Warka Academy
The Warka Academy is the largest academy within Warka and possibly even within the Brights in general. It is the largest (recorded) employer in Warka as well.
The current (5904-present AR) headmaster is Headmaster Silas (he/him), a half-elven man of the Unktu tribe. He is in charge of the Warka Academy’s main infrastructure, helping organize research on the increasingly worrying effects of the decaying starstone.
Originally called the Academy of the Circle, the Warka Academy was established in the year 2920 AR, almost five hundred years before Warka was founded. It was founded by Administrator Albitu (she/her), a high elf of the Auxilium tribe who revolutionized education (2801-3400 AR).
Currently the Academy’s main branch (or campus) is situated in Jontu, the capital of the nation. Previously the Academy was centered in Chalco before the city lost the majority of its population to emigration.
The Warka Academy has grown to sponsor tons of research, thousands of projects, retain thousands of scripts in its collective libraries, and now has six main branches, one in every major city in Warka (Calakmul, Chalco, Jontu, Toboltrium, Toqtak, and Tyumen). Some small Warka Academy campuses can be found in other nations, but this is rare - oftentimes Warka Academy students study abroad in places like the University of Earth’s Maw.
The Academy often sends out ambassadors to other nations and areas to study time there, especially tracking constellation cycles with mathematical precision. It is not so unusual to see, for example, a high level Warka Academy scholar or professor in the wild Barren Wastelands of Ilkatu tracking star patterns.
Base-level education in classes such as language, arithmetic, calligraphy, history, geography, and astronomy tend to be free or extremely cheap and affordable for the citizens of Warka. Mid-level education in classes like magic, artifice, physics, gravity, and mathematics tend to be slightly pricier but still affordable. Specialized education in things such as time magic, surgery, astronomical physics, and alchemy tend to be expensive and affordable only for a select few. Sometimes, if a student shows much promise, the government will fund their whole tuition, so some scholars arise to the high-level specialized classes without having to break the bank.
Base level education is also provided in nearly all centers of population. Many Academy scholars are sent out by the institution to educate in small towns across the countryside. Mid and high level educational classes are often only provided on campus of the official branches of the Academy.
The Academy has been occasionally accused of peddling propaganda by not teaching the full truth in history or government classes, especially about how the Warkan people do not have as much choice as they believe they do in elections (since the election candidates are chosen and funded by the Circlekeepers and Bloodwardens). The Academy refutes all claims.
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