Iechi – The School of melee, Magic and Psionics
The nation of Achahtai believed that their survival in the cruel world of Kuroshi would best be assured by constructing the largest combative-arts school in the world, taught, headed, populated and protected by only the very best that Achahtai and its allies have to offer. They named this school “Iechi,” and it resources the nation’s military and protectors.
Iechi will tutor anyone from the unskilled children to the adept in their prime. It costs a great deal of gold to accommodate and feed the students, (should that be required,) and a great deal more to provide them with resources, controlled environments and exercises with which to both practically and theoretically learn in a range of different combative fields.
Everyone pays for their education, protection, food and general keep at Iechi somehow. Some people have/earn enough gold to pay when necessary, whilst other students must offer themselves as conscripts, property of the queen. This means that your lessons will become mandatory and if Achahtai needs you for missions or warfare, you will be obligated to serve.
Each student has a unique timetable for their week's lessons, delivered on the last day of each week and suited to the field(s) chosen by/for the student. The size of different classes can vary also, some being very general and thus hosting lots of students, whilst others are more specialist and take the form of one-on-one tutoring.
There are students of every age attending Iechi, including orphans adopted by the school, or taken in from families that could not sustain them as boarders. For this reason, in addition to classes in Melee, Magic and Psionics, there are classes in practical living and basic academic skills, such as cooking, common tongue reading and writing, history, telling time and using gold.
Between lessons is your own time, during which you can use the recreational areas, leave campus, take on missions, or return to your dorms. Just don't disrupt any lessons.
There are mission boards In most recreational areas, displaying forwarded requests from the outside world, all with special rewards. The school’s staff may even ask of you to embark on particularly special missions, often vital to the future of your country.
Iechi School
Queen Amora
The Realm of Kuroshi
The realm of Kuroshi has harboured perpetual warring between most everyone and everything ever since it was born. Keeping peace is hard enough within a large tribe of humans, but with the vast array of different intelligent races in this world, each with their own values and requirements to meet, that difficulty becomes a thousand-fold.
Yet more influential than even the diversity of intelligent life in Kuroshi, however, is the unfathomable and uncontrollable nature of mana itself, the very substance that we focus in ourselves whenever we cast magic and that transcends whilst flowing through everything in existence.
The people of Kuroshi know that concentrated intent combined with powerful words, actions and symbols can allow them have mana manifest as different forms of magic. They are, however, only beginning to understand that mana is conscious as an entity of all the magic it has been used to create, to which it reacts in unimaginable ways. These events are called "Magical anomalies."
Sometimes a person is simply born as something of a demigod. Sometimes the sedimentary rock under a nation receives an intense magical charge and is simply swallowed by the ocean forever. Sometimes thirty generations of corpses suddenly rise from the ground, mindless to do anything but eat organic matter.
These magical anomalies mean that sustainability is never a promise. Thousands can die to an anomaly of magic which leaves nations in disarray and their people starving or forever cursed. For this reason, the clans of Kuroshi are forever ravenous and fighting for the closest thing they can find to assured survival and lives worth living.