University of Ubrekt
The historic, urban university of Ubrekt City is a specialists in classical scholarship and the civic arts. The University is based out of a number of beautiful pre-Alexandrian civic building and Demi-Pantheon temples. It is a university of antiquity, evolving from the already refined Academy Ubrekti, a long tradition of oral teaching and debate invented in the Ubrekti Empire. It is the preeminent school for history, philosophy, law, and classic arts like sculpture, poetry, painting, and theater. It is also famous for it bardic college, the Academy of Arts Dramatic, which focuses on performing arts like theater, debate, and spoken poetry. Unlike most universities, it is not a Church-founded institution, and has a small but deserved reputation for producing heretical thought.
History
This is one of only two pre-Alexandrian universities of the mainland, and was founded to replicate the success of its predecessor the University of Hakan. Unlike its eastern cousin, which focuses on the scholarly studies of the arcane, this university focused on civic skills and performing arts, two elements important in their already prevalent Academy Ubrekti. The church, like much of Ubrekt, backed the Lady of Peace and opposed Alexandria, and the university was explicitly targeted by Steros Merroand as a home of seditious thought after the Ascension. Despite early persecutions, the university was simply too powerful and well-established to fall, and the university rose to prominence as the ideal teaching model during the foundations of the other Alexandrian Universities. Over the years, the university has acquired massive volumes of written texts and cartloads of statues and art pieces, and accumulated the resources to build the most amazing libraries and galleries of the world.
Notable Places
- The Academy of Arts Dramatic is based out of a temple in the historic district of the city that once served Tallia and Lyssia. This beautiful complex houses multiple theaters and studios, but is most famous for the Trajan Coliseum, an architectural marvel in a Glass-Steel dome where performances traditionally must reflect the weather at the time.
- The Mychee Archive, a massive storage facility commissioned by Hadrian Ubrekti to house the knowledge of the lands he conquered.
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