Major Educational Institutions of Avalon
College of Avalonian Magic
- Location: Main Campus within Avalon City.
- Established: 110 BAE
- Typical Graduating Class Size: 90 Students
While there may have been older centers of magical learning within Avalonian civilization, the College of Avalonian Magic, is today, the oldest educational institution within the Republic. Focusing primarily on Force-based Magic, the College of Avalonian Magic has been at the forefront of Avalonian magical innovation for almost five millenia.
Located in Avalon City, the College maintains a small modest campus despite its prestige. With only 500 students, staff, and faculty in residence, the College takes in only the best students and the best teachers. Tenured faculty are expected to publish at least two magical research papers every decade. Most graduates are expected to apply immediately to the Guild of Mages. The campus itself sports five dormitories, each with a community mess. There are also several large classroom buildings and an austere convention hall which hosts several major academic gatherings a year. The most impressive part of the campus however, lies underground. The College of Avalonian Magic possesses a large, extensive and advanced magical laboratory which rivals in sophistication the laboratory found in the Tower of Avalon which is reserved solely for use by the Council of Archmages.
To this day, the College remains the top ranked magical institution according to Avalon Weekly, Institutional Guide of the Guild, and Ether Report. All four Archmages as well as numerous Masters within the Guild of Mages serve as faculty. In total, 100 Archmages, past and present, were graduates of the College of Avalonian Magic.
Bene Vitae School of Life
- Location: Main Campus within Avalon City; satellite campuses in Nova Atlantia and Asgarth
- Established: 116 BAE, Relocated to Avalon in 510 AE
- Typical Graduating Class Size: 200 Students
Originally established in the city of Asgarth, the purpose of the Bene Vitae scholars was to ascertain the nature of the Underdark Lightfields and the Olympic Valley. Because of its area of focus, Bene Vitae also became one of the last bastions of study in Life-base magic. In 237 AE, with the increasing importance of the Olympic Valley and Avalon, the school established a new main campus within the halls of Avalon. The Asgarth campus, however, continued to be very active. A smaller research campus was established in Nova Atlantia in 1900 AE.
In addition to the study of the lightfields and Olympic Valley, the Bene Vitae are supposedly rumored to be conducting a millenia-old breeding experiment, most likely begun during the early years of the Republic. Prior to the formation of the Republic in 1864 AE, records rarely indicated any Avalonians who exhibited beyond-average abilities. In the millenia following the formation of the Republic however, there was an increasing number of accounts regarding 'super-Avalonians'.
Today, it is generally believed that the Bene Vitae School pursues it's own secretive agenda. Nevertheless, it remains the premiere institution dedicated to the study of the Natural Arts and Life Arts. As such it receives a steady stream of applicants.
Augusta Incantation Academy
- Location: Main Campus within Asgarth; satellite campus in Avalon
- Established: 1880 AE
- Typical Graduating Class Size: 700 Students
Arcadian Officer's Academy
- Location: Main Campus within Asgarth
- Established: 1865 AE
- Typical Graduating Class Size: 300 Students
Avalonian Republic National University
- Location: Main Campus within Avalon; satellite campus in Asgarth and Nova Atlantia
- Established: 1865 AE
- Typical Graduating Class Size: 2000 Students