her look hostile even as she turned to Avery. “Uncle. But he raised me, more or less, after my mother was removed from the family.”

“That’s pretty heavy,” Lucy said.

“You aren’t lying. And, I’ll say this, there’s way more to things than gender, like me beng a niece, and not his actual kid,” Raquel said. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1 </ref> She's been said to crave the power and love given to Reid, the heir.<ref name=":25">“It’s a story you see a thousand times, in a certain class of practitioner, probably non-practitioners too,” Silas said. The fact his

name was Silas caught on Avery’s attention, like it was very fitting for a few reasons.  That it sounded almost like ‘silence’, and he maintained a volume that was quiet, precise, and controlled.  That it started and stopped with ‘s’ sounds.  Like a snake’s hiss, his words slithered through the conversation, while that creeping chill extended along connections.  “The chosen heir gets all the privilege, all the attention, love, hope, and expectations.  Meanwhile, there’s someone who gets the opposite.  No privilege, no power, no inheritance, no hope or expectations.  But they want it.  The kid who has it doesn’t care, and the kid who doesn’t have it craves it.  That’s Raquel.”

“Not very flattering,” Verona said.

Silas chuckled softly to himself. His voice had a cool edge to it. “It’s not good or bad. Whether it flatters or doesn’t flatter is up to her. If she can recognize what’s happening and use it, it’ll be very flattering.”

“Exactly,” Jarvis said, sounding far less insidious. He was more the

kid who sounded like a wannabe lawyer or businessman.  Casually

confident, just full enough of himself that he was a bit rigid. “Consider it a win-win. If she remains where she is, within the Musser family, she’s still a point of contact, eager for opportunity and other routes to climb by. And if she somehow rises above the expectations Mr.

Musser has in her, you’re now the friend of someone powerful who is in a
position to reward you for your support.” - excerpt from Cutting Class 6.9</ref>

Bristow tutored her in Collecting. She likes and respects him, despite having to handle his tendency to get distracted and ignore that he was meant to be teaching her.<ref name=":24" />

Hangs out with Kassidy and Yadira.<ref name=":23" /> The Musser family once stole a bunch of magic items from the Knox family after a marriage deal went sour, which remains a sore spot for them both.<ref name=":23" />

Reid Musser

Employed unique family secrets to have two Familiars (Blackhorne and Drown) and nine Implements.

Son of Mr Musser, a school founder. Travelled the world since age 15. A senior, he rooms in the Western Wing.<ref name=":12">Reid Musser
Reid takes after his father, a school founder, but does not necessarily follow in his footsteps. He has been traveling the world since he was fifteen, studying in its various forms. Reid keeps a collection of nine

Implements and two Familiars, Blackhorne and Drowne, a trick that owes

to close-held family secrets. He attends Advanced classes and helms one

special project in the workshops. - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref> Musser's heir and the golden child of the family.<ref name=":25" />

Salvador P. Martin

14.<ref name=":10" /> Very shaggy hair, bad skin, bright smile.<ref name=":17">“My family’s nothing major,” he said. “We had to really stretch to even get me in. But my best friend is attending.”

He looked over at the other table. His friend was a really shaggy-haired kid with a bad complexion who had a bright smile that shone past the shag and skin. He had joined a group with three girls around their age, Fiona, Melody, and Raquel.

Zach frowned at his friend, who was too preoccupied with his groupmates to notice.

Which, like… Zach was at a table with three girls, but he seemed more miffed at his buddy abandoning him than he was at having his

own share of female company.

Verona rolled her eyes, flipped through the book, and asked, absently, “You’re a totemist?”

“Fancy way of saying shaman, which can be fancy. Sal’s family does it fancy. Not for my family. But I’ve got good fundamentals.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref>

Shaman; Spider Breather.<ref name=":10" /> He and his family are described as "fancy" shamans by Zach.<ref name=":17" /> In Dollmaker class he kissed his doll<ref name=":18">“I’ve got-” Zachariah started, but his voice wasn’t strong. He held what looked like a keychain, with things that weren’t keys on it. Each of the things was a figurine, about three inches long, carved stone. He

rested his wrist on the back of the bench, figurines dangling.

“I see… bookish old man-”

“Tutelary Statue.”

“And lion dog?”

“Komainu.”

“And gargoyle?”

