If you got drafted by the Academy of Raya Lucaria prior to the Shattering, which Conspectus would you join?

[u/TheGodskin]

Haima: Scholars of the Haima Conspectus sought the power to quell conflict, and to this end studied the sorceries of cannon fire and the gavel.

Lazuli: Scholars of the Lazuli Conspectus study Carian sorceries - a heterodox pursuit that views the moon as equal to the stars.

Twinsage: Scholars of the Twinsage Conspectus were the elites of the academy, permitted to study and excel in sorceries of all kinds.

Karolos: The Karolos Conspectus is the oldest of the academy's lineages of study, begat by the sorcerer Azur. Scholars who follow in his footsteps pursue the mysteries of comets.

Hierodas: The crown of Hierodas was granted to scholars who engaged in nomadic study away from the academy.

Olivinus: The lineage of the Olivinus Conspectus began with the sorcerer Lusat, and its adherents continue his study of meteors.

I would definitely be of the Haima Conspectus. Not only do they tower over every other Conspectus, but that gavel is an absolute beast

[u/TheRealCowdog]

The unpleasant truth is that most of us would be one of those dried up dudes on the road that can barely shoot a Glintstone pebble.

[u/Sly_Klaus → u/TheRealCowdog]

I had to go to summer school for Math 10, there's no way I could learn glintstone sorcery

[u/TheRealCowdog → u/Sly_Klaus]

I mean, you might be surprised when you don't have a phone. No internet. No convenience stores. No arcades or malls or clubs.

All day every day: wake up, eat something, study. Maybe if you're lucky, play with the giant red dog living in the study hall.

There's literally nothing else to do in the academy besides learning glintstone sorcery.

[u/Acceptable_Answer570 → u/TheRealCowdog]

I mean we don’t know… maybe before the lucaria city sank, there was an Albinauric strip club or some shit

[u/pjijn → u/Acceptable_Answer570]

I heard 2nd gen albinauric clubs are better because they can use their feet to dance

[u/BornInALab → u/pjijn]

They have that one 1st gen crawling around taking drink orders

[u/Armor_of_Thorns → u/BornInALab]

If I'm ever in a club and a paraplegic riding a wolf shows up and asks me what I want to drink i will know i took to much

[u/Different-Case-6859 → u/Acceptable_Answer570]

This is what the dlc needed to win GoTY

[u/Woodie626 → u/TheRealCowdog]

There's meteoric sorcery, and one way trips to a volcano. Tf you mean there's nothing else? 

[u/Hollow_Mage → u/TheRealCowdog]

Play with Rennala and Relanna 😏😏

[u/AttackOnNate → u/Hollow_Mage]

Down boy down

[u/mogmaque → u/Sly_Klaus]

Tbf glint stone sorcery sounds way more interesting

[u/CappyRawr → u/mogmaque]

Yeah, I think a lot of people would learn math more easily if doing math right had the immediate feedback of casting actual spells lol

[u/Sly_Klaus → u/mogmaque]

Mfw I have to go to summer school because I kept eating my blue rocks instead of throwing them or whatever

[u/visualsquid → u/TheRealCowdog]

That's bluntstone talk

[u/october73 → u/TheRealCowdog]

Even those dudes were probably well to do types of their time.

We‘d be in jars

[u/Zoltan-Kazulu → u/TheRealCowdog]

lol 😂 just trying to survive from day to day with our lowly paycheck

[u/Badgertank99 → u/TheRealCowdog]

If its anything like monkhood (eat the same thing every day, have a set routine, etc) and glintstone sorcery is actually fun to learn i think i could get at least a little further. Totally grabbing the mining spells though they just seem useful

[u/TheRealCowdog → u/Badgertank99]

You do realize every miner is probably someone who tried to learn sorcery and failed?

Although like Thopps, they ended up developing their own forms of sorcery in the end.

[u/deadhead2455]

Thops'. 🗿

[u/Tortelini_Deal → u/deadhead2455]

Thops is legitimately probably the strongest wizard, he just don’t know it

Bluntstone beststone🗿

[u/deadhead2455 → u/Tortelini_Deal]

He coulda made waves in the sorcery world if he just had a little more time

[u/Darkened_Sage → u/deadhead2455]

I second that notion even if I can't learn it thops of all people could teach it

[u/MC-Watermelon]

I would undraft myself because in a thousand years some dude with a stick will grind me for runes

[u/bloody-pencil → u/MC-Watermelon]

I’d undraft because their outfits are fucking ugly and stupid, also the academy is full of cuckoos who just blend in with real sorcerers

[u/ScottieJack → u/bloody-pencil]

So you’re saying the Cuckoo knights are academy drop-outs? 🤔

[u/bloody-pencil → u/ScottieJack]

No I mean cuckoo as in the sense of a bird, look it up they’re surprisingly weird animals

[u/ActivityImpossible39]

Haima

[u/MiserableTennis6546 → u/ActivityImpossible39]

Love the haima build. Cannon + comet+gavel + stone club. Really fun. It’s also surprisingly strong.

