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Imperial Academy of High Magic

The Imperial High Magic school covers an entire sector of the imperial capital Alasia. Every day it is frequented by thousands of Phan to learn the use of magic and in special cases even some trusted slaves are allowed here to study.

Entire buildings of laboratories, classrooms and research centers are under the control of the "Ogretmen" to make themselves indispensable in the eyes of the Empress.

The control of the School is a very important political factor in the imperial court, maintaining or winning the title of Ogretmen is equivalent to receiving funding equal to that of an entire province; being able to manage them and the resulting power are a more important goal than efficiency and the ability to teach. The teachers (Usta) are chosen for their loyalty and compliance with the Ogretmen, rather than for their skills as magicians.

However, the need of the empire to always have new wizards and sorcerers in every sphere of government is such that even students with a mediocre level of education are promoted and sent to cover positions in the fleet, in the imperial bureaucracy or in the army.

Often the richest students take private lessons from famous or thought to be spellcasters, even if sometimes this is not enough to make them good wizards, at least it allows the most powerful families to maintain the "advantage" they have over the houses they would like. take their place.

The study method is strictly limited to the "Magical Theories" method, imported by the Phans from their native world, and includes specialties such as: Chronomancy, Technomagic, Biotransformation or Magical Travel.

Lately, many students and school staff have been struck by a strange disease called "numbness", which renders the victim inactive and stupefied to the point of starvation. Rumor has it that it is a new drug, even worse than the "Juice of Dreams".