Curious Consequences
Those who are responsible for education can only carry out their task effectively if they act in a fair and proper manner and sincerely dedicate themselves to it. How could the school be used as a vehicle for personal glorification? Regardless of whether such an act as that described above took place in China or abroad, it is a practice that should not be allowed to be repeated.
These words were taken from the memoirs of TKK, the man who founded the Pyromancers' Guild. On further reading, the story becomes even more interesting.
Apparently, during the time of the Great War, a foreign priest asked TKK if he would contribute money for the establishment of a Wyvern College. TKK replied that he would, laid down some conditions, and pledged ten myriad thalers (a princely sum even in these benighted times). The Atlantean High Council, at that time consisting of European colonials, kept balking them. In the end, the University was not built.
It later turned out that the High Council wanted to commemorate the centennial of the founding of Atlantis as a colonial trading port by building a college named after the Gambler (a name ironically given to the absentee founder who on his infrequent visits to the port cracked down on all games of chance). It was this edifice that was built instead of the proposed Wyvern College.
Rather miffed at this turn of events, TKK granted three myriad thalers to the foreign priest to help fund the existing School of Wyverns, and turned his attention to founding another school. That is how the Pyromancers' Guild was founded.
Not long after that, the Chairman of the Board of the Guild decided to place two huge stone gates at the entrances of the Guild on the road upon the Hill of Tin. On the pillars of the gates, this shameless fellow caused to be engraved runes saying that he had donated them. TKK noted that this made it seem that the whole Guild was the child of this egregious person, and launched a campaign to have him taken down. And that is where the quotation at the beginning of this post comes in.
These words were taken from the memoirs of TKK, the man who founded the Pyromancers' Guild. On further reading, the story becomes even more interesting.
Apparently, during the time of the Great War, a foreign priest asked TKK if he would contribute money for the establishment of a Wyvern College. TKK replied that he would, laid down some conditions, and pledged ten myriad thalers (a princely sum even in these benighted times). The Atlantean High Council, at that time consisting of European colonials, kept balking them. In the end, the University was not built.
It later turned out that the High Council wanted to commemorate the centennial of the founding of Atlantis as a colonial trading port by building a college named after the Gambler (a name ironically given to the absentee founder who on his infrequent visits to the port cracked down on all games of chance). It was this edifice that was built instead of the proposed Wyvern College.
Rather miffed at this turn of events, TKK granted three myriad thalers to the foreign priest to help fund the existing School of Wyverns, and turned his attention to founding another school. That is how the Pyromancers' Guild was founded.
Not long after that, the Chairman of the Board of the Guild decided to place two huge stone gates at the entrances of the Guild on the road upon the Hill of Tin. On the pillars of the gates, this shameless fellow caused to be engraved runes saying that he had donated them. TKK noted that this made it seem that the whole Guild was the child of this egregious person, and launched a campaign to have him taken down. And that is where the quotation at the beginning of this post comes in.
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