He doesn't today, at least. He does make some remarks about how ALL the gods are forces for good in the grand scheme of things and they will respect EVERY philosophy's adherents, but that doesn't even make Zalor twitch.

The thing is he isn't even wrong, communist revolutions not headed by fairness cultists go much, much worse. Not that Kareen can say that out loud. 

This class, like the others, assigns homework. They're supposed to pick their favorite Virtue and write up why it's "the best one".

...Wow, okay. She glances around to see if she's the only avatar in class, because if she isn't, this assignment is even more...interesting. 

Yup, it's just her, and everybody besides her is wearing at least two different charms; three is typical. One kid has six and is raising his hand.

"Before you ask," says the teacher, "I know most of you don't have a single favorite - that's an intentional part of the challenge of the assignment, to take on the mindset of someone who sees everything through one lens, including if you like your other frontrunners."

Kareen raises her hand. 

"Miss Magnus?"

"...Does it have to be your actual favorite, if you do have an actual favorite, it feels more in the spirit of the assignment if I didn't use Inquiry."

"...I'll allow it."

"I could do two," she offers. "One for Inquiry and one for something else." 

"That leads me to my extra credit policy!" Which is generous and will in fact let her get double credit if she does both.

Oh sweet. She wasn't even angling for extra credit she's just exactly the kind of nerd to voluntarily do the homework twice. Not that she's going to say that out loud, bragging isn't seemly. 

A few other kids make thoughtful noises about doing two essays. (Six charms kid is still kind of cranky.)

Six charms kid is valid. Which six charms is he wearing?

Compassion, Courage, Rest, Family, Harvest, and Comfort.

That's a pretty good set! She's picking Rest for her not-Inquiry one, on account of how there is a very real objective sense in which Inquiry is the most important and Rest the next most important, which is that that was the order of her priorities when she was designing the system. 

Does this count as a god complex? Whatever, it's a definition-of-terms question and those don't have objective answers. 

She has lunch next! Lunch doesn't get game time till later in the plot arc when there are some plot conversations staged there, but in real life it happens pretty much every day. The school is fancy enough that there's a kitchen serving nice meals instead of everyone bringing a roll and a boiled egg and an apple in a pail with them or just walking home for lunch and then back again, and Prince Ceres is helping himself to three chicken legs and some kind of bread with pear butter situation.

Oh wow. Like this is not objectively surprising but oh, wow. 

(Kareen's prior school did serve lunch, but this was because it was approximately the same institution as the orphanage and would be doing that anyway. And the food was really emphatically not this nice.)

Kareen is going to get small servings of as many things as she can, because: curiousity. 

El winds up in the queue behind her and gets beans and roasted carrots and some of the bread with pear butter. There's not that much variety, the medievalness may be faux but you don't even have the medieval aesthetic any more by the time you've got a buffet with thirty things unless you are literally at a royal feast table.

(The devs of "Roses of Villarosa" evinced complete surprise at fan comments that they seemed to have made the antagonist a vegetarian and gave no explanation for why they would do that which wasn't "by accident".)

Kareen is not assuming El is, in fact, a vegetarian, but it's a hypothesis that has been actively promoted to her attention. 

Okay, so not small small portions, but also not three chicken legs. Critically, while the food variety has nothing on London, Kareen has spent the last sixteen years subsisting on a strictly worse version of the same food sensibilities. This is still very nice. 

El goes and sits with Ceres, of course.

Kareen is so tempted to try to sit with them, but--probably best not. She picks a spot sufficiently uncrowded that probably nobody will scold her for presumptuousness, but not so isolated as to paint a sign on her back labeled "LOSER WHO SITS ALONE." 

She is rewarded with a tableful of NPCs kids who have a comparable tier of social notability, i.e. low level of directly high-powered background for the venue (nouveau riche, barons' grandchildren, dukes' bastards, offspring of the academy faculty, one kid who's the nephew of the Rest avatar) but socially pleasant enough not to be anathema. This particular subset of the tier elects to strike up a conversation about wrestling tournaments.

Kareen does not know a whole lot about wrestling tournaments but she's genuinely interested!

Apparently a big name is retiring earlier than expected and the title is anyone's game now! One prominent judge proposed barring chokeholds and this is very controversial! This duke's bastard has a lot of opinions about ideal diet and training regimes for a wrestler!