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{{nihongo|'''Magic Academies'''|魔導院|Madō-in}} were schools and organisations set up by the [[Church]] to study [[magic]]. Their administrative centre, the {{nihongo|'''Central Magic Academy'''|中央魔導院|Chūō madō-in}}, was located in the [[Cathedral City]].

The Church set up the first Magic Academies in 910 AD.{{Bookref|WorldInside}}{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}} By 930 AD, the academies had done their job and unraveled the fundamentals of magic, making it into a common technology.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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 academies began to grow restless.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}} 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.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

Fifteen years later, the underground revolutionary group known as the [[Blue Order]] was founded.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}} 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]].{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}} Their aim was to abolish the power of the landed lords within the institution and creating free and independent Magic Academies. 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.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

Two years after the Blue Revolt, the number of applicants approved by the academies decreased sharply. Independent magical research and original magical research funded by the landed lords became widespread. This left the Magic Academies and the Church in an uncertain position.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}} In 994 AD, the directors of the Magic Academies no longer had a single lord among them. Though the academies had finally found independence, they lost the support of the landed lords, leading to their decline.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}} Furthermore, a [[Magic Surge Accident of 995|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 Academies.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}{{Bookref|RecordOfFlower}}{{Bookref|RecordOfFlower|Page 135, #5: Related Materials}}

In 1001 AD, a new church called the [[Church of Angels]] was founded.{{Videoref|Nier10th}}{{Videoref|Nier10th|NieR Chronology Review}} In 1003 AD, experts within this new church established the Institute of Priests, who compiled research from the former Magic Academies.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 246: Chronology}}