Korgawa Academy
The Korgawa Academy is located on Korgawa Island, so-named after the Master Korgawa who took it over. A former adventurer, he was known for a great many deeds, both good and bad, until he finalised his training method. Thereafter, he used his adventuring wealth to set up the Academy.
The school is noted for the extreme brutality of its training methods, where seven students in every ten die before graduation, but also for the speed with which it is able to impart skills. Students master techniques in months, which would have taken years in more traditional schools.
The first sign of the Academy's presence on the island is a stone pier jutting out into the only bay on the island capable of receiving ships. A huge construction large enough to dock warships, it is forty feet wide and over seven hundred and fifty feet long, with a hundred-foot-wide hexagonal landing at the deep-water end. Lanterns glow on the landing and halfway along, with banners of calligraphed tigers snapping in the slightest breeze, mounted at the midpoint and shore end of the pier. A carved wooden plaque on the landing reads, "Prospective students, walk carefully. Show your style and walk with respect."
Attentive visitors notice that a paper ribbon marked with arcane sigils is near the banner, with an animated eye at its top. Any attempt to magically study the construct, or failure to meet the conditions of entry, results in the closest banner animating into a deadly origami construct of a tiger the size of a cart horse. An illusory shell of a glowing red-orange tiger masks the construct's appearance as it attacks. In addition to its claws and bite, it has a breath weapon attack of paper ribbons which wrap around victims in the cone of efffect, immobilising and then mummifying them.
The school is noted for the extreme brutality of its training methods, where seven students in every ten die before graduation, but also for the speed with which it is able to impart skills. Students master techniques in months, which would have taken years in more traditional schools.
The first sign of the Academy's presence on the island is a stone pier jutting out into the only bay on the island capable of receiving ships. A huge construction large enough to dock warships, it is forty feet wide and over seven hundred and fifty feet long, with a hundred-foot-wide hexagonal landing at the deep-water end. Lanterns glow on the landing and halfway along, with banners of calligraphed tigers snapping in the slightest breeze, mounted at the midpoint and shore end of the pier. A carved wooden plaque on the landing reads, "Prospective students, walk carefully. Show your style and walk with respect."
Attentive visitors notice that a paper ribbon marked with arcane sigils is near the banner, with an animated eye at its top. Any attempt to magically study the construct, or failure to meet the conditions of entry, results in the closest banner animating into a deadly origami construct of a tiger the size of a cart horse. An illusory shell of a glowing red-orange tiger masks the construct's appearance as it attacks. In addition to its claws and bite, it has a breath weapon attack of paper ribbons which wrap around victims in the cone of efffect, immobilising and then mummifying them.
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