Strokes of Insight

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With a successful first few batches of budding students, Starfall Academy has always been revered as something much akin to a high-profile Academy where only the best of Esshar resides in for tutelage. But then again, some may say it's seen some better days.

  

Word of a masked ghost has been said to roam the hallowed halls one fateful evening. Some students related it to a school ghost story, others mention it to be nothing more than a figment of one's imagination. Though once morning hits, perhaps things begin to be more clear on what exactly visited the fine walls of Starfall.

  
  

  
  

Graffiti once more finds itself somewhere new. The pungent aroma of paint vying for passerby's noses fill the air as any mundane and nonmagical attempts to cleanse this stain is met with vain failures.

  

This one depicts the drawing of one peculiar white-haired figure; feminine. They seem to be encapsulated in an odd combination of magmatic embers and replenishing waters, but above those two features leaves odd black splotches that any sane person could assume may be either occultic or shadow in nature.

  

Behind her, by a clean blackboard, one word is scribbled in an intimidating font: Murder. Before her, an array of figures sit, seemingly listening attentively to the scribbled out face of this teacher figure. By the bottom, the text is written, seemingly like an advertisement on a flyer.

”Starfall Academy: Where occultists enable future murderers.”

  

Another mark of this mysterious enigmatic ghost lays more murmurs and whispers among those in Esshar. Surely, the people called out in these paintings are in the wrong if they illicit such methods of scapegoating?