Izzet League

The Izzet are obsessive experimenters, combining a keen creative intellect with a short attention span. The original mandate of the Izzet guild was to provide solutions for public works projects (sewers, boilers, and roadways), but their increasingly far-fetched experiments satisfy only their insatiable curiosity. Sometimes their experiments yield useful technological advancements; other times they produce unintended mana geysers, spatial rifts, arcane portals, or huge explosions — all of which can be useful in their own way.
The league’s most grandiose experiments typically concern public works projects and elemental experimentation. These efforts use a methodology that relies on unexpected outcomes: all results are informative, even if they completely defy expectations. For example, an experiment that begins as the creation of a “hypermana focusing lens” might be renamed a “scram-range teleportal” once the researchers discover more properties of what they have fashioned. Then, after a few goblin volunteers vanish inside it, the apparatus gains the designation of “universal refuse disintegrator” — until the goblin volunteers are discovered alive, having been teleported far from the workshop. This sort of adjustment is par for the course in Izzet experiments; the “fiddle and find out” method is favored over any process of systematic scientific research.
The Izzet league are a major political player in Luxor and the capital, Alenium. The Director is Niv-Mizzet, an illusive figure who few but the board see with any regularity. A being of exceptional intelligence, and exceptionally long life, he has been known to occasionally surprise researches with visits - a sign that their research has promise, or is researching something new. Many Izzet members are motivated to experiment and research more and more outlandish (and reckless) things for hope that they too get visited by the great Niv-Mizzet. Underneath the director are six chair people who govern the influence of the Izzet League. Each chairperson is a person of exceptional intelligence, but also of personal power. Few cross these people, who have not only researched, but learnt to manipulate the deepest of arcane and mechanical secrets. They are also more involved in the day to day runnings, and politics, of the League as opposed to Niv Mizzet.

Goals:

1. Expand their knowledge;
2. Looking into further expansion of the elementals as a power source, creating rifts;
3. Shutting down the Elemental Alliance, securing the northern border with Adrington;
4. Researching the flying city of Akkardin.

Ranks:

1. Director / Guildmaster
2. Chairperson
3. Head Researcher / Advisor
4. Supervisor
5. Researcher / Independent Researcher
6. Research Assistant
7. Admin

Notable Persons:

1. Niv-Mizzet;
2. Aretha Torrel;
3. Anastasia Torrel;

Typical Alignment:

Chaotic Neutral/Good

Typical Location:

Capital cities, mostly Alenium

Typical Classes:

Wizard/Artificer

Dragonmark:

The Mark of Making

Views on other guilds

Boros. “All too often when we’re on the verge of setting off a little explosion or a spell that tears a hole in reality, the Boros show up to spoil the fun.”
Dimir. “The less we see of the Dimir, the more we know they are monitoring us.”
Golgari. “They keep to themselves and clean up our messes. As long as they stay out of sight, it’s hard to view them as a threat.”
Gruul. “They’re even better at wrecking our laboratories than we are!”
Orzhov. “Progress means taking risks. But when you gamble with the Orzhov, you always wager more than coin.”
Rakdos. “Steer clear of these senseless riot-fiends. Their enthusiasm is best appreciated from a distance.”
Selesnya. “These zealots run with beasts and worship figments of the past. They would be wiser to embrace the wonders of the future.”
Simic. “The Simic are inventive, but their creations are bereft of soul and fire. They tinker with life but lack the inspiration to breathe true spirit into their inventions. At least when our experiment go awry there’s usually only an explosion - not some genetic plague!”