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Elven Institute Of Learning And Magic

The Quentari Elves are known to have the greatest of all scholars and the most powerful magicians upon the continent of Avalon. This is due in large part to the magical Collegiums and the academic schools of the Elven Institute of Learning and Magic centered in the city of Helevorn, which took its name from the beautiful Black Tower that rises above all the other structures of the city.

The two largest academies of Helevorn are the Collegium of Earth Magics and the Collegium of Celestial Magics. As many Quentari Elves learn the foundations of these two schools of magic through basic military training, entrance into the programs of the Collegiums are for those Elves who devote themselves to a lifetime of magical studies. Initiates into the Collegiums must complete a ten-year course-of-study; this fundamental curriculum is open to all members of the noble Houses as well as the Initiates of Quentari’s elite military corps as a part of their special training.

If a mage wishes to make her livelihood out of her scholarship and enter the elite Brotherhoods of arch-mages of Helevorn, she must then dedicate herself for thirty years in field service at one of the many permanent earth or celestial circles located within the Elven communities before her training resumes in Helevorn. As enrollment in the Institute is completely funded by the Quentari government, those who seek scholarship as a way of life must also use their training for the betterment of their people.

The greatest of all honors is to be selected to study within the Schools of Arcane Research within the Celestial or Earth Collegiums. The greatest of all arch-mages within Quentari are tenured within the Schools of Arcane Research. Each Collegium is directed by an Adept, the Evendarrian equivalent of a head Guildmaster. The Adepts of the Collegiums have a place on the Court of Wisdoms and advise the King and Royal family in matters of arcane magic.

Access to the Great Library in Helevorn is available only to Quentari Elves, unless an instructor or one of the nobility is willing to sponsor a foreigner’s research there. Adjacent to the Great Library is the fabled Black Tower, which holds the greatest and most powerful magics available to the Quentari Arch-Mages. Access to the Black Tower is limited to the Adepts and to the Monarch.