Free College of Sorcery
| {{#if:Free College of Sorcery|Free College of Sorcery}} | |
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| Motto | |
| "Power and Knowledge are free for those with the will to grasp them." | |
| Country Data | |
| Date | Late in 2 DY |
| Symbol | Three rays meeting at right angles |
| Colors | Sable, Sanguine, and Argent |
| Alignment | Chaotic |
| Leaders | |
| Founder: Mogorr Professor: Morigan | |
In technical terms, the Free College of Sorcery would probably be described by scholars as a "Anarchist Meritocracy," with the leadership (as it were) as "Kratocric Magocracy." But such wordiness is for scholars who never leave their ivory towers1; the Free College of Sorcery is concerned with the real world.
Founded by the former high-mage of the Mardurian empire, the physical location of the college is currently unknown; previously it was thought to be located somewhere within the expansive wilds of the southern Mardurian lands. But the Queen's Guard Thorne, on behalf of Mardur, repeatedly insisted that the College had been expelled from their borders.
The Free College was founded in direct response to the expanding influence of the Academy Arcana Bellum in the fabric of Dargarthian politics, on account of the Academy's policies which seek to censor and stifle the rights of free individuals to practice magic where and how they may.
Thus the College was born; it is an environment where magical practitioners can learn from each other and conduct research free of the Academy's draconian oversight, and without fear of hooded men coming in the night to be dragged away for so called "crimes against the 'Natural' Laws of Magic."2
Principles of Free Magic
The Free College of Sorcery espouses that magic exists to be explored and that all knowledge exists to be built on. With this in mind, the college produces the Grimore of Open Sourcery an open source spellbook for all manner of casters.
The College also sponsors symposiums on magic, whenever there is a need / desire from the faculty.
1Sometimes literal
2 Which were entirely created by the mage Kendric Flamehands and his cohorts, to control the use of magic in Dargarth.