Aretuza

Aretuza was a magical academy for young ladies situated next to Garstang palace on Thanedd Island, that was founded by Klara Larissa de Winter in .Netflix Timeline: The Opening of Aretuza It consisted of five floors and seventy-six rooms, including rooms for the students. Among the students were girls from the twelve finest families in Redania.
The central hall was built in a "T" shape, and the long side had narrow and extremely tall stained-glass windows which cost a small fortune, reaching almost to the top of the columns that supported the ceiling. The ceiling was so high it could be difficult to make out the frescoes decorating it, mainly nude statues. The many candles throughout the hall were kept alive with magic, so as to be not affected by the slight drought that could be felt. The Gallery of Glory found in the palace displays artefacts from throughout the history of magic.
The annual fees for a student added up to 1,200 Novigradian crowns, with a 200 crown matriculation fee for new students. Adepts studying there were not permitted to leave the island, were forced to abstain from sex, and visitors were only admitted to the lowest level of the academy, Loxia.
==History==
===Thanedd coup===
In June , Vilgefortz summoned a Grand Mage's Conclave to be held on the island, many of the students having been moved away to Loxia beforehand to make room for the visiting mages. On the last night of the month, they met in the palace for a banquet. Throughout the night, a large-scale coup took place between the mages allied with the North and those with Nilfgaard, resulting in numerous mages being killed or captured, such as rector Tissaia de Vries who committed suicide, ultimately spelling the end of the Brotherhood. Rector Margarita Laux-Antille managed to escape with Philippa Eilhart and a few others to Montecalvo.
===Witch hunts ===
In , the academy was attacked and destroyed after King Radovid V declared war on magic in Redania. Some novices escaped beforehand with Margarita Laux-Antille to Novigrad in hope they could escape with Triss Merigold's help to Kovir. The students left behind were caught and executed by the Redanian soldiers, only a small handful escaping together with Nina Vivero, another rector of the academy. By the time Geralt and Yennefer rescued Margarita from Deireadh prison, all of the novices who accompanied her to Novigrad had been burnt at the stake or executed by other means by the witch hunters. Margarita was deliberately kept alive by Radovid to be the final execution until Geralt and Yennefer's intervention.
==Notable people==
===Staff===
===Alumni ===
==Trivia==
*Arethusa is a nymph in Greek mythology.
==Notes== 
*In , Aretuza is treated as being on the mainland while only Tor Lara is on the island nearby.
==Gallery==
Netflix aretuza.png|In 
Netflix witcher aretuza overview.jpg|Overview of Aretuza in 
Gwent cardart northern aretuza adept.png|Aretuza adept
BaW aretuza tower painting.png|Aretuza painting
File:Gwent cardart northern aretuza student.jpg|Aretuza student
==Footnotes==
==References==
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Category:Schools