Amethyst Academy

The Amethyst Academy is a global institution that works to promote the interests of all arcane magic users. The Academy has been instrumental in the protection of interests of magic users, and in addition to housing and schooling mages, also provides a governance structure for those with the arcane gifts. Standing in as a collective body for Magic, the Academy exists any where magic exists, and have formed powerful relationships with other organizations as well, bargaining and trading the use of the arcane powers at their disposal for power and access to resources.

Ranks of the Amethyst Academy
The Amethyst Academy is an hierarchical organization, based on two systems of progression: one for the magical power the user is able to wield and the other for the Position of the user within Academy Standing.

Circles of Power
Every magic wielder within the Academy is said to be in a numbered circle of power, dependent on the highest level of magic they are capable of casting. For example, a wizard who is able to cast 6th level spells as the peak of their power, is known as a member of the 6th Circle. Accompanying each circle achieved, the user is bestowed a ring by the Academy, and must wear all their rings as they may be required to show their rings to prove their power to other members of the Academy.

Academy Position
In addition to the Academy member's circle, each member is also given a position or status within the Academy, ranging from Apprentice to Grand Mage. Additional positions also exist within the bulk of members denoting specific obligations, relationships, privileges within the Academy

Towers of the Amethyst Academy
The activities of the Academy are centred within and around a number of Magic Towers scattered throughout the world. Each tower is a powerful magical construction where its very physical constraints are not what it seems.

While in ages past, magic users have found themselves ostracized and even hunted by the powers that be, the Amethyst Academy has stationed their towers to serve as Embassies to each of the world powers but also for their own designs.

Today Academy Towers are found in prominent places of power: Capital Cities of Kingdoms, along the ley lines of power in the world, or where the boundary between the planes lays thinly.