The Shard we need is the Mage High School shard. Wait! Hear me out on this one.
In the Mage High School Shard the old and nostalgic
Ascension High must face off against the newer and richer
Union High. Instead of the Traditions we have
The Cliques.
The Cliques resemble the Traditions, but are divided differently.
First you have the
Popular Kids. They use
Mind to navigate the complex web of high school politics,
seeing true intentions and
controlling rumors. The
Popular Kids are also known for their extravagant parties. The
Popular Kids also includes a subset, called the
Cheerleaders. The
Cheerleaders use M
ind to raise the morale of the players, and also
invoke school Spirit through the totem of the
School Mascot.
You also have popular kids at
Union High called the
Rich Kids. The
Rich Kids also show off their status, but in a way that
flaunts their wealth. The favored sphere of the
Rich Kids is
Primal Utility. The
Rich Kids are rivals with, but also overlap some with,
The Achievers.
The Achievers are often seen as
hard working and social.
The Achievers are often
jack-of-all-trades types, doing well in both
Academic and
Athletic pursuits.
Achievers consistently run the shady and controlling
Student Council of
Union High, though not without competition from the
Rich Kids.
Achievers often specialize in
Mind through
personal discipline and
social acumen.
The
Popular Kids also share the spotlight with and hang out with
The Jocks.
The Jocks are often divided into subcategories.
All Stars are more oriented on personal discipline and mind games with your opponents. Also within the sports clubs, with more people, are often
Team Players and focus more on coordination and picking up the slack.
Team Players often don't take the spotlight themselves, but are good friends with most of the team and have fun just playing the game.
The Jocks often favor
Life for
self buffing,
Time for
quick decisions,
Mind and
Correspondence for
teamwork, and finally
Forces for
unbelievable shots.
Union High has it's own athletic groups, known as the
Alphas. The
Alphas have
good genes and an
expensive sports training program.
Alphas also often do better academically than their
Jock counterparts.
Lower on the social hierarchy than the
Popular Kids, but not at the bottom, is the
Rhapsody. The
Rhapsody is subdivided into
Band,
Orchestra,
Chorus, and
Drama. The difference between
Band and
Orchestra is more cultural than paradigmatic.
Chorus often has a bit of a
religious bent, learning to sing latin and singing Choir songs.
Drama is probably the member of the
Performing Arts that stands out the most.
Drama, sometimes encompassing dance, is a different kind of performance than the musical members of the
Rhapsody. While most of the
Rhapsody use
Mind to reach their audiences,
Drama also uses
Life and
Spirit.
Drama uses
Life through makeup to
alter their appearances to look like different people, and uses
Spirit through costumes and props to help
invoke and
become one with the role they are playing. A good actor or actress from
Drama can often look and act like a different person on stage then off stage.
Rivals to
Ascension's
Rhapsody are the
Union's
Performing Arts.
Performing Arts Receives more money, goes on more trips, and has better equipment.
Performing Arts often has a strong sense of
unity in contrast to the
messy performances of the
Rhapsody.
At the bottom of the social classes are
Delinquents and
Nerds.
Delinquents have a strong sense of
camaraderie between them and an
uncompromising sense of
personal identity.
Delinquents, although they skip school more often then other students, are often not as bad as they look.
Delinquents will sometimes be caught
fighting for a good cause and
assisting the weak.
Delinquents often specialize in
Entropy, Life, and
Forces, their "on the edge" lifestyle teaching them
gambling,
fighting,
breaking things, and
patching themselves back up.
Union High also has students who get up to suspicious activities outside of class. Often the children of
rich parents and
suspected mobsters The Gang (also referred to sometimes as Socs) mostly
breaks rules for the thrill, knowing that their
parents with bail them out if they get caught.
Nerds also have a strong identity.
Nerds have multiple subtypes, but these often overlap.
Nerd subtypes are based around clubs.
Nerd subtypes include an
Otaku Club,
Literature Club,
History Buffs,
Computer Club,
Gamers,
Comic Book Fans,
Engineering, Chess,
Supernatural Investigations,
Role-players and plenty more. The
Clique features diverse Spheres based on a N
erd's
personal passion. Some of these Spheres include:
Data,
Forces,
Matter,
Mind,
Prime,
Spirit, and
Time.
Union High has a
STEM program that often competes with the
Nerds in academic, scientific, and other competitions. Their
TSA (
Technology Student Association) and
A-Team (
Academic Team) are fierce competition and receive better funding.
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