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[sythyry]

(in Sythyry's words)

Course	Teacher	Opinion at the start	Opinion at the end	Grade
Formal Enchantment	Prof. Trillisanguinus Spreen (Rassimel woman)	I presume I shall be thoroughly humiliated in this course too. Perhaps I should ask Glikkonen for some secrets which I could at least smirk about knowing ... perhaps Llezcaryg's Disaster. In any case this course is entirely theoretical, so it should not require any cley. Esory	Not as bad as I feared. Prof. Spreen got bored with teasing me after two weeks, and, I believe, some of the other students wrote her anonymous letters explaining how tedious it was to have so many spurious mentions of Glikkonen.	Generally Suitable
Notable Magical Catastrophes	Prof. Ili (Herethroy woman)	I had hoped that this course would be easy to the point of barely existing at all, but my hope is in vain, for the senior students wince at the very name of it. Prof. Ili does not simply tell entertaining stories (though she does that). The emphasis of the class is how not to be involved in a notable magical catastrophe onesself. One may expect to be interrogated by boiling weekly.	I, too, shall wince at the very name of this course. Not that the out-of-class work was very hard, but Prof. Ili did, indeed, take great joy in setting up subtly doomful scenarios and explaining how, no matter what we did, we were doomed. By the end of the semester I had died eight times, been transmuted into an arhoolie plant, a puffball, and a Herethroy both-female, had my left forepaw permanantly affixed to the inside of a cupboard, and had my left eye taken as a prize by a smargathaniel. This is relatively good, considering that most students in the class died between ten and sixteen times. Iska, for one, did better. She only died four times. Curse it.	Well-reasoned!
Applied Enchantment	Prof. Nethry Alzagond (Rassimel woman)	I expected this to be practical and straightforward.	It was practical and straightforward. And terrifying. I shared a table with Rhedwy, who (1) could eat me; (2) drops more than her share of things, due to having no hands, which is not safe in an Enchantment class; and (3) invited me to a sex party without telling me it was going to be a sex party.	Honorably Worked. (Which, for monsters, is a fairly good grade. But everyone in the class got Honorably Worked.)
Corpador	Prof. Oolsp (Orren man)	The continuation of last term's course, which even ~mother~ found little to complain about.	I was exactly and perfectly and slootly right about it being a continuation of last term's course.	Diligently Labored. Somewhat disappointing, since last term I got Finely Reasoned, but not too bad and not undeserved. I skipped this class more often than was perhaps wise.
A Discussion upon Monsters	Prof. Syylista Syyllia	This should be an easy course. It had better be an easy course, for no other course this term is easy. (In the Green Tile Classroom, Sprowlween Hall.)	I know much more about monsters now... which leads to a useful question to ask to the monsters.	Pleasantly Stated.

[Poll #345306]

Comments

[rowyn]

My most fearsome weapon is my brain! I suspect this is the most fearful weapon of any Prime species (except Khytosis, of course); how many fewer Notable Magical Catastrophes would the Worldtree have been spared if no Primes (or monsters, for that matter) had significant mental abilities?

"Normal family structure" varies significantly for my species depending on location and culture. The most common are:

One male-multiple female groups. These arrangements typically (but not always) revolve around the male, who is frequently considered dominant.

One male-one female pairs. The male used to be widely considered dominant in these pairings, but in many cultures now the two are viewed as equals.

Both of these groups usually live in communities of other humans with similar family groupings. Either type may also share their home with other related humans (parents, grandparents, siblings, etc.) and may share child-raising duties with these others. In my own culture, this is considered unusual, but in other cultures and in earlier times, it is/was considered the norm.

While these are the most common family grouings, the other possibilities you cover do occur, with varying degrees of societal censure depending on the specific culture(s) of the individuals involved.