Order of Mysteries

The foremost of a large number of institutes devoted to the study of magic, arcane arts and artifacts, based in Qadoris. Famous worldwide for its voracious appetite for artifacts and relics of the magic-rich eras of the past, for its willingness to cross all manner of boundaries to acquire them, and for the ferocious political and theoretical debates that echo in its halls.
Considered a rival to the western Akademia Arcanum, though many would argue the older and more storied Order is the superior faction in every way and the few times the rival schools have conflicted openly in the past seem to have borne this out...