Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo re

Pronounced **/ˈze siˈviɹ ˈʔɔmva teˈʔepɔt dneˈvi seˈhi ˈhudɔ ˈɹe/** or **[ˈze ˌviɹʔɔmˌʔeviˈhihuɹ]**

From:

Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re.

Ze sivír -'ómva -te-'ép-ot -dneví -sehí -húdo -re.

DEF.SG.ERG house.ERG big.ERG IMP-hid-3.3 PART rock.ABS night.GEN under.

The university in Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re.

## Location

The university of *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is located on the peninsula between Sea and Bay. It is accessibly by air during the summer months in good weather, by the Northern Pass for it's sole passible month and from the Central Pass via either Settlement 1 or Settlement 2, which is a week's gruelling walk.

*Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is one of the great wonders of the world. It was created by carving into basalt of the mountain and reforming the spoil to grow the mountain. It was created specifically to be a university by the founders who went they were thrown from their previous institute after a large portion of the important town the institute was located in was melted by a experiment failure. The founders chose the location of *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* for its remoteness and isolation. Before the developed there were no permanent settlements on the peninsula, which was used as a winter hunting ground by tribes that allied with Settlement 1. The coming of trigger a permanent settlement to grow up in the lee of the university which is known by the same name as the university and very aware that it's existence is tied to the university.

## Governance

*Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is governed by an elite democracy with the professors of the Magical University in *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* selecting the leader. The leader chosen by the council is typically a local master craftsman and will serve as the leader of the community until their death or they are physically unable to continue serving. If this is a result of a slow decline the council will have selected the successor and begun preparing them in advance.

## Language

Due to the influx of people from around the world, the vocabulary of the *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* dialect is highly influenced by prestige dialects of other cultures.

## Culture

The primary god of *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is the spirit of magic by whom's grace the institute and the settlement remain standing. The spirit is a free wheeling god who seems to find little offensive and even less so offensive she needs to intervene.

The culture of *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is the most tolerant culture of the region. Idiosyncratic behaviours is gently tolerated especially from successful academics and it is necessity of the influx of students from around the world to be more tolerant of differing cultural norms. The settlement and university of *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is egalitarian with female leaders of both as of then as men, there are in the more physical professions of the settlement some differentiation with jewel smiths more likely to me women and blacksmiths men.

For some reason conception is difficult with the University and Settlement of *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re*, couples wishing to conceive pray to the spirit of magic for many day and on an ostentatious day travel at least two days from the town before trying to conceive. As a result \*Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re\* has a very lax attitude to extra- and pre- marital sex, including interspecies sex. All the most interesting venerial diseases in the world are found in *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re*.

The most admired class in the town and university are as expected magician scholars with master artisans and magician scholars on the rank below. The lowest class are the cleaners, nightsoil's men and the gravediggers.

## Importance

*Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is the site of the oldest continuous place of magical education in the world. The Legend of the founding of *Ze sivír-'ómva-te'épot-dneví-sehí-húdo-re* is:

> Long ago, one of the great elven cities over the seas allowed a university of magic to be founded within it's boundaries and things were good for a few years. There were complaints about citizens turning into chickens but nothing serious enough to endanger the budding the university until one small accident in a class melted half the city including the King's Palace.
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> The university and it students were thrown from the city at sword point and most of the students a teachers scattered but a small number ended up on a trade vessel headed to Settlement 1. As they rounded the point and the Black Mountain came in view, the Great Magar had a vision of a university free of Kings and cities.
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> The at the time Lord of Settlement 1 agreed to allow them use of the mountain for taxes and the language of tuition to be the language of Settlement 1 at the time of founding, for it amused for elven lords to be taught in the tongue of the orcs.
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