The Kiel Academy

"500 Years of Happy Upbringings"
Located in the mountains of Schwarzwald, near Juno, the Kiel Academy boarding school is well known throughout the land. Founded by the Hyre family of Lighthalzen, the academy exists as an almost self-contained city, offering a high quality boarding school and orphanage to children ranging from just months old to late teenagers.

The academy once offered expert schooling for all ages, making absolutely sure the finest education in numerous areas is given to those students in its care. Some may claim that charging noble students high tuition and educating orphans for free is ludicrous, but Hyre's claims that the children deserve at least a proper upbringing if they cannot have parents often quieted any naysayers.

Today, amazingly enough, the academy remains free from velare invasion. Thanks to its extremely remote location, the academy's staff mages have managed to erect an immensely powerful cloaking barrier over the grounds, leaving the campus safe within. While normal school subjects are still taught to any who seek the academy out, more offensive courses have been taught in recent times as well.

Students are now unanimously taught in various forms of self-defense based on their natural talents, ranging from hand to hand combat, magical arts, and various forms of melee and ranged weaponry. More adults are allowed on campus as well, acting as both guards and staff, and may rebel groups that remain hidden in the mountain range's many nooks and crannies pay the academy a visit now and again.