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The Magic Academy is the paragon of higher learning for mages in Kalijor. The structure itself is something of a curiosity. A two-hundred foot high monolith of solid stone set in a small clearing in the western Forest of Brume, it has one door at it's base and can be walked around in less than a minute. Once you open the door the curiosity of the structure becomes apparent, as the interior is substantially larger than the exterior. Inside the monolith is a school that houses no only the classrooms but the dormitories, laboratories, kitchen facilities, libraries, and housing for staff and instructors.
The Magic Academy is a city unto itself, housing thousands of students and instructors on a daily basis. The academy has most of its day to day operations handled by the students themselves, things like cleaning and maintenance. They have a dedicated cooking staff but the students perform all of the clean-up tasks. While it is certainly possible to become an adept mage without attending the academy, there is no better place to receive a first rate education in the arts.
The Magic Academy is also home to the largest and most well maintained library in Kalijor, their great library is at least ten times the size of the Rathalon stacks and their librarians have a magical link with their tomes that allows them to instantly divine the location of a book based on author, subject, or even specific content. There is also a restricted section to the great library that is the home for any and all tomes that are deemed to be of sufficiently advanced or questionable power. In order to enter the restricted stacks it is first necessary to speak with the arch magus of the academy and obtain their special written permission to do so.
The normal enrollment period at the Academy is ten years from start to finish and includes six years of study in the basic arts and then anther four years of study in the student's area of specialization. After this ten year period most students head out into the world to seek their fortunes, but some will stay on and learn much more advanced magics or even join the staff and take on students of their own.