The Staff of Torsten Academy
Rembrandt Payne
Headmaster of Torsten Academy. He appears to be a quiet, ineffective man – but this bumbling persona is just a ruse. He fought in the Apostle Wars as the famed warrior Siegfried the Unparalleled and even knows Queen Thetis.
Valentine Baudin
Mythology teacher, rarely seen without a hip-flask of some description. Considers himself to be a bit of a charismatic rogue. Valentine joined the Temple of Solomon as a teenager and learned demon summoning, but fled to become a wandering investigator.
Amber Thorburn
Culture Studies teacher, and tutor of Sapphire Second. She is relaxed to the point of lazy, but cares deeply for her pupils. She grew up with Rembrandt Payne and is known as ‘Verdandi the Seer’ thanks to her perceptive foresight.
Sabeen Haan
History teacher who once travelled the globe as a vagrant. He has collected a plethora of artefacts from the ruins and tribes of the world. Unlike his brother he is laid back and doesn’t take his work seriously.
Tes Anderson
English teacher with a love for esoteric languages and skilled with a variety of incantations. She is also a qualified enchantress and like to place beneficial magicks on obscure items for fun. A former student, Tes is also the youngest member of staff.
Holly Booton
Art teacher famed for her pink hair and no-nonsense attitude. Sometimes referred to as having an ‘emotional kaleidoscope’ because of her unpredictable mood swings. She is well versed in curses and anti-curses and is someone few people dare to cross.
Yuki Shimomura
Music teacher and Kaori’s mother. She is talented in a wide variety of instruments. Yuki is an ‘audiomancer’ who uses music to control her empathic powers, which can change the mood of any area. Like her daughter, she used to associate herself with Ravens.
Laura Clarke
Maths teacher and school nurse. She delights in numerical patterns and her classroom is like a shrine of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Laura is also the school’s chief nurse and uses precise healing magicks and alchemy to heal almost any wound or disease.
Lucia James
Science teacher, who delights in using weapons and pyrotechnics to teach her (usually disturbed) students lessons in physics and chemistry. Lucia is also a master of transmutation and delights in mixing science and magic to create explosive results.
Brian Smith
Engineering teacher known by his students for his cheery disposition and knowledge of Old World pop-culture. Unlike his fellow teachers he maintains a healthy cynicism towards the supernatural and has no magical power to speak of.
Khandro
Physical Education teacher and oldest member of staff. A sage from across the seas, he is the only member of staff allowed to deviate from the standard uniform. He is as much a teacher to his fellow staff as he is to his teenage students.
Natalie Chiltern
Nature Studies teacher, who has dedicated her life to bringing life back to the parched wastelands of the planet. Natalie specialises in nature magicks and animal empathy, but she is also skilled in using familiars and astral forms.
Azarat Haan
Survival teacher and stoic brother of Sabeen. Perhaps the strictest of teachers, no student dares to argue with him – but he is only harsh because he knows the dangers of the world. Known elsewhere as ‘Azarat the Asura’ and ‘Azarat of the Seven Blades’.
