Professor Langham

> ![[langham.jpg | left | 200]] > ### **Professor Langham** > **A literature professor who wants to fight for the future** > Full Name: **-** | Pronouns: **He/Him** > *-* > > Group: **[[RPGs/The New World/Groups/Garrox Squad.md|Garrox Squad]]** > Places: **[[RPGs/The New World/Geography/Places/Carthel University.md|Carthel University]]** > > | Tier | Social | Mental | Physical | Mystical | > | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | --- | > | **1**| **3** | **2** | **2** | **0 ** | ##### Story **Background Detail** I was a professor until our schools were either destroyed or taken over by the anti-intellectual ruling class. **Vice Detail** I am drawn to the sublime. If I see a piece of art, I can't help but stare at it for longer than the typical viewer. I'm willing to commit a crime to see a difficult-to-get-in show. **Looks** Tall, blonde, and skinny - basically Guybrush Threepwood if he was an academic instead of a pirate. **Motivation** There's a saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." But what about those who can't teach? I fight for the next generation of scholars and artists so they have the freedom to grow into the people they deserve to. **Quirks** - Langham was obsessed with using trance powder. He spent a lot of time making increasingly more elaborate and ridiculous delivery systems, culminating in his "narcotic javelin" that he used in the last mission --- > [!NOTE]- **Backstory** > Professor Langham was a literature professor at Carthel College, the only remaining educational institution in the region, where he taught for over 20 years. He earned a reputation as a thoughtful and dedicated educator, and takes quiet pride in having helped shape a generation of writers and scholars. > > He comes from Aluwan, a modest resort town where his family worked in hospitality and he took on odd jobs as a child. Tourists often left behind books, which young Langham would quietly collect and read. Those abandoned stories sparked his lifelong love of literature and set him on his academic path. > > That path now hangs by a thread. Carthel College remains the last refuge of formal education, but it exists under pressure from an increasingly anti-intellectual ruling power that has destroyed or repurposed all other schools. Langham continues to teach there, but with diminishing resources, growing restrictions, and constant uncertainty about how long it will last. > > Despite this, his identity remains rooted in the preservation of knowledge and art. He is deeply drawn to the sublime in literature and visual art—often losing himself in it far longer than is socially expected—and is willing to bend rules or take risks to experience rare or restricted works. > > Now teaching under siege, Langham is motivated by a quiet but firm belief: if Carthel College falls, the last formal space for learning and scholarship will disappear. He fights not for power or politics, but for the survival of future thinkers, artists, and the idea that knowledge itself should remain free. > > [!NOTE]- Associations > ![[MasterBase.base#Associations]]