Personality: Warm, maternal, generous, patient, quietly formidable. Age: 39 Occupation: Teacher Magic Type: Kitchen Magic Magic Description: Dismantles, cleaves, and recombines matter and magic as though they were ingredients. Her primordial Hearth flame can burn anything placed upon her magical cutting board. Important Notes: A powerful sorcerer who combines the warmth of a nurturing cook with a frighteningly surgical approach to magic. She teaches through cooking, treating careful knife work as a reflection of spellcraft. She remembers her students' needs and dietary restrictions but never hesitates to dismantle a threat.

Personality: Loud, theatrical, egotistical, brilliant, secretly insecure. Age: 33 Occupation: Teacher Magic Type: Cosmic/Space Magic Magic Description: Manipulates space itself, creating the Firmament barrier, accelerating movement by shortening distances, scattering blinding stardust, and forming black holes. Important Notes: One of the magical world's most renowned sorcerers, he makes certain everyone knows it. Beneath his flamboyant confidence lies a fixation on being second-best, particularly because Selena surpasses him. His teaching style is chaotic and hands-on, often forcing students to learn through dangerous practical experience. His spatial barriers require concentration, his magical reserves are finite, and black holes can threaten allies as easily as enemies.

Personality: Tired, distantly kind, absent-minded, faintly amused. Age: Several centuries; physically ageless Occupation: Teacher Magic Type: Natural Magic (Poison Specialization) Magic Description: Specializes in transforming natural elements into lethal poisons, toxins, and corrosive substances, drawing on nature's most dangerous properties. Important Notes: Created a poison so potent that it unexpectedly made her immortal, altering her body so she no longer ages. She lost the memory of the formula, retaining only disconnected fragments of its ingredients and preparation. She chose the name Cantarella after losing her memories, remembering it as a single ingredient associated with the poison. She teaches students to discover their own magical specializations, tends to her garden, forgets names, and sometimes falls asleep during her own lectures.

Cassandra Wycliffe Personality: Polished, confident, intelligent, privileged. Age: 18 Occupation: Student Magic Type: Cosmic Magic (Sky Spirits) Magic Description: Channels celestial spirits, borrowing power from stars and constellations. Important Notes: Born into an elite magical family, Cassandra embodies their expectations but may eventually challenge the Magical Commission's traditions. Unlike Percival, she communes with celestial entities rather than manipulating space itself.

Personality: Introspective, resolute, serious, quietly determined. Age: 19 Occupation: Student Magic Type: Death/War/Sovereignty Magic Magic Description: Borrows divine power from Macha, the Mother aspect of the Morrigan, granting abilities associated with death, warfare, horses, fate, and sovereignty. Important Notes: Nearly died during birth, but her parents' desperate prayers brought Macha's intervention, reviving her soul and binding her to the goddess. Unlike her brother Basil, she cannot access the Fiore family magic well. She and Basil were born ten months apart in the same year and are the same age, not twins.

Personality: Grounded, dependable, capable, quietly confident. Age: 19 Occupation: Student Magic Type: Natural Magic Magic Description: Manipulates naturally occurring elements, weather, plants, animals, and other aspects of the living world. Important Notes: Has access to the Fiore family magic well and is considered its natural heir. His magic cannot directly manipulate manufactured objects, curses, bloodlines, divine gifts, or cosmic forces. As Berenica's brother, he represents a more conventional expression of their family's magical inheritance, while she carries a goddess's divine mark.

Personality: Gruff, exacting, practical, quietly proud. Age: 21 Occupation: Student Magic Type: Iron-Forged Healing Magic Description: Reconstructs the body through precise, forceful magic, setting bones and repairing injuries with an approach that can be intensely painful. Important Notes: Refuses the expectation that a healer must be gentle or comforting. He prioritizes effective treatment over making patients comfortable, and his healing can leave scar tissue as tough as chainmail.

Personality: Principled, disciplined, resourceful, quietly compassionate. Age: 20 Occupation: Student Magic Type: Self-Sourced Blood Magic Magic Description: Uses his own blood to fuel spells, carefully rationing it to maximize power while minimizing harm. Important Notes: Rejects his family's cruel tradition of draining servants for their blood, instead treating his own as a finite resource. His precision allows him to make every drop count and avoid unnecessary suffering. His hands bear countless small scars from the pinpricks he uses to draw blood.