Nibenay (WatW)

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Nibenay is home to a variety of schools. colleges, and circles. There are dozens of psionic schools in the city, ranging from tiny gatherings of four or five students in a city park to powerful universities with scores of students. Rivalry between the various institutions is intense. but violence almost never breaks out between the competing factions.
The largest university is the School of Augurs, a powerful organization run by an enterprising dwarf master named Djef. The school supplements its tuition income by hiring out its students for telepathic message service and psychoportive parcel delivery. These services are expensive, but reliable. Djef's ambition and commercialism have driven several students from the School of Augurs to the city's monasteries.
The city also maintains a psionic school within the walls of the Naggaramakam. The academy is part of the Chamber of Air, one of hierarchies that make up the Nibenese government. The Chamber of Air is based in the group of buildings known as the Temple of Thought. The head of the Temple of Thought is Siemhouk, the High Priestess to the Shadow King.
Siemhouk is a young girl who stands at the right hand of Nibenay himself. Despite her youth (she is only 14), she is a 15th-level templar and 14th-level psionicist. Since her duties Teranya the Rain-bird often require her presence in the Shadow King's court, she leaves the day-to-day administration of the psionic academy to a skilled master named Chagrama.
In recent years. Nibenay has seen revival in its ancient monastic traditions. The monasteries of the Exalted Path and Serene Bliss have grown in power and influence. Elemental clerics and psionicists have gravitated to them. The Exalted Path is especially attractive for psionicists. since the current abbot goes out of his way to recruit young students of the mind.
The Exalted Path is led by Thong Nal, an ancient cleric of air. Unfortunately, he has come under the psionic influence of Kayardi Drasad, a member of the Order posing as an acolyte. Drasad is using Nal to make the Exalted Path monastery into a center for psionic learning under the Order's agenda.