"...though lacking the high marks of her graduating class' superstars, one Nora Pris deserves mention for her controversial paper last year: "First Hand Observations of the Etalarche Hysteria: A Student's Field Notes and Suppositions." This paper caused some stir in the spellwright community with its suggestion that the people of Alderode may in fact be only superficially human; creatures of limited free will controlled primarily by a subsuming intelligence, like the agib of ancient Tain. It contended that their government - through its Dammakhert - renders them bereft of true agency. Miss Pris will pursue placement in Royal Engineering, promising to further explore these ideas in her professional work."

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