The Gauntlet Vault
The Gauntlet Vault Academy is located in Stern on the Northern Isle within Esau. They mainly train Rogues in the skill set of Arcane Trickers - however has more rently taken on teaching other Rogue Sub-Classes skills.
General the Staff are Yuan-Ti, Naga, Fey, Elves, Human (variant) and Half-Elf.
ENTRANCE
The main entrance to the academy, just outside the village, looks to be a lone building surrounded by a concrete courtyard and a high stone wall.The academy is built in a simple style, with black curving roofs, green window frames and lattice decoration, along with walls built with local brown smooth stone - matching the surrounding walls. There is an absent of symbols.
Inside is numerous small bedrooms, each with its own ensuite. A single kitchen off the central training hall. On the walls of the central halls depicting the famous Rogues and Masters who have trained at the Gauntlet Vault Academy.
This hall is where students eat, clean clean it throughly, learn the theory of the Rogue skills, before practicing the stances and forms relating to melee combat. Any arcane practice is down underground as to not be spied upon.
UNDERGROUND
Underneath is a maze and secure chambers referred to as Vaults. The largest of these is the main training arena.EDUCATION
Potential Students
Being accepted as a student at the Gauntlet Vault Academy requires little more than to arrive at the main building. The gates are only open for 10 minutes twice a day, on the mark of each six o'clock, on the first day of each month.As a potential student enters the courtyard, they must have the patience to wait another at least an hour, for a Rogue Master to appear in the courtyard to collect. Frequently there are more than one potential student waiting.
Caretakers clean, often unobserved by the potential students. As they go about their duties, the Caretakers are watchful and report back all interacts the potential students have. Much of this does not elimate the potential student, however it does go to classifying them into personality types, for the Rogue Masters.
Entrance
Second step is to enter the main building, where they are separated into individual small rooms. Each room has a bed, a desk and an ensuite. They must complete forms - once at the start of the month and once at the end of the month, being otherwise left in solitary. Halfway through that month they have an entry interview.Part of this step involves admitting weaknesses and strengths that the potential student wishes to improve or enhance.
They must learn Sign Language to prove their ability to learn, observe and communicate non-verbally. Plus two members of staff are deaf.
NOTE: If the student passes into the next phase they are sent down into the underground section.
Maze Gauntlet
A year after a Rogue student starts their training at the academy, they must make it through part of the maze set up with various melee targets and attackers.Failing to make it through without dying, does not cause permanent death - however a student must succeed to continue their Rogue education.
Encryption Vault
In their second year at the Academy, a Rogue student must make it through part of the maze set up with various encryptions and puzzles.Failing to make it through without serious inflections, does not cause permanent death - however a student must succeed to continue their Rogue education.
Incubation Vault
In their third year, a Rogue student must make it twelve weeks along in a small, cramped vault - set up with a source of air, soft foods and fresh water, without setting off the movement totem sensors.Failing to make it through without setting off a single totem, does not cause permanent death - however a student must succeed to continue further with their Rogue education.
Arcane Gauntlet
In their fourth year, after much more training, a Rogue student must make it through part of the maze set up with various arcane traps and magic users.Failing to make it through without serious inflections, does not cause permanent death, however a student must succeed to continue their Arcane part of the Rogue education.
YEAR FIVE
Each student is in their final year, expected to go through each of the trails of the previous years again.Becoming a Master, requires not a single 'failure' on part of the student.
Culture
The Gauntlet Vault is a structured educational institution for Rogues who wish to learn the skill set of Arcane Trickster. The First Academy is located in Stern on the Northern Isle - founded to up-skill the Rogues of Esau to become Arcane Tricksters. Now, it serves also as a place to retain knowledge for education all Rogues - both practical and theoretical skill sets.
Public Agenda
The Academy commits itself to providing Rogue skills, motivational learning, training and vocational options - which cullivate and train up-coming Rogues to confidently and successfully establish their place within Esau.
History
NAMING
Gauntlet
When an argument arose between two nobles, one person could throw their armoured glove to the floor as a way of challenging the other to a duel. To accept the challenge the second person would pick up the gauntlet – hence the other well-known phrase, "take up the gauntlet".If you run the gauntlet, you go through an unpleasant experience in which a lot of people criticize or attack you.
Vault
A room, especially in a bank, with thick walls and a strong door, used to store money, the dead, or valuable things in safe conditions.The custom of sleeping in sacred tombs or vaults of idol temples to learn the future through dreams by the method known as incubation.
A Vault provides encryption as a service with centralized key management to simplify encrypting data in transit and stored across clouds and datacenters. Vault can encrypt/decrypt data stored elsewhere, essentially allowing applications to encrypt their data while storing it in the primary data store.
Demography and Population
Staff = Approximately 100 people
Demonym = Yuan-Ti, Fey, Elves, Humans (variant) and Half-Elves
Education
The Principal
The Principal is an overseer.Netta Ruber is directly responsible for all activities transpiring within the Academy. As well as the care and safety of the students.
She has a no nonsense attitude and always appears impectably dressed. Running the school is her passion. The staff may find her difficult to please, however they like how clear she is on the rules and guidelines.
Netta Ruber - a female, Half-Elf with the honour of being the past student with the highest success rate within the Gauntlets and Vaults.
Teaches: Sign Language
The Teachers
Teachers play a crucial role in the training of Rogues. They are responsible for imparting knowledge about different Types of Magic, melee combat, trap and encryption solutions - plus various other skills - as well as essential skills, if the student are capable and wishes to extend themselves, to learn the skill set of an Arcane Trickster.Aacalie - Naga, female, Rogue, mostly teaches first year students,
Teaches: Melee Combat, Slealth, Encryptions,
Delana - Tiefling, red skin, female, Rogue Mastermind - swears lots, rough, expects students to follow orders, dislikes tears,
Teaches: Tactics, Dungeon Delving, Intrigue
Dak - Fey, dark-skinned, Rogue Phantom, scar across face,
Teaches: Magic Initiate, Shadow Touched, Talk to the Dead, Soul Trinkets
Dal'Nu Allbethica - Elves, female, Rogue Arcane Trickster, large breasts with curvey figure, deaf (sign language),
Teaches: Illusion, Enchantment, invisible Mage Hand,
Darian Quorl - Half-Elf, male, Rogue Swashbuckler, preferred weapon is a cutlass,
Teaches: Fancy Footwork, Melee Combat, Sneak Attack, Dualist skills,
Eztlu - Yuan-ti, Rogue, mostly teaches first year students,
Teaches: Melee Combat, Encryptions, Puzzle Solutions,
Keloc Stepfast- Halfling (only one of staff), female, Rogue Thief
Teaches: Slight of Hand, Lock-picking, being Alert, Observant
Owiss - Human, long black beard, male, Rogue Assassin,
Teaches: Potions and poisons, Slealth, Playing Characters,
Smudge - Human, short, male, Rogue Scout
Teaches: Survival skills, Nature, Ranged Combat
Soric - Elves, tall, male, Rogue Inqusitor
Teaches: Investiation, Perception and Body language
Zoltis - Elves, female, Soulknife Rogue
Teaches: Psionic Energy, Martial Arts, Accuracy,
The Caretakers
Caretakers are all Rogues. They are trained to protect the Main building and keep an eye on students when not in their lessons. They are also expected to be positive role models, take care of general skills (cooking, cleaning, and magic detection) - as well as enforce the rules and guidelines.Billy Olds - Human, male, completely hairless, deaf,
Main Role: chef,
Xevra - Half-Elf, female,
Main Role: guard,
Jetamoss Venitalo - Elves (MoonLight), Female,
Main Role: Weaponsmith
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