Some relationship details for Antonin and Gregoroth. Let me know if anything needs to be changed.
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Father Antonin's relationships
When it came to Warband Phoenix, the White Necromancer treated the pupils of that class much the same as he did other trainees, with kindness and a scholarly warmth, with one exception. Recognizing Mother Astraea's incredibly gift for healing magic, Antonin was her master in cultivating these arts for much of her childhood. Throughout the years, as master and trainee, the two shared a distant if not cordial relationship.
Antonin didn't seem too interested in the Inquisitor or her future, never taking note of her bruises or her acoomplishments on the stone training yard, but was seemingly obsessed with her magic. He dedicated himself to teaching her how to master it. Oftentimes, he would call her inborn magic "a miracle among miracles", for it was an exceedingly rare occurance for a child to be born with such a gift. For his part, Antonin was unlike any of the other instructors in the Seminary. He never punished her for her mistakes, or broke her to the point of tears in an attempt to test her willpower. Instead, he was as a gardener, cultivating a prized fruit through many long seasons. He would only teach her once a week, and though these sessions were draining on her ether, it never became as brutal as anything like her physical training. Indeed, it mostly seemed as though he was observing, and not teaching her. To her surprise, her gift seemed to blossom on its own.
Whenever Astraea took part in his lessons, she would notice how he never seemed to make eye contact, and appeared to look through her whenever he did. On the one occasion that her curiosity got the best of her and she allowed herself to sense Antonin's emotions, she was confronted with something wholly unexpected from the friendly, warm instructor. The depths of despair and sadness she felt upon seeing his true emotions was unlike anything she had ever felt. Within Antonin, she felt an all-enshrouding pain-- physical, emotional, and spiritual. It was as if he had been broken into a thousand painful fragments and a third of those pieces had been stitched together again. After taking one glimpse at his inner self, she never did it again, and quietly continued her training with him until Antonin was called to the Elurian front a few months before Culmination.
Father Gregoroth's relationships:
Gregoroth was a terror, an unyielding battering ram that continuously broke the members of the class, allowed them to rebuild themselves, and broke them again. He had a seething distaste for weakness, and did not suffer it. The Great Bear seemed to exist solely to snuff the unworthy from the world, and didn't care for the shattered pieces he left in his wake.
He was good at his job, for it forced Phoenix to become as steel in order to survive. Out of all the pupils, he took pleasure in torturing Stina the most. Through the years of punishment and Stina's enduring of them, it became clear that Gregoroth had taken a shine to the young man. Gregoroth would often berate Stina, calling him a stupid weakling, but laughing all the while. He would often beat the young man into a bloody pulp, and then nod in approval when Stina rose to his feet. It was a sign of respect between master and student, and there is little doubt that the Great Bear's teachings helped fashion Stina into the Inquisitor he is today.
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