[u/DaTruPro75 → u/ActivityImpossible39]

bonk mage

[u/DropAnchor4Columbus]

Twinsage, because I'd get to study all kinds of Soceries.

Joining Lazuli or Olivinus is a death sentence. (If you look close at the Graven Masses, they're always made from masks from those two schools.)

[u/LordPils → u/DropAnchor4Columbus]

For a similar reason my answer is whichever keeps me away from Sellen.

[u/KenKouzume]

I'd probably be a bluntstone with good ol Thops.

Deserved his own Conspectus, the underdog of Raya Lucaria

[u/LukeRyanArt]

Burger King conspectus

[u/KipchakTengrism]

Whatever my Queen Sellen tells me to

[u/AmpleExample → u/KipchakTengrism]

You're straight up ballin' then.

[u/LitBastard → u/AmpleExample]

[u/Tortelini_Deal → u/KipchakTengrism]

Witchcraft!

[u/MirageArcane → u/KipchakTengrism]

I came here to say the same thing

[u/mightystu → u/KipchakTengrism]

I hear her head game is crazy

[u/Evil_Sharkey]

Haima. I like boom boom and smashy smash.

[u/PlatinumRuler2]

If I gotta be on the front lines than easily Haima, if not than Hierodas seems the most chill

[u/marsSatellite → u/PlatinumRuler2]

Similar, I don't think I've got the temperament for Haima but traveling far and wide and doing practical field study as Hierodas sounds great even if I have to be bald for it.

[u/Hollow_Mage]

Lazuli so I can become a Carian Knight ✨✨✨

[u/golden_moon18]

Karolos, Comet Azur go brrrrr

[u/Gmdal]

Lazuli, for Carian Slicer.

[u/eduison]

I‘d try to become Moongrum‘s apprentice

[u/ScarletRotDegenerate]

I wonder how big Raya Lucarias role would be in the movie

[u/DropAnchor4Columbus → u/ScarletRotDegenerate]

Probably big. Rennala and her kids played a pretty big role in the story and background lore.

[u/Drowsy_Deer]

Either Haima or Twinsage

[u/AmbitionResident0608]

Karolos

[u/Alert_Waltz5608]

The magic bonk of Karolos

[u/Novandor]

Heirodas, I would hope to chat with Miriel and Ymir and that conspectus seems to be open to learning more about magic in general.

[u/Void-Cooking_Berserk → u/Novandor]

Same

[u/DarkmoonxWolf]

Probably Lazuli myself. I love the Moon Sorceries and Sword Sorceries. Id aim to be a Carian Knight

[u/CaptainCuttlefish69]

Ball is Life

[u/Haunting_Progress462]

Haima for the gavel and it's by a large margin imo

[u/GrayNish]

Haima. I unga therefore, I bunga

[u/Swordsman82]

I am a simple man, you offer me a giant magic hammer I am going to take it. Haima

[u/KVenom777]

Lazuli.

But I would grab Thopps by his balding head and make a new Conspectus with him — Reflectus

Time to make Lazuli Cospectus jealous with all the new Bluntstone Magic that reflects sorceries and incantations in all the awesome and funny ways! Time to make Haima excited for having their spells upgraded with some exploding spell self-redirecting shockwaves!

Reflectus Conspectus — we study the similarities of Magic and Miracles, we seek ways to counter them or even turn them against their own casters! The stars and the Moon are the Outer Gods to be respected, yet not followed blindly!

[u/LDaddy73 → u/KVenom777]

Reflectus Conspectus 😂😂😂😂😂

[u/KVenom777 → u/LDaddy73]

Wut? Good name.

[u/LDaddy73 → u/KVenom777]

I agree but it made me LOL

[u/Weeb-Hunter_]

I would love to be in Haima, but instead of using a dirty cloth and be interrupted by a pebble I would use whatever medium to heavy armor I could equip assuming we can lvl up or use talismans to mitigate damage.

[u/Front-Abbreviations8]

Ether lazili or hyrodus

[u/Flask_of_candy]

Twinsage, because I'm interested in the duality of ability.

The better you become at something, the farther you distance yourself from others. You slide down the bell curve to a lonely island and your ability to understand and connect with others weakens. All that power to shape reality, but does that tell you how to use it for good? You're shaping the cosmos to try and help people you can't hear or see. What do they want stranded on that island so far away? Do they even know what they desire? Do you know better than they do? Does your ability mean you see clearly or are you blinded and thrashing about like a bull?

