Higher education information package
You're about to pass your baccalaureate exam and graduate high school. Congratulations! Unfortunately, this means that soon you'll have to wander in the adult world, all alone and afraid, with nobody to hold your hand anymore to guide you. Thankfully, there is still time to make the right decision about your future and add the perfect weapons to your arsenal! Let's examine your education options!
University vs Merchant school vs Craft school
To start with, you need to become an apprentice at a university or a school. But which one to choose?
Universities
Where to have the best education and the most choices! For people who want to be respected. No stupid—or worse poor—people welcome!
Merchant schools
For people interested in earning money! Good for learning about foreign countries, languages, and trading.
Craft schools
For practical people! Learn directly your trade here without any boring—and most often useless—theoretical stuff! Not for any stuck up nobles!
Doubling
For the ambitious. Split your time between a university and a merchant school—and be despised by double the amount of students!
As you've probably picked up already, all of those establishments have big rivalries going on, each seeing themselves as the natural best choice—and the others as a waste of subventions! But for each type of establishment, there are internal rivalries too! Being a student is all about building up your pride and confidence by despising anyone different from you.
Let's now have a look at your dream choices: the three best universities in the country! The most terrific of rivals! Lots of fun official competitions, inter-uni friendships forbidden, sabotage expected. Don't bother applying if you're not a noble or member of the social elites, or if you are incredibly talented and ready to fight to the death for a scholarship! Foreigners outlawed to prevent them from learning our country's secrets of magic, crafts, and military skills.
Lonrausse
Student types: creative, intuitive, curious, think out of the box.
Learning method: creative, not focused on theory, like unconventional solutions.
Focus: military arts, magical arts, politics, ethic, philosophy, rhetoric.
Alumni: Lord Justinien de Labruyère,
Master Sérénius de Coroy.
Ravance
Student types: curious, like to understand things in depth, clever enough to actually do so.
Learning method: theory, precedents, and fully understanding a phenomenon.
Focus: runes! military arts, history, dead languages, maths, physics.
Alumni: Lord Enélien Cenlys—the Dark Lord,
Mistress Alina Lange.
Guild vs Company
Congratulations, you've just graduate and are now a very fancy journeyman of your chosen field! But don't rest on your laurels, to truly progress in your career and earn respect and wealth, you now need to become a master. To do so, choose a company or a
guild—such as the extraordinary rune guild!—and a proper master to study under.
But how to choose? Get someone that is: respected in your field (for the respect will blend over on you), skilled (you actually need to learn something!), patient (to tolerate your mistakes and endless questions), chatty (to actually get them to answer you!), and generally generous with their time and attention.
Profit
Congratulations, you're now a master and part of the elite of this country. You can now lord your status over everyone else and start acquiring your own minions!
I love the snarky tone of this pamphlet. If only real life school pamphlets were this upfront!
Thanks! I'm not sure I would qualify the writer as entirely honest, but at least it would make reading those a lot more fun XD