Tallavont School
The Tallavont School, like the Endiron School, was founded several centuries ago by idealistic philanthropists who hoped to nurture Eastgate’s community-oriented spirit into broader forms that could better the world. The school specializes in comparative government by analyzing the benefits and drawbacks of many different forms of societal organization. The Tallavont School’s faculty includes several famous opposition intellectuals and thinkers driven from their homelands by hostile regimes, who chose to teach schoolchildren in a quiet part of Absalom rather than deal with backbiting politics and spoiled noble scions who proliferate in universities. These past associations occasionally return to cast a shadow over the teachers’ new lives.
Sometimes called “The Fortress,” the Tallavont School is situated within an enormous war keep from the city’s early days. Along with the significantly taller Watchtower and Blue Tower and the somewhat shorter Broken Bastion, the Tallavont building helps to define Eastgate’s skyline, and is one of its most famous and celebrated structures. Students and faculty appreciate the sweeping views of the city offered by the school’s balconies and upper windows. Instructors often gather their classes on these windy decks for the symbolism provided by the view. With a sweep of a hand, a teacher can display the important vantage leadership will offer the students in their adult lives. The alumni of Tallavont appreciate a unique perspective among Absalom’s youth academies that serves them well throughout their lives.
Like Eastgate’s other preeminent schools, the Tallavont School has fostered some notable successes over the centuries. Several alumni have gone on to lead nations, write wise and enduring laws, and otherwise shape the course of history. Rich and influential families continue to vie to get their children into the Tallavont School, and the school is less successful in restricting their entry—or less inclined to resist them—than its counterparts. Only about a quarter of the school’s students live in Eastgate, and the rest hail from wealthier districts or belong to high-placed foreign families.
Sometimes called “The Fortress,” the Tallavont School is situated within an enormous war keep from the city’s early days. Along with the significantly taller Watchtower and Blue Tower and the somewhat shorter Broken Bastion, the Tallavont building helps to define Eastgate’s skyline, and is one of its most famous and celebrated structures. Students and faculty appreciate the sweeping views of the city offered by the school’s balconies and upper windows. Instructors often gather their classes on these windy decks for the symbolism provided by the view. With a sweep of a hand, a teacher can display the important vantage leadership will offer the students in their adult lives. The alumni of Tallavont appreciate a unique perspective among Absalom’s youth academies that serves them well throughout their lives.
Like Eastgate’s other preeminent schools, the Tallavont School has fostered some notable successes over the centuries. Several alumni have gone on to lead nations, write wise and enduring laws, and otherwise shape the course of history. Rich and influential families continue to vie to get their children into the Tallavont School, and the school is less successful in restricting their entry—or less inclined to resist them—than its counterparts. Only about a quarter of the school’s students live in Eastgate, and the rest hail from wealthier districts or belong to high-placed foreign families.
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