Civitas: How to Die Together with Your Scholar Colleagues

By Tristan Norman, for Dr Mittler and Professor Lindale

Edited by Aran Meredith and Northern Mittler Solomon

You think you know it; do you also know ledge?

Hosts of an imaginary city of scholars, students, artists, and architects where time stops, the board of trustees invited a twenty-something chess grandmaster to head the new institute of political history. He is human.

Son of rockstar Professor Zoran Miroslav, Igor was tasked with the impossible task of compiling a public history of Civitas for public consumption, for this he has to interview the key personnel surviving: a painter, an alchemist, a necromancer, a juris doctor turned diplomat, a widow of the architect, a retired secular pope. They each have their theory of the progenies and their story to tell.

Recently retired from professional chess, Igor seems the perfect person to create some buzz and promote the business of education. He met a girlie who was nice enough to say he is a flaming idiot.

He passionately fell in love with a lesbian historian he met along the way. Of course he was rejected, but it doesn't stop them from developing a professionally hinged friendship. He still thinks Leni should consider experimenting with him, employing an opera soprano, soul juice and clockwork puppet.

Norman was an act pretty, do nothing at the coffeeshop kind of boy, a literature student in Civitas who barely goes to class, when he is short of money he sells himself.

He was involved in some underground solicitation circle, short of florins, he thinks of the brilliant idea of suing the two Gabriel for fraud, he read some journal articles from both, and distinguished the slight mismatch of styles.

The other Gabriel mostly writes in art theory and art history, after some digging he worked out it's prince Laetoria. Can baby doll make some money and make a name for himself suing both members of the board of the city? The city has its own agencies and agendas.

A lost and drunk young man social climbing in a late capitalist steampunk city, and a deliberate pretty boy navigating art and art works.