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<blockquote data-quote="efreund" data-source="post: 8629628" data-attributes="member: 6799797"><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">There are five houses at Pardwight University, each loosely modeled after one of the great Fey Titans. Over the years, each house has produced many brilliant graduates, and in turn, each their share of dropouts. Pumas can join a house once they become attendants. Nearly every student ends up joining a house, as this confers valuable structure and social connections, but this is not mandatory.</span></p><p> </p><h2><span style="color: #1E4E79"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Ashbearers</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Wisdom through loss, progress through setback, and the hunt for truth amidst the wreckage of failure.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Ashbearers tend to be introspective, and have a reputation for being the most emotionally mature of the houses. While all houses perform chartable work, the Ashbearers have a stronger tradition of doing it well compared to the other houses. They straddle the divide between modernity and tradition, working to bring forward the ashes of the past into a new world order. Never forget, but never stop growing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Patron</strong>: Ash Wolf</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Insignia</strong>: hands holding a bowl with smoke arising</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Allied houses</strong>: Sorority, Gremlins</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Rival houses</strong>: Thunderdome, The Voice</span></p><p> </p><h2><span style="color: #1E4E79"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Thunderdome</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Progress will lead us to pleasure and prosperity!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Pumas in Thunderdome embrace a fast lifestyle, believe in progress for its own sake, and aren’t afraid to break things. Undeterrable optimists, they pick themselves up quickly and move on to the next great venture. While they work study, perhaps exhaustively so, the Thunderdome also has a well-deserved reputation for being the party-house at Pardwight University. Work hard, party hard.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Patron</strong>: Father of Thunder</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Insignia</strong>: <strong>three</strong> lightning bolts forming a triangle</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Allied houses</strong>: Sorority, The Voice</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Rival houses</strong>: Ashbearers, Gremlins</span></p><p> </p><h2><span style="color: #1E4E79"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Gremlins</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Secrets lie in every direction, hidden in the dark, in the light, in between.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Gremlins are curious, insatiably so, and have a strong penchant for questioning others’ assumptions and priors. The house has a reputation for harboring the most intelligent, as well as the most socially awkward, Pumas. Gremlins tend to favor pure science and publishing papers over engineering and creating physical inventions. They have no compunction against discovering the most modern of secrets, but can manifest a conservative streak when it comes to applying those principles in the real world. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Patron</strong>: Granny Allswell</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Insignia</strong>: two non-aligned eyes</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Allied houses</strong>: Ashbearers, The Voice</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Rival houses</strong>: Thunderdome, Sorority</span></p><p> </p><h2><span style="color: #1E4E79"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The Sorority of the Sea</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">We can change you, come and see.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">In the earliest days of Pardwight University, women were not allowed to join any of the houses … so they founded their own. Today, all houses have an open recruitment policy, and even after the Sorority merged with the all-male Triton house, the name stuck. Pumas in the Sorority emphasize community engagement and development in ways that can bring society along with it. Ironically, this leads the Sorority to now be one of the most conversative houses, as they (rightly) point out that much of Risuri culture isn’t ready to realize radical change.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Patron</strong>: She Who Writhes</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Insignia</strong>: one ship towing another</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Allied houses</strong>: Ashbearers, Thunderdome</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Rival houses</strong>: Gremlins, The Voice</span></p><p> </p><h2><span style="color: #1E4E79"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The Voice</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Listen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Brimming with self-confidence, the Voice seeks truth and proclaims their truth to others. Though their preferred medium is through publishing papers, many are also gifted public speakers. Known as taboo-breakers, Pumas in The Voice would prefer to be known as “pragmatic.” The house can have a nihilistic streak, and seem to have no trouble reconciling the fact that all they learn is simultaneously ‘very important’ and ‘worthless, in the grand scheme of things.’ Perhaps that’s how they justify all the necromancy? Ironically, The Voice does not speak with one voice, and the house harbors staunch conservatives as well as radical progressives, who seem to delight in tearing dueling one another via the weapon of well-tuned rhetoric.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Patron</strong>: The Voice of Rot</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Insignia</strong>: a snake skull, with the mouth open, ambiguously about to speak or to strike</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Allied houses</strong>: Thunderdome, Gremlins</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'"><strong>Rival houses</strong>: Ashbearers, Sorority</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="efreund, post: 8629628, member: 6799797"] [FONT=Calibri]There are five houses at Pardwight University, each loosely modeled after one of the great Fey Titans. Over the years, each house has produced many brilliant graduates, and in turn, each their share of dropouts. Pumas can join a house once they become attendants. Nearly every student ends up joining a house, as this confers valuable structure and social connections, but this is not mandatory.[/FONT] [HEADING=1][COLOR=#1E4E79][FONT=Calibri]Ashbearers[/FONT][/COLOR][/HEADING] [FONT=Calibri]Wisdom through loss, progress through setback, and the hunt for truth amidst the wreckage of failure. Ashbearers tend to be introspective, and have a reputation for being the most emotionally mature of the houses. While all houses perform chartable work, the Ashbearers have a stronger tradition of doing it well compared to the other houses. They straddle the divide between modernity and tradition, working to bring forward the ashes of the past into a new world order. Never forget, but never stop growing. [B]Patron[/B]: Ash Wolf [B]Insignia[/B]: hands holding a bowl with smoke arising [B]Allied houses[/B]: Sorority, Gremlins [B]Rival houses[/B]: Thunderdome, The Voice[/FONT] [HEADING=1][COLOR=#1E4E79][FONT=Calibri]Thunderdome[/FONT][/COLOR][/HEADING] [FONT=Calibri]Progress will lead us to pleasure and prosperity! Pumas in Thunderdome embrace a fast lifestyle, believe in progress for its own sake, and aren’t afraid to break things. Undeterrable optimists, they pick themselves up quickly and move on to the next great venture. While they work study, perhaps exhaustively so, the Thunderdome also has a well-deserved reputation for being the party-house at Pardwight University. Work hard, party hard. [B]Patron[/B]: Father of Thunder [B]Insignia[/B]: [B]three[/B] lightning bolts forming a triangle [B]Allied houses[/B]: Sorority, The Voice [B]Rival houses[/B]: Ashbearers, Gremlins[/FONT] [HEADING=1][COLOR=#1E4E79][FONT=Calibri]Gremlins[/FONT][/COLOR][/HEADING] [FONT=Calibri]Secrets lie in every direction, hidden in the dark, in the light, in between. Gremlins are curious, insatiably so, and have a strong penchant for questioning others’ assumptions and priors. The house has a reputation for harboring the most intelligent, as well as the most socially awkward, Pumas. Gremlins tend to favor pure science and publishing papers over engineering and creating physical inventions. They have no compunction against discovering the most modern of secrets, but can manifest a conservative streak when it comes to applying those principles in the real world. [B]Patron[/B]: Granny Allswell [B]Insignia[/B]: two non-aligned eyes [B]Allied houses[/B]: Ashbearers, The Voice [B]Rival houses[/B]: Thunderdome, Sorority[/FONT] [HEADING=1][COLOR=#1E4E79][FONT=Calibri]The Sorority of the Sea[/FONT][/COLOR][/HEADING] [FONT=Calibri]We can change you, come and see. In the earliest days of Pardwight University, women were not allowed to join any of the houses … so they founded their own. Today, all houses have an open recruitment policy, and even after the Sorority merged with the all-male Triton house, the name stuck. Pumas in the Sorority emphasize community engagement and development in ways that can bring society along with it. Ironically, this leads the Sorority to now be one of the most conversative houses, as they (rightly) point out that much of Risuri culture isn’t ready to realize radical change. [B]Patron[/B]: She Who Writhes [B]Insignia[/B]: one ship towing another [B]Allied houses[/B]: Ashbearers, Thunderdome [B]Rival houses[/B]: Gremlins, The Voice[/FONT] [HEADING=1][COLOR=#1E4E79][FONT=Calibri]The Voice[/FONT][/COLOR][/HEADING] [FONT=Calibri]Listen. Brimming with self-confidence, the Voice seeks truth and proclaims their truth to others. Though their preferred medium is through publishing papers, many are also gifted public speakers. Known as taboo-breakers, Pumas in The Voice would prefer to be known as “pragmatic.” The house can have a nihilistic streak, and seem to have no trouble reconciling the fact that all they learn is simultaneously ‘very important’ and ‘worthless, in the grand scheme of things.’ Perhaps that’s how they justify all the necromancy? Ironically, The Voice does not speak with one voice, and the house harbors staunch conservatives as well as radical progressives, who seem to delight in tearing dueling one another via the weapon of well-tuned rhetoric. [B]Patron[/B]: The Voice of Rot [B]Insignia[/B]: a snake skull, with the mouth open, ambiguously about to speak or to strike [B]Allied houses[/B]: Thunderdome, Gremlins [B]Rival houses[/B]: Ashbearers, Sorority[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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