Arjuf Foundational Collegium

Location

The Arjuf Foundational Collegium is a well-regarded primary school located in the city of Arjuf, capital of Arjuf Dominion. The school consists of a large central stone building stretching up five levels and containing dormitories, classrooms, and offices. Yards for physical lessons and gardens surround the building, themselves enclosed by a high stone wall. Windows and balconies on the upper levels of the building provide excellent views of the bustling Arjuf harbour.

Curriculum

Providing the standard curriculum of Dynastic education, the Collegium pays particular attention to matters of accounting and trade, seeing it find favour with both Dynastic and Patrician parents intending their children to move into business or bureaucratic positions, and the school has an excellent record for placement of its graduates in the Spiral Academy. Scions of House Ledaal are found attending in particular numbers, due to their influence in Arjuf Dominion, with the House having provided an endowment for the school that includes a Ledaal Exalt joining the staff each year to assist with charm training and occult instruction... children who show promise may receive additional tutoring towards matters of sorcery, though this opportunity tends to be pursued only by the Ledaals themselves.

One element of the curriculum is the inclusion of the first level of Imperial accounting examinations as a component of the school’s final exams, ensuring graduates are licensed for such professions once they have left the school walls.

Rivalries

The Collegium is known to have a rivalry with the Palace of Three Crowns, a primary school in rural Juche Prefecture. Amongst the Realm's primary schools, both Palace and Collegium are held in highest esteem for sending graduates into careers in finance and trade. Most of the Realm's Dynasts and Patricians see that the school in Arjuf is sponsored by House Ledaal and that in Juche by House Ragara, and take their rivalry as rooted in the ancestral feud betwee those two Great Houses.

However, those more versed in the matter know that scions of both Houses can be found numerous amongst attendees of either school. The rivalry instead is one of teaching technique: the Juche school removes its students from the bustle of commerce, sequestering them away with nothing but their books and a few rice-farming peasants. Their understanding of accounts is thus imperfect, bound to the static words of their textbooks. In the commercial center of Arjuf's port, Collegium students gain a feel for the pulse of trade and commerce, developing instinct to detect profitable opportunities and which investments are likely to provide big payoffs, and learning the webs of social connection and emotion which more than mere numbers on a ledger influence the decisions of rival merchants and potential customers. Graduates of the Collegium will emerge ready to read markets quickly and take advantage of each opportunity to the fullest, while the alumni of the Palace will be slow to act and pursue their trade by rote, outmaneuvered by those who better grasp the soul of trade.

Selected Alumni

Peleps Danada (Class of ?), Peleps Danan (Class of ?]], Mnemon Bera (Class of ?), Ragara Heral (Class of ?), Ledaal Mercurio (Class of ?), Ledaal Iago (Class of ?), Nellens Batari (Class of ?), Ragara Jyou (Class of ?), V'neef Rashon (Class of ?), Ragara Rahiro (Class of ?), Peleps Dugrip (Class of RY753), Ledaal Dzuchi (Class of RY753), Ledaal Mitsukai (Class of RY753), Ledaal Kitsume (Class of RY753), V'neef Pepaa (Class of RY753), Nellens Flaxenlocks (Class of RY756), ?