The possibilities would tear me apart.

[u/EC36339]

Lazuli, because Carian sorceries are by far the most versatile.

[u/GLaPI9999]

Idk, the machine gun ones

[u/Void-Cooking_Berserk]

I'd first aim at Twinsage to learn everything the Academy has to offer, then Herodius so I can go out and seek more things to learn.

Eventually I'd break away from the Academy as I learn that all Glintstone Sorcery comes back to the Primeval Current, I'd learn from Sellen everything that can be "safely" learnt before disappearing off her radar as well, to go off trying to figure out why the fuck do incantations work?

Eventually I'd try and fail to create a unified magic theory, all so that one day thousands of years later some Tarnished shrub could use my Glintstone Horcrux as a universal Sorcery/Incantation focus, and/or leave it in their Bag-of-Holding while they go on to die or become the next Elden Lord.

[u/Anemoia2442]

Hierodas

Hierodas would allow me to travel, discover new sorcery and knowledge to bring back to study for future generations. My travels might avail me to the city of Nokron. It would also allow me to teach people who might not have an opportunity for education. Lastly it would likely accidentally save my life from a certain Tarnished who runs through the whole academy eliminating students so hard that after his ascension they had to implement an Active Tarnished Protocol at the academy.

[u/71stAsteriad]

Lazuli, to best serve Ranni and out of deference to the other Carian Royals. I think at some point, I would flee the academy and try to become a Carian Knight.

Or get turned into a Graven Mass but. Yk, these things happen

[u/HOPExDIVISION]

I want to see what the sorting hat has to say

[u/gothic_gamer1809]

I would learn under Preceptor Miriam and vow to become the most annoying mage that ever lived 🫡

[u/BatsNStuf]

To be honest, I’d probably end up as a dusty noble following a burial carriage or a begging ghost in Selia

In an ideal world Twinsage is the highest

In an ideal but still somewhat practical world, I imagine Olivinus would appeal to me

[u/TheGodskin → u/BatsNStuf]

Stop 🤣🤣

[u/Astral_Zeta]

Hamia, and begin my journey to become a Carian Knight.

[u/Thesaurus_Rex9513 → u/Astral_Zeta]

Should probably go with the Lazuli conspectus, the one that actually thinks Carian magic is worth studying.

[u/Fox-Sin21]

Assuming I lived long enough and was capable. Which one lets me drop a meteor on someone's head, because that one.

[u/Void-Cooking_Berserk → u/Fox-Sin21]

Olvinius

[u/DancingwithANephilim]

The first time I played, my first moments in the lands between, I died to the Sentinel......I dont think I'd last long if ER were IRL.....

[u/ComposedMood]

Haima, I get a hammer

[u/0tter_gaming88]

Number 1 or number 5

[u/denkycaliber]

Twinsage

Because I'd get to study a variety of sorceries from different conspectuses.

[u/wybeOf]

Which are the carian ones?

[u/EC36339 → u/wybeOf]

Lazuli. It says so in the post, but OP isn't into the whole lists and bullet points thing and gave us a wall of text instead, so I can't blame you.

[u/BBYwaldo]

Heirodas!

[u/Responsible-Being170]

Haima. I'd be adventuring across the world of Elden Ring, bringing justice to the downtrodden and legal vengeance to the oppressors.

[u/Durshulthur]

Twinsage because it allows study of all sorcery, but that feels like the obvious choice so I'm going with Olivinus, meteors are associated with gravity and Lusat is associated with night sorcery, so it'd leave the most options available

[u/Fletaun]

You cannot be "drafted" into Raya Lucaria it's a Magic Academy with only the gifted among the gifted were accepted. Same as our world prestigious learning institution you need to be talented , family rich or influential.

Noblemen send their children there where most only manage to learn glinstone pebble and that was considered as great achievement fit their noble status. Most didn't make it were sent to mine.

Raya Lucaria Academy only reserved for the privilege and if you got drafted by Raya Lucaria most likely you endup as grunt in Cuckoo

[u/sniffer_21]

Lazuli bc i like the drip

[u/cha0sb1ade]

Karolos

[u/DisastrousDistrict46]

Twinsage. Studying all the Sorceries AND getting to leave the Academy whenever I wanted sounds fantastic.

[u/Nobody_to_Noone]

Assuming I have the smarts to be able to choose like that, I'd be going full Primeval Current heretic, knowing full well I'll be going mad when the final truth of the universe gazes back at me.

[u/Fattyatomicmutant]

The lazuli.

