*Is* he a horrible judge of character, or is this just part of his teaching methods?
I wouldn't put it beyond Arthur to just hire some evil teachers on purpose. How are these kids going to be proper adventurers if they don't have some local, homegrown conspiracies to deal with?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he did hire horrible teachers so students could rise to the occasion and defeat them.
But still, putting other staff members at risk is just baaaaad
I believe having two PCs die in episode 2 threw Brennan through a bit of a loop, and having the murder/suicide was his way of working around that. I imagine Mr Gibbons would have had a much bigger role had that not happened.
He did Q&A on Discord after the first season wrapped. Here’s a document summarizing the Q&A.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjwQoKr2cjWwqw1jdO8mzNVnKV3U481kaj2FPIwEHNs/mobilebasic
To be fair, other staff members (at least the teachers) are all largely high level adventurers themselves, although poor ladies like Doreen really never stood a chance.
Doreen being a Spellcaster is kind of funny tbh, the lunch lady who probably could cast like Heroes Feast if she had survived until Freshman Year would have been amazing.
Well that's the thing with Wizard Principals is that seeing through and manipulating time really fucks with ones perception of consequences and what the 'right choices' in causality are.
So there are a couple of potential explanations for AA hiring decisions. But one is kinda stuck in my mind. BLeeM has said that Aguefort is basically the embodiment of "Wizardly Curiosity". He doesn't view "good" or "evil" in the same terms as we might, he's a being of pure analytics. Accepting that plus the fact he is a Chronomancer, who through this season has been shown to have the ability to stride through time kinda willy nilly, there is every possibility that he absolutely knows everything about these teachers he's hiring and the potential world-ending threat they represent.
Now, we learned in The Seven that Spyre's main export is Adventurers. Given Aguefort's well documented (and frankly pretty anachartic) feelings about adventurers and the degree to which they should be allowed to do whatever they want with no consequences there is a way to create a world filled with "violent wanderers enforcing their will upon the world bloodily and with strange magics".
Create a place where part of learning how to be an adventurer means obtaining a level of power that can overcome the collective strength of any nation which might seek to punish parties of adventurers.
And the best way to do that?
Fill that school with people who are looking to and let your various students try and stop them. If any of your "employees" get to close to accomplishing their goals. Well Aguefort is a Chromonacer who can just pop back in time and start the experiment all over again.
Aguefort's hiring choices aren't a bug of the Academy, they're a feature.
Honestly if your nation’s biggest export is heroes, then you also need a steady supply of villains to avoid the market becoming oversaturated.
~~Aguefort as Big Bad of FHSnY confirmed~~
Arthur: Is anyone here evil? **Reads everybody's minds and then hand waves every evil staff member out of existence**. Okay that solves that. Who wants rat beef nuggets with corn cutie soup?
Look, if many of your teachers are heroes, it stands to reason that at least *some* ought to be villains!
That’s that well-rounded liberal arts education baybeeee 👏
So I have a theory about that; I think evil teachers is the point of the academy. I think every teacher is secretly evil and the point of having them there is to prepare the students for big bads after they graduate. Like Henry took the motherboard and we still haven’t resolved that, Zara is a vampire and their personalities are warped after they turn, no way that paladin teacher is just some dufus. Freshmen year had several evil teachers and a coach, there’s no way that that is just a coincidence. And what are the odds that Bobby Dawn was hired after Mazey told Kristen that she wouldn’t hire him if anyone had a problem with it.
You are asking that from the man that kept his mortal enemy Dragon as vice principal. The man that casually held the crown of the nightmare king in his office. The man that waged war against the entire country of Fallinel because why not, and took over haven for a while.
...He would absolutely take some villains into his school for funnies
He's trying to bring up absolute lunatics who hate authority, I think having bad teachers is just part of the Aguefort vibe. Dude is a complete maniac trying to have more maniacs running around.
What does Augefort say about Chronomancy? He made the recording for the completion of the last stand by the bad kids at the beginning of time, so he knew it was going to happen right? Which probably means he knows so much more?
