Leon LeMort Lives
an excerpt

If we go right back into the old founding days of the university, there was a lot more blood and envy back then. Lemarc Gloop was one aspiring wizard who just got a little too competitive. Eventually a bunch of angry lecturers cornered him and turned him into a duck. Well after that he just quacked and quaked. Ducks weren't allowed at a university, even universities for mages, so off he had to go. Lemarc ended up trudging through the wild in search of a way to turn back into a wizard and get revenge. He quacked at a few other ducks and eventually made friends with them. He learnt how to eat duck food – it wasn't so bad, tasted like chicken, and sometimes the old ladies would fed the ducks bits of bread, boy, that was nice. So Lemarc, being trapped in the body of a duck, went a little mad. He travelled the earth, imparting deep wisdom to the other ducks and people that would listen. He even had a stint at duck stand up comedy, now that was weird. If you saw it you would be quite puzzled unless you understood duck. Imagine the scene. A bunch of ducks sitting around in a circle with one yellow duck in the middle. This duck sitting in the circle quacks for a while while the other ducks simply look at him, staying silent. Then the duck in the middle stops talking and all the other ducks go crazy, quacking everywhere, generally making a lot of noise and rolling around on the floor. If you understood duck you'd understand that they're rolling around on the floor laughing. Well that's Lemarc, the duck comedian and part time mystic. But Lemarc's strange story continues further. He eventually worked out how to do spells, well, little cantrips, not real grand spells, as a duck. He probably couldn't get all the proper motions right with two wings and webbed feet, but he could do some things that were obviously magic. Well, eventually a competing university took an interest in this amazing duck. They studied the matter in great depth, even asking other ducks what they thought of this duck (the answer was “quack quack”). They ended up giving Lemarc a chair in the board of metamagical studies. So Lemarc in the end did succeed in his educational aspirations and spent the rest of his life quacking away happily at students. He'd give especially good marks to the students who would feed him bits of bread. It just goes to show that you can't keep a good duck down. Everybody likes a good duck? Something along those lines anyway. It was a shame that several years later a whole department was wiped out due to an outbreak of duck flu (a terrible, terrible disease), but that just goes to show that sometimes life's just stupid, senseless, and really weird. Notably when teachers or wizards are involved and especially when wizards that are also teachers are involved.