University of Fallen Bomenya

**The University of Fallen Bomenya** is Fallen Bomenya's primary institution of knowledge and innovation. It is what you may call a castle manned by learning and scholarship. Or a vicious and permanent dog-fight between Byss Collegium and Sumesyett Collegium. These two collegia enjoy a healthy rivalry. They play team sports with each other. They play pranks on each other. On certain days of the year, they play trumpets and horns at each other.

## Sumesyett

**Summerset** is the more well-bred side of the University, typically comprised of the children of higher society, clergy, lawyers, and officials. It is a place of indolent privilege, where minor nobles rub shoulders with the black-gowned children of priests, parliamentarians and lawyers in its peaceful quadrangles. It does not allow the soulless in.

**The Provost of Sumesyett** is, ironically, affiliated with devils, enough so that there have been rumors about how he's actually a devil who files down his horns and teeth.

Following the exodus to the stars, Sumesyett has established a base camp within Traitor's Wood in the Reach. Unfortunately, their expedition seems to be for nought.

The motto of Sumesyett College is *"Proudly and with Sophistry"*

## Byss

**Byss**, the lower-bred college, is more inclusive; it allows the soulless, devils, revolutionaries, and children of poor families to enter. Eager young radicals throng the halls. Students flaunt their tolerance and diversity; friendships with devils are highly prized. Revolutionaries infest the eaves. The soul trade thrives. Its more tolerant researchers may also exchange items of value with those who've been formally banned from the University, and Byss actively rewards students for being prosecuted by the Ministry of Public Decency.

The motto of Byss college is *"All may attend, although mad, although wicked"*

## Known Departments

* The Department of Additive Surgery (probably involves organ grafting and fleshwarping)
* The Department of Advanced and Applied Theology
* The Department of Antiquarian Esquivalience (the study of avoiding age-old responsibilities)
* The Department of Chiropterochronometry (the study of using bats' flight patterns to measure time and encode messages )
* The Department of Contemporary Cryptotheology (may be related to the rites of the Crooked-Cross)
* The Department of Criminal Rehabilitation & Eradication
* The Department of Cryptopalaeontology (the study of cryptic fossils)
* The Department of Cryptophilology (the study of cryptic languages)
* The Department of Cryptospelunking and Transportable Antiquities (the study of the cryptic excavation of relics)
* The Department of Epigraphical Mathematics (the study of trigonometry, perhaps?)
* The Department of Esoteric Cryptozoology (the study of specialized cryptic animals)
* The Department of Exotic Herpetology (the study of exotic serpents)
* The Department of Infernal Estates (the study of Hell's properties)
* The Department of Infernal Rarefactions (the study of Hell's substances)
* The Department of Neocartography (the study of new maps, because maps are weird down here)
* The Department of Palaeomycology (the study of extinct fungal lifeforms, very important down here)
* The Department of Paradoxic Optics
* The Department of Semi-Semiotics (the study of half-symbols?)
* The Department of Subterranean Divinity (the study of the gods of the Unblemished Sea)
* The Department of Supernumerary Faculty (the study of High Numbers)
* The Department of Tonsorial Alchemy (alchemy with barbers, we suppose)
* The Department of Venomous Rarefaction
* The Department of Xenotheology (the study of the religion of the Aspic-Fleshed Folk and others)
* The Department of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (the Signatures)