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The Lost Arts
==o0o==
Piercing the Veil
Warring Minds, Book 1
By Moirae Ma’at
==o0o==
Chapter 2: The Lost Arts
Harry popped up from the pile of books he had been looking through for the last two hours, carefully holding a book titled K’ver, Academy of the Lost Arts in his hands. He had found the book off in a corner under almost forty other books that he had placed on top of it in his earlier search for books on runes.
Sitting back down at the table, Harry pulled the acceptance letter out of the book and read it again to confirm the fact that he had been invited to attend K’ver before he wasted time going through what would be the equivalent of a useless book if he hadn’t been accepted.
After reaffirming that he had been accepted to K’ver, Harry opened the book to the first page and looked down at the take of contents found there.
.~.~.~.
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Welcome Letter
1.2 Quick Facts
2.0 Rules
2.1 Rules
2.2 Penalties
3.0 Classes
3.1 Class Set Up
3.2 Required Classes According to Species
3.2.1 Elves
3.2.2 Vampires
3.3.3 Werewolves
3.2.4 Demons
3.2.5 Humans
3.3 Electives
3.3.1 Open Electives
3.3.2 Ability-Determined Electives
3.4 Class Index
3.4.1 Potions
3.4.2 Transfiguration
3.4.3 Charms
3.4.4 Herbology
3.4.5 Weapons
3.4.6 Dark Arts
3.4.7 Defense Against Dark Arts
3.4.8 History
3.4.9 Runes
3.4.10 Healing
3.4.11 Summoning
3.4.12 Necromancy
3.4.13 Magic Creatures
3.4.14 Arithmancy
3.4.15 Wandless Magic
3.4.16 Differential Magics
3.4.17 Transcendental Magics
3.4.18 Mind Arts
3.4.19 Blood Magic
3.4.20 Transportation
3.4.21 Languages
4.0 Mastery and Adept Programs
4.1 Overview
4.2 Options
4.3 Classes
4.4 Requirements
5.0 Details
5.1 Time Dilation
5.2 Acceptance Form
5.3 Transportation
5.4 Arrival Week
5.4.1 Room Assignment
5.4.2 Testing Week
5.4.3 Class Scheduling
5.4.4 School Supplies
.~.~.~.
Harry flipped a couple of pages into the book and began to read.
.~.~.~.
1.2 Quick Facts:
- K’ver boasts over 250 classes in 21 categories for Novices.
- We provide more advanced classes in the Mastery and Adept Programs.
- We don’t care what your name is, so letters are addressed to your magical signature.
- Acceptance means you attend until you either graduate or die. Deserters are hunted down and killed.
- This is an eight year school. Even if you finish the required classes early, you are not allowed to leave before your eight years are up.
- We employ a Time Dilation Field, so two years of work are shrunk into one year of time.
- We don’t care what you do on your own time, as long as you don’t bring the teaching staff into it. This includes duels, alliances, murder, torture, coercion, sex, and army building.
.~.~.~.
Army building? Harry thought curiously before his mind caught onto the fact that the book said the school allowed murder without repercussions. He was sincerely thinking about going to a school that didn’t care whether or not he was killed? Maybe Rita Skeeter was right and he was going insane. Well, it couldn’t be any worse than Voldemort trying to kill him every year…
Harry shook off that train of thought and refocused on the book, turning to the section explaining how the classes at K’ver worked.
.~.~.~.
3.1 Class Set Up:
- All classes have a single, two hour class a week that will be either lecture, practicum, demonstration, or test.
- Class work is due when the staff says it is. No late work accepted; even if you died the night before.
- Practice rooms are available outside of class. So are guided practicals.
- All classes have either Final Exams or Final Projects. Most have both.
- We will not coddle you; you are expected to keep up on your own or die trying.
.~.~.~.
It sounded like a K’ver gave their students a lot of freedom, but required a lot of independent school work in order to keep up in classes. So what were the classes that he was required to take? Harry leafed past about twenty more pages before finding the next entry he was interest in.
.~.~.~.
3.2.5 Humans
Required Classes (years of class or proficiency level required)
Potions (4)
Transfiguration (4)
Charms (4)
Herbology (2)
Conditioning/Weapons (2)
Dark Arts (4)
Defense Against the Dark Arts (4)
History (1)
.~.~.~.
Well, that didn’t seem too bad, but Harry had a hard time believing that a school would require proficiency in the Dark Arts as a basic requirement, not to mention four years of it!
Harry went on to read the next section about electives, wanting to make sure that K’ver actually offered the forgotten arts that he was interested in.
