Danilys Waentyrnwyn
... if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.
-Phillip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Name: Danilys Waentyrnwyn
Race: Roegadyn | Sea Wolf
Age: Adult
Profession: Teacher, Aetherological Anthropologist.Born in the Sharlayan Colony in Dravania, Danilys began her education at a young age. She was taken as an apprentice by an arcanist inside of St. Mocianne's Arboretum and seemed to enjoy mucking around amidst the relative messiness of the Arboretum's diverse flora and fauna.After an incident in the Arboretum involving a wayward carbuncle and several valuable destroyed rare flowers, she was relegated to a different teacher, one specializing in more isolated study. This followed her during the Exodus back the Old World, where she did well enough in the ivory tower halls of the Studium - walking the high paths of theory, never quite dipping so close to the ground again.It was only after an encounter with a fellow student from the outside - from the city-states of Eorzea and places she'd been raised to think of as 'barbarian country' that she began to change her mind about the need to think about the larger world. The way it might augment her studies rather than distract and detract from them.With a plan and course of study, she left Sharlayan for the closest Eorzean port, and swiftly went to work
One-Room Schoolhouse Often dismayed at the lack of standardized education in Eorzea and beyond, Danilys has set about to try and bring at least basic literacy to the world. She hires herself out as a private tutor to the wealthy to fund both her studies and the ability to take on students of less fortunate means.All Waters From One Ewer It's likely Danilys will never 'officially' complete her own schooling - content to be enrolled in perpetuity, publishing and continuing to pursue more esotieric fields of study. At present, she is enrolled with the Facet of Anthropology, researching cultural practices of magic the star over.
Publications'Under the Blue Cloak - the Magical Traditions of Aerslaent Translated to Modern Principles of Aetherology''Gunnhildr's Handmaidens - An Astromantical Primer of Bozjan Divinatory Practices''Microcosm in Macrovision: - Aether Currents Replicated In Terrarium Miniature''Orchids and Fungi - A Case Study of Voidsent Possession (co-author O. Haragin)'Catalogue of the Familiars of Archmage Wyssbrem - An Aetherical Menagerie''Beyond the Visible - The Glamoury of the Sylphlands' (co -author B. Ducaille)
In game: Danilys Waentyrnwyn
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Panic! at the Bibliotek Though Danilys is still in good standing with the homeland, she sometimes finds herself on thin ice. She is always careful with what she lets out into the greater world, but is known to associate with at least one Forum-censured scholar and may very likely be actively assisting them.The Ivy Off the Vine: Danilys started her education in the Sharlayan Colony in the Dravanian Hinterlands and continued it in the Studium in the Motherland after the Exodus. Though she engages more often in field study, she seems content to be enrolled in perpetuity and may never formally graduate - constantly seeking more and more advanced (and obtuse) fields of study.Post-Academian: To fund and further her education, she's come to Eorzea (and beyond?) to give private education in various subjects. This helps fund her own education and other endeavors. Are you looking to broaden your horizons?Have your children taught basic mathemetics? Learn to read at all?Aetherical Catalysyt:As an aspiring Archmage, Danilys has a rudimentary knowledge of several schools of magic, largely theoretical, but with some practicality behind it. She appears to have a keen interest and talent for identifying people with latent magical or aetherical potential - especially if it is a thing that brings them trouble. She aims to help these individuals regain balance and control over their lives - and get them connected with appropriate intruction in the various magical guilds of Eorzea if they wish to further an education. She does some study in them herself as well as part of her field coursework.Souls...of Magic?: A rumor surrounds Danilys - one that suggests she has a passing interest in seeking out lost soulstones from ancient magical orders of all kinds. Whether this is for a personal collection, to quietly disseminate into the hands of knowledge-seekers or just to lock up to keep out of the wrong hands isn't what's known. Maybe she's just writing a paper about it.