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Abacadabra! I've conjured another Good Morning out of thin air!!!

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Annnd we're live! Come with questions, class!

It's almost time, class!

April 1st marks my 1 year stream anniversary, and Knight Gardenia is once again lending me her stream so we can celebrate!

And what better way to celebrate than to revisit the game I played in my very first stream, and in doing so, offer a proper class focused on conjuration?

Join me April 1st, 7pm CDT, as I conjure creatures of at your behest!

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It's almost time, class!

April 1st marks my 1 year stream anniversary, and Knight Gardenia is once again lending me her stream so we can celebrate!

And what better way to celebrate than to revisit the game I played in my very first stream, and in doing so, offer a proper class focused on conjuration?

Join me April 1st, 7pm CDT, as I conjure creatures of at your behest!

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It's almost time, class!

April 1st marks my 1 year stream anniversary, and Knight Gardenia is once again lending me her stream so we can celebrate!

And what better way to celebrate than to revisit the game I played in my very first stream, and in doing so, offer a proper class focused on conjuration?

Join me April 1st, 7pm CDT, as I conjure creatures of at your behest!

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My apologies for still not having posted a written review of my second class! I hope that the uploaded VOD with timestamps will do in the short term, but trust I still intend to write a summary as well!

As my first anniversary approaches, feel free to suggest topics for my third class as well!

It's been a long time since I've had summoning sickness, but I did quite a bit of conjuration yesterday, what with teleporting around while streaming into a parallel universe. At least I have banana bread though!

Last time I held a class, I wrote some summaries of the lecture afterwards, so since it came up, I think I'll write up something about Veday Teldt's Transmutation teachers!

Perhaps I'll also summarize the ritual I performed? So you can, ah, eat something dangerous, magical, and crunchy...

What should my next class cover? I have no clue at this point, but I'm willing to take suggestions!

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It's a small thing, but with the one year anniversary of my debut coming up soon, Knight Gardenia has uploaded the VOD of my second class to her youtube, ensuring that both the classes I've held can be viewed by anyone at any time!

The video has timestamps so that you can skip right to to ritual I performed that day, or to anything else that may interest you!

Timestamps have also been added to my debut stream, which I think will make it a much better study tool!

My first stream was on April 1st of last year, so I hope to hold another class on the anniversary! In the meantime, I hope this can help commemorate the occasion.

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i’m a real wizard btw

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what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

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I present: a before and after

(This post is sponsored by the Miorman Government's Department of Arcane Ore Regulation)

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While Knight Gardenia will be leading the class instead of me, I'm excited to have you all in the classroom again!

Despite our being from different universes, Professor Bergamot has been a wonderful boon to Veday Teldt - it is through his lessons that I was able to meet your world's Knight Gardenia, and through her hear of the Clairsperience ritual.

I feel I still have much to learn from his example, so I hope we can help return him to his teaching career!

Special Stream announcement!

Cosmo Community Day!

When: October 4th, Noon CST

Where: Aster's stream

What: Big art/chatting collab for @cosmobergamot's discord community

Why: Raising financial aid for Cosmo

PLEASE HELP US BRING BACK OUR PROFESSOR!!! WE MISS HIM SO MUCH 🥺

My dear friend and Professor @cosmobergamot has not been able to stream for several months due to dealing with a sudden and unexpected financial emergency, but his community is still here, and we want to help him out!

I have secured the help of Vemay Teldt Royal Academy, that has agreed to match all donations to Cosmo's Ko-Fi that mention their school, and even allowed us to use their classroom to gather! So all of us conjuration students will be together in a call, telling the world why we love our professor so so so much.

If you can spare anything to help a very talented creator who has inspired me and so many others, please do so, because through the power of parallel universes, it will be doubled!

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Goodness, it's been a while since my last class, hasn't it?

I haven't forgotten about those reports I need to write, but things have been relatively busy here at Vemay Teldt, and I unfortunately must put my own universe ahead of the alternate one I occasionally give lessons to. But that is all the more reason to properly record the lecture material! I should have some time coming up to write them up.

It's been a long time since I've had summoning sickness, but I did quite a bit of conjuration yesterday, what with teleporting around while streaming into a parallel universe. At least I have banana bread though!

Last time I held a class, I wrote some summaries of the lecture afterwards, so since it came up, I think I'll write up something about Veday Teldt's Transmutation teachers!

Perhaps I'll also summarize the ritual I performed? So you can, ah, eat something dangerous, magical, and crunchy...

