List of Magic Schools

Magic Schools are famous institutions in Aloria that teach people to wield their Magic. Not all Mage characters have to be graduates of one of these Schools. However, they represent an opportunity to link up backstories with other players who are graduates of the same School. The Schools are divided into sets by geographical location and common curriculum.

Regalian Schools

All Regalian Schools teach Regalian magical theory, which is considered on the cautious side, and with a focus on reliability and safety over results. Regalia has a fraught history with Magic and Magic Repression and a majority Mundane population and government. As a result, while many of its Schools are lavishly funded, they do not cater to extreme or unsightly forms of Magic, which remain shunned.

• Altravoya: bankrolled by the powerful warlord the Iron Duke, Raffaello Lamperni, the Academy of Altravoya is the most liberal of the Regalian magical academies. Drawing talent from around the Archipelago and protected by Raffaello's immense influence, it has in the past decade or so since his ascension started teaching even Dark Magic and Curses that the Knighthood tries to regulate knowledge of. However, its willingness to permit study of forbidden knowledge is tempered by Regalian patriotic messaging plastered over everything. Mages who go to this School are drilled at every step to work for the State and Emperor. Arkenborn especially are a common sight at Altravoya.

• Rosaria: a major academy in the San Girobalda and San Selin regions, the Academy of Rosaria and its associated alumnus group the Rosaria Circle has a historical presence in the Regalian Capital. Expanded and protected by the influence of the de Azcoissias, local trade magnates with a history of presence in upper government, the Academy of Rosaria has a strong rehabilitation focus. With attempted outreach across large parts of the eastern Archipelago's traditionally Mage-fearing regions, it tries to buyback vulnerable Mages in hiding or ostracization to teach them in a safe environment as an alternative to giving them over to the Lothar. Many Rosaria graduates wind up in the Capital to do more of the same.

• Irvelle: lies in the southern islands of Basta and Irvelle, a Regal cultured (historically Ithanian) region in the western Archipelago. The Academy of Irvelle lies near to many major Celacies, Unionist religious holdings, and traditional centers of faith. As a result, it strongly prioritizes teaching Magic through Unionist theology, specifically Caan's burden and Grace's control. With this history and a very pro-Knightly attitude, Irvelle graduates tend towards the martial side, and overwhelmingly belong to the Unionist religion. The Noble House Delmotte is the historical patron of this Academy, and has paid for several lecture hall expansions and a jousting field in recent memory.

• Velincara: in southern Solleria near the large ports of Avalla-Loseia and Athentol, the Academy of Velincara is the single biggest Solvaan institution maintained by the contributions of the Solvaan Dukes. It is designed to cater to the Mist Wardens, Solleria's army, but had a dual role sheltering fugitive Aelrrigans for the century and a half that that Order was outlawed and hunted by State forces. In the modern day after a major expansion funded by the Avalleia family which controls the Mist Wardens, it has taken on some of that House's political leanings, and is an influence for pan-Elvenism and Regalian-aligned Elven diplomacy in its student body.

• The Aelrrigan Order: most provincial Magical education in the Regalian Empire is handled by the Aelrrigan Order, whose Knight Chapters, listed on its page, are also all individual Schools ran by the Knights. Read more there about them and their ideology.

Altalar Schools

All Altalar Schools teach Allorn magical theory, which is the oldest and longest field of Magic study. Compared to other fields of study it sits in the middle, without what they consider Regalians' over-cautious and fearful nature, but with a healthy disdain for the extreme methods practiced by, for example, the Kathar or Bel-Hammon Mages to achieve results. Altalar Schools demand pleasant aesthetics in Magic usage and grace in Mages.

• Helëssa: sits slightly inland in the Old Quarter of the Teled city of Amontaar, seat of the Goddess Sapphora. After recent unrest and the death of the nobleman who ran its education board, it is notably taught and led by the local Princess, the daughter of the ruling Elven noble. Helëssa is considered the gold standard among Elven magic schools for civilian Magic use, with vast review boards managing the use of Magic for transportation, industry, construction, risk assessment, and more. Its combat Magic wing, while historically neglected, exponentially expanded in the last decade or two due to threats against Amontaar arising and needing to be resisted.

• Soronissë: is the old academy of the ancient Allorn capital at Ivaëlle. Half destroyed in Cataclysm and Wildering like the rest of the city, brought low by repeated Magical disasters and then burned down by the Eronidas, Soronissë like the rest of the city it lies within is sprawled across ravine-spun bridges, half-built wings with holes in their roofs under constant reconstruction, classes taught from the bottoms of cisterns. While during the Allorn Imperial years it taught various courtly arts, since Cataclysm it has indisputably become a War-Magic school, with graduates molded into proficient killers. Soronissë only accepts Elves, and is saturated with Allorn revanchism.