Scholomance

Scholomance is the world's oldest and most prestigious university for the study of the magical arts.

Location & Campus
Scholomance is located by the hidden lake of Hermannstadt on top of the Paringul Mare in the region of Romania that was once known as Transylvania.

Scholomance itself is modelled like other universities of the medieval era, but is partially formed from stone from the surrounding mountains via geomancy.

Enrolment
Scholomance accepts its students at the minimum age of 16, and perspective students must already be learned in the magical arts, having been self-taught, apprenticed, or taught communally by a coven, to receive a scholarship. 48 students are accepted each year, which means Scholomance teaches a total of 336 students at any given time as graduation takes seven years.

Curriculum
The curriculum of Scholomance is focused on teaching its students all branches and categories of the performing and study of magic.

Core Classes
The following classes are taught to all students from the beginning of their studies until the end.
 * Ceremonial Magic
 * Conjuration & Evocation
 * Enchantments & Charms
 * History of Magic
 * Magical Theory
 * Potions & Formulas
 * Scrying
 * Transfiguration

Elective Classes
After a year of study, students are invited to diversify their studies by choosing electives. Electives with the prefix advanced are based on a subject already taken, but more focused on a specific category of magic.
 * Advanced Augmentation
 * Advanced Healing
 * Advanced Hoodoo
 * Advanced Illusions
 * Advanced Martial Magic
 * Advanced Mental Magic
 * Advanced Sigils & Glyphs
 * Advanced Summoning
 * Advanced Translocation
 * Advanced Weathermaking
 * Alchemy
 * Artificery
 * Astrology
 * Cultural Magic
 * Dragon Riding
 * Herbology
 * Music
 * Pneumatology
 * Worksmithing (Spell Creation)
 * Zoology

History
The building that would eventually be known as Scholomance was originally the lair of the feared vampire Laurensiu Stelymes, a vampire warlord active during the 14th Century until his defeat in 1309 AD by the mage Iosif Hanganu.

Iosif, a noted scholar, took the mountainous estate for himself and its became the university it is today. It can be said that the founding of Scholomance brought upon a new era of magical study, which had stagnated since the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Scholomance inspired the founding of other academic magical schools, chief among them the controversial school of Domdaniel, which is located underwater in the Tyrrhenian Sea and teaches a noticeably more immoral curriculum.