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Pre-Service History: Earthborn Psychological Profile: Sole Survivor

Born on Earth, Elisabeth Shepard was one of the many children of low-income families that were kidnapped and sold to slavers and gangs. Three years at that time, she couldn’t remember much of her family. Her Mother Hannah and her Father Daniel - both serving in the Alliance Military - eventually gave up on trying to find her after five years of official and unofficial investigation. They started to move all across Alliance Space, where-ever Hannah and Daniel were stationed by the Alliance Military. Growing up, she ran with a gang called “The Reds”, who had bought her from a human slaver named Max Sartell. Two years after the start of her “career” with The Reds, Sartell was found dead. As Elisabeth got older, she started working as a drug courier and occasionally as a stripper at local clubs. After several of her friends were killed in a gang war between The Reds and another gang, called the “Hummingbirds”, she looked for ways to leave this miserable life behind and eventually found it, as she enlisted with the Alliance Military at age 18.

Plot:

Varamadras Itaul is the Demonlord, he leads the Demonlands (his country, home of the race called Demons), which are allied with a bunch of other mostly northern countries, known collectively as The Cold North (also the name of their magicless army). He runs a guild of combat magicians called the DracoMancers, or simply Mancers. They’re mostly found by Lath magicians (magic detectors) as children and are then trained at a school called Morto, in the city of the same name.  Many of them are what are called Dark Souls, and had to be rescued from the Goodlands before they were killed because of it. When Mancers graduate, they join a Group, under a Group Leader, and use their magic to fight the Knights.

The main thing to remember about the Mancers: they are few, rag-tag, persecuted, and nearly all of them have tragic backstories.

Deas Uef is the (new) King of Trolian, he leads the country of Trolian (home of the race called Trolls), which is allied with a bunch of mostly southern countries known collectively as The Goodlands (also the name of their magicless army). They hired a guild of combat magicians called the The Knights of Jewantes, or simply Knights. The Knights are mostly children without Dark Souls, found by Lath Magicians and then trained at a school called Jewantes. Many of them are from rich or noble families, and had to pay to get an education at the school. When Knights graduate, they join a Compan, under a Commander and use their magic to fight the Mancers.

The main thing to remember about the Knights: they are many, and a lot of them have privileged upbringings, but they’ve been raised with a lot of propaganda and misinformation about the war and how evil the Mancers are.

Magic:

Think Avatar or X-Men, not Harry Potter. There are no spells, it’s instinctual and often elemental. The Knights are less well-trained in its uses than the Mancers, on average. The Color types and Elemental types are more common than the Gem/Rare/Dragon types. To remember which color is which just takes memorization, though they do often suit the type (red=strength, white=spirits). “Phases” are power levels, with Phase One being the strongest and currently only Torque Martain (a Mancer) has that level of power.

Races:

Humans are not the default race. There is no real majority of one race or another. Ryons, Teccups, BloodHunters, etc. will often have visible and defining characteristics. All races are referred to as Beings, including Dragons. Members of different races can live for anywhere from normal human life spans to thousands of years or can even have immortality.

Current Events:

We’re fighting a battle right now! It’s a great time to join because its essentially like each character getting their own personal prompt or mission to play with, plus death and destruction!

COURSE OUTLINE (dates subject to minor changes) 

Session 1: Introduction: Financial Markets andSustainability (25th of March 2015, 13:00-14:30)

Session 2: “Green” financial instruments (1st of April 2015,13:00-14:30)

Session 3: Financial actors and global trends (8th of April2015, 13:00-14:30)

Session 4: Financial innovation for sustainability (15th ofApril 2015, 13:00-14:30)

DURATION

The crash-course starts Wednesday the 25th of March and endson Thursday April 30th with a Brown Bag Lunch at the Stockholm ResilienceCentre.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN 

* Provide a basic understanding of key concepts and discussions relayed to financial markets and sustainability

* Inspire participants to approach financial concepts, and explore how financial markets can add new perspectives to your own research tackling global and multilevel dynamics in social-ecological systems

* To provide participants with examples of best practices, existing financial instruments, case studies and existing tensions and debates at the interface between financial markets and sustainability. 

QUESTIONS?

Please contact Mauricio Portilla: [email protected]

More information (including literature, videos, etc) will be made available in this course blog within the next 2 weeks.