'Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell. Use to summon the spirit of Battlemage Hugues. Hugues came from Sellia to study the Haima Conspectus at the academy, where he became a battlemage. Haima scholars seek to quell conflict with cannon fire and the gavel, but Hugues developed a longing for it.' Hugues is the canonical narrative of how an academy makes its own enemy. He came from Sellia, the eastern town of sorcery in Caelid, to study the Haima Conspectus at Raya Lucaria. Haima's discipline is the conspectus of legal-and-cannon force : its scholars seek to end conflict by overpowering it with great-cannon fire and the gavel of judicial finality. The pedagogy makes them battlemages. Hugues received the curriculum without complaint.

'Robe worn by scholars of the Raya Lucaria Academy scholar, tattered from being worn on the battlefield. Whenever war broke out and the academy sealed its gates, only Haima's scholars dared venture outside. Seclusion is no way to foster discovery; it is only a convenient form of escape.' The doctrine, in Hugues, refused to stay doctrinal. He developed a longing for the conflict the cannon was meant to quell. The canonical detail is bare and unblinking : the man trained to end war began to want it. The Tarnished encounters him at the Academy Gate Town, casting cannons-of-Haima at any passer-by, his Haima Conspectus robe still on his shoulders. The Spirit Ash that survives him, his ghost-form, fights the same fight beside the Tarnished, but his longing has been transposed into a discipline that, once dead, no longer needs a target.