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@shylarah I highly doubt the Seminary cares whatsoever about a pupil's feelings regarding their warsiblings or if they're feeling too cooped up. Remember, this is a civilization that uses an entire cultural group of people as fuel, and the Red Seminary is probably the most brutal place in all the empire. Concepts like freewill and comfort are unknown there. Kids are fashioned into weapons, and nothing else matters.

Warbands are meant to be kept together for decades, if not forever. While some inquisitors do rise in the ranks and break off eventually, most remain as part of their warband indefinitely. They are trained to be cohesive fighting units, with each member of the group being given a vital role in combat operations. During training, they learn to rely on each other in order to survive, otherwise they can easily lose their lives. Twelve years of this usually forges a warband into a singular, powerful unit of fighters. Those who can't cope with this were gotten rid of long ago.

That being said, it's not like they were completely isolated and cloistered away from the rest of humanity, they saw the other warbands twice a month during training exercises/competitions, and they could also interact with anyone within the Seminary. They also had outside influences like SA soldiers and civilian teachers and the like coming in to lecture them (at least Phoenix did, since it was Creid's practice). It's meant to be less like a school and more like bootcamp, where recruits are separated into different companies and learn to rely and trust each other, but taken to an extreme.

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@shylarah I think the Seminary keeps them isolated so as to ingrain in them a feeling of complete dependence and trust in each other. Inquisitor warbands are meant to act as cohesive units, so much so that a lot of inquisitors view their companions as the only family they have, which is why the terms "warsibling/warbrother/warsister" are used.

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@shylarah @The Angry Goat She probably also had an unspoken respect for Stina, but never outwardly showed it. She viewed anyone with noticable power as a threat to her own ascendance, but didn't go as far as like, attacking them while outside of training missions or anything. She most likely insulted him a few times, yes, but didn't do anything beyond asking for a duel. She isn't evil, just singularly driven and super arrogant about her own abilities, as well as her background and family.

Also, I view the different warbands as being kept sort of separate for much of their time in the Seminary. I see each warband as having their own individual compounds and they really only interacted with each other during joint training exercises/competitions (which probably only happened a few times a month) or rare social functions, like holy celebrations and such. This didn't stop certain people from different warbands from sneaking out and meeting in secret however.

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@CollectorOfMyst Haha, seriously? Well, you're still welcome to show us what you got. :p

@shylarah No, she didn't actively sabotage the training exercises. She was pretty much a lone wolf who barely acknowledged her warsiblings. I don't think she did it out of a conscious malice or anything, she is just one of those people who is singularly focused on one goal and doesn't give a shit about anything else whatsoever, and if you got in her way, you were a target. The rest of Leviathan knew that this was who she was and wouldn't change, so they basically had to shape their strategies while keeping the "Adrijana Factor" in mind. Needless to say, they probably all hated her by the end.

EDIT: Oh, and as far as Ziotea goes. I think Adrijana would've begrudgingly admired her power, for obvious reasons. So, maybe she was like, 10% less of a bitch to Ziotea than to everyone else. Ragnar would have definitely "noped!" the fuck out of any interaction with her though. :p

@Draken I think she would've been intent on proving her superiority over a son of the Bjornley family and would've demanded Ilya to duel her throughout the years. I think, as far as pure destructive ether potential goes, she would have him beat, but he is definitely more clever than her, so who knows how those duels went (if he even chose to participate in them).

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Here's a character that's been kicking around in my head for a while.

Mother Adrijana Zaric
Age: 20



Adrijana is a proud daughter of one of Magnagrad's oldest families, the Zarics of Godsreach. The Zarics have been barons of the ethertrade for centuries and have often clashed with the Bjornlie family, as such, the two dynasties have had a long-standing blood feud. Arijana exemplifies her family's lineage-- she is cutthroat and utterly without mercy when it comes to getting what she wants, which, it appears, is to rise within the Inquisition to be granted the hallowed title of Bishop, Champion of Lord Varya.

An exceedingly powerful warmage, Adrijana's ability to manifest her ether in destructive lightning storms makes her a force to be reckoned with. Because of her upbringing and powerful magic, Adrijana has never felt the need to bond with her warsiblings and has clashed with them throughout her years in the Seminary. When on training exercises, it was a known factor that Adrijana did things her way, and any attempt at working with her would often prove disastrous to the mission. Due to her attitude and her unwillingness to work as a team, her warsiblings have long distanced themselves from her. For her part, she always believed the rest of Leviathan to be holding her back and wanted nothing more than to leave her Warband behind and strike out on her own, a wish that was eventually granted to her.

Strangely, Adrijana was allowed her Culmination before the other members of Leviathan as well as Phoenix warband. She was ordered to serve aboard the VSS Durandal as a junior inquisitor under Father Creid, and is now currently journeying across the eastern sea on her way to fight in El.

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@CollectorOfMyst Show us what you got!

That goes for everyone else too. If anyone has any ideas for like, 7-ish other young inquisitors feel free to present them. :)

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@vietmyke I think a number of us agreed that that would be a cool idea. Is it okay with you?

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@shylarahJust an acknowledgement for now, but go ahead and send me the info! I might have a bit of "Rodion thinking about Ziotea action" in this post. :p

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Okay, soo... since @Drakey hasn't been around I'm going to officially start working on Rodion's follow-up post while we finish hashing out these collabs. After that I'll advance Hassan.

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@Scout Stay safe out there!

Also, jaysus, how do we have 1,000 + posts? That's insane.