Azure Arcanum

• Original Purpose: A coastal sanctuary for storm mages and ocean diviners.
• Current Purpose: A formal arcane college drawing students from all over Mythralune, specializing in weather manipulation, deep-sea enchantments, and high illusion. Secretly, also serves to extend Azthalyndar’s influence and gather rare magical lore.

• Shape & Size: A sprawling complex of towers, sky-bridges, open-air lecture terraces, and deep labs tunneled into the cliffside.
• Materials: Sapphire-blue stone quarried from coastal cliffs, studded with opal inlays that shimmer with minor glamours.
• Colors: Blues, silvers, soft greens, and the occasional lightning flash across delicate rune filigree.

• Main gate is a sweeping arch of stone, guarded by twin statues of robed archmages whose eyes glow faintly.
• Numerous balcony entrances for flying visitors — griffon riders, familiars, even Azthalyndar himself in dragon form.

• Sight: Wisps of magic curl through the air, forming brief schools of spectral fish. Books flutter on breezes of their own making.
• Sound: Constant low hum of arcane resonance, broken by distant gull cries and crashing surf.
• Smell: Briny air mixed with scorched ozone.
• Touch: Surfaces often tingle faintly, as if charged with static.

• Human, elf, and sea-kin students bustling between classes.
• Arcane custodians — minor elementals bound to keep the grounds clean and the runes maintained.
• And, of course, Azthalyndar, often appearing as an aged high elf with storm-bright eyes, quietly observing or guiding lectures.

• Open plazas lined with rune-circles for practice.
• Lecture amphitheaters carved into cliff edges.
• Libraries with chained tomes that rearrange their own shelves.
• Floating orreries modeling storm patterns.

• Unique grimoires of tide-binding and storm calling.
• Crystal phials containing bottled tempests or echoes of siren songs.
• The Depthstone Prism, an artifact that records illusions of distant undersea cities.

• Certain sections protected by warded floors that unleash lightning if crossed improperly.
• Laboratories testing unstable enchantments occasionally burst into brief storms.

The entire college is built atop a confluence of ley lines tied to both sea and sky. As a result, spells here are unnaturally potent — and sometimes misfire in spectacular ways.

• Over the last century, new sky-bridges and observation platforms were added to better study seasonal storms.
• Secret vaults tunneled deep into the rock hold Azthalyndar’s personal hoard.

• A blend of coastal Virellian arches and impossibly slender towers, defying normal engineering through arcane reinforcement.
• Runic wards flare softly at night, making the whole complex glow like a constellation.

• Layers of arcane wards can summon thunderous walls of wind or whip sea spray into slicing blades.
• Bound air elementals patrol high balconies.

• 112 AR: Founded as a small mage retreat.
• 189 AR: Azthalyndar assumes direct rule, transforming it into a prestigious college.
• 392 AR: Withstood an attempted coup by rogue mages — storms ravaged the rebels.

• Scholars and nobles alike travel to see the illusions that dance over the spires at dawn.
• During certain solstices, the Arcanum opens public terraces for breathtaking storm rituals.