.~.~.~.
3.3.1 Open Electives
Electives available to all students, regardless of species or ability. Some require placement testing.
Body Weapons
Passive Weapons
Specialized Weapons
Realm History
Heritage
High Social Customs
Runes
Healing
Magic Creatures
Arithmancy
Wandless Magic
Languages
Transportation
Mind Arts
Transcendental Magics
Body Magic
Sex Magic
3.3.2 Ability-Determined Electives
Electives have species requirements, or that require specific abilities or testing to attend. This includes all classes that are based on the classes listed below.
High Potions
High Transfiguration
Live Transfiguration
Animagus Transformations
Conjuring
Permanent Charms
Power Charms
High Charms
High Herbology
Magic Body Weapons
Magic Passive Weapons
Magic Specialized Weapons
Torture and Interrogation
Resistance Training
Hunter Principles
High Runes
Wards
High Healing
Summoning
Necromancy
Soul Magic
High Arithmancy
Time Magic
Spell Creation
High Wandless Magic
Channeling
High Arts
Artifact Creation
Core Searching
Shamanism
Purification
Terraforming
Ancient Magic
Ritual Magic
Thread Magic
Alchemy
Were Transformation
Vampire Transformation
Demon Transformation
Demon Magic
Vampire Magic
Elven Magic
Weather Manipulation
Nature Manipulation
Element Manipulation
High Mind Arts
Illusions
Blood Magic
Family Blood Magic
Historical Blood Magic
.~.~.~.
Yeah, K’ver offered the electives he was interested in, and some he didn’t even know about! What in the world was thread magic? He’d never even heard about it before, and why would a school offer a class about torture and interrogation? Or resistance training?
Harry flipped past nearly 300 pages that talked about K’ver’s course offerings to look at the acceptance form, but paused at the section right before it, wondering about how the time dilation at the school worked. It would be nice to have eight years of schooling in four years…
.~.~.~.
5.1 Time Dilation
The Time Dilation Field here at K’ver is a site specific spell that activates on the property and repeats weeks of time while simultaneously allowing students to leave the capture field during weekends and still live through them twice. The year is split into two twenty-four week periods, both of which are doubled in time to provide ninety-six weeks of schooling and four weeks of vacation in 52 weeks. Vacation time in between the years is not doubled, so return on time or be hunted down and killed. This is your only warning.
If you want to learn more about the Time Dilation Field, enroll in Time Magic in your 8th year.
.~.~.~.
Well, that was an interesting explanation, but Harry had no interest in learning more about the subject. He definitely wouldn’t be enrolling in Time Magic his 8th year at K’ver!
The acceptance form was pretty simple, it just required Harry to smear some blood on the page, and the school would register his acceptance. The young wizard moved to the next section to look at the page on transportation.
.~.~.~.
5.3 Transportation
The acceptance page is a tracer for a portkey. Once you have accepted entrance to K’ver, the portkey transfers to you and will activate at 10 am on August 25th. Have all of your luggage with you at that time or it will be left behind.
.~.~.~.
Well, that was pretty clear. Once you accepted entrance into K’ver, you were going whether you wanted to or not. And you were going to stay there eight years or die trying to graduate. Sounded pretty harsh, but they must graduate the best in their fields with those kind of rules.
Harry shut the book and set it down carefully, considering what it said. It was a little scary that the book for K’ver was over 500 pages long and still failed to tell the reader much about the school. They evidently believed in the sink-or-swim principle and happily dumped piranhas and leaches in water to make it more interesting.
Harry thought about what exactly it would mean to attend K’ver instead of Hogwarts. He would have to leave behind Ron and Hermoine, the Weasleys, Remus, Dumbledore, everyone. Would it be worth it to bring Sirius back?
Harry closed his eyes and leaned back into his chair to think about it. Yes, it would be worth it. He would do anything to bring back the one person who had cared for him; he’d even die if it would help. It would be hard to attend a different school, but it would be worth it if the school could teach him how to get Sirius back from the Veil.
He opened his eyes and asked the Room of Requirements for a knife before leaning forward and reopening the book to the acceptance letter. Harry picked up the knife and cut his thumb lightly before pressing the bloody finger to the parchment in the book.
The book flashed lightly and the words ACCEPTED appeared across the acceptance form, affirming the fact that Harry was now enrolled in K’ver for the next eight years.
Harry looked up from the book, his eyes glinting in the bright room, and clenched his bleeding hand into a fist over the table.
