Akademia

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Akademia (アケーデミア, Akeedemia), officially known as the Magic Council Academy of Magic (魔法の魔法評定学院, Mahō no Mahō Hyōjō Gakuin), is the premier mage training school in the continent of Ishgar, tasked with rearing up the rare, young talent judged to have the potential to serve in the Magic Council's ranks upon reaching legal age. Some two centuries ago, the school was reorganized to be more selective and rigorous. As a result, Akademia has gone on to produce extremely talented and capable Rune Knights, rangers, intelligence officers, magic engineers, statesmen, and councilmen that have excelled professionally with the council and other institutions. Defined as both a reckoning and an enlightenment, Akademia's rigor has helped many a young mage find themselves and become something greater, something better. The academy something of a transcendence to a new way of looking at the world due to the extensive traveling and generally cosmopolitan approach that draws some of Isghar's finest youth. As a result of the institution's illustrious alumni network, graduation from Akademia opens a world of possibilities within the council and outside of it for career advancement. Nearly half of the councilmen, more than half of Rune Knight captains, and three-fourths of Ranger Corps and Magic Intelligence Agency elite are alumni.

The acceptance rate is 3.5% as of the turn of the millennium, X1000.

Trivia

 * The name comes from the area in Greece where Plato's Academy was founded in antiquity.