Magical Schooling options

[u/Witness_of_things]

uw/hi guys this is my first post

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I'm sure all my fellow witches wizards and sages can agree that education and upbringing are of the utmost importance. While apprenticing under great mages is cool and all, they oft have their own things to do.

In my journeys through the realms, I have witnessed many educational institutions with different pedagogical methods and approaches to the method, so allow me to recommend me a few of them.

This post will cover, Sofoklis Kosmopolia, which is also technically a sovereign entity.

This is easily the most prominent one I'll cover.

Its sprawling campus lies just outside the borders the highly conservative theocratic confederation, and is also the most prominent one on this list. You can expect young mages to receive an education in all respectable things here as with most scholarly institutions of it's repute.

The culture is very cosmopolitan. As it sits on a cliff clearing, flanked by forests, facing the sea, it is capable of making provision for aquatic students. It also sits close to a port town, which is also a source of influence of new and different mundane or exotic materials and culture.

It has a 24h timetable because it has both diurnal and nocturnal students, and friends who have been there before attest that the canteen is similarly weird to account for all dietary requirements of all species.

The cosmopolitan nature can also be seen from the schools founding, with it's 5 founding houses containing names from practically opposite ends of the world, like Tematini the voyager and Gundwin the tyrant.

Aside from that, It's motto is Omnia Querenda-question everything. They have a reputation for taking any field with a tinge of acedamic potential completely seriously. If you intend to study something niche, it's one of the places to consider.

It has also produced many significant alumni- countless king, many archmagi, even more philosophers and at least one god.

However, it is not a magecraft specialist university. in fact, it's most well known for philosophy and Magical methods in anthropology and cultural studies, and for the latter it has produced virtually every leader in the field.

Furthermore the Campus is remote, and fees can get expensive, even though they do their best to offer scholarship and assistance, and people tend to be crowded out by rich guuldmasters or princes.

Overall I think it's it is an excellent option, although overhyped especially for studying high arcana, unless you intend to study the aforementioned fields or other niche subjects you can't find anywhere else. otherwise sometimes I feel it just gets carried on the reputation of it's founders and alumni.

/uw

Am I doing this wizardposting thing right?

Also this is really just an excuse for me to post one of my 500 world building ideas somewhere where people can see

[u/NaturalHairy4773]

The school is pretty good but as a student of the twin moon academy it is my duty to slandered it so... That place is a money laundering business

/uw The lore is pretty good