The Black Oak Magus Academy, located in the Bosco Piccolo Nero Forest this castle is hidden well from all. The thick forest keeps it hidden from above as well as eyes on the ground. Situated between the two smaller rivers, the Zuhatag to the north and the Lassan to the south feeding the larger river Tisza. Various alumni spend time here as cadre are graduates or alumni and often return to teach and train new candidates.
The first year is spent as an asprint doing chores, grounds keeping and basic studies. Basic weapon tactics and basic education if first and foremost. Some students enter ahead of this term as they have already had a formal education in their home city or kingdom.
Those who make it past the first year become neophytes in the second year are divided into classes to train with a mentor. Each mentor takes between 1 and 10 students. This mentor is usually a student in final year about to graduate. This mentor teaches the students basic fundamentals of arcane knowledge and spellcraft. Weapons are integrated at its most wide coverage and form covering multiple weapons thus finding the favored weapon of the students.
Third through fifth year students move on to study with an individual magus. This magus is either dedicated cadre to the Citadel or an alumni returning to train a student. Often that student trained by returning alumni was directed to or even sponsored by them.
The number of total students in the academy ranges from 25 to 200 students at any one time. The Head master is Lady Sonja Bellucci. The head of staff Rendor DeFalco, Weapons master Dante Castilli and the Arcana Master is Bianca Valentini. Together these four direct a staff of about 25 cadre and various alumni cadre.
The Black Oak alumni have an enemy of Epirus magus. While they do not actively search each other out they do not get along as their respective ideologies clash. The Epirus are exceptionally stringent on order, rules and regulation. The Black Oak are far more free to operate as they choose. They can and have come together to fight side by side during the great goblin and orc wars but part ways soon after.
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