Underwater Magic Academy "Trismegist"

The Magic Academy was created in 1730 as an attempt to offer a way both for merfolk and landwalking species alike to explore each other's cultures and to befriend each other so that they can eventually be of aid to each other in possible conflicts. In the beginning, when they were trying to establish ways to bring the species together, an idea was given by a representative of the water fey of Forice, to enchant one kind of artificial starfish and distribute it among merfolk and landwalkers - the magic it would hold would give legs to any merfolk who applies it to their body and a fish/merfolk-like tail to any landwalker who puts it on. Working like a normal starfish, the tiny accessory would suction onto the skin wherever it's placed and will produce the aforementioned effect until manually removed. It can't just fall on its own.

Structure

The Academy is directed by a Headmaster. Right under that Headmaster are two Deputies - Usually chosen from the teachers in the beginning of each year. 

Every year the teachers try and outdo each other and be their best to become "teacher of the year" and be a candidate for the next year's Deputy chairs.

Additionally there's the Teachers' Council which meets up once every month to take decisions on exams, misbehaving or otherways problematic students, etc.

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Aside from what the Academy actually decides and more as a thing chosen by the local merfolk, there is the Guards. Not bodyguards of the Academy grounds but rather - Guards who keep illegal fishing at bay, watch out and warn for sharks, predatory dragons or other physical dangers and who pay close attention to the Siren Sea boundaries - as they tend to drift with mists and are dangerous, especially to non-merfolk, the Guards are those who are trained to keep the misty Sea away from the shallows.

Assets

The UMA has three conjoined buildings - main, where the classrooms are, greenhouses (the oval ones on the side of the shorter tailfin-tower) and dorms - on the opposite side for those students who either don't have a home or don't want to go home during the holidays. ;
The Academy also has half-ownership of the huge wooden pads that extend above water where merfolk, human students who'd turned mermaid for the school year and regular landwalkers can sit and chat and have a drink and snack together from the bars on the beach and their sailing boat versions. 
In the property of the Academy also fall a large graveyard, the isle of Berense and one giant submarine which can magically turn into a ship depending on weather conditions.

Just like the waves embrace the shore we balance each other forevermore

One of the most successful "experiments" of the school is the school band. They don't have a name of their own but they do represent the school in competitions and as their own thing all over the world.

Founding Date

1730

Type

Educational, School/Academy

Alternative Names

UMA Trismegist

Notable Members

• Brooks Rain

_{Both pictures are mine. The cover one started as a drawing, got processed through OpenArtAI' s sketch-to-image and then I drew over the result to fix where it got things wrong.}