Federal University of Pamet

The **Federal University of Pamet**, or simply **Pamet**, is the nation at the north of Edvanya, and the third largest. A federative University comprised of city-campi that prizes education and knowledge above all. Their flag is a orange owl flying on a clear blue sky.

## History

The Federal University of Pamet is a collection of several city-states unified under a single banner, all the city-states are academic campi with its capital being Aleksia Hall, a city built around the Hephastia Library, the largest in the continent, founded by one of the greatest minds of Edvanya, Aleksandr Phillipos, and named after him.

The nation in its entirety is a breeding ground for scientific research and advancement in all areas of study, it was founded by knowledge-seekers during the ProvEra and remained on the edge of the RegEra conflicts, mostly by playing all sides of every battle and providing the nations with knowledge and tools upon which they could improve their war efforts in exchange for their safety and resources.

These resources were mostly war prisoners used in unethical experiments funded by the ruling pametian elite to further their researches. This was a well-kept secret in the nation, vastly unknown by outsiders and even most pametias. Imperator Jihad I was kept in the dark about these experiments for decades into his reign, it wasn't until the pametian insurgence was finally able to provide evidence of these experiments to the Imperator and the continent, that they were arrested and tried at what was known as the Trials of Hanarendt, named after the campus where it was held, site of the largest of these laboratories, now a museum dedicated to the memory of all the lives lost in decades of inhumane experiments. To this day the Pametian Truth Committee makes expeditions in the hopes of finding some of these labs, as most of them were kept secret even during the trials.

Pamet is the only place to provide tutors and teachers in Edvanya, as it is the only place of higher education in the continent. Many potential educators receive grants to live in a campus in order to receive their license and return to their homes and spread knowlede and form minds. Any person in the continent is welcome to make use of their extensive libraries while seeking knowledge and to take on tutors in the campi, but to receive formal degrees they would have to actually enroll in a campus and finish the academic program in order to have their research validated and, for example, get jobs in the area or receive funding for their research.

## Culture

The Pametians prize knowledge above all other pursuits and every campus is a college town. People considered of low intelligence or simply uninterested in an academic life are looked down on and treated with great prejudice. There elite families with great power that hold money and positions in the government, they are extremely traditional and expect their issue to carry on their specific legacies in their area of research. They tend to dominate positions in the Dean's and Vice-Deans' offices.

The ones that suffer the largest form of institutionalized prejudice in Pamet are the grung and lizardfolk communities found in the Swamp, found in the border of Pamet and the Arca, they are seen as backwater hillbillies with no intellectual ability to match the rest of Pamet.

## Leadership

The head of government in Pamet is the Dean, a official academic and educator of Pamet working in one of the campi and elected by their peers. The current is Dean Groda. Every campus has a Vice-Dean, someone that acts as a governor in the city-state and reports to the Dean, there are also Vice-Deans in Aleksia Hall, responsible for the overseeing of different affairs, acting as Ministers

### Dean Groda

The current Dean of Pamet, residing in Aleksia Hall, a red grung and the first to ever be elected to the role. His election marked a great victory to the Swamp communities in being accepted in pametian campi, if only as people of value. He is an abjuration wizard born in the Swamp and faced many challenges and closed doors on his journey to the top, always fighting against the prejudice and the injustice suffered by the ones considered intellectual minorities, actually just people without resources to further their educations, or have any at all.

### Fomer Deans

#### Aleksandr Phillipos

The first Dean of Pamet and founder of the Hephastia Library, named after his husband Hephaestion. He was a loxodon, like his husband and their issue.

#### Dylan van Eck

A human Dean of the great van Eck family, one of the oldest and most traditional in Pamet.

### Vice-Deans

#### Vice-Dean Jan van Eck

The human vice-dean of the coastal campus of Kerch, located at the point the Amphibia River meets the Yue Sea. He is from the traditional van Eck family and ran in the last election to Dean, he was amongst the ones that lost to Dean Groda. His son, Wylan, disappeared in the past year and his new wife, Elis, is pregnant.

#### Vice-Dean Ada Darklace

The kenku vice-dean of Hanarendt, as such, she is responsible for the upkeeping of the Museum as well as the academic campus. She is the daughter of the late Byron Darklace, one of the greatest literary writers in Edvanya.

#### Vice-Dean Olivia

A green lizardfolk and the newest nominated Vice-Dean, responsible for the newly-founded campus of Babylon, the first in the Swamp. Her wife is a Gatekeeper, Yunan.

## Locations

### Aleksia Hall

The capital city-state of Pamet, built around the Hephastia Library and home to the largest campus of the nation and the Offices of the Dean of Pamet. It is near the southern coast of Pamet and close to Kraken.

### Babylon

The largest of the grung and lizardfolk communities in the Swamp. A bustling city greatly integrated with the nature around it. Despite is grandeur, it was only during Dean Groda's term that a campus was opened in the city. It was under the rule of the nearest campus as it didn't have the status of city-state and couldn't have its own Vice-Dean, now it is governed by the lizardfolk Vice-Dean Olivia.

### Hanarendt

The site of the largest of the research facilities of the times of the unethical experiments and the Trials of the responsible for them. Today it is a large open-air museum dedicated to the memory of the lives lost in that place and many others around Pamet, as well as a academic campus. It sits in one of the coldest regions in Edvanya.

## Natural Landmarks

The nation is largely covered by snow for most of the year, with warmer areas at the south near the Yue Sea and, to the east, there is the Swamp, birthplace of the Green Prong and home to many grung and lizardfolk communities. The Amphibia River is the largest in Pamet, also born in the Swamp and runs down to the Yue Sea.

## Trivia

* Pamet contains the largest number of antropomorphic animal races in all of Edvanya.
* In counterpart, it also contains the largest number of human communities.