——4E, 201, the last month of seeding, 17th, 10:00——
Faraudah stood at the gate of the Master Academy, a little bored.
As an elf from the Summerset Isle in the south, she has been able to adapt to the severe cold of this northernmost city in Skyrim, but she is still a little uncomfortable with the sharp and cold gazes cast by the residents of Winterhold.
Unlike Morningstar City in the west, which is located in a depression and has a good port environment, the coast of Winterhold (Winterhold) is covered with snow that never melts all year round. The rocks and ice frames form a huge obstacle from Winterhold to the North Sea. There are also some
Pebble beaches are dotted all over it. As a result, sea routes are completely cut off. If you want to exchange supplies with the outside world, you can only rely on land transportation between the mountains surrounding it and the ice sheet between the East China Sea. However, various violent elemental creatures will attack anyone who passes there.
things, so the life of the residents of Winterhold is also extremely difficult.
But the fault cannot be placed on the academy. A passing Winterhold guard deliberately looked at her and spat at the roadside, which made Faraudah a little angry, but in the end she suppressed the urge to use magic tricks to teach him a lesson.
idea.
In Winterhold today, there is only one barren village left in the fiefdom. In a sense, it is the capital of the fiefdom. It is located near the entrance of Winterfort College. The other parts have completely disappeared due to the "big collapse" more than 20 years ago.
Now when I think of Winterhold, I can only think of the Mage Academy and the "small village at its doorstep", and there are rumors circulating throughout Skyrim that it was the Mage Academy that destroyed Winterhold.
What a joke!
The mages of the Mage Academy predicted fifty years in advance that Winterfort would collapse and slide into the Sea of the Undead, causing the surrounding residents to migrate and take refuge. However, they turned a deaf ear to this and even thought that the Mage Academy was alarming to achieve some ulterior purpose.
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Even if the Nords advocate force and disdain magic, they should not be so arrogant. Faraudah once seriously discussed with his colleagues that they should just ignore those arrogant Nord barbarians and let them sink to the bottom of the sea.
, but was rejected.
Finally, when the empire and the Thalmor elves started a war, the mages used various spells to forcibly transfer all the residents of the collapsed area to a safe area, and then the entire Winterfort sank to the bottom of the sea in front of those stubborn people.
What remains is the mage academy protected by magic.
After that... Falaudah was still angry when he thought about it, such strange arguments as "Why not protect the entire Winterhold if you can protect the academy?" "Why don't you transfer our wealth if you can?" "The academy must provide us with a roof over our heads" and other strange arguments.
, even after nearly twenty years, there is still a market in this barren village and town.
This also makes the job of recruiting apprentices to the Mage Academy extremely difficult. Today, there are only three apprentices who have come here, and none of them are natives of Skyrim Province.
When Faraudah was about to end the recruitment and close the gate of the academy, a girl wearing a mage's robe and a hood appeared in front of the gate.
"Well, is it over yet?" she asked in a thin voice.
Although she looked like a blond Nord, with the elf's intuition and the mage's keen perception, she could tell that this woman had no ill intentions at all, so Faraudah decided to give her a chance.
"Did you see the magic well behind me?" She pointed to the "well" emitting blue light on the inside of the door, and said to the Nord girl: "Light it with magic, and you will be qualified."
This magic well is used as regular lighting inside the academy. It only requires the simplest transformation spell "Magic Light" to ignite. It will provide gentle blue light illumination and slow mana recovery until the magic salt in it is consumed.
"Is that so?" A small ball emitting white light appeared in the Nord girl's hand. She raised her hand and threw it into the magic well. A blue light pillar instantly rushed out of the well mouth.
"Very good, you are qualified. After entering, go to Mirabelle Ewen to sign up and accept her arrangements."
Faraudah watched the Nord girl ignite the magic wells on the long bridge leading to the main building of the academy one by one, and was very satisfied.
The magic wells at the door will go out soon after being lit. Their function is only to test the total amount of magic power of the apprentice. Generally speaking, if a magic apprentice who has just awakened his magic ability lights one of the wells, all his magic power will be consumed. However, this apprentice actually
All five magic wells along the way were ignited in one breath, which relieved Faraudah's depression after standing in the wind and snow for a long time.
Mirabelle will definitely be happy that I have found such an excellent apprentice, Faraudah thought as she locked the door of the mage academy that was engraved with stars, triangles, suns and double moons.
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The main body of the Mage Academy is in the shape of a huge cylinder. From the remaining foundation parts after the collapse, it can be seen that in addition to the surface buildings, there are also parts underground.
After passing the test long bridge, the wind and snow suddenly stopped. This is a circular square with a barrier to block the wind and snow. In the center of the square is the statue of Salido, the founder of the Mage Academy and the first chief mage. On the front is a statue containing "elements"
The main buildings are the "Hall of Achievements" and the "Hall of Arcana", while on both sides are the "Hall of Achievements" and the "Hall of Faces", the residences of apprentices and mentors respectively.