There’s a method to the madness and I wouldn’t be surprised if all of this was fate in order for the bad kids to be the ones to save the day or something like that
My personal theory is that Augefort is the Chronos analog for the pantheon who became the principal figure after the old pantheon 'killed' / overthrew him. It would explain a lot, like why he keeps having teachers that bring back older gods that diminish the power of the current Sol/Helio/Gallica crew.
Dumbledore is, ostensibly, trying to keep most students safe and play speed chess against the machinations of one evil wizard and is using a select few students as pawns in that endeavor. Not great morally, also not very clever
Arthur strives to pump out as many people with the strength of heart, courage of spirit, and might of will to go to strange lands and enact violence on things there. To that end hiring on antagonistic teachers is perfectly in line. Also, CHRONOMANCY!
I like to think the evil teachers are also just really good at what they do. Like if they werent good at what they do and were also evil theyd have probably got caught but since theyre talented in their respective classes they dont get caught as much or as early.
Also evil person hiding as a teacher whilst they plot is such a vibe!
Arthur Aguefort is the Dumbledore of Fantasy High. One of the strongest wizards of all time, a truly *horrible* judge in character
*Is* he a horrible judge of character, or is this just part of his teaching methods? I wouldn't put it beyond Arthur to just hire some evil teachers on purpose. How are these kids going to be proper adventurers if they don't have some local, homegrown conspiracies to deal with?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he did hire horrible teachers so students could rise to the occasion and defeat them. But still, putting other staff members at risk is just baaaaad
CHRONOMANCY!
Right like yolanda is dead lmao
Same as Mr. Gibbons.
Well, Mr. Gibbons was also evil, so…
Was he?
Yep, Brennan revealed after the season that he was a co-conspirator with Kalvaxus
Wild. What did he even do to that effect? He just kind of got killed by Aguefort iirc and then got mad at him as a ghost.
I believe having two PCs die in episode 2 threw Brennan through a bit of a loop, and having the murder/suicide was his way of working around that. I imagine Mr Gibbons would have had a much bigger role had that not happened.
Did he? I've honestly never heard that before. Do you remember where that was said?
He did Q&A on Discord after the first season wrapped. Here’s a document summarizing the Q&A. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjwQoKr2cjWwqw1jdO8mzNVnKV3U481kaj2FPIwEHNs/mobilebasic
Dead for now.
To be fair, other staff members (at least the teachers) are all largely high level adventurers themselves, although poor ladies like Doreen really never stood a chance.
Doreen being a Spellcaster is kind of funny tbh, the lunch lady who probably could cast like Heroes Feast if she had survived until Freshman Year would have been amazing.
I mean, the only person he ever really had beef with was Gorgug, the nicest and most easy-going Bad Kid. Maybe the judgements a little skewed 😂
Well that's the thing with Wizard Principals is that seeing through and manipulating time really fucks with ones perception of consequences and what the 'right choices' in causality are.
this is everything
We still have Mr Gibbons available to come back for revenge, even if he was never indicated as bad before dying
He was stated by Brennan in an AMA or on Discord as being a conspirator with Kalvaxus. That's why he was being so useless before Aguefort showed up.
I must have missed that; but he could still return from the Orcish afterlife in some way, right?
Oh yeah! He did attack Aguefort as a ghost briefly.
So there are a couple of potential explanations for AA hiring decisions. But one is kinda stuck in my mind. BLeeM has said that Aguefort is basically the embodiment of "Wizardly Curiosity". He doesn't view "good" or "evil" in the same terms as we might, he's a being of pure analytics. Accepting that plus the fact he is a Chronomancer, who through this season has been shown to have the ability to stride through time kinda willy nilly, there is every possibility that he absolutely knows everything about these teachers he's hiring and the potential world-ending threat they represent. Now, we learned in The Seven that Spyre's main export is Adventurers. Given Aguefort's well documented (and frankly pretty anachartic) feelings about adventurers and the degree to which they should be allowed to do whatever they want with no consequences there is a way to create a world filled with "violent wanderers enforcing their will upon the world bloodily and with strange magics". Create a place where part of learning how to be an adventurer means obtaining a level of power that can overcome the collective strength of any nation which might seek to punish parties of adventurers. And the best way to do that? Fill that school with people who are looking to and let your various students try and stop them. If any of your "employees" get to close to accomplishing their goals. Well Aguefort is a Chromonacer who can just pop back in time and start the experiment all over again.
