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What happened to lay this once great academy so low?
This article will be delving deep into the history of Raya Lucaria and how it fell into disrepair.
What Is The Raya Lucaria Academy?
The Twinsage Glinstone Crown depicts the faces of the twin sages together.
TheKarolos Glintstone Crowndepicts the face of Azur before his head grew into a crystal.
We will get into the heads of other branches later on.
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Each of these founders specialized in their own branch of magic.
The twin sages focused on all forms of glintstone magics.
You may have noticed that Queen Renala’s name was not on the list of founders.
That is because she was not actually a founding member.
The academy existed long before Rennala.
This sorcerer believed that sorceries drew their power from both the stars and the moon.
She was a leader more concerned with results and progress, rather than being right.
Around this same time, a sorceress by the name of Sellen would begin her training.
She was an unbelievably gifted pupil, almost to the same degree as Rennala herself.
It is not specified which branch of magic Sellen studied, nor the sorceries she produced, if any.
However, her skill was so great that she had theWitch’s Glintstone Crownmodeled after her.
Lusat was of the opinion that magic came from the stars themselves.
His studies yielded the Glintstone Stars and Star Shower sorceries in his youth.
Azur seemed to believe that magic drew its power from the tails of passing comets.
The fruits of his labor were the Shard Spiral and Comet sorceries during his time at the academy.
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This would serve as the catalyst for many of the splintering of factions we experience later on.
Radagon did not destroy Liurnia’s forces with an iron fist and raze the countryside to the ground.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
It does make sense that the factions would have tension with each other, though.
Aggressions stopped soon after, and Radagon married Rennala in the Church of Vows.
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New types of sorceries and armaments were developed during this time, specifically for the purpose of killing mages.
The civilians felt betrayed by their queen and were arming themselves against her.
It seems that other innovations were made in the wake of the war as well.
Heretical Thorn Sorceries were developed by Radagon’s forces to inflict as much pain on its victims as possible.
It is likely that during this new age of peace, theErrant Sorcerer Wilhelmbegan his journey.
Errant Sorcerer Wilhelmwas a nomadic sorcerer who the Heirodas Crown is modeled from.
He left the confines of the academy to study magic on his own.
He carries with him the Staff of Loss, and mainly fights with the invisible sorceries of Sellia.
It is very likely that he founded the town of Sellia and its invisible branch of Night Sorceries.
A country at war would not be so keen to focus on artwork and sculpture.
We stated earlier thatRennala, Queen of the Full Moonwas a very open-minded leader of the academy.
Though she disagreed with some opinions held by the other masters, she allowed them to practice them freely.
Rennala’s fears were sound, honestly.
They disobeyed Rennala and experimented with the Primeval Current, and she banished all three for it.
During Lusat and Azur’s banishment, they both peered into the Primeval Current.
The Great Schism
Liurnia’s time of peace was, unfortunately, short-lived.
Radagon soon left Rennala to become the husband of Marika.
We will call this event the Great Schism.
During this time, certain factions hired sellswords of the Cuckoo clan to eradicate as many mages as possible.
It was during this time that Rennala was locked away in the library.
It was then that the academy made the decision to close its gates permanently.
This would protect them from outside threats, and allow them to more easily identify internal ones.
First were the marionette soldiers.
These animated dolls were most likely created by sorcerers within the academy to serve as scouts outside their walls.
Additionally, all this war and unrest had given rise to a new branch of sorcery: The Haima.
They created the Haima Cannon and Haima Gavel Sorceries.
We know this faction came into being after the academy shut its doors because of the headdress.
At this point, the academy was already insulated and happy to further shield itself from this new war.
It does seem that the wizards feared the demigods even still, and for good reason.
This experiment can be found slightly northwest of the building, sleeping in the still water of the lake.
This worked, but only marginally.
Smarag retained his temper and proved impossible to control, even after it was implanted with the crystals.
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