Alexander Belanger's Demesne

Claimed by Alexander Belanger on the grounds of the Blue Heron Institute, which allowed him to claim the office of head master. The are itself are Alexander's apartments in the BHI, when someone is in it the space is much bigger.<ref>The bones of this place had once been an old stone church, picked up once and placed down again, stone by stone. Alexander was almost always present, so he lived in the adjunct living quarters, where the priest and his family had lived. Rooms had been rearranged, and many had a small stone room of their own, while Alexander had a proper area with multiple rooms and the office where the hazy conversation was currently taking place. He had marked out his space as a demesnes, and once it was his in entirety, expanded it further. Once someone was inside, it was larger than the old church itself.

She passed into what had been the church itself, now a multi-purpose area that doubled as classroom, meeting area, entryway, and, arguably, the Heron Institute itself. Everything else was adjacent, supporting. Pews had been removed, replaced with scattered clusters of chairs, there were no walls separating areas, and bookshelves had been set up wherever they didn’t block the light from the tall windows. The place had been picked up and set back down stone by stone, but the windows were exempt from that, and the old stained glass work had been replaced by a dusky, blue-tinted glass, alchemically altered to make it so one could look out, but outsiders couldn’t look in. Within the apse, the farthest point from the front door on the raised stage, a vast and complicated circle sat partially erased. It had been there for months like that, possibly because Alexander liked the aesthetic, but she would be tasked with wiping it clean and ensuring it was both spotless and dry before the summer classes started, and if there wasn’t someone subordinate to her present, she would be painstakingly cleaning it up to ten times a day. - Excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z</ref> He has had the Demesne for close to four years, this helped him secure the headmastership of the institute.<ref>“On August ninth, two thousand and sixteen, you received permission to set up a demesnes on school grounds,” Verona said. “Claiming a place of power for yourself. At the start of the ensuing term, you found your way to the role of headmaster and chief instructor.”

“Helped,” Lucy added, “by the fact that you made promises and deals, tying your demesnes to the school. You stated your intent to use your place of power and the associated building to serve, educate the young practitioners of western Ontario. You were not specific about dues-paying members.”
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“You got greedy, Alexander,” Charles said. “You cast your net wide, attached your place of power to the school, so you could have power over the school and the people in it, and implied the school, in abstract, would be more charity than anything else.”
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“Technically,” Lucy added, “I don’t know that any of your students have to pay dues, I mean, if you want to keep your office and place of power.”

“Did you swear it?” Charles asked.

“No,” Alexander said. “But it would weaken my place of power and my hold on the school, true.” - Excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.2</ref>

It gives him many benefits as well.<ref>AceOfSword: True, presumably because the votes would have been the teacher's votes rather than the students.

Wildbow: Regardless of who it is, the vote's rigged, because Alexander has a demesne on campus. - Discussion on Reddit</ref>

It is meant to be a welcoming place.<ref>Stolen Away 2.z</ref>

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