St. Freya Academy

This article is about the institute. For the academy building in the *Honkai Impact* Cinematic Universe, see St. Freya Academy Far East Campus.

**St. Freya International Academy** is a higher learning institute that the Valkyries in the *Honkai Impact* Cinematic Universe study and work in.

It is considered to be one of the finest institutes for Valkyrie training.

## Location overview

St. Freya International Academy has several branches, and the branch focused on by the series is the Far East Branch, which has the largest campus.

### Campuses

* Europe - Established c.1000 AD
* Russia - Established in 1249
* Far East - Established in 1949
* America - Established in 1959
* Oceania - Established in 1980

#### Countries with institutes established with cooperation/representation from St. Freya

##### Europe

* United Kingdom
* Poland
* Germany
* France
* Italy
* Spain
* Belgium
* Portugal
* Austria
* Hungary
* Albania
* Bulgaria
* Romania
* Norway

##### Russia

* Russia
* Ukraine
* Estonia
* Lithuania
* Belarus
* Georgia
* Kazakhstan
* Uzbekistan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Tajikistan

##### Far East

* Japan
* China
* South Korea
* Hong Kong
* Taiwan
* Malaysia
* Singapore
* India

##### America

* United States of America
* Canada
* Mexico

##### Oceania

* Australia
* New Zealand
* Papua New Guinea

##### Africa

Schicksal established branches in Africa after the Third Honkai Eruption ended.

* South Africa
* eSwatini
* Burkina Faso
* Egypt
* Morocco
* Algeria

## History

### Early history

St. Freya Academy was founded around 1000 AD by a group of the greatest leaders of the organization Schicksal. The first Academy building, a building complex in where it is now Poland in eastern Europe, was constructed circa 996 AD. The institute built another campus in where it is now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia in 1249 AD.

### World War I (1914-1918) and 1920s-1930s

Myrtle Apocalypse, a high-ranked Valkyrie who was the leader of Schicksal's Valkyrie Squad, joined St. Freya institute at the European branch in 1911 and graduated in 1918. The campus survived the first world war untouched.

The Russian campus was damaged by revolutionaries during the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922, due to the institute's alignment with the Russian monarchy (and the notion that Catherine the Great had been a Valkyrie). Although the revolutionaries won the war and established the Soviet Union, St. Freya's Russian branch continued to operate till 1945, when it temporarily moved its operations to the European branch until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the campus was converted into a weapons research base by the Mikoyan Design Bureau in that period.

### World War II (1939-1945)

The existence of the institute was threatened when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, as the European campus was located in Poland, which was invaded by the Nazis. After the Nazis' discovery of the institute building, tyrannical Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler attempted to get Nazi hands on Schicksal's technology in his efforts to invade the Soviet Union.

Schicksal's response to the Nazi invasion was negative, due to them experimenting on captured civilians who bore stigmata for their attempts to reinforce their army for the invasion. During a great battle at the European campus on New Year's Day, 1943, Myrtle Apocalypse was killed by the Nazis in a firefight. In the same battle, Hitler discovers a secret power consisting of a massive amount of Honkai energy at the institute that caused his strength to increase tenfold, also causing his army to advance further into Russia. However, his invasion of the Soviet Union ultimately failed when the Soviet army struck back to emerge victorious in the Battle of Stalingrad. In their push towards eastern Europe, the Soviet army was assisted by the Valkyries of St. Freya's Russian branch.

Eventually, the secret power caused Hitler's demise in the end of the war.

### Late 1940s-1980s

Construction of St. Freya Academy's Far East branch campus was completed in 1949.

In 1952, Welt became the first Herrscher after finding the secret power.

Throughout the entirety of the Honkai outbreaks and Herrscher awakenings from the 1950s to the 1980s, the Far East Branch was perhaps the only safe haven for Valkyries, due to the presence of the Apocalypse family.

## Academic spirit

### Symbols

The current coat of arms of St. Freya Academy bears a vector recreation of the portrait of Theresa Apocalypse, the current headmistress of the Far East Branch as of 2020.

### Anthem

Based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-wVQFKlLtE

## Administration

Theresa Apocalypse is the headmistress of the Far East Branch as of 2020.

## Subjects and teachers

### Subjects

* Astronomy
* Physical Education
* Mathematics
* Schicksal Tech
* History of Schicksal
* Social Studies
* Honkai Beast Studies - 3rd Year

## Valkyrie Exam

> "*Kyaa! The stupid Valkyrie exam!*"
> ― Kiana Kaslana, *Honkai Impact Episode I: Advent of Valkyries* (2020)
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All student Valkyries at St. Freya Academy are required to complete the Valkyrie Exam, a set of examinations, to get into the next year of schooling. There is one exam for each subject. Starting from their fifth year, the student Valkyries take on a series of standardized tests, respectively called the Level 5 Valkyrie Exam (L5VE) and Level 6 Valkyrie Exam (L6VE), which are equivalents to high school qualification and O-Levels, respectively.

The Final Year Valkyrie Exam (FYVE) is equivalent to A-Levels and is the increasingly difficult examination that final-year student Valkyries must take in order to graduate. To progress to FYVE level, a student Valkyrie must receive a certain high level of marks at the L5VE and L6VE exams.

## Recruitment

First-year student Valkyries must have their fingerprints deleted.

## Holidays

Public holidays in the academy vary by branch location.