Prismari
Prismari College is where the inspired gather to create magnificent works of colour and shape, believing magic and art to be one and the same.
Prismari's enigmatic campus is contained within the more stable part of the Furygale, a place of change and wonder, made somewhat hazardous by its ever-shifting nature.
According to legend, when the Dragons made the world of strixhaven, Lady Galazeth grew bored with the rolling plains and proud mountain ranges that her siblings satisfied themselves with. She resolved to give life to a whole new kind of landscape, one shaped by her imagination, and home to living ideas and wandering whims.
This was the origin of the Furygale, a landscape as changing, unpredictable and colourful as the Dragon herself. Galazeth roams this realm of wonders and dangers, making adjustments here and there as she sees fit, which sometimes results in rearrangement of whole technicolour mountain ranges, sudden appearence of deep lakes, and occasional upturn of the very forces that govern the machinations of nature. It is a wild place, wandered by exquisite creatures of paint and fire, with weather unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, and where the senses cannot be fully depended upon. It is therefore a dangerous place for all but the most experienced mages to traverse, and students and staff alike are duly warned to keep to the relative safety of the Prismari campus.
Prismari's school grounds are a wide and fascinating place, the great towers of study reaching up into the vibrantly multicoloured skies are a mish-mash of architectural styles and artistic inspirations. As physical law seems much more flexible in this place, buildings have been constructed here with foundations of fire, or with windows and doors of suspended water, and noteably the central and most prominent of Prismari's facilities, the breathtaking Conjuriot Hall, resides several stories above the ground.
Prismari's scholars and pupils are artists, as first and foremost as they are mages. As such, the fields of study focused on in this vibrant campus include sculpture, conjuring, painting, dance, pyrotechnics, and music. Having pioneered fields of magic such as aesthetemancy, spectacology, and geosculpting, the mages of Prismari represent the cutting edge in the furtherment of magical expression.
The ideas of Expression and Perfection form a divide in the philosophies of Prismari faculty and students alike. Like great waves crashing into eachother, the mages on one side argue that endeavoring to achieve true perfection by way of constantly advancing technique, by greater precision and ever more minute detail, is the real purpose, both of art and magic - and the other persists that art is for nothing if not the expression of the living soul in the world, and magic is but one of the ways by which it can be given form.
Leading the fray in this eternal conceptual tug-of-war are Prismari's two deans, Uvilda Mistcoillier and Nassari Nessus. Mistcoillier insists that the practices of magic and art alike are best when they are developed over time and with total deliberation and precision. Carefully measured and calculated technique is all that stands between proper art and a muddled mess. Nassari, however, sees the universe as a medium-in-waiting to be used in ever more grandiose and radical emotional evocations. Sponteneity, excitement, and powerful originality is what is truly valuable, to invoke emotion and give inspiration life and shape.
Prismari's enigmatic campus is contained within the more stable part of the Furygale, a place of change and wonder, made somewhat hazardous by its ever-shifting nature.
The School of Elemental Arts
According to legend, when the Dragons made the world of strixhaven, Lady Galazeth grew bored with the rolling plains and proud mountain ranges that her siblings satisfied themselves with. She resolved to give life to a whole new kind of landscape, one shaped by her imagination, and home to living ideas and wandering whims.
This was the origin of the Furygale, a landscape as changing, unpredictable and colourful as the Dragon herself. Galazeth roams this realm of wonders and dangers, making adjustments here and there as she sees fit, which sometimes results in rearrangement of whole technicolour mountain ranges, sudden appearence of deep lakes, and occasional upturn of the very forces that govern the machinations of nature. It is a wild place, wandered by exquisite creatures of paint and fire, with weather unseen anywhere else in the multiverse, and where the senses cannot be fully depended upon. It is therefore a dangerous place for all but the most experienced mages to traverse, and students and staff alike are duly warned to keep to the relative safety of the Prismari campus.
Prismari's school grounds are a wide and fascinating place, the great towers of study reaching up into the vibrantly multicoloured skies are a mish-mash of architectural styles and artistic inspirations. As physical law seems much more flexible in this place, buildings have been constructed here with foundations of fire, or with windows and doors of suspended water, and noteably the central and most prominent of Prismari's facilities, the breathtaking Conjuriot Hall, resides several stories above the ground.
Studies At Prismari
Prismari's scholars and pupils are artists, as first and foremost as they are mages. As such, the fields of study focused on in this vibrant campus include sculpture, conjuring, painting, dance, pyrotechnics, and music. Having pioneered fields of magic such as aesthetemancy, spectacology, and geosculpting, the mages of Prismari represent the cutting edge in the furtherment of magical expression.
Expression and Perfection
The ideas of Expression and Perfection form a divide in the philosophies of Prismari faculty and students alike. Like great waves crashing into eachother, the mages on one side argue that endeavoring to achieve true perfection by way of constantly advancing technique, by greater precision and ever more minute detail, is the real purpose, both of art and magic - and the other persists that art is for nothing if not the expression of the living soul in the world, and magic is but one of the ways by which it can be given form.
Leading the fray in this eternal conceptual tug-of-war are Prismari's two deans, Uvilda Mistcoillier and Nassari Nessus. Mistcoillier insists that the practices of magic and art alike are best when they are developed over time and with total deliberation and precision. Carefully measured and calculated technique is all that stands between proper art and a muddled mess. Nassari, however, sees the universe as a medium-in-waiting to be used in ever more grandiose and radical emotional evocations. Sponteneity, excitement, and powerful originality is what is truly valuable, to invoke emotion and give inspiration life and shape.
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