The Collegium of Athesia

== Members ==
Cassia Tuccianus
Fenxi Thornberry
Geltius Asphoren
Quintinus Maledictus Praeteritum Eudoxius
==== Ex-members: ====
Meliadin Constarak
Deist Fah'raak
Verak Tibor
Zil'gar Fofyire
== Advances ==
Research Agreement with Imperial Academy: +3 Academic Voting
University Of Athesia: +3 Governance Voting (located in 1007)
Experimental Smelting Techniques (Aedius): Convert Purity to Infrastructure in Any Region
== Background ==
The Collegium of Athesia was founded to promote the development of scientific ideas and encourage technological progress in Athesia. It is open to any idea that furthers the development of the Athesian republic, and seeks to bring together all entities seeking scientific progress in order to promote co-operation between them.
The Collegium is responsible for the construction of the University Of Athesia which is now complete. During the council's vote on whether or not to support Dieudonne the fact that Dieudonne was largely responsible for funding the university became an issue. It was suggested that if the Collegium was to vote against Diuedonne it may lead him to cut the funding. To counter this possibility the Collegium sought alternative funding from the noble houses in the Dark plains as well as the Church of Pelor. An agreement was reached with the Church, House Devante and House Pyreheart-Vespoya to provide funding. In return for this funding:
* Theology is now compulsory for first year students with a syllabus that is approved by a commitee which is chaired by an agreed upon impartial candidate for which both the Collegium and the Church have a Veto on. 
* Free scholaships are avaliable for children of Devante and Pyreheart-Vespoya.
* Some of the University buildings were named after relevent members of house Devante and Pyreheart-Vespoya.
* The Collegium agreed to find a method by which Devante could be able to walk in the light again. (Pending)
* The Collegium agreed to track down and remove the source of false allegations being levelled at Pyreheart-Vespoya (Completed).
Despite the fact that the Collegium voted against supporting Dieudonne in the vote where the council ultimately voted to support him. Dieudonne did not cut any funding from the University. Unhappy with the way that Dieudonne could possibly hold money over the Collegium however Zil'Gar decided to leave the organisation believing that while the organisation relied Dieudonne's funding the members of it could never truely be independent.
The members of the Collegium make one sole commitment:
* To seek and promote any and all progress across all domains of science.
== Voting at a Glance ==
Defence: Needs update
Governance: Needs update
Academia: Needs updateCategory:Organisations