Maker's Curse by Trudi Canavan

Author:Trudi Canavan [Canavan, Trudi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 9780356510750
Google: EXp9DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2020-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

PART FOUR

TYEN

CHAPTER 11

As Tyen walked past the classrooms, the teachers within noted his passing. Most ignored him, since he had walked this way at least once a day in the last several weeks, but he knew from their thoughts that they’d seen him. A few looked up and met his eyes, some wary, others anxious to please. He nodded to all who did, relieved that none needed anything from him, since he didn’t have time to stop and help them.

Running the school now dominated Tyen’s waking hours. Though he had arranged fine rooms in a nearby hotel for himself, most of his time there he spent asleep. When he had time to sleep.

Teaching seemed like a luxurious dream of the past. Studying the war machines he’d brought was impossible. When he asked himself how he had wound up in such a position, he had to admit it was entirely his own fault. He paid attention to matters his predecessor had never bothered with, which pleased or annoyed those in charge of them, depending on whether they wanted or resisted change. Even if he had ignored those matters, his workload would still be greater than Ophen’s had ever been thanks to the introduction of new subjects of study, the expansion of others and the disputes that arose as a consequence of opening the Academy to entrants who had traditionally been barred from it.

Women and foreign sorcerers had begun applying to attend the school within weeks of Tyen advertising the new entry requirements in the main Leratian periodicals. At first only a few came, believing they would be rejected, then as the news spread that some of these had been admitted, enquiries increased dramatically.

Along with abolishing the ban on women learning magic in the Academy, Tyen had examined and then changed the written entry tests and standardised the practical ones to ensure fairness. Some of the old requirements had been deliberate obstructions to ensure failure due to race and gender. It had been a lot of work, but thankfully not ongoing. Once he was satisfied with the new system, he’d delegated, reluctantly, responsibility for overseeing it to people he barely knew but who appeared adequate for the task, and had created a new role called the Student Overseer, who ensured all new entrants to the Academy were treated well and equally.

As he entered another corridor, he looked out along the windows on one side and his gaze fell upon the roof of the meeting hall. Every week the professors had raised or relayed objections to the relaxing of the entrant rules. Every week Tyen reminded them that a foreign woman had restored the world and that if the Academy was to be equal to the best schools in the worlds, it needed to put aside its backward rules and prejudices and see the strength and potential it had been ignoring and wasting within its own world.

He lost a few teachers but gained three times their number as those who had distanced themselves

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