

Strixhaven is divided into five colleges, each with its own campus, faculty, and magical specialties. Mages seek them out only to learn the most elusive of secrets.įounded some 700 years ago by five spellcasting dragons, Strixhaven University is Arcavios's premier institution of magical learning, drawing promising young mages from all around the plane to study in its halls. The dragons' wisdom is vast, but their tempers can be short. They no longer associate directly with Strixhaven, preferring to let the deans of the college speak in their stead. To this day, the Founder Dragons roam the plane, the five deadly sages of the skies. The five colleges were based around the magic mastered by each of those dragons. So, centuries ago, the dragons founded an institution devoted to the study of the five mana dichotomies, and that institution is what we now know as Strixhaven. When the humanoid races arose, at first the dragons were angered that mortals would try to harness the wild forces of magic, but they came to realize that only through disciplined study would magic be in safe hands. The Founder Dragons were the first to master the magic of the five enemy color combinations. These dragons have become emblems of the magic of the plane, living symbols of the clashing forces of the five dichotomies. The five elder dragons of Arcavios were born from these snarls, and millennia later they founded Strixhaven University at the epicenter of the snarls. Five particularly powerful snarls of overlapping mana became luminous spheres, from which were hatched five dragons. 2.2.5 Witherbloom College of Essence StudiesĪrchway Commons with the Dawnbow The University Īt the birth of the plane, as the mana of two planes overlapped in conflicting ways, many forms of life adapted to the new structure, and many new forms of life were spawned.2.2.2 Prismari College of Elemental Arts.
