[quote=@vietmyke]
Circling around 3 character concepts right now- deciding between the 3...

1. Grumpy/Delinquent on the outside, softboi on the inside, spear-chucking geomancer, probably a chip on his shoulder

2. Tomboyish and athletic electromancer, surprisingly well adjusted

3. A friendly satyr from another plane, an aero/ecomancer from an enclave of druids/hunters- blissfully ignorant of human culture
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Sounds good!

Also, I'm thinking the freshman classes in the Academy center around the different ways to use magic, so that they can apply to anyone regardless of affinities. For instance, there could be a Battlemancy class that is kind of like gym class and focuses on teaching them to implement magic into basic self-defense/martial arts forms similar to Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra. Anyone who wants to join the Stormhawks Battlemancer team will find that useful. 

There could be seven Core Classes everyone takes: Battlemancy, Alchemy, Runology, Enchantment, Arcane History, Abjuration, and Evocation, and then Specialized Classes for each specific Arcane Art.  Additionally, there could be electives and advanced classes that become available in their junior and senior years. 

When the main thread goes up, I'll include a list of spoiler tags in the first OOC post, each one containing various aspects of the RP world, including everything we've all discussed here and more fleshed out stuff. I'm thinking a large component of magic could be the runes/ Arcane Tongues, though I think I want to change an aspect I had written before - instead of having multiple ones, it might be easier for the RP to just have a single spoken Arcane Tongue that has multiple runic writing systems engraved into the Aetherscape (so that if anyone wants to include images of their Conduits with runes on them, we're not locked into one style). Anytime we need a character to actually say any part of the Arcane Tongue out loud, we can just write it in English and wrap it in triple brackets, like: [i]"I want you to know," he said, then grinned and switched to the Arcane Tongue, {{{"I have more power than you'll ever know!"}}}[/i]

As for how it sounds when spoken, we can just say it has similarities to Quenya (one of the Tolkien Elvish languages):

[youtube]https://youtu.be/SR7pg3ucnpc[/youtube]