Neuros University
Type: Neighborhood | District: Bevgren’s Green | City: Chrysanth
Ambitious. Innovative. Certain it knows best.
Marble amphitheatre classrooms. Fountains everywhere you turn. The distant hum of airship engines from the campus dock.
Overview
House Neuros inventions and magic help push the city forward, and nowhere is this more evident than at the university that bears their name. Famed for its research into utilizing arcane orbs to power airships, Neuros University is known for believing that knowledge runs the city. Emprix Jania agrees with this sentiment. They disagree on who has the most knowledge.
The campus sprawls across a significant portion of Bevgren’s Green, its own small airship dock marking the sunrim edge.
Landmarks
The Airship Box
Sunrim corner. Five stories tall, an atrium built around a full-sized airship. Doesn’t look like it should stand, but it does. Somebody spent way too much on this. Students have learned to ignore the feeling it might fall on them at any moment. Some people think it’s lame. Airship enthusiasts are not among them.
The Loft
Very center of campus. Domed ceilings painted with murals of famous mages. Walls lined floor-to-ceiling with books. Almost, but not quite, a library. Because it’s actually a temple to Canaedus.
Ashworth Memorial Library
Heartward edge of campus. Where most day-to-day studying actually happens. Reading rooms are often commandeered as meeting spaces for student clubs and organizations.
Residents
Head Dean Geoffrey Adelson (he/him)
House Canae
Despite the university’s name, House Canae maintains significant influence over academic matters.
Lorekeeper Davis Gilman (he/him)
Clergy of Canaedus | Overseer of The Loft
Elderly Orc gentleman. Stuffy. Part clergy, part librarian. Gets genuinely excited when people come to The Loft. Uptight about keeping the shelves in order and the temple clean.
Professor Callista Venn (she/her)
Department of Filimancy
Teaches the magic of connections between people, ideas, and things. Known for identifying links others miss. Soft-spoken but intense. Office walls covered in string-and-pin diagrams.
Professor Aldous Pemberton
Retired archivist. Recently left the city. Was studying the history of arcane orbs.
The Orb & Anchor Collective
A student organization that provides emergency orb assistance to [[Steamlings]] and advocates for Steamling rights.
Founding Members
Coppelia Vance (she/her)
Steamling | 3rd Year | Alchemancy & Arcane Theory
The strategist. Scholarship from House Neuros. Chose her name herself, from a tragic opera.
Wendell Bridger (he/him)
Steamling | 2nd Year | Archemancy & Civil Engineering
The heart of the group. Former airship yard laborer. Carries his dead overseer’s pocket watch. Desperately wants to understand the nature of the arcane orbs that power Steamlings and airships alike.
Jessamine vel Thursen (she/her)
Human | 4th Year | Logomancy & Comparative Theology
From a minor branch of the Neuros family tree that fell from favor roughly 150 years ago. Writes the recruitment flyers.
Tobias Inkwell (he/him)
Half-Elf | 3rd Year | Journalism
Publishes the Gear & Whistle broadsheet, a newsletter about the plight of Steamlings across the Empire. On House Neuros’s watchlist. Close with Wendell.
Newcomers
The founding members don’t yet fully trust them.
Tess Aldering (she/they)
Half-Nephilim, Half-Korian | Grad Student | Filimancy & Applied Mathematics
Gives suspiciously perfect organizational advice. Sketches geometric doodles constantly.
Prudence Ashworth (she/her)
Goblin | History & Chronomancy
Old-fashioned. Cites precedent constantly. Can find anything in an archive. Wears her grandmother’s brooch. The library is named after that grandmother.
Verity Sinclair (any)
Lagari | Rhetoric & Eidolomancy
Charming. Well-liked. Changes background details depending on audience. Gender presentation shifts subtly, constantly.
Silas Endicott (he/him)
Half-Human, Half-Sethari | Theology & Animancy
Gaunt. Asks unsettling questions about Steamling mortality.
Former Members
Ferris Boxer
Steamling | Animancy & Comparative Theology
Former Collective member. Left suddenly mid-semester, saying they were going on an important research mission.