These characters stick around the Academy of Merlin campus, including the teachers, the Headmaster, the groundskeeper, and Carrmin. Unless otherwise mentioned, all are played by Jennalaia.
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School Faculty
The staff at the Academy. Headmaster Soulstone
Headmaster Soulstone
The Headmaster of the Academy. Soulstone usually resides in the Headmaster's Tower at the top of the school and runs the Academy with a loving hand. He has a strange connection to Merlin's Oak that few understand, and sends out acceptance letters using a system none are privy to. Despite his secrets, the Headmaster is a grandfatherly figure that welcomes each and every student into his Academy with open arms.
- Big Good: Essentially this for the Academy. The only person who could challenge him on this title is Merlin, and he became a tree a couple of thousand years ago.
- Cool Old Guy: Friend to students and generally all around good guy.
- Dishing Out Dirt: A stonewielder, and an extremely skilled one at that.
- A Father to His Men: Treats the staff as if they were his own family, and treats the students as his children. He's even a Parental Substitute for some of them, and frequently encourages students to come to him with their problems.
- Good Is Not Nice: For all his gentle speech, Soulstone nearly killed Leah in his rage.
- Not So Above It All: Soulstone is always willing to join in with the students' antics. In an Arc IV roleplay, he challenged Juno to a water gun fight.
- One-Winged Angel: Tapped into Merlin's power to fight Leah as a last resort. She still kicked his ass.
- Papa Wolf: Fiercely protective of his school and his students. He doesn't take kindly to anyone that tries to disrupt the safe atmosphere that he tries to project through the campus.
- Parental Substitute: Many students don't have a parental figure in their life and he's not afraid to take up the role. A notable example would be his friendship with Sylvia.
- The Scapegoat: He really can't cop a break. A giant dragon attacks his school and the council blames him for it.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: Firmly believes that the students should be allowed to make, and learn from, their own mistakes.
- The Worf Effect: He played the punching bag in Leah's big show of strength.
The Core Department
Professors that teach the core departments at the Academy.
Qamar Amadi
Professor of the Creatures class. Amadi was thrown from xir conservative household after coming out as gender-neutral and spent their late teens and early adulthood exploring various magick biomes and studying hundreds of species up-close. When xey came to Wales to study the wildlife in Nimue's Forest, the Headmaster found and hired xem.
- Boyish Short Hair: Keeps xir hair very short and wrapped up.
- Green Thumb: A plantwielder.
- Friend to All Living Things: It would be very wise not to harm a living creature in xir presence.
Alexander Brighton
Professor of the Element class. Brighton traveled the globe in his early years, learning about the various aspects from different masters of the elements. In his travels, Brighton met four individuals immortalized in a picture frame on his desk, none of whom he talks about. Brighton has been teaching at Merlin for a long time.
- Brutal Honesty: He does not sugarcoat things for students.
- Expy: Of another OC of Jenn's.
- Playing with Fire: A flamewielder.
- The Stoic: Keeps his composure no matter the situation. Or how many students accidentally set themselves on fire.
Marco Giambra
Professor of the History of Magicks class. Giambra is well known on campus as being the most embarrassing professor, trying to connect with the students in a manner much like Hillary Clinton scrambling for the millennial vote. While he does mean well, Giambra does a terrible job trying to connect with students, but he's a decent teacher for his age.
- Making a Splash: A waterwielder.
- Speaking Like Totally Teen: Tries to do this regularly to relate to his students, but he does a really bad job at it.
Caedah Pilon
Professor of the Charms class. Pilon has experience with street performance, as she found it difficult to hold down a job at first after graduating. She eventually got a master's in teaching and returned to the Academy immediately. Pilon has a reputation for being a difficult teacher, but this usually comes from students in the morning classes before her coffee kicks in.
- Blow You Away: A windwielder.
- Sink or Swim Mentor: Her finals for the fourth years include pushing them off a cliff to test their skills at Divinity.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She loves coffee so much she keeps an espresso machine in her classroom.
The Academic Department
Professors in the academic department.
Kamala Kadakia
Teaches the Magic Theory class. Kadakia has traveled the world via flying carpet and studied dozens of magical systems firsthand around the world. She loves participating in Holi and makes it a point to throw pigmented powder in her students' face and then explain the holiday afterward. An excellent professor that puts her students' well-being above all else.
- Closet Geek: A closer look at her desk reveals several issues of Ms. Marvel that are well-thumbed through.
