Magic Academy
Magic Academy (Japanese: 魔導院, Hepburn: Madō-in) was a general term that referred to an organisation set up by the Church to study magic, as well as its many institutions. The administrative centre of the Magic Academy, the Central Magic Academy (Japanese: 中央魔導院, Hepburn: Chūō madō-in), was located in the Cathedral City.
History
Establishment
The Church set up the Magic Academy in 910 AD.[1][1.1] By 930 AD, it had done its job and unraveled the fundamentals of magic, making it into a common technology.[1.1]
Revolts
White Revolt
In 960 AD, a landed lord became the director of a Magic Academy for the first time. This exposed the corruption within the Church, as the lord in question was not familiar with magic at all. The wizards of the Academy began to grow restless.[1.1] Things came to a head eleven years after the fact, in 971 AD, when some young wizards surrounded the Central Magic Academy in the Cathedral City, demanding that the current director resign. However, their revolt, which came to be known as the White Revolt, was suppressed overnight.[1.1]
Blue Revolt
Fifteen years later, the underground revolutionary group known as the Blue Order was founded.[1.1] By 990 AD, they began to gain traction, and a year later, they occupied the Central Magic Academy in the Cathedral City in what is now known as the Blue Revolt.[1.1] Their aim was to abolish the power of the landed lords within the institution and creating a free and independent Magic Academy. In the end, the revolutionaries were destroyed by a large-scale sealing magic attack seen across the city. Eighty percent of the citizens living within two of the city's wards were used as catalysts for the sealing magic and died as a result. Meanwhile, the survivors went insane, so they were buried alive.[1.1]
Decline
Two years after the Blue Revolt, the number of applicants approved by the Academy decreased sharply. Independent magical research and original magical research funded by the landed lords became widespread. This left the Magic Academy and the Church in an uncertain position.[1.1] In 994 AD, the directors of the Magic Academy no longer had a single lord among them. Though the Academy had finally found independence, they lost the support of the landed lords, leading to their decline.[1.1] Furthermore, a Magic Surge Accident of unprecented magnitude occured in the Central Magic Academy one year later. This made all people in the Cathedral City disappear, leading to the collapse of the Magic Academy.[1.1][2][2.1]
Legacy
In 1001 AD, a new church called the Church of Angels was founded.[3][3.1] In 1003 AD, experts within this new church established the Institute of Priests, who compiled research from the former Magic Academy.[1.2]
References
- ↑ Drag-On Dragoon World Inside. Released by Square Enix as part of the Drag-On Dragoon 10th Anniversary Box on December 19, 2013.
- ↑ Drag-On Dragoon 3 Setting Document Collection + The Complete Guide. First edition produced by ASCII Media Works and published by Kadokawa Future Publishing on April 10, 2014.
- ↑ Page 135, #5: Related Materials.
- ↑ NieR 10th Anniversary Livestream. Broadcast live on April 22, 2020.
- ↑ NieR Chronology Review.
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