“I’ll bring you back Sirius, I swear it. I’ll bring you back from the Veil, even if it means going to Hell itself. On my soul, Sirius, on my soul, I’ll bring you back home.”
Harry didn’t notice the bright flash that lit up the room at his words or the fact that his finger was suddenly healed, although he did notice that the book flipped open to the last section.
.~.~.~.
5.4.1 Room Assignment
- Your room will be assigned when you arrive.
- All students are assigned a single room. There are no roommates. Lovers are fine, but no permanent roommates.
- You will ward your own room. We don’t care how you do so or what you do it with.
5.4.2 Testing Week
- You will be arriving a week early to K’ver for testing week.
- Tell the teacher who meets you when you arrive what classes you have selected.
- Testing for placement will occur in all selected and required classes. You will be placed appropriately, objections are futile.
5.4.3 School Supplies
- Some class materials can be found locally. Most will have to be bought after you have reached K’ver and gone through Testing Week.
- All common materials can be found at the Myryl Markets. You are expected to find your own rare ingredients and all ingredients for school projects will be procured on your own.
- All of the common books and supplies are listed on the class pages. So are some of the rarer items used in the classes.
.~.~.~.
Harry absentmindedly closed the book again, fondly watching Hedwig fly into the room and land on the table. He reached out a hand and scratched her head, ruffling the feathers there before murmuring, “Hey there girl, do you have something for me?”
Hedwig hooted softly in return and lifted her right leg, where Harry saw a letter attached. The wizard reached out a hand and removed the parchment, unfolding it to read the contents.
.~.~.~.
Harry –
Remember that the train leaves at 2pm. It’s noon now and you haven’t packed yet. You can’t spend all your time mourning over Sirius. Make sure you get something to eat before you leave, I didn’t see you at lunch.
– Dumbledore
.~.~.~.
Harry crumpled the letter and left it on the table before he reached out to grab K’ver, Academy of the Lost Arts and extended a hand to his owl.
“Hedwig, you want to come with to my room or go for a flight before we leave?” Harry asked his faithful bird.
Hedwig flew up to his shoulder and nibbled on Harry’s ear softly, indicating her desire to go to his room and watch him pack. Harry walked out of the Room of Requirements with his snowy owl perched on his shoulder, heading towards Gryffindor Tower to pack his trunk.
Piercing the Veil
Warring Minds, Book 1
By Moirae Ma’at
==o0o==
Chapter 2: The Lost Arts
Harry popped up from the pile of books he had been looking through for the last two hours, carefully holding a book titled K’ver, Academy of the Lost Arts in his hands. He had found the book off in a corner under almost forty other books that he had placed on top of it in his earlier search for books on runes.
Sitting back down at the table, Harry pulled the acceptance letter out of the book and read it again to confirm the fact that he had been invited to attend K’ver before he wasted time going through what would be the equivalent of a useless book if he hadn’t been accepted.
After reaffirming that he had been accepted to K’ver, Harry opened the book to the first page and looked down at the take of contents found there.
.~.~.~.
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Welcome Letter
1.2 Quick Facts
2.0 Rules
2.1 Rules
2.2 Penalties
3.0 Classes
3.1 Class Set Up
3.2 Required Classes According to Species
3.2.1 Elves
3.2.2 Vampires
3.3.3 Werewolves
3.2.4 Demons
3.2.5 Humans
3.3 Electives
3.3.1 Open Electives
3.3.2 Ability-Determined Electives
3.4 Class Index
3.4.1 Potions
3.4.2 Transfiguration
3.4.3 Charms
3.4.4 Herbology
3.4.5 Weapons
3.4.6 Dark Arts
3.4.7 Defense Against Dark Arts
3.4.8 History
3.4.9 Runes
3.4.10 Healing
3.4.11 Summoning
3.4.12 Necromancy
3.4.13 Magic Creatures
3.4.14 Arithmancy
3.4.15 Wandless Magic
3.4.16 Differential Magics
3.4.17 Transcendental Magics
3.4.18 Mind Arts
3.4.19 Blood Magic
3.4.20 Transportation
3.4.21 Languages
4.0 Mastery and Adept Programs
4.1 Overview
4.2 Options
4.3 Classes
4.4 Requirements
5.0 Details
5.1 Time Dilation
5.2 Acceptance Form
5.3 Transportation
5.4 Arrival Week
5.4.1 Room Assignment
5.4.2 Testing Week
5.4.3 Class Scheduling
5.4.4 School Supplies
.~.~.~.
Harry flipped a couple of pages into the book and began to read.