The Nord girl looked at Faraudah who looked like he was "looking for someone by himself", shrugged and walked towards another male mage wearing a brown mage robe in the square.
"Hi, Forrest Gump," she said, "Have you seen Mira?"
"Don't call me Forrest Gump!" The male mage was instantly furious: "My name is Anel Gump!"
"Okay, Forrest." The girl continued: "I want to find Mira."
"Oh, wait, are you -" Anel Gan looked at the Nord girl up and down: "Is there any progress in the transformation spells again?"
"It's okay, I'm probably going to be promoted to a legend soon," the girl gestured in the direction of Faraudah: "At least I've deceived one."
"Haha, legend," Anel Gan's eyes twitched: "Mirabelle is being pestered by that 'advisor' in the Palace of Faces. You, a 'new apprentice', don't go and cause trouble."
"Tsk, the two of them could probably argue with each other all day long when they met. I really don't know what Thalmor had to send him for." The girl smacked her lips: "Then I'll go find my father."
"I said, you don't even have the confidence to deceive me, so you dare to go to Tovdir, the master of change?" Anelgan's hand flashed with light, and his face turned into an old, kind but revealing look.
The stern old man's face: "Nonsense!"
"It's not like it at all." The girl spread her hands and walked straight to the Palace of Elements. "Besides, my father will not expose me in front of the new apprentice. I will definitely win this bet."
"Who did she bet with?" Anel looked at the girl's back, shook his head and turned to leave.
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"I think we are fully aware of the dangers of magic. If we didn't know anything about it, we wouldn't be here."
A slightly shrill female voice echoed in the empty hall.
The Temple of Elements is a vaulted hall with a huge magic well. The circular area in the middle is a place for teaching and practicing magic because you can use the magic well to quickly restore your magic. The tables, chairs and bookshelves around the hall are for learning, recording, and
As well as the place where scrolls were copied, in its heyday, this hall, which could accommodate five teachers teaching at the same time, required queuing to enter.
But now, there are only three apprentices standing in the middle of the hall, and the one who teaches them is Master Tovdir, who would not take on this task under normal circumstances. Training new apprentices is generally a new apprentice like Anel Gan.
A mage who has graduated and obtained tutor qualifications is in charge - but since there are only three students at the moment, there is nothing to complain about.
And since the operating funds of the Mage Academy are not mainly based on the tuition fees of apprentices - this amount is actually quite low, except for a few tutors who miss the bustling scene of the past, the masters are basically happy to relax, using the enchantment master Sergis Tu
Rianus said: "If they want to enchant weapons or spell scrolls, they still have to come to us."
"Of course, dear, of course, you all have special talents, I am very sure of this," the master, who was surrounded by three apprentices, said in an old but powerful voice. The dark blue robe on his body looked very old.
But the whole person's temperament does not look sloppy: "But what I am talking about is precise control of magic so that it will not escape from one's control. To achieve this requires years or even decades of research and learning."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's start right now!" The words with a strange hiss came from an apprentice with a tail, and the face under his hood looked like a leopard.
"We have just arrived here. You don't know what we are capable of yet, why don't you let us show you?" The remaining male apprentice has red skin and seems to be a Red Guard who has difficulty becoming a mage.
The Khajiit Zag, the dark elf Brelina Mayo, and the redguard Onmond, these are the only three apprentices accepted by Farauda today, and they all seem to be bad-tempered and destructive.
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"Oh, your last classmate has arrived," Tovdir thought as he turned his attention to the Nord girl who sneaked in: "What do you think of this? Should we put it into practice immediately?"
"I think safety is the first priority." The girl looked away.
"Don't listen to her, we know our strength well!" The tiger man bared his teeth at the girl.
"Oh, okay, we can conduct a temporary test. I will use a shield spell. You use your own spells to attack. I will know your approximate level. Of course, you don't have to worry about hurting me, old man.
I still have this little bit of confidence." Tovdir said as he took two steps back and unfolded a semicircular barrier.
"Ha!" "Scout!"
The Khajiits and Redguards shouted and threw fireballs and lightning, while the Dark Elves flew out several ice blades, and the shields did not move at all.
"Boom!"
Huge flames exploded, and the barrier flashed and almost went out. The other three apprentices were stunned.
"I...learned how to control it because the spell was too powerful." The Nord girl shrugged and extinguished the flames gathering in her other hand.
"Oh, okay, you should practice the spell I just used. After you are all proficient in it, I will take you to explore other ways of using magic in history." Tovdir put away the shield, and then put
Turning to the Nord girl: "I think we need to talk about how to 'control' your 'power' through some 'means', Zero Patient."
Through the camouflage of the illusion, he shuddered when he saw the "Nord girl" with black hair and eyes wearing an academy uniform.
