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Schools of Thought

A school of thought is system of belief, or a methodological approach within an academic or philosophical system. The term was formally used for the various Schools of Thought within the Rasian Academy, with different approaches to the practice and application of magic.

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The Rasian Academy is the common name for the Grand Academy of Rasia, the greatest institution of magic and learning in the Anrel Isles.

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    The Rasian Schools of Thought were various different approaches to academic philosophy and thaumaturgical practice which flourished during the golden age of the Grand Academy of Rasia. Of these various schools, only Magistry survives today, so that

The Great Schools essentially ruled the academy until the Uncivil War, which saw open fighting within the academy and led to the rise of the Magisteriate.

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The Rasian Academy is the common name for the Grand Academy of Rasia, the greatest institution of magic and learning in the Anrel Isles.
was one of the greatest centres of learning in the world, holding libraries of unique works copied from the most ancient times. It was not in fact a single institution, but a huge agglomeration of colleges and institutions dedicated to various arts and disciplines, both practical and esoteric. The various college buildings made up what became the city of Rasia, the intellectual and, for a time, political hub of the north.

By the time of Belikast, its most infamous Grand Master, the Academy was dominated by three great schools of thought; academic approaches which each claimed to offer a complete explanation of the natural world. In theory the Great Schools were philosophies independent of an institution or college, but in time they came to dominate whole fields of expertise, carving the Academy into fief amongst themselves and excluding all others.

The Great Schools

The academy consisted of many colleges of inter-related disciplines, but the three great schools dominated, very roughly, what can broadly be called the fields of Behaviour, Bio-ecology and Physics, respectively.

Lesser Schools

Historically there have been many schools of thought, which by the time of the Great Three were called the Lesser Schools. These existed only on the fringes of academic life, and were regarded as foolish, anachronistic or dangerous quackery. However, those with useful skills or valuable archives survived, most notably the following:

History

After the 'Fall' of Rasia, when the city was sacked during the Long War, the Academy was closed and the colleges disbanded. Those few who survived were absorbed by the Magisters, who remained in the ruins of Rasia, in bitter isolation.

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absorbed many of the practical arts and archives of the old academy. The arts of the Metamagicians were continued, in their grossest forms, by the body that became the Rinesti, the administrative order of the Hexact. The Holisticians were discredited as a philosophy, though their medical experience went to establish the Senasi, dedicated to the promotion of human health without the deeper philosophical purpose.

Signtists almost entirely disappeared, their works distributed amongst smiths, engineers and interested amateurs. Belikast was a great friend of the signtists, and many latterly joined the Church of the Nameless, led by his disciples. The Signtist school owned land on the river Lar, east of Rasia. Centuries later it was settled by the Church, in secret, and became their stronghold.

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” was forever abandoned.

The Oughtists became irrelevant after the downfall of Rasia, although its moral philosophy certainly underpinned the new regime of the Hexact.