.~.~.~.
1.2 Quick Facts:
- K’ver boasts over 250 classes in 21 categories for Novices.
- We provide more advanced classes in the Mastery and Adept Programs.
- We don’t care what your name is, so letters are addressed to your magical signature.
- Acceptance means you attend until you either graduate or die. Deserters are hunted down and killed.
- This is an eight year school. Even if you finish the required classes early, you are not allowed to leave before your eight years are up.
- We employ a Time Dilation Field, so two years of work are shrunk into one year of time.
- We don’t care what you do on your own time, as long as you don’t bring the teaching staff into it. This includes duels, alliances, murder, torture, coercion, sex, and army building.
.~.~.~.
Army building? Harry thought curiously before his mind caught onto the fact that the book said the school allowed murder without repercussions. He was sincerely thinking about going to a school that didn’t care whether or not he was killed? Maybe Rita Skeeter was right and he was going insane. Well, it couldn’t be any worse than Voldemort trying to kill him every year…
Harry shook off that train of thought and refocused on the book, turning to the section explaining how the classes at K’ver worked.
.~.~.~.
3.1 Class Set Up:
- All classes have a single, two hour class a week that will be either lecture, practicum, demonstration, or test.
- Class work is due when the staff says it is. No late work accepted; even if you died the night before.
- Practice rooms are available outside of class. So are guided practicals.
- All classes have either Final Exams or Final Projects. Most have both.
- We will not coddle you; you are expected to keep up on your own or die trying.
.~.~.~.
It sounded like a K’ver gave their students a lot of freedom, but required a lot of independent school work in order to keep up in classes. So what were the classes that he was required to take? Harry leafed past about twenty more pages before finding the next entry he was interest in.
.~.~.~.
3.2.5 Humans
Required Classes (years of class or proficiency level required)
Potions (4)
Transfiguration (4)
Charms (4)
Herbology (2)
Conditioning/Weapons (2)
Dark Arts (4)
Defense Against the Dark Arts (4)
History (1)
.~.~.~.
Well, that didn’t seem too bad, but Harry had a hard time believing that a school would require proficiency in the Dark Arts as a basic requirement, not to mention four years of it!
Harry went on to read the next section about electives, wanting to make sure that K’ver actually offered the forgotten arts that he was interested in.
.~.~.~.
3.3.1 Open Electives
Electives available to all students, regardless of species or ability. Some require placement testing.
Body Weapons
Passive Weapons
Specialized Weapons
Realm History
Heritage
High Social Customs
Runes
Healing
Magic Creatures
Arithmancy
Wandless Magic
Languages
Transportation
Mind Arts
Transcendental Magics
Body Magic
Sex Magic
3.3.2 Ability-Determined Electives
Electives have species requirements, or that require specific abilities or testing to attend. This includes all classes that are based on the classes listed below.
High Potions
High Transfiguration
Live Transfiguration
Animagus Transformations
Conjuring
Permanent Charms
Power Charms
High Charms
High Herbology
Magic Body Weapons
Magic Passive Weapons
Magic Specialized Weapons
Torture and Interrogation
Resistance Training
Hunter Principles
High Runes
Wards
High Healing
Summoning
Necromancy
Soul Magic
High Arithmancy
Time Magic
Spell Creation
High Wandless Magic
Channeling
High Arts
Artifact Creation
Core Searching
Shamanism
Purification
Terraforming
Ancient Magic
Ritual Magic
Thread Magic
Alchemy
Were Transformation
Vampire Transformation
Demon Transformation
Demon Magic
Vampire Magic
Elven Magic
Weather Manipulation
Nature Manipulation
Element Manipulation
High Mind Arts
Illusions
Blood Magic
Family Blood Magic
Historical Blood Magic
.~.~.~.
Yeah, K’ver offered the electives he was interested in, and some he didn’t even know about! What in the world was thread magic? He’d never even heard about it before, and why would a school offer a class about torture and interrogation? Or resistance training?
Harry flipped past nearly 300 pages that talked about K’ver’s course offerings to look at the acceptance form, but paused at the section right before it, wondering about how the time dilation at the school worked. It would be nice to have eight years of schooling in four years…
.~.~.~.
5.1 Time Dilation
The Time Dilation Field here at K’ver is a site specific spell that activates on the property and repeats weeks of time while simultaneously allowing students to leave the capture field during weekends and still live through them twice. The year is split into two twenty-four week periods, both of which are doubled in time to provide ninety-six weeks of schooling and four weeks of vacation in 52 weeks. Vacation time in between the years is not doubled, so return on time or be hunted down and killed. This is your only warning.