- Culture Equals Costume: Wears a sari, fitting her heritage.
- Nice Girl: Doesn't have a mean bone in her body, and often provides students with hot drinks on cold days.
Nicholas Pagonis
Teaches the Academic class. Pagonis is one of the top academics in the magick world, touring during the summer to give lectures at various conventions. There are, however, rumors that he was deeply involved in Project Dawn in its beginning, though he got out before things got too serious.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: As the Academic master, Pagonis is very good at picking out the finer details. He put these skills to good use when Janus's lamp was stolen.
- Bad Boss: Piles on work and expects far more from Simon than any sane man should. This is mostly because his subordinate is just a mundane, though.
- Dishing Out Dirt: A stonewielder.
- Jerkass: To Simon, at any rate, much like many of the other professors. He seems to be the general ringleader when it comes to slinging mud in Simon's direction. He also heaps more work than should be necessary on Simon, simply because he can get away with it.
Roderick Bobbitt
Taught the Scholar class before Professor Gilios. Killed by Leah simply to make a point.
- A Death in the Limelight: Always existed in the background and brought into the foreground at last only to be killed off.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Killed with almost no prior warning. Leah simply killed him as a demonstration of what would happen if orders weren't followed, showing how serious Unit 53 was.
- Hot Teacher: One of the reasons the scholar class is oddly popular is because he's the one teaching it.
- Playing with Fire: A flamewielder.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Murdered with nary a chance to show his character.
Simon Gilios
The only mundane on staff aside from the groundskeeper. Previously known as the Merchant, Simon lives in a cart that's bigger on the inside on the southwest end of Justus. He used to run the magick black market in Justus, as well as the drug trade, but now makes a living as the scholar professor. His left forearm is an artificial limb, and there's an S-shaped brand on the inside of his right arm. He smokes when he thinks nobody is looking but for the most part is a friendly professor that's very casual with the students.
Don't talk to him about compasses.
- An Arm and a Leg: Gave up his hand in order to save Muna. He hasn't regretted it once.
- Artificial Limbs: Well, one artificial forearm. And it's a pretty cool forearm, so he's not complaining.
- Ascended Extra: Simon was originally a flat NPC known as the Merchant to connect students to the black market. He has since developed into a well-rounded character and the scholar professor to boot.
- Badass Bookworm: His library is small but packed full of information you can't get anywhere else, and he's seen his fair share of danger and come out on the better end of it.
- Badass Normal: Being a mundane doesn't stop him from jumping into dangerous situations and coming out on top.
- The Barnum: Enjoys swindling people out of their cash - this is a habit that he hasn't broken from his merchant days.
- But Now I Must Go: After being attacked by both gangs in Justus at the same time, Simon vanished for a year to let things cool down and to get his shit in order.
- The Charmer: Very good at charming people in order to get what he wants, whether it's information or an item.
- Chilly Reception: Receives this from the faculty on a whole. This is partially due to all the other professors being experts in their fields, while Simon is not a formally trained scholar, and partially because it seems insulting to them to have a mundane be a professor along with the rest of them. Not to mention his family history.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Withstood everything from being stabbed in the shoulder to having his arm ripped off whilst captured by Unit 53.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Simon was erased from the public and private record soon after he entered college as his mother believed he was seeing hallucinations (when he was actually Seeing quite clearly) and deemed him unfit to head the family. Desperate for help, Simon listened to his sister Ceana and checked himself into a mental institution, where he was wrongly diagnosed with delusional disorder and medicated as such. The resulting overdosage gave him actual hallucinations and threw him in and out of vivid comas where he lived full lives only to wake back up in a hospital bed, to the point that he no longer has the ability to tell if his life is a hallucination or not.
- Distressed Dude: Abducted by Unit 53, who believed he was a Secret Organization operative and tried to torture the information out of him as necessary. It didn't work.
- Down in the Dumps: Quake found his body in a dumpster.
- Empowered Badass Normal: With his arm, which lets him use his fingers as bullets and collect magical energy to sling right back at his enemies.
- Energy Absorption: His arm has the capacity to suck up magical energy and eventually direct it back out as a condensed ball.
- Finger Firearms: His left hand can literally shoot off the fingers as a sort of bullet. Another button recalls the fingers.
- Formerly Fit: In the second arc, Simon returned very physically fit. By third arc, he's lost quite a bit of his muscle.
- Greed: Regardless of how many changes he goes through, Simon still refuses to do anything if it doesn't benefit him in some way.