“Grotesque. It’s a gargoyle only if it has a spout.”

“And naked lady totem.”

He wrapped his fist around the charms, hiding them, and brought them to rest on his chest, as he lay on the bench.

“It’s not me,” he said. “I did it for a joke, and to stay sane while carving my… I dunno, I’ve done easily a hundred carvings over the years. Then my dad said I should ride the wave of success, whatever form it took.”

“If it’s funny, why not go with it?” Verona asked.

“The joke got old for me a while ago,” he said, arm draped over his eyes. “It’s not me. I’m not that guy. Salvador is that guy.”

Lucy turned to look over at Salvador, who was kissing the doll his group had put together. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref> which grew giant spider legs.<ref>Salvador’s group had brought his doll to life. It stood up in the circle, cracked, and hairy, foot-long spider legs had sprouted from the cracks. The doll’s body dangled, suspended by the legs around it, its head bowed and its arms reaching out blindly. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref>

Best friends with Zach.<ref name=":17" /> He's much more into the "hot girl totem" idea than Zach himself.<ref name=":19">“In the student guide, you were down as ‘hot girl totems’, right, Zach?” Verona asked.

“I didn’t realize that would get put out there for everyone to see. They do that a lot. Salvador says it’s so we know who to talk to when we’re networking. I did it for fun. I figured if I had to spend hours carving something, it’d be a babe, right? Way better than an old dude or monk reading a book. [...] I made one, mostly for fun, and it sold. Other people expressed interest. So that was what I did for most of last year. I’m not sure if they have as much oomph as a tutelary spirit or komainu, but Salvador

said I should put it down when filling out the form.”

“Ah,” Lucy said.

“Salvador thinks I should go all-in on it. [...] I’m taking a break from making statues. I made some to sell to help cover tuition, so… think I’m going to wait six months before making more.”

“What do they do?” Verona asked. “And you’re dodging the question.”

“You’re asking about buying them before you know what they do,” Lucy said.

“Bachelor practitioners buy ’em, and it’s not because I’m that great an artist,” Zach said. “They might make it easier to find a date that’s willing to come to your place, I guess?”

He looked increasingly awkward as he got into it.

“Might make it hard to get a long-term girlfriend,” Lucy observed. “Giant… are they wood? Naked?”

“I give them clothes. Technically. And I do both stone and wood.”

“Would you do a guy?” Verona asked. “Skimpy loincloth?”

“I don’t – no. I don’t know,” he said. “Can we drop it?”

“Dropped,” Lucy said.

“If you can’t talk about it, you probably shouldn’t go all-in like Salvador wants,” Avery commented. “All I’m going to say.”

“Yeahhhh,” Zachariah replied. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9 </ref><ref name=":18" />

Sawyer Hennigar

14. Gore-streaked Gunslinger<ref name=":10" />

Seth Belanger

An 18-year-old member of the Belanger Circle, attractive.<ref name=":8">“This,” Alexander said, reaching down, plucking the joint from Seth’s fingers, “is making you stupid. No more, when you come to my study. I’ll have to reconsider what errands I send you on. Tanner? You’ll take over until I’ve worked out where Seth may go.” Tanner nodded once.

“It’s best you retire to your room, Seth.”

Even dressed nicely, Seth looked like the distillation of a sullen eighteen year old as he worked his way to his feet, the chair not moving for him and the desk right in front of him. He uttered a single, “Sir,” and then left the room. -Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z </ref> Wavy hair.<ref>“We’ll take the library as a study space? Beginner class, Ray will teach here. Seniors, if you have any questions or requests, Mrs. Durocher will make herself available for the morning, and Seth will be making himself available to get anything you need.”

Seth was apparently one of Belanger’s apprentices, a surly looking teen with wild hair. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6</ref>

Alexander's distant nephew.<ref>“He’s using you,” Seth hissed into her ear. [...] “I know. Now please let go of me. Your uncle Alexander is already upset with you for disrespecting him, attacking one of his apprentices. I don’t think it’s a good idea to repeat the process.” - Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z</ref><ref>He was related to Alexander. Alexander had the institute in part because he’d bartered with family, getting the power as a kind of loan to get it started, then bartering again to get the good words, references, and contacts to bring people in. If Alexander’s distant nephew got in any real trouble here, it disrupted that whole engine. - Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z </ref>

A senior at the school<ref name=":5">“Where are the seniors going?” Avery asked. Some of Alexander’s group, Lucy noted.“They come here to collaborate on private projects and take the occasional advanced project, and ask visiting teachers for input. That’s three groups of five or six students, I think, then Seth, a few others.”

