Scholarly Orders
Essencary Epistemologist
The Essencary Epistemologists are a group of scholars that travel around Gathandia giving lectures and debating with students and other scholars at any educational institution where they can find willing participants. They can be identified by blue academic regalia with silver embroidered threading. By nature, these scholars are most interested in one’s state of being, of existing, and contemplating how the process of thinking works. They are especially interested in how Essence works, what it is, and how it affects a person’s capacity for thought and for experiencing the world.
Essencary Epistemologists can be found in virtually any major university across Gathandia.
Evidentiary Analysts of Scientific Principles
Physicists, chemists, biologists, and other scientists compose the academic guild known as the Evidentiary Analysts of Scientific Principles. They pursue both mundane and magical experimentation with alacrity, eager to better understand the workings of the physical and metaphysical.
Some members of this scholarly order are themselves mages, while others are simply skilled scientists. Recognizable in their deep green academic regalia with red embroidery, these analysts can be found at any major university and some smaller academic institutions, as well. Scholars within this scientific order who specialize in astronomy and metaphysics have strenuous but constructive disagreements about the grand design of the multiverse.
Order of Discerning Prewritten History
In their light tan regalia with dark red embroidery, members of the Order of Discerning Prewritten History can be found both in the lecture hall and at archaeological sites. Scholars from this order are particularly interested in discovering and preserving anything that they can discern about ancient history, from the times before anyone began to record historical events in physical form. A mix of academic scholars, painstakingly careful archaeologists, and daring tomb raiders, members of the Order network with one another to broaden their understanding of ancient events.
The Order also corresponds regularly with the Historians Guild.
Tutors Extraordinaire
A nomadic and decentralized order of oracles, the Tutors Extraordinaire travel throughout Gathandia. They are highly sought after in any nation’s top universities. When a Tutor arrives in a university, they will offer classes and hands-on practice of their craft for any amount of time from a single day to multiple years. This generally depends on how beneficial a Tutor thinks that they can be to a school, but sometimes depends on the Tutor’s own whims and desires.
To become a Tutor Extraordinaire and earn the hooded sash that accompanies the rank, one must instruct classes for three years, overseen by a different Tutor Extraordinaire each year. After being approved by each of the three overseers, the teacher will be granted their sash.