Scholas

Rather than having a ruling monarch, Scholas has a council of leaders. The council of leaders consists of six people.

## Council of Scholas

The first council leader, being a demon named Malachite {Lastname}, is the most respected and tries to maintain peace in Scholas.

The second is a human named Aeril {Lastname}, both her and the first council leader of them oversees the archives of Harthia information and the Academy of Aether.

The 3rd council member is a demi-human named Goro {Lastname}. He came to Scholas in aid of the archives.

The 4th council member is a kinetic aether sentient named Myra. She has lived in Scholas all of her life and reached the highest rank in the AoA during its earliest stages. Due to her high ranking in the Academy, the council's 3rd member took notice and decided she was worthy to be inside of the council.

The 5th member to the general public is known to be a human, but in reality is an Angel named Kyrian. He realized that most inhabitants of Capellus are most likely unaware of the events prior to and during Jaysus's conquest, and so with Jaysus's permission, he came to Scholas to add information about the Sanctuary and early history into the archive as long as he could have a position in the council.

The final member of the council is not seen in public often due to his secretive nature. This member is a demi-human with reptilian features named Suric who is adept at corrupted aether. Due to how unknown this type of aether is he was allowed in as the only known user of it. The council do their best to make sure that corrupted aether stays hidden from the public due to how potentially dangerous it is.

## Security and Justice System

The guards of Scholas are the most advanced at aether and prefer non-lethal methods over lethal ones. Once they take down a convict, they either sent them to prison, place a scripted aether mark on them that bars them from Scholas for a certain amount of time, or they put them on trial. Once they're on trial, they could be put into rehab and become farmers for Scholas, or in extremely rare cases are sent to death row. The last of those options ends in the 6th council member taking them and they are never heard from again.

## Academy of Aether

The Academy is one of the most advanced school in all of Capellus. This school can improve the academics and aether capabilities of any student drastically. There is a class for each aether type and element. The better you do in the Academy, the more access to information you have. If you start declining, you have to start paying a tuition to stay enrolled, which increases the more you decline. If a declining student improves, their tuition lessens and is eventually nullified. Students have to duel in the Academy tournament that occurs every three months to increase their rank. Those who reach the highest rank achieve access to the highest level of information the Academy has to offer, the archive of Capellus, and the taboo library. The taboo library contains info of demonic aether, various alternative aether. The archive contains all lore of Capellus and current events of Harthia.

## History

Originally a tribal people in a land rich with aether they followed the teachings of sentients, listening to them as 'spirit guides'. The sentients taught them to live in harmony with the elements around them, rather than exclusively using their resources to further themselves. In a lot of ways this early history stunted their growth as a civilization and kept them separated by "ruling families". These families formed a council very much mimicked by the modern day Scholas council

Having been able to fight off larger aether beasts due to their 'spiritual' protection the people of early Scholas did not feel the need to work in perfect harmony, and instead preferred to live at a peaceful distance away from one another. They continued down this path of their forefathers for a long time. Due to lackluster records it is unknown how long these native Scholas people were around for. This changed when one of the first recorded aetherologists, Svetlana {Lastname}, managed to figure out that the people's spirit guides were creatures like any other. In secret she was able to make massive advances in technology in short bursts. Dragging her people to be exposed to the more modern era in front of them.

Her work came with a cost however, being primitive prototypes for the most part they did not efficiently use the aether around them, this quickly upset the sentients who would move to attack Svetlana after she was ousted by her people. She did not take lightly to this herself either, necessity being the mother of invention, Svetlana learned to shackle the sentients. Fearing her now, the sentients fled after a number of skirmishes. Once again due to muddied history it was never truly explained how Svetlana was able to convince the elders to transform their individual homes and small communities into one burgeoning nation on her deathbed. From there Scholas the nation was born, raising its flag proudly 300 years ago, to this day honoring the one who brought them out of a primitive state and eschewing the words of 'gods' and 'demons' as merely other creatures, ones they could co-habitate with.