What should my next class cover? I have no clue at this point, but I'm willing to take suggestions!

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A while ago, some students requested I adopt a nickname so that Knight Gardenia can more easily refer to me, since she does not know the name I go by as a professor. While I don't see why some people are so resistant to using my academic title, I recognize that it makes speaking about me to Knight Gardenia more difficult, so I will now answer to the name Orchid as well.

However when we are in the classroom, it really is more respectful to refer to me as Professor Bergamo.

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The Astral plane seems like an entertaining place. Far more lonely and quiet than I think I'd prefer, but quite interesting with a guide, and very worth studying.

Perhaps I will pay the good cleric a visit one day? They did visit my office first, I suppose it would only be fair..

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Loregamo Makeup Lesson 1: Miorma

I had originally promised a post specifically about Miorma's mines of knowledge, and even more specifically the arcane ore contained therein, but ultimately decided that one cannot talk about arcane ore without talking about the greater historical context that makes it so significant in Miorma, and, in fact, the entirety of the continent of Brandice.

Let's talk about the country where I teach, as well as the land that once was Knight Gardenia's home, Viatorum!

Early Miorma and the Arcane Ore:

While Miorma is currently a fairly large nation that focuses primarily on artificy and law, this was not always the case. Miorma had its start in the west, a fraction of its eventual size and severely lacking in resources such as fertile land and stable food production. The Miorma of the past got by with sparse fishing along the cost, along with the few resources they had in abundance: clay, tin, copper, and - once they'd learned how to safely extract it - arcane ore.

Arcane Ore is essentially crystalized arcane energy - potent, volatile, and unpredictable. (And, notably, not edible.) Arcane ore today is a governmentally protected substance, the Mines of Knowledge where they are mined being heavily regulated and both the mining and processing of the ore requiring permits that can only be obtained through rigorous study, training, test taking, and background checks; as well as official employment by the government of Miorma. The reason for this strict regulation is both in part of the exceptional delicacy and knowledge required to handle it property, and the role arcane ore has in Miorma's place in the world today.

Viatorum and Miorma's Expansion:

As previously stated, Miorma was originally a much smaller nation that began in the infertile west of its present territory, and lacked many resources. In order to gain the resources it desired, Miorma first developed clay golems, powered by what few shards of arcane ore they had managed to mine, and used those golems to extract ever greater quantities. The determined artificers of Miorma then used the arcane ore to develop a wide array of magically enhanced weapons, staves, and stronger golems, which carved a warpath that would eventually conquer all of present day Miorma.

One of the final areas to fall to Miorma's conquest, you have have realized, was Viatorum. My divinations suggest that Viatorum once existed roughly around where the present day city of Crossroads exists - a very nice city, the very place I've conducted the bulk of my research into cross-planar travel. Unfortunately, very little is remembered about Viatorum - Miorma prefers the nations it conquers not cling to their old identity, for fear of harboring resentment and eventual calls for independence.

It stands to reason that, were it not for the presence of arcane ore in Miorma, Knight Gardenia's casket would have been in the forests of Drothiel. As it were, the high concentration of arcane ore in the Mines of Knowledge is suspected to cause several magical irregularities, including instability between the planes. This instability leads to planar distortions - holes in the barrier between the Prime Material plane and its echos, the Feywild and Shadowfell. One such distortion became a fairly regular fey crossing in the woods of Drothiel, and on the other side of that crossing is where Knight Gardenia's casket eventually found itself, suspended in time long after her kingdom had fallen.

Have any more questions for me? My ask box is open for all curious students~

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It's been a long time since I've had summoning sickness, but I did quite a bit of conjuration yesterday, what with teleporting around while streaming into a parallel universe. At least I have banana bread though!

Last time I held a class, I wrote some summaries of the lecture afterwards, so since it came up, I think I'll write up something about Veday Teldt's Transmutation teachers!

Perhaps I'll also summarize the ritual I performed? So you can, ah, eat something dangerous, magical, and crunchy...

What should my next class cover? I have no clue at this point, but I'm willing to take suggestions!

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Well! That was certainly a stream - one that resulted in delicious banana bread! (Much more delicious than arcane ore! Which is not edible, by the way!)

Thank you to @guybitesatgames for the raid! I hope you all enjoyed my class!

The fey crossing is open again! I still have the material components for the ritual ready, and since that will only take a few minutes, I'm also going to make some banana bread!

I'll see you all at class on Wednesday at 7pm central!