- Hidden Depths: When he was first introduced, Merchant was the sleaziest, most disgusting character in Merlin. Now, he's a much more easygoing guy who knows his limits.
- The Informant: Has a ton of information, and is fine with parting with it... for a price.
- I Have No Son!: This was done to him in the worst way back when he was in college - his family completely erased him from the public and private record. As far as the world is concerned, Simon didn't start existing until his early 20s. Fortunately for him, his sister took over the family business and restored his existing status.
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog: Simon will make up just about any excuse to get out of drinking if Tyler is around.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Simon is crass, blunt, and has a habit of pissing people off, but when push comes to shove he stands up for what he believes is morally sound.
- Kick the Dog: Leah ripped his arm off simply because she thought it would be fun.
- Knowledge Broker: Since he travels frequently, the Merchant has a lot of dirt on a lot of people and precious items. Muna makes use of this whenever he can.
- Life-or-Limb Decision: Sacrifice a hand to ensure the safety of a child? For Simon, it wasn't even a choice.
- Muggle: He's a mundane with Sight, a rarity that means he can see through glamour and several illusions - some that would fool even magicks themselves.
- Muggles Do It Better: Managed to knock out half of Unit 53 alone - something no other character was able to do - and nearly escaped from them to boot.
- Mysterious Employer: During second plot, Simon was doing some shady collecting for a shady employer that refused to identify themselves. As it turned out, he was collecting artifacts for Unit 53, and ended up getting abducted because of it.
- The Team Normal: When accompanying any group of magicks, Simon is this by default considering his mundane status.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Has a tendency to get very into people's bubbles.
- Omniglot: Speaks nine languages, and knows sign.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Simon was originally known only as Merchant.
- Rags to Riches: Dragged himself from the bottom to the top and is proud as hell about it.
- Really Gets Around: First plot, he was well-known for sleeping around with... just about anyone. This stopped immediately once he started dating Marianne.
- Riches to Rags: His powerful, rich family erased him from the public and private record and cut all ties with him. He lost everything in an instant.
- The Scapegoat: Used as one in place of Marianne when Unit 53 was investigating the Elfslayer investigations. Due to a strange bout of misinformation, Unit 53 believed he was the Secret Organization agent responsible for the Elfslayer case and abducted him to extract information.
- Starting a New Life: After getting released from the mental institute, Merchant bought his original cart and started a completely different lifestyle than what he had led for the first part of his life.
- Swiss-Army Appendage: Merchant's arm can shoot the fingers like bullets, absorb magical energy, shoot out said magical energy, or use the energy to transform into a hammer with the help of a special coin.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: As put together as he appears to be, Simon suffers from a heavy case of unreality. This is a result of an overdose of medication for a condition he didn't have, sending him into constant comas with extremely realistic hallucinations. Simon is unable to tell fiction from reality, and on bad days, believes the life he leads is a hallucination that is going to end as soon as he wakes up.
- Unfazed Everyman: Has seen so much shit in the magick world that nothing really surprises him anymore.
- Un-person: His life as Simon was completely erased from the public and private records. As far as the world is concerned, he didn't exist until he was in his early twenties. This changed, however, when his sister Ceana took charge of the family and immediately wrote him back into existence.
- War for Fun and Profit: Egged on a turf war in Justus to drive up his own profits.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: Leah applied demon venom to the gaping wound his arm left, and it simply wouldn't stop bleeding.
Carlos Gascon
Teaches the Scientist class.
- Blow You Away: A windwielder.
- Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Wears a white labcoat that's almost always stained with... something. Sometimes you don't really want to know exactly what.
- Shout-Out: To Carlos the Scientist from Welcome to Night Vale.
The Mystic Department
Professors in the mystic department.
Kura Morioka
Teaches the Meditation class.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Just because she's asleep a lot doesn't mean she isn't as powerful as the rest of the professors.
- Blow You Away: A windwielder.
- Closet Geek: Keeps a large stash of comics and manga underneath the couch bed she has in place of a desk.
- Culture Equals Costume: Japanese, and she wears a kimono.
- Sleepyhead: She has a tendency to fall asleep in class. And at staff meetings. And during meals. She sleeps a lot.
- Snot Bubble: Sports one of these sometimes, considering she sleeps all the dang time.
Katerine Basset
Teaches the Mystic class.
- Genki Girl: Very, very cheerful.
- Gratuitous French: Even though there is a magical field that translates words around the school, she still manages to slip in some French that isn't effected by it.
