Meet Timetabling! A totally normal… um… person? Probably a person! Doing a totally normal job that doesn’t at all involve rewriting the fabric of reality on a regular basis. I can’t think why Lemrin was so reluctant to meet with him, can you?

If you’re curious about how to properly pronounce the sigil in the penultimate panel, then the answer is with several years of careful study and lots and lots of practice.

Oh look! It appears 1B13 wasn’t okay to teach in after all. Who possibly could have seen that coming? Also – more students! And since these are Third Years, they’re all allowed to have names straight away. Meet Leerah, Tector and Drorn. Here’s hoping they survive the rest of the class!

If you’ve ever had to work in an office where the air conditioning isn’t working properly, it’s sort of like that. Only rather than being weirdly hot or weirdly cold, it’s weirdly weird, and stuff keeps trying to eat your soul.

Another new cast member! Meet the ever-popular Facilitator Burrstruck. Definitely one of Lemrin’s favourite people in the whole world! Lemrin would certainly not want to warmly shake by the hand whichever foul miscreant defaced the plaque under Burrstruck’s painting. No sir. Not Lemrin.

And there’s Skellaron – I told you we’d be seeing more of him (and he does indeed have one of those faces).

Ooh, new cast member alert! Meet Instructor Reen – K’Reen to her friends. Expert Pyromancer and fellow First Year sufferer.

Wyrmrise is of course a university rather than a school, and as such sits at the higher end of the magical education system. First year students should already be capable of a decent range of basic conjurations, making this more of a friendly icebreaker than a sudden, unexpected pop quiz.

Ah! Our full class of first years is revealed. I’ll be honest, not all of them have acquired names yet. But that nice snake-looking fellow is called Sleen and the chap sitting to his right is Zwelphric. I’m sure the rest will get names eventually.

Summoning goldfish into existence is the magical equivalent of a really flashy PowerPoint transition.