If you want to learn more about the Time Dilation Field, enroll in Time Magic in your 8th year.
.~.~.~.
Well, that was an interesting explanation, but Harry had no interest in learning more about the subject. He definitely wouldn’t be enrolling in Time Magic his 8th year at K’ver!
The acceptance form was pretty simple, it just required Harry to smear some blood on the page, and the school would register his acceptance. The young wizard moved to the next section to look at the page on transportation.
.~.~.~.
5.3 Transportation
The acceptance page is a tracer for a portkey. Once you have accepted entrance to K’ver, the portkey transfers to you and will activate at 10 am on August 25th. Have all of your luggage with you at that time or it will be left behind.
.~.~.~.
Well, that was pretty clear. Once you accepted entrance into K’ver, you were going whether you wanted to or not. And you were going to stay there eight years or die trying to graduate. Sounded pretty harsh, but they must graduate the best in their fields with those kind of rules.
Harry shut the book and set it down carefully, considering what it said. It was a little scary that the book for K’ver was over 500 pages long and still failed to tell the reader much about the school. They evidently believed in the sink-or-swim principle and happily dumped piranhas and leaches in water to make it more interesting.
Harry thought about what exactly it would mean to attend K’ver instead of Hogwarts. He would have to leave behind Ron and Hermoine, the Weasleys, Remus, Dumbledore, everyone. Would it be worth it to bring Sirius back?
Harry closed his eyes and leaned back into his chair to think about it. Yes, it would be worth it. He would do anything to bring back the one person who had cared for him; he’d even die if it would help. It would be hard to attend a different school, but it would be worth it if the school could teach him how to get Sirius back from the Veil.
He opened his eyes and asked the Room of Requirements for a knife before leaning forward and reopening the book to the acceptance letter. Harry picked up the knife and cut his thumb lightly before pressing the bloody finger to the parchment in the book.
The book flashed lightly and the words ACCEPTED appeared across the acceptance form, affirming the fact that Harry was now enrolled in K’ver for the next eight years.
Harry looked up from the book, his eyes glinting in the bright room, and clenched his bleeding hand into a fist over the table.
“I’ll bring you back Sirius, I swear it. I’ll bring you back from the Veil, even if it means going to Hell itself. On my soul, Sirius, on my soul, I’ll bring you back home.”
Harry didn’t notice the bright flash that lit up the room at his words or the fact that his finger was suddenly healed, although he did notice that the book flipped open to the last section.
.~.~.~.
5.4.1 Room Assignment
- Your room will be assigned when you arrive.
- All students are assigned a single room. There are no roommates. Lovers are fine, but no permanent roommates.
- You will ward your own room. We don’t care how you do so or what you do it with.
5.4.2 Testing Week
- You will be arriving a week early to K’ver for testing week.
- Tell the teacher who meets you when you arrive what classes you have selected.
- Testing for placement will occur in all selected and required classes. You will be placed appropriately, objections are futile.
5.4.3 School Supplies
- Some class materials can be found locally. Most will have to be bought after you have reached K’ver and gone through Testing Week.
- All common materials can be found at the Myryl Markets. You are expected to find your own rare ingredients and all ingredients for school projects will be procured on your own.
- All of the common books and supplies are listed on the class pages. So are some of the rarer items used in the classes.
.~.~.~.
Harry absentmindedly closed the book again, fondly watching Hedwig fly into the room and land on the table. He reached out a hand and scratched her head, ruffling the feathers there before murmuring, “Hey there girl, do you have something for me?”
Hedwig hooted softly in return and lifted her right leg, where Harry saw a letter attached. The wizard reached out a hand and removed the parchment, unfolding it to read the contents.
.~.~.~.
Harry –
Remember that the train leaves at 2pm. It’s noon now and you haven’t packed yet. You can’t spend all your time mourning over Sirius. Make sure you get something to eat before you leave, I didn’t see you at lunch.
– Dumbledore
.~.~.~.
Harry crumpled the letter and left it on the table before he reached out to grab K’ver, Academy of the Lost Arts and extended a hand to his owl.
“Hedwig, you want to come with to my room or go for a flight before we leave?” Harry asked his faithful bird.
Hedwig flew up to his shoulder and nibbled on Harry’s ear softly, indicating her desire to go to his room and watch him pack. Harry walked out of the Room of Requirements with his snowy owl perched on his shoulder, heading towards Gryffindor Tower to pack his trunk.