As the students are ushered out, a giant humanoid dressed in the clothes of a barbarian tribesman and holding a gnarled staff with a human skull attached to the tip steps inside. "If magic does not operate and we are too far from supplies, ladies and gentlemen, we will have to fall back to hunting and gathering," he points out in a deep, somewhat gravelly voice - in surprisingly understandable diction, given his general look and his choice to use a debased pidgin most of the time. "I know a bit about survival in the wilderness, and I'm sure not everyone in the academy has forgotten or never learned how to live without magical abilities."<br/><br/>A closer look at the speaker reveals that he's not human - he's far too tall, about 8 feet high and easily 5 wide, all heavy muscle, tendon and bone. His skin is greenish, his teeth pointed, razorsharp and appear to have been filed and honed to preserve that state - in a word, he appears to be quite used to surviving on his own, with or without magic, in any climate and environment he has had a chance to find out about. At the Academy, most would have met him in Communications/Empathy, Elemental Magic and Body/Mind Control classes, although more often than not, his particular talents and wishes of magic lead him out of the classroom and into research labs soon after he has been taught the basics required for successful research.