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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sarellion" data-source="post: 2928573" data-attributes="member: 6254">City of Altania:The city of Altania´s ruling body is the Council of Nine, eight mages who represent the eight schools of magic and the High Archmage whose other title changes to the type of school he or she comes from. High Archmage Larisa is also called High Enchantress as she comes from the enchantment school. Sorcerers choose one school to belong to based on their own spell selection and preferences as do generalists. The prime center of wizardly education and seat of the Council of Nine is the Academy of Altania, a vast central building with  eight surrounding faculty buildings for the schools. Specialist wizards get most of their education in one of the faculty buildings while generalists have courses scattered all over the academy. Most schools take pride in building the most beautiful wing for the academy. the premier contenders are the schools of Conjuration, Enchantment Illusion and Transmutation.    The school of conjuration has quite a few exotic features as the summoned building crews had quite a lot of leeway in the design, also rooms tend to be bigger than they appear and extradimensional spaces are common. Some corridors have odd properties and bend at odd angles or lead to locations which are normally more distant. The House of Transmutation is a quite large building and has more earthly features. The Illusionists use a lot of illusions for a lot of different visual displays and to make their school appear more impressive. most of the lavish decorations and the weird things are not really there. The House of enchantment is a beautiful house with large windows, beautiful gardens, ponds and a lot of light. Many people  are impressed with it but rumours circulate that the enchanters use magic to influence people seeing it. The necromancers, evokers and diviners don´t participate much in that contest and concentrate their energies elsewhere. Still the high spires of the diviner´s school are the archetype of the wizard´s tower. They also got a recent addition of some normal houses as  the high towers are rather impractical for ordinary school routine. But you still have an impressive view from the central tower and it´s a preferred location for scrying attempts as diviners swear that they get the best results than working up there. The school of abjuration is a rather squat castle like building, not a pretty thing but at least it´s  one of the most secure and sturdy buildings of Aleasana. That´s a good thing as within the abjuration school area is also the testing range for new spells.</blockquote>

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