In its history, the Collegium has had an allowance for up to 100 elves to join its ranks. Given their long lives, many have grumbled that 100 eternal appointments is scarcely incentive for up-and-comers. It has, in fact, given rise to several murders intended to “open up” spots for ambitious elves.

Collegister T’Xam, for instance, was fatally shot with a rosewood arrow during a lecture on the physiology of elvish demispleens, with his senior assistant Ekr implicated and ultimately executed. Another case, Collegister S’Taem, saw him poisoned with iron shavings administered over a low level for a long period. No one was ever accused of the crime, but the aura of suspicion over his three assistants saw an informal pact among collegisters to deny all of them promotion to the vacat spot, so as to deprive possible malefactors of the spoils of their misdeeds.

Everyone in the Collegium has agreed that Collegister Aewt simply distracted herself and fell out the window, however.

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