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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9359206" data-attributes="member: 6879661">The Amethyst Academy (The Amethyst College)One of the Five Factions in Dungeons of Drakenheim is the Amethyst Academy and the Old World conveniently holds an Amethyst College of Magic.The Colleges of Magic were founded by Magnus of Nuln (later Magnus the Pious) at the conclusion of the Great Incursion of Chaos. During that war elven mages led by Teclis, trained hedge wizards, elementalists, and witches in a safer use of magic, by having each wizard concentrate on one wind. Each wind had its own affinity - Chamon for metal; Ashqy for fire; and Shyish the Amethyst wind focused on the spirit.[ATTACH=full]365186[/ATTACH]At the time I’m suggesting for the campaign, 2315, the colleges have only been around for just over a decade, and a lot of that period would have been spent learning the new techniques. All very new, lots of change, moving from small localized centers of power to Empire wide institutions. That’s a huge area to oversee. The Amethyst College has an affinity and interest in spirit and naturally death, but also dreams and time. So wizards interested in these themes would be drawn to the school. Slightly sinister, definitely beyond the ken of most folk and generating a natural suspicion and distrust. Exactly as Warhammer wizards should.It also happens that Mordheim lies close to the borders of Sylvania - a disreputable place where the vampire aristocracy exemplified by Vlad, Isabella and Mannfred von Carsten dabbled with necromancy and dark magics - as did their necromancer pupils and servants. There is a natural overlap between the Amethyst wind and necromancy leading to suspicion and fear.The time before the founding of the colleges and the licensing of wizards was filled with witch hunters, necromancers, chaos cults, and demonologists. Along with the more benign magic users (a bit like after the founding) but before there was less central control and certainly less oversight. Wizards were a law unto themselves, though organizations did exist like the Middenheim Guild of Wizardry and Baron Henryks Guild of Magick in Marienberg. Drakkenberg has its own school of mages - the Inscruitable Tower - a huge structure dwarfing the height of other buildings, that exists in a similar vein to other wizard guilds, albeit destroyed just before the great incursion. Still, many of its members would have been out of the city at the time and later joined the ranks of the College wizards and would still consider the contents of the tower theirs by right.It could also explain why the von Kessel Dynasty moved its capital to Mordheim. Further from the church of Sigmar’s center of power in Altdorf - away from the resources of the witch hunters. Clearly the von Kessels worked with the Inscruitable Tower to strengthen the city and to enchant many items and protections that would never be tolerated in the heartlands. It also seems like the von Kessels came to an agreement with the wizards where they would be protected from persecution provided they held no lands or titles and served the realm.Now the Amethyst College has risen, several of its members seek to reclaim the knowledge lost in the city. Knowledge that they accumulated in the great library of the Inscruitable Tower - which was hit by a shard of the meteor - a library said to the greatest collection of magic in the Empire (and by extension collection of dark magic and necromancy). As experts in the manipulation of the spirit, no doubt the Amethyst College would be fascinated by the strange radiances of Wydrstone (Delerium) and it’s potential to empower magic.[ATTACH=full]365187[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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