Location Profile Blackmere Academy Faculty Roster

 

Blackmere Academy: Faculty Roster by Department

Classification: Internal Reference — Teaching & Research Staff
Compiled by: Office of the Headmistress, Revised 224 A.B.

ADMINISTRATION

Headmistress Aveline Moreau
Office of Academic and Spiritual Oversight
A precise woman with pale hair coiled like clockwork and eyes the color of morning steel. Known for her composure and her refusal to raise her voice. She believes in measured progress — that innovation must be tempered by respect for the lake’s will.

  • Oversees all divisions and manages lake containment protocols.

  • Keeps the Founders’ original journals in a locked case beneath her desk.

  • Rumor: The headmistress never sleeps in the same room twice.

Professor Caldus Morn
Deputy Head & Chair of Alchemical Studies
Tall, soft-spoken, and perpetually soot-dusted. Known for his precise handwriting, long silences, and habit of muttering formulae in his sleep.

  • Specializes in transmutation and reflective resonance.

  • Advocates practical alchemy as a moral discipline.

  • Keeps irregular hours; often seen walking the lake perimeter near dawn.

DEPARTMENT OF ALCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Professor Selwyn Kerrick
Materia Mechanica & Chemical Transmutation
Sharp-featured and perpetually ink-stained. Known for explosive temper and literal explosions.

  • Believes experimentation should “provoke the universe into response.”

  • Once blew out the entire east wall of Laboratory 3.

  • Despite recklessness, respected for ingenuity.

Professor Lysandra Dorne
Alchemy of the Mind (Psychological & Emotional Catalysts)
An elegant woman with silver spectacles and a gentle demeanor that conceals a razor intellect.

  • Studies the chemical structure of emotion.

  • Conducts mirror trials to stabilize volatile temperaments.

  • Beloved by nervous students, feared by arrogant ones.

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICA

Professor Enoch Vale
Automata Design & Aetheric Engineering
A stooped man whose spine appears fused with brass braces. Speaks softly but with absolute precision.

  • Created the “Resonant Clock,” a device that reads emotional frequencies.

  • Advocates for harmony between living and mechanical systems.

  • Keeps a mechanical hound named Fletch that responds to empathy.

Assistant Mechanist Hester Pye
Biomechanical Design & Sympathetic Material Theory
Second-year instructor; soft-spoken, with a copper prosthetic arm of her own making.

  • Encourages students to “build with kindness.”

  • Known to hum while calibrating delicate systems.

  • Occasionally consults with the Botanical Division about living metals.

DEPARTMENT OF BOTANICAL SYMPATHETICS

Professor Mervyn Cole
Living Flora & Elemental Agriculture
A cheerful, mud-smeared academic with a vast collection of mismatched boots.

  • Oversees the greenhouses and crossbreeding projects.

  • Believes the lake water holds “latent memory.”

  • Once grew a sentient vine that attempted to apply for a scholarship.

Groundskeeper Corbin Dregg
Custodian of Grounds & Root Cellar Steward
Silent guardian of the academy’s soil. Keeps the flora alive and the lake’s influence at bay.

  • Sees maintenance as sacred duty.

  • Reports directly to the Headmistress on “changes in the ground’s temperament.”

DEPARTMENT OF AETHERIC STUDIES

Professor Mirielle Faen
Reflections, Light, and the Nature of Self
A scholar with pale skin and hair like smoke. Often mistaken for a ghost by new students.

  • Studies the metaphysical properties of mirrors.

  • Once claimed the lake is “the academy’s truest pupil.”

  • Avoids the Mirror Halls after dusk.

Professor Thane Arclay
Aetheric Physics & Atmospheric Conductivity
Broad-shouldered, prone to manic enthusiasm, frequently accompanied by crackling ozone.

  • Invented the “storm chamber” to teach lightning capture.

  • Laughs in thunder.

  • His eyebrows have never fully grown back.

FACILITIES & SUPPORT STAFF

Mistress Elowen Prynn
Head Cook, Keeper of the Great Kitchen
A whirlwind of warmth and spice. Manages the kitchens with military precision and maternal ferocity.

  • Maintains morale through tea and sarcasm.

  • Keeps the only key to the dessert pantry.

  • Known to mediate student disputes with pie.

Corbin Dregg
Groundskeeper & Keeper of the Root Cellar
See dossier above.

Archivist Thalen
Custodian of Records & Librarian of the Restricted Wing
Rarely seen outside the archives. Wears gloves to handle memory-bound volumes.

  • Catalogs emotional residue in old texts.

  • Believes books can “remember what we forget.”

  • May have been at Blackmere far longer than officially recorded.

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