Kurd City didn't just have one Mage Tower. It had nine of them.
They were Tower No. 1 in the Central District; Towers No. 3, 5, 7, and 9 in the First Ring District; and Towers No. 12, 16, 20, and 24 in the Second Ring District.
The nine Mage Towers were arranged in an "X" formation, making up the Mage Tower Cluster that guarded Medivh inside No. 1 Mage Tower.
"Mage Medivh, we'd like to rent rooms in this Mage Tower. Would that be all right with you?"
Finel asked eagerly, hoping to rent a few rooms in Tower No. 9 for cultivation.
The Mage Association of the Gewalt Federation had three branches.
The first was the traditional school, also known as the Esoteric School.
Its defining feature was a master-apprentice system, with each Esoteric School passed down from generation to generation.
The Esoteric School put the master first. Once someone joined, they remained a member for life and could not violate the rules set by the school's leader.
The Esoteric School was the oldest and most traditional school of human mages.
As the times changed, some mages grew dissatisfied with the Esoteric School's rules and established the more liberal Academic School.
The Academic School believed in teaching everyone without discrimination. It had no rigid hierarchy of mentors and apprentices and recruited students widely.
Loran Magic Academy belonged to the Academic School.
The school operated throughout the city-states of the Gewalt Federation in the form of magic academies, and its mages took part in the city-states' wars against outside forces.
The Academic School allowed more people to inherit magic, which in turn gave rise to the third school: the Court School.
The Court School was also known as the Noble Mages. It referred to mages who were unwilling to