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Can be anything from Hogwarts (the most obvious one) to Scholomance, Brakebills, anything else you can think of. Would you attend it yourself?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

~Unseen University~

I would only attend if I could be a librarian assistant.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I enjoyed the magic system in Patrick Rothfuss' books. It felt relatively believable/grounded, and I liked the concept of learning the "true name" of things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His ideas on magic were awesome. I liked the binding system as well. I recently read R. F. Kuang’s book Babel. She has a different take on “binding” using similarities of meanings and multiple meanings of words from different languages. It was a very neat book, though it was reminiscent of the magic in the realm of Temerant. I recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Babel didn’t grip me as a book, but the magic system using word pairs was so novel and cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I would absolutely not attend the Scholomance but really enjoyed that world-building.

The one I love AND would definitely attend is the Unseen University.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Granny Weatherwax’s kitchen!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m going to say Balamb Garden from FFVII. That was a fun game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wistram from The Wandering Inn. With all the secrets, drama, bureaucracy, and faction infighting it feels like a real school.

That being said, no way would I attend that place. I'm going to stay the hell away from that place and watch with popcorn at a distance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Death Sorceries in Eden Ring.

I find it pretty funny how they convey the fact that "death is scary" by making most of the Death spells in the game something you wanna run away from, even though it probably won't actually hurt you because they are kinda weak, but nobody is gonna just stand there while a ton of floating, flaming skulls are flying slowly at them.

Second with regular Glintstone sorceries from the Raya Lucaria Academy. They literally put all their intellect into what amounts to "throwing bigger rocks" and thought the one sorcerer who found it prudent to make something more defensive to be the biggest idiot in the school.