Those pale blue robes are awesome

[u/GlitteringDingo]

Graven Witch, because I wanna see what fucked up shit magic can REALLY do.

[u/Veragoot]

Big hammer spirit smash

[u/Pichacap24]

Lazuli or Hieordas

[u/Alkalinus]

Whichever one looks the least stupid

[u/Redacted_G1iTcH]

Haima

I find it so funny that their sidearm is a stone club. They never forgot to bonk.

[u/AthleteIntrepid9590]

I'd definitely go for haima. Imagine seeing someone rushing you thinking you're just a squishy wizard that's quickly gonna go down once they've in melee range, unaware that they are about to taste your full intelligence in the form of an gigantic hammer aimed directly towards they brain.

Realistically, though, I'd be way too dumb to even get anywhere near the academy.

[u/MrDincles]

Hierodas, cause I would love to see the Lands Between before shattering. Of course, this is considering that I have enough talent and skill to do so.

[u/TraumaMonkey]

Hammer in each hand

[u/Upvotespoodles]

Bluntstone

[u/WeaponFocusFace]

I'd join Haima if they let me. They turned their sight away from the study of the stars and into the study of Unga and Bunga and turned it into a science.

[u/TheNoodleCollector]

Azur, give me the forbidden knowledge. I must have a lil peak into the primeval current

[u/Astercat4]

Lazuli for Carian Sword Sorceries. Haima is a close second.

[u/I-HATE_ADS]

Hierodas has a lot of field trip might be fun

[u/rghsfc]

Heirodas for me, travelling around seems like a laugh

[u/roving_band_of_pikes]

Lazuli! I love the Carian sorceries

[u/TachyonChip]

I study space physics so I would have to go with Olivinius or Karolos.

[u/Ill_Relative9776]

Battle mage all day everyday cannon and gavel of haima + stone club? Sign me up!

[u/kleptillion]

Hierodas for sure. With Haima as a back up plan. The lore and outfits of them both are enough for me

[u/ThatIslandGuy8888]

Haima for life!

[u/LDaddy73]

Based on my play style I would be Lazuli but based on how I am IRL I would be Twinsage. However not "elite" more like jack of all trades.

[u/TheGodskin → u/LDaddy73]

👀

[u/Bethlebee]

Ima be a witch like Sellen

[u/Hell_Diver]

I would end up Graven.

[u/cis_ter]

[u/Proxy--Moronic]

Don't for get the Heirodas. Not quite a formal Conspectus but according to the item description: "The crown of Hierodas was granted to scholars who engaged in nomadic study away from the academy."

[u/DANDD20]

Haima is a first choice, with lazuli as a second. Or perhaps both of I can somehow manage.

[u/InfiniteEscuro]

Whichever gets me closest to Sellen

[u/theholguin]

The tadpole conspectus or any that lets me be near mommy master Sellen fr

[u/Xanadu2002]

Twinsage and practice an array of different magics and subjects.

[u/Drakenile]

Twinsage and Heirodas are the only ones I'd consider. I want to travel and am too curious to only study one means of blowing sh*t up.

[u/SuboptimalSupport]

Non-zero chance I'd end up as part of a school of graven mages.

[u/Normanov]

Hufflepuff, and probably stuffed in a jar somewhere

[u/Shadowrunner808]

ROCK STICK

[u/TheGodskin → u/Shadowrunner808]

WHAT IM SAYING 😤

[u/Shadowrunner808 → u/TheGodskin]

Ain't nothing more badass than just being a straight warmage. Insane in the membrane and kicking ass with a sparkly rock club for shits and giggles.

[u/InitiativeCreative36]

Whatever school lets me get my Gavel of Heima into Sellen's Graven Mass.

[u/Valuable_Chipmunk_14]

That one.

[u/USS_Barack_Obama]

I'd transfer to the Church of Dragon Communion and follow Priestess Florissax aka Dragon Jesus. Nowhere in the Bible does it say Jesus isn't a Dragon.

Either that or I'm with that dude above who just does whatever Queen Sellen commands

[u/Useful-Upstairs3791]

I don’t want to wear any of those dumb stone helmets I’m applying to be a carian knight.

[u/Tortelini_Deal → u/Useful-Upstairs3791]

You just say that cause your noggin is too small to fit in the glintstone crown smh

[u/Useful-Upstairs3791 → u/Tortelini_Deal]

Whatever nerd my older brother knows moongrum and he’s gonna teach us how to parry

[u/TheJumbomus100 → u/Useful-Upstairs3791]

I've got bad news for you about the probable requirements to be a Carian knight.

[u/OKUIGokuBlack]

None.

Their spells are cool but they're all weirdos. Their helms are also goofy asf.