[Taking 10 to knowledge Arcana]<br/><br/>"I did some reading about the school.  That's Algarz, Cramsha, Tamigak, some sort of hive-mind.  I think they're all long gone, though with wizards you never know..."<br/><br/>Before Kleris could answer Rensha, the boy, Andrei, took the initiative.  "Yeah, I'd have to agree, improving yourself, undoing your enemies, and changing the environment, transmutation can do most of what anyone could need, at least physically..."  The boy's appearance was suspicious, and while Kleris would normally dismiss it, there were certainly monstrous and otherworldly students in attendance.  Could they really have a vampire, an undead manhunter, learning beside them?<br/><br/>Speculation was suspended when the dean came and explained the first lesson.  "It looks like we're getting a crash course right now," he agreed with Rensha, giving her a gentle elbow.  Unrolling his scroll, he studied the runes, not really used to others' writing.  He thought he grasped it fairly quickly, but when he started running, something seemed to be wrong when others started easily passing him by.  "Crap, I must have missed something..." he grumbled, feeling relatively slow for his casting...<br/><br/>[Initiative 1+2=3, Spellcraft 11+10=21]