Aalen

Feel free to reference or use this location in your lore, but please don't edit this page. Thank you!Aalen is an Arcaneflight city on the mainland; a coastal city on the shore of the Alluve Channel, on the boundary between Starwood and the sea. 
Aalen is a hotspot for Arcane wizards because of its lack of floating islands, which can be difficult to navigate without innate Arcane magic. The city is a mix of the Arcanite Scholars of the Focal Point, and the naturalistic, divinative Starwood practitioners. It's quite a messy city, with particularly lax magic laws that pave the way for whimsical crime and darker magics.
==Lore==
====Magic Schools====
The main purpose of Starfall's universities are not education, but rather to fund professional scholars. Many students do attend these universities, but they are not the priority. Colleges, however, are what Starfall calls actual schools, where students usually attend unless they are seeking an internship with a particular scientist from a university.
The Arcanites are "traditional, rational, truly Arcane" scholars, according to them. Most live on the Focal Point, though some have begun to settle the Crystalspines, which are difficult to build in. Arcanites are concerned with the science of magic, and while there are several official groups, none accept witches. Arcanites (broadly, of course, and then mostly those who are sheltered from the rest of the flight and isolated on the Focal Point) view themselves as in a struggle against the naturalistic Starwood practitioners, most of which are witches.
The Starwood practitioners mostly keep to themselves and are unconcerned with the perceived ideological war. They do, however, believe themselves to be the more pure, accurate manifestation of Arcane magic. They believe that, as the landscape is drenched in Arcane magic and shaped by it more drastically than any other region, and since witchcraft is tied inextricably to the landscape (while wizardry deals in dragonmade runes and such, and sorcery can be performed in a lab), witchcraft is the truest expression of Arcane magic.
Category:Communal Locations
Category:Arcane