Zed included, it seemed.

Lucy wondered what those projects included. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6</ref> although he's graduated.<ref name=":9">Seth Belanger
Seth, once one of the biggest troublemakers at the BHI and the nearby towns, is now a graduate. He serves the Belanger circle and assists with special projects on request while deciding on a course in life. - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref>

Described as a former troublemaker who's deciding on a course in life.<ref name=":9" /> Banned from smoking joints in Alexander's office due to harassing Nicolette.<ref name=":8">“This,” Alexander said, reaching down, plucking the joint from Seth’s fingers, “is making you stupid. No more, when you come to my study. I’ll have to reconsider what errands I send you on. Tanner? You’ll take over until I’ve worked out where Seth may go.”

Tanner nodded once.

“It’s best you retire to your room, Seth.”

Even dressed nicely, Seth looked like the distillation of a sullen eighteen year old as he worked his way to his feet, the chair not moving for him and the desk right in front of him. He uttered a single, “Sir,” and then left the room. - Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z </ref>

Silas Vanderwerf

16. Fae Magic (Winter)

Sol Ferguson

12. Elementalist of the Great Blast

Talos Leos

One of Jorja's older brothers, Caller.<ref name=":1">"Tymon and Talos’s younger sister Jorja joins us, already an adept caller of a greater Urban spirit. She should be recognizable or even familiar to those of you who attended guest lectures with their mother. Dom, as anyone familiar with the Driscoll family knows, is a beginner city mage and historian, and we’re excited to see if he takes after his big sister and parents. I’m also very pleased that a long-time colleague of

mine finally has a child old enough to send to classes here.  Talia

Graubard is a beginner Dollmaker." - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5 </ref><ref name=":2">“Jorja’s the third sibling to come. Her older brothers are already here.”
Zed pointed them out. The girl was ten, with hair about as straight and black as hair got, to the point it looked like it was wet, with the way it lay against her scalp. She was pale, and her clothes slightly mismatched for age, size, and type. She was the one who had run over to

greet the boy, with the large, gliding Other following behind, always

moving slowly and not catching up to her until she stood still for a little while, which was rare.
To Avery’s sight, there were black handprints all over her, with the finger of one handprint hooked into her eye and pulling her eyelid down. Black veins webbed out from the handprints.
“Callers. That’s caller with an a, not an o. Slang for them is Druid or Draoidhe, but I’m not sure how PC that is,” Zed confided. “Most druids tap into the big, old nature spirits. her family taps into

more urban things.  The black gutter, the glass prison, the chemical

lightning. Each kid picks one of these big, unrestrained lord spirits in the same general category, and then sort of taps into it for big, unrestrained, nasty practice.”
“Spirits of drugs?” Avery asked.
“Yeah,” Zed said. “My gentle verdict? Avoid.”
- excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4 </ref> He channels a drug lord named the Glass Prison, and has a bubbly naiad familiar named Helei that he rescued to balance out it's bad vibes.<ref name=":4" />

Tanner Gilpin

One of the boys of the Belanger Circle. He came into power through finding an auspice as an innocent, a sign of things to come. From there, he eventually found practitioner families, and was snatched up by Alexander. He's intelligent and a quick learner. <ref>Tanner had come into the circle through talent. He’d found an auspice, an almost literal sign of things to come, writing on a wall that told of coming hardships, and through that entry point, had lost his innocence and found his way to contact with Others, then to the practitioner community. Alexander had taken him under his wing to avoid letting other Augurs have him. He picked things up fast and was good at politics. Alexander sent him on a lot of ‘errands’, networking and doing business with other families. Tanner had meant something very similar to what Seth had said, but he had the common sense that let him get away with it. -Stolen Away 2.z </ref><ref>Tanner Gilpin
Tanner became Aware after discovering words written on a wall, telling of things to come. He was taken in as apprentice and few if any would disagree that his talents reward the decision. Another graduate, oft sent away on tasks for the Belanger circle. - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref>

Tymon Leos

Oldest brother to Jorja's and Tymon (who he shares a room with.)<ref name=":6">The guy wasn’t bad looking. Fourteen or so. He was rumpled from sleep, with a crease at the side of his face, had a sleepy look that, if

she remembered last night right, was perpetual, and tended to the

skinny side. Nice face, and hair that probably looked nice while it was

tidy but was a black halo of bedhead right now.  He wore a long sleeved
shirt and plaid pyjama pants, with flip-flops.

