[1847] But I've never heard of you guys...
Jun 22, 2017 6:22:00 GMT
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Post by GriffTheJack on Jun 22, 2017 6:22:00 GMT
- Queslett students are humans with high-level individual talents. Anthony's probability manipulation, Kat's very specific hyper-intelligence, Annie's elemental heritage, Paz's animal affinity, Janet's improbable archery skills, etc. Most or all Queslett students have some sort of specialty or ability in this vein. Otherwise it's pretty normal, as far as we've seen.
- Foley students all used to live in Gillitie Wood, and so are former fairies and animals and whatnot. They have undergone the test, been given human bodies, and now spend their breakless school years doing a whole bunch of boring crap. Apparently they have "entirely different" classes and schedules from the born-human students of Queslett and Thornhill.
- Chester students are known primarily through the examples of Zimmy and Gamma; Tom has said that those two "might be an indication" of what the house is like overall. So, perhaps, it's the house of the most strange and special cases. However, Tom has also implied that Chester has the same 30 North / 30 South / 5 years structure as the other houses (15 boys and 15 girls each in the North and South classes of each year), so it's possible that there is the same ~300-strong student body in Chester as there is in Queslett and the others. In any case, Chester is the most mysterious of the houses, and beyond the early-installment weirdness of the science fair from the very beginning of the story almost nothing is known about what they teach. Like Foley, it has an entirely different curriculum and schedule from the others.
This page seems to imply that Chester weirdness is a primary concern of the Shadow Men... If Chester really does have ~300 students even half as strange as Zimmy, it's easy to see why. As a side note, Brinnie the Valkyrie was also in Chester. Perhaps it was due to her remaining beholden to a stubborn old god?
- Thornhill students probably have above-average intelligence, as the Court school works by invitation only, but otherwise I believe that they are the only truly "normal" house. So far, they seem to have been presented with none of the quirks of the others, though I will admit we haven't seen much of them. Unless this has been debunked, Parley was in Thornhill because her teleportation abilities only (very suddenly) developed when she had already completed much of her schooling. Before then, even though she was descended from a magnificent psychic she had no Queslett-style talents. Thus, Thornhill. The only other examples are the normal-seeming jerk kids that Reynard scared off in Chapter 18. Tom described them as probably being from Thornhill. -shrug-
The most important part of all this is the 300-per-house number. If that's true, it's very interesting.
