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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.