Something about the fact that he was the first boy she’d seen who wasn’t like, ready for school, Booker aside, and that she wasn’t fully awake with her defenses up, and everything? Her brain did a mental that’s a boy he’s a boy somersault.

She extended a hand, on impulse, and then kicked herself for doing it.

But he stepped forward, across the hall, and shook it, smiling, like it was normal. “Tymon. Sharing a room with my little bro.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref> Caller,<ref name=":1">Tymon and Talos’s younger sister Jorja joins us, already an adept caller

of a greater Urban spirit.  She should be recognizable or even familiar
to those of you who attended guest lectures with their mother.  Dom, as
anyone familiar with the Driscoll family knows, is a beginner city mage
and historian, and we’re excited to see if he takes after his big

sister and parents. I’m also very pleased that a long-time colleague of

mine finally has a child old enough to send to classes here.  Talia

Graubard is a beginner Dollmaker. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref><ref name=":2" /> he channels the power of a drug lord named the Black Gutter. He has a familiar named Dreg, an Alchemist Vestige which takes the form of a rat or swarm of rats.<ref>“Someone’s paying attention. Yeah. With another one of the newbies, and their familiars. Talos and I have ours.”

He put a hand over to the side, and what looked like six rodents all scampered up his arm, one or two ducking under the cuff of his long sleeve, seeming to disappear into his arm with the lump under the sleeve going away, before crawling out again at the collar and shoulder. They merged together into a single, black mouse with patchy fur and pale yellow eyes, with one tattered ear.

“This is Dreg.”

Right. They were the callers of these great spirits of drugs or whatever.

Maybe not boyfriend material. They’d been told to be careful and steer clear.

“Is he the spirit you call?” Lucy asked.

Tymon laughed, suddenly enough it startled her.

“No,” Dreg rasped, speaking with an adult’s voice. “A good familiar is a partner, something you can control, or something you’re willing to be controlled by. Things as large and wild as Black Gutter do nothing except drown you out.”

“Dreg is a vestige. Was Aware enough to dip into some Jekyll and Hyde type alchemy, eroded away a good chunk of his Self. Only a fragment of the person was left, other stuff took up residence.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref>

14, with black hair. Lucy finds him cute.<ref name=":6" />

Talia Graubard

2020 freshman, eleven,<ref name=":3" /> brown hair with blonde highlights.<ref name=":7">Verona could use that to identify Talia, who had brown hair with blonde highlights framing her face, standing beside a doll that was the same height and proportions as her. She had her hands on the shoulders of an even younger girl, who hugged a stuffed elephant. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref> A beginner Dollmaker.<ref name=":1" />

Accompanied everywhere by her familiar, a Canopic Doll named Effy that her mother threatened to replace her with. They were raised together, but - both fearing they would be the one her mother found wanting - Talia secretly awakened and they performed the familiar ritual together.<ref>“My mom made Effy on the day I was born,” Talia said. She didn’t look so bothered to be in front of the class. Avery only liked to be in

front of people when playing sports.  “She said if I wasn’t

satisfactory as a daughter, Effy would drag out my guts, put them inside

herself, take my blood and skin to seal up the doll joints, and replace
me.”

Avery looked around the room, to try to judge why people weren’t freaking out, but the most she saw was serious concern here and there. “Hmm,” Ray made a sound. “The way a canopic doll works, especially if it’s raised alongside someone, given a birthday every time I had a birthday, with parts replaced to match my height and shape and stuff as I grew up, ummm, when

it harvests, it can become human, after.  She could become me. 
I awoke on my own, secretly, then I talked to Effy, and neither of us

were sure if my mom would keep me or Effy. So we agreed she’d be my familiar. That way my mom would have to keep us both or destroy us both.” “Very clever,” Mr. Sunshine said. Talia smiled. “My mom thought so. Things have been so nice ever since. I think she was proud I thought of it.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.7 </ref> It's roughly the same height and proportions as her,<ref name=":1" /> but can't become an animal.<ref>“The power finds its balance. Talia would naturally give Effy some of her power over time, until they were even. Then they would recover together. Eating well, sleeping well, and taking care of needs as human

or Other help that recovery.  Can Effy become an animal?”

