The main center of learning in Hazad, for both the religious and aristocratic scholarly traditions.
Overview
- Founded ~250 years ago as a liturgical institution, partly to legitimize the new regime; over time it expanded well past religious studies. (S3)
- Endowed by the Sultans; lies in House al-Rabi lands, several days’ travel from Isbi’liyyah through hazelnut-and-wine country. (S3)
- Hazad’s two scholarly traditions — Religious (religion & magic) and Aristocratic (mimicked by burgher classes for a few hundred years) — are slightly intertwined and both centered here. (S3)
People Here
- Master Razom — Dean of Theology
- Master Baram — holy sites and obscure religious lore
- Master Bahadir — mathematician, “a little strange,” the best at AHU
- Master Najlad — astronomer; proto-sextant navigation; stellar diagrams
- Master Beczat al-Azari — chief archivist; Berdi is one of his assistants
- Affiliated scholars in the capital: Master Ibek (trade-as-arithmetic), Master Jahir (religious scholar)
The Library
Extensive collections. Notable findings (S3):
- The Order of the Phoenix confiscated many books, likely now in The Holy City — per Berdi
- Master Najlad’s “revolutionary” navigation devices have precedent: similar devices were used in the Old Empire by House Mennenius (House Menenia)
- Multiple references to pilgrimages to the Monastery of the Dawn over the centuries, and a second account of the jeweled orrery gift
Events Here
- Session 3 — the party’s research trip; see The Sanctum Investigation and The Recovered Documents