The Lanthorian Academy of Arcanology

The Lanthorian Academy of Arcanology is an extremely large complex located in the city of Lanthor.  It was originally founded as a library to preserve the history and knowledge of Shaintar.  Over time the library became the largest collection of the magical arts anywhere in Shaintar.  It also has an extensive collection of other rare and obscure topics.  The library does charge for access and its services.  Also, due to the shear size of the library, it is extremely difficult to find anything.  The Academy itself takes up 4 blocks of the city with the library taking up a whole block and is a 10 stories high stair stepped marble pyramid.  The employees and students of the Academy live and attend classes in a series of buildings on the neighboring blocks.  The exception is the head librarian, Ecoral Trenkandrus, a fae sorcerer who lives in quarters located on the mysterious 10th floor.  The employees rarely ever see him and the dozen assistant librarians actually run the academy.  

Only the lower 3 floors of the library are open to the public, for a minimal charge.  The next 6 stories are open only to members of The Lanthorian Academy of Arcanology.  The 10th story isn’t open to anyone unless they have an invitation from Ecoral Trenkandrus, something that almost never happens.

Ecoral Trenkandrus has been the head librarian of the Academy since it’s founding over a 1000 years ago.  Rumors have flown for years that he is a vampire among the students but no one knows for sure but the head librarian himself.  Persons looking into his past have never been able to find anything from before the time he accepted his current job. 

Studies at the academy focus almost primarily on sorcery.  Over the last 100 years alchemy studies have been introduced and just recently there has been increased research into arcmancy.  Even though channeling, faith, necromancy, thaumaturgy, and the way are not taught here there is expansive knowledge on these topics available to students in the library.  Most of these tomes are not available in the lower levels.