Well, he's going to be saved by the fact that Derek is gesturing for the next person to speak.

"I am Chosen Cosme Pujol, twenty-five years old, born in Egorian. I am a twin."

"Cool! Identical or fraternal?"

What do those mean.

"My twin is a woman," he says, in lieu of directly answering.

"I see! Fraternal. We'll probably cover twins one of these days."

He arranged for himself to be here because he thought he was going to be learning otherworldly torture techniques from an archdruid? Archsorcerer? But apparently, it seems like there will be a lot of book learning instead.

He's going to hold off on regretting his decision.

"Marta Pineda, twenty, born in Ostenso, favorite school is abjuration." Done!

"Abjuration is stuff like wards and protections, right? Why abjuration?"

THE OTHER WIZARDS DID NOT GET ASKED THIS QUESTION

"Yes, Derek. I think I just find abjurations the easiest for me to understand, so I like them the best."

Is that good enough for him?

"Relatable!"

Seems so.

"I am Chosen Irene Pujol, twenty-two years old, born in Ostenso. I don't like to draw blood when I torture people."

"Why not? I often feel similarly, but why not?"

"Break the skin and you have an open wound that can turn foul. I don't have Remove Disease."

"Wow! You are so advanced. That was one of the things I was going to teach about! I feel so useless now. And there's a spell that can just remove disease?"

Why is he saying things like that. It's unbecoming. Is it a kind of posturing? He is so secure in his station that he doesn't need to worry about threats to it?

"Yes, but it's third-circle, and so very limited. Cheliax would highly value any knowledge you have on more scalable and cheaper disease prevention and curing methods."

"I might have some classes touch on those directly, then. I've only laid out the barest bones of a curriculum. I didn't imagine I was going to be teaching, ha. Also, are you and Cosme related?"

She bets that's the real reason he was brought here — the lore necessary to create cheap disease cures. And the other stuff was just tacked on...but for what? He seems like he's having fun...maybe he just really likes teaching and that was to sweeten the deal? She doesn't have the whole context, and it makes her uneasy.

"No, we just have the same surname."

"Chosen Cir Horta. Nineteen years old. Born in Ostenso. Both of my parents were Hellknights."

"Hellknights. What a cool name. What are they? What do they do?"

"Hellknights enforce the law, in Cheliax and abroad."

Sounds super ominous but still cool!

...and she's last.

"Lia Albareda, Ostenso wizard student, twenty, born north of Ostenso. I like conjuration because Teleport is a conjuration spell. Teleport wizards make lots of money."

"Teleport! I don't have the ability to teleport, only plane shift. Alright, thank you everyone.

Hm. That's six men, six women, six Chosen, six wizards. Did you plan this?" He turns to look at Damian.

...okay, they probably shouldn't have made it that obvious.

"Yes, we wanted to have a balance.

"Okay! Thank you again, everyone, for introducing yourselves. Let me give you more context on what's about to happen. Before this, everyone please stand up and go behind me. I'm going to move things around."