Talia shook her head.

“The partnership of master and familiar is often a reprieve for the Other. Temporary freedom from needs, demands, work, or anything else. If Effy required a regular supply of blood and oil, as some dolls do-”

“I don’t.”

“But if you did, Effy, then you wouldn’t require it while you’re a familiar. You get your sustenance from your master or partner. If you had a lifespan, it would be put on pause. Of course, needier others have a heavier drain on their master.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.7 </ref>

She has a little sister with an animated stuffed elephant, too young to attend.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":7" /><ref>A man with longer, wavy hair he’d partially straightened, with red sunglasses, was sitting on the stairs, talking to a younger girl with a stuffed elephant that was moving its head around. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4</ref>

Ulysse Miraz

Main article: Ulysse

Apprentice of Durocher. Chosen. Part of Zed's social circle.

Wye Belanger

A graduate, but still participates in the school as a senior. Alexander's first apprentice, he runs the Belangers' private investigation service. Sleeps in the Western Wing.<ref>Wye Belanger
First apprentice to Alexander, Wye has graduated but returns for classes, to teach beginner Augurs, and to touch base with Alexander as Wye handles the hands-on portion of the Belanger private investigating. - Bonus Material: Student Guide</ref>

Xerxes Wilkins

17. Duality Host with a being named Bloody Money<ref name=":10" />

Yadira Kennedy

14. Western Kitsune/Oni Practices<ref name=":10" /> from a minor branch of a prominent Oni Mage family, perhaps the first family to re-establish relations with the Oni after the war.<ref name=":22" />

White with straight blonde hair, but wears it with chopsticks in it sometimes.<ref name=":22" />

Hangs out with Kassidy and Raquel.<ref name=":23" />

Zachariah Nichol

14.<ref name=":10" /> Of a height with the Kennet Trio, a little chubby, shaved square head. Nondescript and not particularly unnatractive in Verona's estimation.<ref>“You seem to know what you’re doing,” Avery said.

“I’ve been doing this since I was a kid. I got awoken at four.”

“Four.”

Zachariah nodded.

“So jealous,” Verona muttered.

Zachariah was a weird guy. His head was buzzed to the point he was nearly bald, and he had a very square head. Verona struggled to find anything to really mark as notable about him. appearance-wise, beyond that. He was padded around the edges, heavy-cheeked, and a bit older than the three of them, but matched to them in height. He wore cargo shorts and a tee-shirt with a graphic of some woman from an animated show she hadn’t heard of. But as nondescript as he was, his attention was mostly focused, and he seemed assured about all of this stuff.

Being a practitioner since he was four made it make more sense. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9 </ref>

Totemist (Hot Girl Totem),<ref name=":10" /> he specializes in carving "hot girl" spirit totems for sale.<ref name=":19" /> Awakened very young at four and very confident with the basics of the Practice.<ref name=":6" /> He and his family are fairly basic, weak Totemists (Shamans); he had to work and save to attend the BHI.<ref name=":19" /><ref name=":17" /> They focus on Eastern traditions, on producing totem statues that attract certain spirits.<ref>“So what does a totemist do?” Verona asked.

“Mostly we stick to Eastern traditions,” Zach said. “But people get the wrong ideas when we talk about statues. You think of statues walking around, when really, we’re making big, visible signposts for the

spirts to follow.  Put the right statue in front of a house, and raise

the prosperity of the house.” - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.9</ref> He carries a key-ring-like collection of small statues - a bookish old man (Tutelary), lion-dog (Komainu), a Gargoyle/Grotesque, and his signature Hot Girl.<ref name=":18" />

Best friends with Salvador.<ref name=":17" /> Salvador is pushing him to focus on the "hot girl" angle, but he's not especially comfortable with it.<ref name=":19" /><ref name=":18" /> Was being strongly considered to marry Fern Whitt before her family got a bump in status from Chase and decided the Nichols were no longer worth it.<ref name=":16" />

Zed Sadler

Main article: Zed

Apprentice of Ray Sunshine. Friendly with the Kennet Trio.

A senior at the school.<ref name=":5" />

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