Stormcaller Rotunda

Originally built for lectures on weather and sky magics. It now doubles as a hall for public defenses of major theses, visiting mages’ spectacular displays, and diplomatic ceremonies.

• Circular hall roughly 200 ft across, with tiers of seats climbing under a vast sapphire-inlaid dome.
• Runes trace along the ribs of the dome, channeling illusions and mild elemental forces.

• Four arching doors, each engraved with storm motifs — lightning, rain, gale, cloud.
• Wide enough for crowds to enter swiftly.

• Light constantly shifts across the ceiling, reflecting sky conditions outside or swirling illusions.
• Scent of rain on stone, sound of distant thunder when the hall is empty.
• The floor is etched with a massive spiral sigil that hums underfoot.

Professors giving rousing lectures, groups of wide-eyed apprentices, and occasionally Azthalyndar himself, seated imperiously on a floating dais.

Floating lecture platforms, rune-slates that rewrite themselves in midair, small cages of wind elementals used in demonstrations.

If the dome’s runes overload, sudden gouts of wind or static bolts can whip across the hall, sending papers — and sometimes students — flying.

The dome is keyed to ley winds and can slightly alter local weather if activated at full power.

In 347 AR, new underfloor conduits were added to bleed off excess static after an incident scorched half the amphitheater.

Sweeping elven curves fused with storm motifs: stylized thunderheads and chasing wave reliefs across the seats.

Hidden glyphs can drop sheets of force to separate crowds, or cause a localized downpour to quell flames.

Scene of countless graduation exhibitions — and famously, the Great Wind Duel of 402 AR, which nearly cracked the dome.

Visitors love to stand in the center to hear their voices echo back in layered storm sounds.