- Playing with Fire: A flamewielder.
Galan Runesteam
Teaches the Healing class.
- Animal Motif: Frogs. He has many frogs and he may be 100 frogs in a suit but we're not sure.
- Brutal Honesty: No mercy when it comes to letting his students know of their failings.
- Can't Tie His Tie: Whether it's because he seriously doesn't know or he's just too lazy, his tie is rarely done up.
- Hollywood Acid: An acidwielder.
- The Medic: If you get injured on campus, his office is the place to go.
- Seriously Scruffy: He always looks like he just got out of bed, and he probably did.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Every other word out of his mouth would get an ordinary teacher suspended.
- Shout-Out: To a character in a previous roleplay.
Aleesia Whisperleaf
Teaches the Summoner class.
- The Beastmaster: Basically what tamers in general are, but she takes it to the nth degree with how many animals she has around.
- Friend to All Living Things: She really loves animals.
- Shock and Awe: A sparkwielder.
The Enhancer Department
Professors in the enhancer department.
Riona Bellis
Teaches the Channeling class.
- Badass Teacher: Pretty much a requirement for teaching at the Academy of Merlin. Riona's reputation precedes her, being a powerful mage that can channel through just about anything. There's even rumors that she can channel through things from a distance.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: Do not annoy her. She may seem like a bit of a pushover, but Riona is the best mage on the staff hands down.
- Emotionless Girl: It's really hard to make her even twitch an eyebrow. This was actually exploited during one Halloween where one of the games was to make her make an expression.
- Making a Splash: A waterwielder.
- Smoking Is Cool: Is a habitual smoker. Recently she's taken to a magic substitute, hence the blue smoke.
- The Stoic: About as expressive as a slab of rock.
Gloria Reynolds
Teaches the Enhancer class.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Has created many commercial enchanted products for the magick community over the years.
- Making a Splash: She's a waterwielder.
Vadomli Oakenback
Teaches the Enchanter class.
- The Blacksmith: He certainly invokes this trope, and that's not just by accident. Enchanters in general have a very strong connection to metal smithing.
- Gemstone Assault: A gemwielder.
Olivia Alcalde
Teaches the Mage class.
- Good Is Not Nice: Follow the rules or else you've more than likely going to find exactly how 'Not Nice' she is.
- Making a Splash: A waterwielder.
- Perpetual Frowner: There isn't a soul on campus that's seen her smile.
- Stern Teacher: Has a reputation of being the strictest professor at Merlin for a very good reason.
The Practitioner Department
Professors in the practitioner department.
Amara Ambercutter
Professor of the Potions class. Ambercutter, a city elf, shared her practitioner knowledge with forest communities before coming to Merlin. Ambercutter is a calm, logical professor, who tends to be a physical shield when her coworkers get up to their antics.
- Genki Girl: Quite cheerful, most of the time.
- Mysterious Mist: A mistwielder.
- Only Sane Man: Frequently the only sane professor at meetings, and often the voice of reason when things get a little too hectic.
Brett Ardee, Jr.
Teaches the Practitioner class.
- Nice Guy: A very polite guy that genuinely likes his students.
- Playing with Fire: A flamewielder.
- Punny Name: He's a chef boy Ardee.
- Supreme Chef: How he actually teaches his classes - they cook things. Plus he isn't a bad chef at all.
Aydon Aron
Teaches the Alchemist class.
- The Goggles Do Nothing: He always has goggles pushed over his head, but he rarely actually puts them on during class. They're probably just there for show.
Josephine Eastwood
Teaches the Chemist class.
- Badass Teacher: Despite all of Josephine's antics, when it comes down to it she's a powerful chemist and adept at weaponizing some of her more volatile tonics if need be.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite her unorthodox teaching methods and tendency to be more interested in making things blow up than what's actually on the lesson plan, Josephine is good at her job.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Her excitable personality and tendency to want to make shit explode has her come off as this.
- Genki Girl: A cheerful woman that enjoys pulling pranks on her coworkers and is rarely seen not smiling, even when covered with soot.
- Making a Splash: Became a waterwielder to put out the numerous fires she causes during her classes.
- Stuff Blowing Up: If you hear an explosion on campus, it's probably her fault. Actually, it's always her fault. If you hear an explosion, just blame Josephine.
- The Trickster: One of her hobbies includes playing pranks on other professors. They don't think it's as funny as she does.
