Wizard Tower

Biodata

Location and Layout

• Cain Wizard Tower stands north of Lion City, across the Heavenly Luck River 11.
• Its main tower is a dark, spiraling structure over a hundred meters tall. Paths radiate from it through the surrounding academy grounds 7.
• The northwest Menial Worker District contains the morgue, granary, stables, carriage maintenance area, and workers’ cafeteria 6.
• The seventeenth floor includes Makley’s classroom; the twenty-third houses teaching and office space for official wizards 7 9.
• The uppermost level contains the tower master’s offices and a round-table meeting hall 38 48.

Apprenticeship and Research

• Apprentices study spell models alongside foundational subjects such as alchemy, meditation, runes, and ritual studies. Completing a spell model is the requirement for becoming an Official Wizard 2 4.
• The five-year apprenticeship program uses semiannual assessments. Two consecutive failures bring expulsion and loss of apprentice status 1.
• Teaching and resources are sharply divided by status: core disciples can access advanced instruction, while commoner apprentices such as Tyron Magnus struggle to obtain textbooks and entry to classes 1 9 10.
• Soul-wizard research creates demand for bodies used in anatomical study, corpse-poison cultivation, residual-soul tests, and skeletal servants. Corpse-collecting apprentices retrieve and prepare them 1.
• The tower has ten morgues equipped with complete freezing and preservation arrays, despite having expanded to roughly thirty full wizards 30.

Finances and Reforms

The tower’s expansion strained resources after unsuccessful attempts to gain a higher classification. Its accounts show years of deficits, while Blazing Sun Wizard Tower’s promotion to provincial level threatens its access to students, commissions, and support 30 37 38.

• First-year basic tuition and mandatory textbook fees total 22,000 purple-gold coins. Tyron enters with a 100,000-coin student loan and takes corpse-collection work to help pay for his studies 1.
• The corpse-purchasing budget is cut by 40% without a corresponding reduction in the required supply. Makley responds by asking Tyron to triple his corpse-collecting workload 30.
• Tower master Mork Taus Salk Cain orders official wizards to recruit capable students regardless of background, undertake missions at least three times as often, and increase magical-beast hunts. Their resource quotas are to depend on the outstanding apprentices they cultivate 38.
• The tower introduces an Outstanding Apprentice Selection Competition covering eight subjects and sixteen theory and practical events. Registered apprentices may enter one to four subjects; top performers can receive magic books and promotion to formal-apprentice status 38.

Rivalry with Blazing Sun Wizard Tower

Blazing Sun Wizard Tower is Cain’s longstanding rival in Lion City. Its promotion from city-level to provincial-level status increases the pressure on Cain to demonstrate its teaching quality and retain influence 37 38.

At a public rune-carving competition, Tyron wins for Cain with a functioning runic bone flute. His subsequent duel victory over a Blazing Sun apprentice completes a public win for the tower and draws a cheering crowd when he returns 42 45 48 49.