Tower of Tongues

The Tower of Tongues is so named for its focus on the Lexica, or magical languages of power: Corpor, Avali, and Sentara. In fact, the Tower actually consists of four seperate towers. The central, and largest tower, is reserved for the actual practice and advanced study of magic. Only the highest-ranked practitioners are permitted within it's walls. What goes on in there is not spoken of to "ordinary" ears. The other three towers are each devoted to an individual aspect of magic. After going through a preliminary period of examination and study, young trainees choose which tower will become their new home, and thus what will be their study of choice.

The reason for this seperation is that disastrous things have been known to occur when a practitioner--particularly an untrained one--crosses the Lexica. Thus the seperation of students. Only the most proficient of magicians seek to wield multiple languages at once, and even that has been known to result in devastation.

The towers themselves are tucked away in a far corner of the world. blocked to the south by nigh-impassable mountains, traversable only by airship, and on the north by frigid ocean, the other side of which reside the people of the Northern Lands, which are as yet incapable of sea travel. At least, they haven't yet revealed this technology if they possess it.