"I think you might have a slight misapprehension on what golems are for - or can your 'computers' be so powerful they don't need to be carved for specific tasks?"

"They don't need to be carved for specific tasks, no, they're pretty general purpose. Or, well, can be made arbitrarily general, the first computers invented were glorified calculators."

"I don't think I'm picturing what they actually do very well- But I'm about to be busy, and my coffee's done, and I just meant to let you know I got your crystal really."

"Okay. I can give you a lecture on what-all they are currently capable of doing where I'm from and projections on future capabilities later if you like."

"I'm sure it will be fascinating- Hey, here's the crane I rented, goodbye."

"Bye, have fun!"

And onwards to the city.

Suvak is much less a city than Windvale was. If Windvale was this place's version of a big city, Suvak is more like a university town. It's more sprawling, less built up. The tallest building is five or six stories and there are lots of parks and small ponds everywhere.

The university is fairly obvious. Not just because of the signs, but a huge sprawl of obviously-different-style buildings with the people nearby showing a lot more race and species diversity than Windvale did.

Oh, and Suvak Hall. A giant towering chrome dome adorned with all sorts of mechanical equipment, and a gigantic decorative spinning bronze gear that probably serves no actual purpose.

Ooooh!

...but okay first thing Sadde needs to find a clothing store.

He wouldn't necessarily look out of place - this is a university, strange fashion statements at universities persist across worlds. But yeah, that's probably a good idea if he's going to talk to bureaucracy.

Clothing stores are readily available. He gets varying-subtly ogled by a few people, including the staff, though.

Oh no whatever shall he do with people feeding his ego.

He debates morphing his wings away, decides against, and sees whether they have backless things female humans are known to wear.

Yeah. They seem to be made for both genders, though the selection is small.

Cool, Sadde'll get one of those, and then—

—shift into a much more comfortable body.

That definitely gets people chattering.

As long as xe pays before leaving with it xe'll be fine. (...Someone was really eager to have an excuse to use their trendy gender neutral pronouns.)

She giggles and thanks them for their thoughtfulness but she's okay with gendered pronouns for the gender she's presenting as. She's also okay with gender neutral ones, though.

(And yes she does pay.)

Where to now? The two obvious targets are the heart of bureaucracy itself, the university main office, or possibly visiting various departments first to butter them up with her magic and knowledge and maybe get a lever to use against the machine.

Visiting departments first is a good idea, especially to have a better sense of what's even available as an option.

The whole thing seems to work surprisingly like western style universities back on Earth.

There's a few flavors of engineering, many flavors of applied magic but the six main ones are runework, enchanting, wandmaking, potion brewing, crystallography, and golemcraft. Languages. History. Geology, physics, Fair Folk studies and Fate studies departments. A medical program. There are some liberal arts style things that mostly match with what Earth would have.

Mmmm she kinda wants to learn lots of magic it's what she's here for.

And on the other hand she can teach physics.

She'll go visit the applied magic depts. Runework!

Posters of grad students' term projects about the efficiency and effectiveness of various methods of carving runes into things. Apparently runes are regarded as the most efficient magic. They don't consume anything but the carver's time.

A few professors and some TAs are in their offices but none of them have office hours right this second. The front office is happy to answer her questions though!

Hmm, she doesn't have any questions about it per se, it seems to fit pretty well with what she knows of magic and anything she might want to know she'll probably need to watch courses to ask.

Enchanting?

The enchanting department office is much fancier and has plenty of elaborate marketing material about the innovations (old ones, mind you, fifty or a hundred years at least) that have come out of this fine institution over the years. Enchanting is apparently the least sensical and organized branch of magic, but still useful because of the permanence and lack of recharging.

How does it work, though, what's different between enchanting and other forms of permanent magic-object-making?

Lots of things, principally that minor runework is usually part of an enchantment, the process usually involves chanting and sacrificing things, and doesn't generally involve gemstones or crystals.

Please attend Enchanting 101 to find the answer to that question in more detail.

Okay she might go do that.

Wandmaking!