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by Mina Lee
"Strixhaven Strong," shouts Zanther Bowen, the spirited Fire Genasi Cheer Squad leader of Prismari's Mage Tower team. This week starts the first of many intense training regiments for the squad.
This year, Zanther states that even though his squad will be there to support the Prismari team, he wants their routine to embolster all of Strixhaven's students with school spirit. This focus toward unity across colleges is a refreshing reminder of our shared goals at Strixhave versus the many years of adversity seen surrounding Mage Tower events.
Those of us at Strixhaven Star are exciting as ever to see Zanther and his squad perform at this year's games. It's already a pleasure seeing the Prismari squad practicing all around campus in between classes.
Stay Strixhaven Strong!
Rampaging Insectoid sketched by Lorehold's Ai'tev.
by Mina Lee
There is no end to strange and unusual activities on the grounds of our great university campus, but something more nefarious than ever could be looming over us as the events this morning leave many students fearing for their safety.
On the way to the campus this morning, a large insect-like creature of unknown origins ripped through the shell of one of the lightning rail dining cars full of students and visitors. Its razor-like appendages slicing through the tough metal like a hot dagger through a gelatinous cube. Screams of terror rang out as the beast immediately fell upon a group of non-students eating their breakfast and grabbed a former Silverquill student, Hummer.
"I was munching on my nutbread when the thing came down and picked me up," Hummer remarked. "I felt powerless as it whipped me around like an old napkin." Hummer continued by stating he feared his time in the mortal coil would be cut short if it hadn't been for his dear friend, Colt, and others stepping in to slay the beast.
"Me Boba", claimed Boba, a visiting Hadozee with a natural talent for linguistics. Boba, Colt, Ai'tev, and GOOP were quick to dispatch the monster leaving only minor injuries among the students and some structural damage to the hull of the rail car. We are thankful to be among students that do not hesitate to rise up in defense of their fellow mages.
"The faculty has been made aware of these events, and we ensure you that this was an isolated incident from a wild beast. There is nothing to fear, but we will be taking steps necessary to prevent something like this from occuring again," stated Professor Willowdusk, a Witherbloom Professor of Herbology and Magical Physiology.
This news is hot off the press and we will be providing you updates as soon as the information comes to light. If you have any additional information regarding this event that, please visit us at the Chronicler's Quarters on Silverquill Campus and ask for Mina Lee.
by Grayson Wildemere
Welcome back, Gossipers!
We've all heard it before, but it's a topic we've yet to explore here in my gossip articles: The mysterious underground tunnels that run underneath Strixhaven and deep into the moon of Toril itself!
Yes, that's right! There have been many reports in the past that these exist, though the evidence has been flimsy at best. Many students claim to have heard of other students that's entered these tunnels, yet no student we've interviewed had any defacto truth for us.
All faculty interviewed state that the idea is preposterous and even my own use of detect magic came up empty in my search for such tunnels.
What do you think? Are there actually secret maintenance tunnels running under us? Why haven't any Lorehold students dug into them during their excavation studies on or off campus? If they exist, were they created as a sort of safety bunker for students and staff in the case of utter calamity on the lunar surface?
Come back next issue for more gossip, rumors, and questions unanswered in Grayson's Gossip!
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