Moonwall University
Moonwall University is the foremost institute of magical education in all of Diguardia. It is widely considered to be one of, if not the, greatest universities in all of the human nations. Many Magi, of all flavors, have honed their talents within the walls of this university.
Moonwall University is divided into colleges, each with their own focus. The university has grown over the years, originally it consisted solely of the College of Wizardry, the College of Religious Studies, and the College of Medicine.
The College of Wizardry - This College focuses on the types of studies that wizards must accomplish in order to grow their magical abilities.
The College of Religious Studies - This College focuses on studies of religious texts and divine spell-casting. The students of this college are split in terms of their use of magic, with about half attending the college simply for the theological studies and the other half being young clerics and druids.
The College of Medicine - This college is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge related to healing. Though primarily a mundane college, there are a few courses offered that cover magical healing, which many of the students from the college of religious studies take, and a course on the development of healing potions, which alchemical students often take.
The College of Law - This college is entirely mundane and focused on the legal codes present within Diguardia.
The College of General Studies - This college is a strange mishmash of courses, covering developing fields that do not have enough knowledge to justify colleges of their own, fields that simply have too little interest from students, and providing a home college for those students wishing to pursue interdisciplinary studies. All of the colleges which follow this in the list began as a collection of related courses within the college of general studies.
The College of Natural Sciences - This college focuses on the discovery and explanation of the laws that govern the material plane. Although much of the college is mundane there are some places, such as within alchemy courses, where the line between mundane and magical becomes blurred. The alchemists who exist in large numbers within this college make the deans, and the residents of Moonwall, almost as nervous as the sorcerers.
The College of Arts - The College of the Arts is home to all the things that make the heart sing. Painting, music, literature, cooking, all have a home within this college. So too do the magical arts of bards.
The College of Sorcery - Though this is the newest of colleges, sorcerers have long had a place within the university. For centuries, university leadership pointedly ignored the young sorcerers who wandered the campus and attempted to improve their innate casting. After enough fires were put out, however, leadership decided that the situation certainly couldn't be worse if they gave the natural magi a place within the institute, and at least they'd have someone to blame the next time a building was transported to the ethereal plane. The sorcery students proved to be good students, and incidents decreased. Eventually, demand was high enough that this college was formed. Although much of the faculty of the College of Wizardry sneers at what they perceive to be the low levels of work required by students of this college, in most other ways the sorcerers have firmly established a place for themselves.
Structure
The University is overseen by a board of Diguardian nobles, who decide and approve the budget for the University. Among the staff of the University, the Chancellor holds supreme executive authority. Below the Chancellor are deans, who oversee departments, colleges, or other subsets of the University. Below the deans are the professors, who teach students and conduct research. Under the deans and less prestigious than the professors are also the directors, who are in charge of the students. The directors often have appointed administrators, who are older students deputized with authority over their peers. Finally, at the bottom of the hierarchy are the students.
Public Agenda
The Moonwall University seeks to collect, catalog, and innovate upon knowledge of both magical and mundane nature. The university seeks to give Diguardia a strategic edge in warfare and to further the nation's infrastructure.
History
Moonwall University was founded in 67 AH at the command of Queen Annali, who sought to promote learning in her efforts to bring humanity into a golden age following the downfall of the Dragon Kings.
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