Other Faculty
Characters that are not a professor but still work at the school regardless. Julia Fairchild
Julia Fairchild
The school nurse, hired to make up for the absence of the other nurse. Inherited a very unfortunate office.
- Brainy Brunette: A smart woman with curly chestnut locks.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Julia may very well be one of the most truthful adults in Merlin, and she has wide blue eyes to complete the look.
- The Medic: A healer, and a very good one at that as she mixes both mundane and magic types of healing.
- Nice Girl: A kind woman that will never turn away an injured party. She doesn't seem to differentiate between the different factions in the school, either.
- School Nurse: The nurse for the school, who is stuck in a very, very unfortunate office.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: What are you talking about? She doesn't have a crush on the librarian. Don't be silly. You must be delirious, lie down in bed.
Sharyn Crystin
Sharyn Crystin
The groundskeeper that takes care of the outdoors appearance of the Academy. Is rarely sighted.
- The Ghost: Never appears on campus anywhere, ever. Somewhat justified in that the campus is large and she's the only one taking care of it.
- Green Eyed Red Head: Emerald-green eyes and red hair tied in low pigtails.
- Muggle: A mundane that's managed to secure work at the Academy of all places..
- Mythology Gag: Left over from GEIOW - she was a character's attendant, but through unknown circumstances has ended up as the groundskeeper.
- Nice Girl: A kind woman that will always accept a student into her shack to share a cup of tea. Not that that ever happens.
Elliot Copper
Elliot Copper
Played by: Celyren
The librarian that spends a lot of his time reading.
- Cute Bookworm: If nobody bothers him he'll spend literally his entire day reading. If someone tries to bother him he'll get grumpy that you interrupted his reading.
- Green Thumb: A plantwielder.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: A good person to go to if there's trouble.
The Library Ghost
The Library Ghost
Played by: Siyaahi
The ghost of a student that haunts the library. Has taken a liking to a certain Janus boy.
- Dead to Begin With: Committed suicide for unknown reasons in the past.
Nimue's Forest
Characters that inhabit Nimue's Forest. Carrmin Okiri
Carrmin Okiri
A young-looking elf who lives in Nimue's Forest. Extremely old.
- The Ageless: Carrmin is millennia old, and possibly the oldest living being on Earth. Yet he has the appearance of a twelve year old boy.
- Badass Adorable: Cute to a fault, but consider him an enemy and he'll wipe the floor with you startlingly quickly.
- Badass Cape: Wears a somewhat ratty brown cape thrown over one shoulder.
- Cheerful Child: A happy, smiling boy for the most part. You'd never guess he's Really 700 Years Old.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Carrmin's human speech is rather poor; his elven is much better, and he comes across as much better articulated when speaking that way. Always a good idea to bring an elf along when you visit Carrmin.
- Green Thumb: Quite fond of plants. And, of course, he's a plantwielder.
- Hidden Depths: Much wiser than he lets on at first.
- I Have Many Names: Eryl refers to Carrmin as Caelian, Cathmor, and Carrmin interchangeably, because those are all names he took on in the past.
- Immortal Immaturity: Played with. Carrmin loves to play tag and hide and seek, but he can also be very serious when he has to be. Simply put, unless he wants you to think otherwise, you would never know him as anything but a fun-loving, twelve-year-old elf boy.
- Living Legend: As Eryl reveals, Carrmin is the First Elf spoken about in elven legend.
- Mystical White Hair: Carrmin's hair is stark white, and is probably the only physical thing that belies his true age.
- Narrator All Along: Carrmin told the story of the First Elf to a bunch of elves, and is later discovered to be the actual First Elf.
- Older Than They Look: Actually thousands and thousands of years old, but he takes on the form of a young boy.
- Physical God: Combined with Eryl and gaining Eryl's control over forests makes him the closest thing this world has to one.
- Really 700 Years Old: More like really seven thousand, but who knows.
- Talking to Themself: He's been known to talk to air when he doesn't think anyone is around.
- Wise Beyond His Years: Carrmin appears to be this - it's easy to forget he's thousands of years old.
- When Trees Attack: Carrmin doesn't attack anyone directly; he has such control over the forest that he simply lets the forest do the fighting for him.
Philestee
Philestee
Played by: Reilas
A centaur desperate to keep up on pop culture. Wears some pretty sick shades.
- Cool Shades: Sports some wicked nice aviator shades.
- Nice Girl: A very friendly centaur that enjoys chatting with students when she can find them.
- Our Centaurs Are Different: This centaur in particular has a penchant for pop culture.