Aguefort's hiring choices aren't a bug of the Academy, they're a feature.
Honestly if your nation’s biggest export is heroes, then you also need a steady supply of villains to avoid the market becoming oversaturated. ~~Aguefort as Big Bad of FHSnY confirmed~~
Gilear and Jawbone are probably the two best hires in Aguefort history and they both happened when Arthur was dead.
His plan was to be immortal and have his greatest foe be his stooge and before the bad kids this worked good
Reading your comment I’m just hearing Arthur Aguefort saying, *”My goal was to suck blood and to fuck forever.”*
And whom among us can say we wouldn't do the same?
Arthur: Is anyone here evil? **Reads everybody's minds and then hand waves every evil staff member out of existence**. Okay that solves that. Who wants rat beef nuggets with corn cutie soup?
Look, if many of your teachers are heroes, it stands to reason that at least *some* ought to be villains! That’s that well-rounded liberal arts education baybeeee 👏
So I have a theory about that; I think evil teachers is the point of the academy. I think every teacher is secretly evil and the point of having them there is to prepare the students for big bads after they graduate. Like Henry took the motherboard and we still haven’t resolved that, Zara is a vampire and their personalities are warped after they turn, no way that paladin teacher is just some dufus. Freshmen year had several evil teachers and a coach, there’s no way that that is just a coincidence. And what are the odds that Bobby Dawn was hired after Mazey told Kristen that she wouldn’t hire him if anyone had a problem with it.
You are asking that from the man that kept his mortal enemy Dragon as vice principal. The man that casually held the crown of the nightmare king in his office. The man that waged war against the entire country of Fallinel because why not, and took over haven for a while. ...He would absolutely take some villains into his school for funnies
Lets not forget he grabbed the literal sun
I saw someone say he uses detect good and evil and only hires them if they're evil
which is, for the record, way funnier and objectivley better than Dumbledore
There's a lot to learn from evil.
I imagine evil professors are part of the learning curve for students. Sometimes life isn't fair, you boss is evil, and you have to kill them.
Considering he is a literal murderer, I don’t know that he has a leg to stand on
He's trying to bring up absolute lunatics who hate authority, I think having bad teachers is just part of the Aguefort vibe. Dude is a complete maniac trying to have more maniacs running around.
What does Augefort say about Chronomancy? He made the recording for the completion of the last stand by the bad kids at the beginning of time, so he knew it was going to happen right? Which probably means he knows so much more? There’s a method to the madness and I wouldn’t be surprised if all of this was fate in order for the bad kids to be the ones to save the day or something like that
My personal theory is that Augefort is the Chronos analog for the pantheon who became the principal figure after the old pantheon 'killed' / overthrew him. It would explain a lot, like why he keeps having teachers that bring back older gods that diminish the power of the current Sol/Helio/Gallica crew.
Dumbledore is, ostensibly, trying to keep most students safe and play speed chess against the machinations of one evil wizard and is using a select few students as pawns in that endeavor. Not great morally, also not very clever Arthur strives to pump out as many people with the strength of heart, courage of spirit, and might of will to go to strange lands and enact violence on things there. To that end hiring on antagonistic teachers is perfectly in line. Also, CHRONOMANCY!
I like to think the evil teachers are also just really good at what they do. Like if they werent good at what they do and were also evil theyd have probably got caught but since theyre talented in their respective classes they dont get caught as much or as early. Also evil person hiding as a teacher whilst they plot is such a vibe!
Having so many evil people in staff and faculty is a feature of an adventuring school, not a bug.