Nameless Student from St. Epiderm: (…) and on top of all, that demon called us 'stank epiderm'...!
St. Epiderm Principal: 'For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.'
Hosea 8:7
I find the idea of St. Epiderm being that 'religious' (whatever it means in toh) school fascinating, hence the Scripture's fragment. Even their uniforms have this clerics/paladins aesthetics.
Anyways, I kept wondering what happened to that kid...
#headcanon_7: The Principal of St. Epiderm is very affectionate towards students
Some of my thoughts and headcanons about the covens/school tracks and how connect to subjects in our world:
There are Nine Tracks:
Healing, Beast Keeping and Plants are all based around biology, only with different specializations (medicine+anatomy, zoology, botany).
Potions, Construction and Abominations all lean more towards engineering, physics and chemistry, "hard sciences"
Which leaves Illusion, Bard and Oracle. Especially the first two are more geared towards the arts, with the last one not quite fitting in.
More of my thoughts about each track under the cut:
Beyond staring into crystal balls and summoning spirits, the Oracle Track actually includes a lot of math, geometry and statistics. It's used to predict the weather, to make smart business decisions, to make risk assessments - basically all things we use modern computers and complex algorithms for in our world. Good for business and administrative work.
Construction in general is very similar to engineering, so it requires understanding of physics, mechanics and material science, at least if you want to achieve Mastery. We've mostly seen this magic used for buildings, but construction witches probably also built machines and vehicles and appliances (Someone must have built that ship in S2E1).
Potions is similar to chemistry and the industry surrounding it. Obviously potions are used as medicine, but we also see it used to produce bombs or imbue other materials with special properties (e.g. Witches Wool). (Someone on the potion track could also go into cooking, as that kinda falls under the same category.)
Abominations is harder to categorize. It seems to be somewhere in between robotics, chemistry and martial art. So similar to the previous two. This seems to be the preferred Track for law enforcement, but abominations are also used as cheap labor for menial tasks, or built into contraptions.
The Bard Track is primarily shown as focused on musicians. But beyond that, it might also include theater and other performative arts. Literature is also an important part of the track.
The Illusion Track on the other hand veers more towards visual arts. Good illusions require good observations. Someone who wants to go into film or photography could also get their start here.
(Let's see if I can think something up for the last three:)
The Healing Track, beyond anatomy and medicine, also teaches the basics of Potions, just enough to understand interactions, allergies, etc.
Beast Keeping and Plant Track are basically what you expect. Those covens hold a lot of power because they are important for farming and agriculture, but have less diverse opportunities than most other tracks.
(I also assume that there are different degrees you can achieve in each track, with Master being the highest and taking the longest.)
I know Boschlow is the black sheep ship of the toh fandom, but imagine Boscha picking up the plant track as a secondary for her potions track major (as I imagine the combination is quite strong), and while in the plant track she gets character development with Willow.
Seriously why are multi-tracks untapped potential in toh fandom? Imagine the AU posibilities!
