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Students compete in a round-robin elimination style until only one duelist remains. Spells of any discipline may be used to maneuver, but only evocation spells can be used to break opposing Obex shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/520d96e9-cbf6-47a0-8030-b73901c34763/Banff+Bazaar+Final+Color+Version.jpg Maps The Banff Bazaar | Encircled by five distinct districts, its enchanted streets pulse with magical tradesmen, the Canadian IMBI headquarters, dubious market-stall hawkers, and conjured culinary masterpieces. Internal cavern weather controlled by IMBI stormsmiths—when they aren't on PTO! https://www.liamrusso.com/spells-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/e85b34b9-7087-407b-b8ed-3ed8b341947c/FINAL+House+Naturae.png DawnSpire Houses House Naturae | Guardians of the living world. Naturae mages draw power from the breath of forests, the rush of rivers, and the wild heart of all growing things. Students of biomancy, shapeshifting, evocation magic, and herbal resonance, they heal, transform, attack, and protect with the fierce tenderness of nature itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/edb14425-3036-4620-9217-840c4e9cd9b0/FINAL+House+Melodia.png DawnSpire Houses House Melodia | Where magic sings. Melodia weaves spells through music, voice, and rhythm—enchanting minds, stirring emotions, and bending reality with a single perfect note. Their performers are illusionists, enchanters, bards, arcanists, and martial artists whose harmonies can soothe a storm or shatter stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/a9e814ba-7caf-42eb-9760-7cad93ad58b4/FINAL+House+Artificium.png DawnSpire Houses House Artificium | Builders of the impossible. Artificium fuses magic with mechanism, crafting enchanted devices, runic machinery, and artifacts that defy the laws of physics. Technomancers of House Artificium learn to create and animate their inventions, raising workforces and/or legions to do their bidding. Artificium students turn imagination into tangible, world-changing power. https://www.liamrusso.com/characters-1 daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://www.liamrusso.com/characters-1/project-one-f5w4d-frs34 monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/e8e06429-c3b6-4b64-9959-7e2b33fffb8f/Tashios+Kamotano.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Faculty Dean Tashios Kamotano | Teaches Abjuration, coteaches gym class and battlemagic with Professor Wang. Calm, calculated, and clever. The mind behind DawnSpire Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/1773761239576-XN5WDTQQ0X3IA3G37FJP/Grok%2BProfessor%2BBlake%2BMacGorne.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Faculty Professor Blake MacGorne | Head of House Naturae | Biomancer | Currently teaching restorative magic: Basic Mending, Healing I, Healing II, Healing III. A healer who refuses to lose a single life, no matter the tools required. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/f158b5a3-346d-4786-8674-6f76133a7204/Luna+Morgan.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Faculty Professor Luna Morgan | Patron of House Melodia | Performative Arcanist | Teaches Introductory Creations & Animations (guest lecturer), Impersonation, Musical Melodies, Painting & Pottery, Improvisation, Voice Acting (alongside Professor Oakheart), Illusion Magic. A master performer who plucks a note to enchant discussions, imbues her magic into the arts, or wanders the campus grounds completely invisible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/e49400b2-39ae-4285-a215-ce6fdd111a76/Elias+Varnholt.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Faculty Professor Elias Varnholt | Master of House Artificium | Artificer | Teaches Introductory Creations & Animations (guest lecturer), Blacksmithing I, Blacksmithing II, and Magical Artifaction. DawnSpire's in house Artificer, and primary inventor of the world's first Infantilis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/608f3bb0-67d0-4e00-9643-c9a2509c8dd2/Florence+Laflamme.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Faculty Professor Florence Laflamme | House Naturae | Alchemical Herbalist | Teaches Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Alchemy and Herbalism, and Transmutation. A witchy alchemist that combines her skills with her Quebecoise slang to teach her students. https://www.liamrusso.com/characters-1/project-one-f5w4d-frs34-ctk2f monthly 0.5 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/06b9f27c-e3e3-43b8-882a-8698ab88eac3/Framed+Andrew+Smithmas.png Characters - Banff Bazaar Crew Andrew Smithmas ~ Artificer Extraordinaire & Proprietor of Father Smithmas | Towering at two full meters and built like a living forge, Andrew Smithmas is the beating, hammer-swinging heart of the Banff Bazaar's crafting quarter. Beneath the whimsical red-and-white Santa hat that perches atop his bald head (a year-round fixture, because why not?), you'll find a square-jawed giant whose rune-etched arms—tribal patterns glowing faintly with residual magic—gleam with honest sweat as he shapes raw metal into wonders. Charismatic, booming-voiced, and quick with a fist-bump or a hearty laugh, Andrew is equal parts intimidating presence and warm uncle figure. He runs Father Smithmas, the legendary smithy where base items are forged into legendary artifacts, infusing them with blood-bound personalization and unyielding quality. When he's not pounding anvils or explaining the sacred art of Runewording to wide-eyed prospects, he's lending his massive hands (and bigger heart) to DawnSpire school events—whether hauling festival tables, judging student-crafted trinkets, or quietly ensuring every young artificer has a mentor to look up to (literally).Andrew Smithmas doesn't just craft objects. He crafts futures—one mighty, joyful swing at a time. https://www.liamrusso.com/characters-1/dawnspire-students monthly 0.5 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/1773755504801-D1F1WQ12DOLRD2CO8O7G/Liam%2BRusso.png Characters - DawnSpire Students Archivist’s File: Liam Russo | House Naturae https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/ebb91bce-0b29-4a99-9416-c8d9568fe0bf/Sarah+Rodriguez.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Sarah Rodriguez | House Naturae https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/7390d3c8-346b-4dd1-af2f-74fe5cf77875/Ali+Haddad.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Ali Haddad | House Artificium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/86c3b8cf-d126-4e9e-880c-cbac696af30a/Jason+Yip.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Jason Yip | House Melodia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/1773755519301-MR8IOKAA4GKFDKFS8M1F/Jordan%2BAnderson.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Jordan Anderson | House Naturae https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/cf459047-c19e-43c0-a868-0553bdbe2c28/Lisa+Zhang.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Lisa Zhang | House Melodia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/3aa4a76e-6943-43fc-9014-40c14cf3c884/Matthew+Varnholt.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Matthew Varnholt | House Artificium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/6ef39be3-9ce2-44ca-bf22-e92d9851e228/Jonathan+Mendez.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Jonathan Mendez | House Melodia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/744efcff-51df-4696-b1f5-3d3405361550/Amanda+Chen.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Amanda Chen | House Naturae https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/67a243cc-2c2b-49a1-861a-18be9b74f906/Vanessa+Lane.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Vanessa Lane | House Melodia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69359fade6f6ff071d936656/9aac9803-1107-410a-9578-6dffe37bda2c/Samuel+Lee.jpg Characters - DawnSpire Students Samuel Lee | House Artificium