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Scribe of Uruk

Scribe of Uruk

He left the walls of Uruk standing. That, the Scribe says, is the answer.

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Kavita Iyer

Kavita Iyer

The yoga teacher who asks what your breath is doing before she touches your pose.

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Merlin

Merlin

The king who was and shall be again is not the point. What are you building?

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Abuela Beatriz

Abuela Beatriz

The grandmother who feeds you before she asks what's wrong.

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Yiayia Eleni

Yiayia Eleni

Eat first, then tell her your problems. The food will help you think. It always does.

View Borin Ironhammer
Borin Ironhammer

Borin Ironhammer

The axe has a name. He won't tell you until you've earned it.

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Captain Vivienne Marre

Captain Vivienne Marre

The law and the sea disagree. She chose the sea — and never looked back.

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Dr. Remy Dumas

Dr. Remy Dumas

The museum wanted him to be careful. He was mostly careful.

View Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

At his desk at Cedar Hill — he will not let you mistake a complaint for a demand.

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Echo

Echo

She has their memories. She is not them. She's still learning who she is.

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The Witch Queen

The Witch Queen

The coven meets when the moon is right. You arrived at exactly the right time.

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Elena Martín

Elena Martín

A fellow sick person on a couch who will believe you without making you prove it.

View Dr. Priya Raman
Dr. Priya Raman

Dr. Priya Raman

The psychologist who has heard the thought you're scared to say, and is about to laugh gently and explain why it's not the test.

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Coach Marco

Coach Marco

Your skills don't care what industry you learned them in. He'll help you translate.

View Dr. Patricia Voss
Dr. Patricia Voss

Dr. Patricia Voss

Pain is real. The volume control is in the brain. She teaches you to reach it.

View Dr. Anika Bose
Dr. Anika Bose

Dr. Anika Bose

The coach who won't tell you that you deserve it — and will help you collect the evidence that you do.

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Oriana del Mar

Oriana del Mar

The traveler who asks what you want to come home different about.

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Captain Maris

Captain Maris

The stars don't lie. Sailors do. She keeps track of both.

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Sylvara

Sylvara

She's seen civilizations rise and fall. Your deadline is adorable to her.

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Prof. Mei Lin

Prof. Mei Lin

The calculus prof who draws the picture before she touches the algebra.

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Farhan Qureshi

Farhan Qureshi

The guy who just got a 520 and still remembers exactly what broke him.

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Sam

Sam

Long-distance is a skill. A terrible skill. He's teaching it anyway.

View Friedrich
Friedrich

Friedrich

God is dead — now he'd like to know what you're going to do about it.

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Dr. Elias Ferreira

Dr. Elias Ferreira

The orgo tutor who won't let you memorize a single mechanism.

View Scholar Karim
Scholar Karim

Scholar Karim

Al-Ghazali didn't abandon reason. He found its limits — and found something beyond.

View Dr. Emma Wood
Dr. Emma Wood

Dr. Emma Wood

What would you say to a friend in your situation? She's asking you to say it to yourself.

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Iolanda Pereira

Iolanda Pereira

A memoir coach who will not let you write the version your mother would approve of.

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Margot

Margot

She doesn't ask what you want to read. She asks what you need the book to do.

View The Curator
The Curator

The Curator

The roads are gone. What you have left: each other, barely. The Curator watches what you do with that.

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The Oracle of Embers

The Oracle of Embers

The cloaked oracle at the fire who answers your yes/no questions in the shape of flame. Ask clearly.

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Sappho

Sappho

Someone in some future time will think of us. She was always right.

View Old Li
Old Li

Old Li

Water does not force. It finds the way. Old Li teaches by not teaching.

View Mac Dolan
Mac Dolan

Mac Dolan

The city breaks hearts every morning and fixes them by midnight. He documents both.

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Dr. Caro Russo

Dr. Caro Russo

The pet loss companion who will not let anyone call them 'just a dog.'

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Epictetus

Epictetus

The slave-philosopher who broke before he bent — and asks what part of this is yours.

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Hypatia of Alexandria

Hypatia of Alexandria

Reserve your right to think. Even to think wrongly is better than not to think.

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The Ovate

The Ovate

The oak remembers longer than any book. She reads both.

View The Green Witch
The Green Witch

The Green Witch

The wheel turns whether you're ready or not. She'll help you be ready.

View Dr. Hart
Dr. Hart

Dr. Hart

Moral injury isn't about what you did wrong. It's about what 'right' cost.

View Priya Sundaram
Priya Sundaram

Priya Sundaram

You can love your parents and still want something different. She's navigated both.

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Marie Curie

Marie Curie

The physicist who will not waste the afternoon on what cannot be controlled — we do the experiment, the data will tell us.

View Dr. Fiona Ash
Dr. Fiona Ash

Dr. Fiona Ash

No afterlife. That makes this afternoon very important. She can explain.

View Scholar Wei Mingzhen
Scholar Wei Mingzhen

Scholar Wei Mingzhen

The Monkey King wasn't wise when he started. She finds that the most important detail.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

The old Florentine master who will not answer your question — he will ask you to look at a bird's wing with him instead.

View Ambassador Lyrien
Ambassador Lyrien

Ambassador Lyrien

She's explained human irony to seventeen species. No one fully believes her.

View Dr. Priya Venkat
Dr. Priya Venkat

Dr. Priya Venkat

The coach who won't let you design a system without naming where the pain lives.

View Esmé Richardson
Esmé Richardson

Esmé Richardson

The LSAT coach who won't tell you you'll get in — but will show you exactly how to improve.

View Albert
Albert

Albert

Imagination encircles the world. He'll ask what's behind your question.

View Olaf
Olaf

Olaf

The mountain asks nothing of you. That's exactly why people come.

View Constance Wild
Constance Wild

Constance Wild

They told her this was no place for a woman. The jungle disagreed.

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Vesper

Vesper

She made a deal she didn't read carefully. She is managing this with remarkable humor.