Yeah, you don't want to blow the curve. Your fellow students will not be happy.

TBh, grade curve is an idiotic idea from social integration point of view.. probably that's why most of world doesn't use it.

I have to agree. And most employers won't grade on a curve unless they have to, which is usually a bad situation for everyone. It's better for kids to be graded on their own merits and not have things skewed because of one genius or some kid who just really likes to learn, or wants to do well.

Plus, I'm pretty sure it teaches kids to compare themselves to others instead of focusing on their own talents and hard work. That's a recipe for disaster later in life.

Wow so that mountain was split in half by a mage battle in the recent past? And here I thought it was the secret hideout for some nefarious dark mages, or something. I think the facts speak for themselves... It's a lot more unnerving to learn the split mount was the result of a war!

Also Kiela's is something of a sad story indeed. I don't think she should have been treated as such a wild card, outcast by her classmates, peers and teaching staff because she was interested so much with refining and controlling magic use... That's rather bigot of them! I understand it is because of fear... but still...

Looking forward to more of this story! :D

I think distant past is more accurate.

Eh... Past is past... Let's not dwell on it.

I love younger Kiela's long hair. Now, I'm curious as to why she cut it into a mohawk.

Probably cuz her plan backfired and she had to run and changed her appearence.

I agree. I wanna see her grow her hair back.


Assuming she can, and it's not the result of a spell gone awry.

But then she'll look like Silver's twin (aside from their tails) and viewers will get them confused.

Maybe Kiela could get a purple streak dyed in? That would match her robes. :D

That might help. xD

So someone pulled an ichigo.
You know what i mean if you saw the last battle with aizen.

lore dump!

Lore dumps are fun!

Every now and then the DM has to use the unskipable cutscene! To remind the party to stay on track of course...

Explains so much of the magic laws

Panel 3: Kiela the Air Bender

I should be somewhere in this academy story :P

Well, now the king knows her little secret

Considering this is magic school the students were most definitely only afraid of the latter. Nobody ever likes the smartest kid in the class, probably because then the instructor will start expecting the same amount of effort from the rest or favoritism will happen.

Definitely grade curve.

I don't think those two worries are mutually exclusive.

Yeah, I know from breaking the curve. I used to write programs in machine code on paper on the bus, punch them into the PROM programmer when I got to school that night -- and have them work the first try. Even drove the Professor nuts.

Yeah, when you have huge scars on the landscape left behind by a couple people with phenomenal cosmic powers... can't really blame the authorities for either out-lawing or restricting magic outside of very exceptional circumstances.