Boris van Adin, the Consul of Kaeir, and Karl van Kahshaar, the Inquisitor of Kaeir, both new to their offices after the Great Council reforms of 1455, looked ar eacj other over a pile of reports. "So, Karl, your report on the Green College seems good. 400 students in the first year, and a good sized faculty already." "Well it is not quite as rosy as you suggest, but it is progressing well. We have filled half the faculty chairs, and look to fill them all within the next two years. The students are good, with a surprising number of talented students from slave or indentured backgrounds. However, we have been experiencing a 20% failure rate, of which half repeat and half have left the College. I imagine that failure rate will progressively increase as the students move on to harder studies. There was a slight problem though, briefly, with the fate of emancipated students who were unable to continue studying in the College. It was solved by employing them in an administrative or maintenance capacity in the College, where they could complete the terms of their emancipation agreement." The students undergo a four year program in elementary studies, studying the core components of Philosophy & Theology, Essence Studies, Authority Studies, Celandran Physics, Healing Arts and Defence Arts. In the last two years of elementary studies they begin specialising in a number of areas. Upon completion of their elementary studies, students will be known as adepts, and admissible to the advanced studies program where they continue their specialised studies. Upon completion of the four years of graduate studies, the adept will be recognised as a magister of the magical arts, and entitled to use of the title magister. Magisters can then continue on in the College in the faculty, in a teaching and research capacity. This is the essential outline of the course of study that myself and Erhad have worked out. Of course, we are still only in the first year, but this is what we are planning for. The chairs that have been created are Philosophy & Theology, Elementalism, Essence Studies, Authority Studies, Celandran Physics, Healing Arts, Alchemy, Obeah, Astrology, Weather Arts, and Defence Arts. As you know, Marlupin occupies the Chair of Philosophy and Theology and is responsible for a number of largely theoretical classes which i nevertheless think are important for providing the students with a broad perspective on things. Elementalism is occupied by the Vice-Chancellor, Erhad von Celtelathi. You would know him from his previous capacity as my advisor on native magicks - he is a noted Kaeirean shaman. A reputable mage from Kahshaartown has occupied the Chair of Weather Arts, we Ka'Shari Creole in Kahshaartown have long maintained our weather magic. Other Chairs have been occupied by reasonable sorcerers from within the Republic, though Authority Studies, Healing Arts, Alchemy, Obeah, and Defence Arts remain empty. All of these are quite critical, so I am considering approaching a number of our neighbours to try to obtain suitable candidates from amongst them." The Consul looked sideways at the Inquisitor, "Who, Karl? Mir, Taltheran, Sedonia? There are reasons to disagree with any of those three...." "My good consul, of those three, Mir would be my first choice, simply because they are the least potentially dangerous of the three. However, I am also looking further afield. Our barbarian ally, the Panchayyah, have their own traditions of magic. I am sending representatives to the shamans, there for one. Other groups of sorcerers in the Midsea will also be contacted - a handsome salary and unrestricted research in exchange for teaching is an attractive drawcard. Of course, it would be foolish not to seek assistance from those such as Mir, for they have unrivalled expertise. I am even toying with the idea of entities such as the Eerith playing some role, if they would have it and if it would be practical. At the end of the day, Van Adin, we are greatly lacking in magical resources. Almost all we have in terms of magical resources has been committed to the Green College, and I suspect those that have avoided the College have associated themselves with Brotherhood of the Night, which is not a bad thing in itself. We will need assistance from outside, and this I am endeavouring to obtain from a wide a range of sources as possible. What I am looking at in the long-term is the College providing at least 40 weather mages for the Fleet, and 200 war mages for the Guard. In the private sphere, a weather mage on every Kaeirean merchant ship is another, though secondary goal, something that would require numbers in the hundreds though. 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