Avenue
of the Academics
Formerly
the White Willows Wizarding College (WWWC) post-Boggie Pox this area
is now the Avenue of the Academics. The old college serves as a new
college, focusing on more mundane subjects, as well as the home of
the cities intelligentsia. This area is a home to artists, radicals,
drop-outs, NEETS, philosophers, charlatans, madmen, cranks, as well
as the over-educated and under employed. The city guard has a ‘light
touch’ with this area as heavy handedness can lead to riots. The
old dormitory of the college are now apartment complexes and small
cafes and taverns line the streets. It is a lovely neighborhood, if
one can look past the riots, ennui filled youth, and the occasional
alchemical accident.
The
Sages Guild
The
Boggie Pox devastated most instructions of magical learning and the
wizard college of White Willows was no exception. Within a few years
of the pox the school was dissolved. Still education seeped from its
walls and soon many educated in the more mundane arts begin to
inhabit the rundown campus. Now known as the Sage’s Guild the old
wizard college serves as a base for medicine, alchemy, and higher
learning in the canton.
The
Library
One
of the few components of the old wizard college to remain relatively
intact, thanks to the quick actions of Lord Viscount Alva who bought
the library to prevent its knowledge from falling into the wrong
hands. Most of the library is dedicated to mundane books and offers
free reading classes to citizens. The librarians who run the library
are willing to pay premium prices for rare books which they add to
the library’s collection. Also not all of the arcane texts are
lost and for an extra fee most non-necromancy and non-evocations
spells third level or less can be found for research. Access to
spells from the school of necromancy, evocation, or anything higher
that third level, requires a writ from the Lord Viscount himself
(along with a generous fee to the Library.)
Sages
Offices
Sages,
a catch all term that people use for anyone who is an expert in their
field, inhabit most of the old college. Many of the classrooms and
study halls have been converted into studio apartments and private
laboratories. Sages that pay guild dues can reside on campus. Many
when not involved with personal research offer their skills for a
fee. The sages are all strange and eccentric and more interested in
their studies than people. Each has an apprentice along with a
number of slaves that assist with work.
Wands
and Wonders Supply House
This
shop sells a variety of strange substances for arcane and alchemical
usages. Jars of strange unguents, preserved monster parts, and
exotic herbs and minerals line the shelves of this shop. Jaskar the
Inquisitive the hooded proprietor of this shop follows his customers
around like a hawk, partially to assist partially to make sure they
do not steal or break anything. Jaskar has a small group of
‘apprentices’ (slaves really) that take care of the day to day
functions of the shop that he does not want to do. Jaskar will buy
any sort of magical curio, strange herb or mineral, whole monster
corpses for 3d6/HD, and specific parts for d6/HD. Jaskar sells
scrolls and potions up to 3rd
level and minor enchanted weapons and armor.
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