Sin Algalossa Tarmendel Fánirë (Ahezza), a visiting professor at ACFL: First Landing’s Campus of Almadén Alchemical College, clasps her head and growls. The table beneath her fingers cracks and starts to sprout leaves. The handful of students in her course “Advanced Theory of Elemental Magic for Non-Mages” knows better and hurriedly disappears. When the professor gets like this, the only thing that saves their necks is that she specializes in wood shaping and not in, say, fireballs.

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