Royal Biblia Academy

**Royal Biblia Academy** (王立ビビリア学園, *Ōritsu Bibiria Gakuen*?) is a Magic Academy, one of three located in Japan.

## Overview

Royal Biblia Academy, alongside Royal Akasha Academy and Royal Liber Academy, are considered the **Three Great Magical Academies** (三大魔法学校, *Sandai Mahō Gakkō*?) of Japan as it along with the other two institutions to be the oldest and most illustrious centers of learning for young mages on the islands of Japan. Located in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, it was founded in the 91st year of the Kofun period (AD 391) and was merely one of the many institutions that teach magic during this time period, however, ]aside from the institutions that would become Royal Akasha Academy and Royal Liber Academy, none of its competitors managed to survive to the modern day. Its close proximity to Tokyo makes it the most important out of the three institutions of Japan in its strategic location near the capital of the country (although this was only the case in the past two hundred years). It is also the most important school internationally since it is the institution to have consistently produced the greatest number of female mages who would become the Trinity Seven with over four-fifths of all known members throughout history having been educated in Royal Biblia Academy.

At any one time, there are at least 1200 students permanently on the campus of Royal Biblia Academy and it has a disparate student population in terms of gender ratio as the females outnumber the males by five-to-one. This ratio isn't unique to Royal Biblia Academy; it is shared by all of the twelve magic academies due to the fact that women are naturally more attuned to the mystics than men are. The school also keeps a diligent record of how many student deaths occur as the path of magic very often is synonymous with a path of death and for Royal Biblia Academy, there is an average rate of 10% every school year totaling around 100 deaths per year (this number *can* vary from lower numbers to higher numbers depending on how chaotic the school year was, however, no single school year was ever completely bloodless since the institution's founding).

## History

As stated previously, Royal Biblia Academy was founded in the 91st year of the Kofun period (AD 391) at the direction of Emperor Nintoku with its first headmaster being his wife, Iwanohime-no-Mikoto. The location of the institution in Chichibu Province a ways away from the imperial capital of Kyoto was due to an oracle Iwanohime performed, instructing her to place the school over the nearest triple junction; the existence of the labyrinth did not deter her from instructing her husband to build the school at the location she had specified. Originally, the school carried the name of **Imperial Institution of Magical Learning** (魔法学問の帝国翰林院, *Mahō Gakumon no Teikoku Kanrinin*?) and was only open to noble families, resulting in a very small initial student population. Nevertheless, the pursuit of magic can and will prove deadly as at least one student died per year with some years seeing as many as half of the 300 students dying. This has remained a fact of life each year that passes for the institution....

## Organization

### Student Government

Main article: Student Council/Royal Biblia Academy