(For more on in-fighting of wizards, see also the article Wizard's magic.) After the coming of Archchancellor Ridcully, the power structure stabilized because nobody is able to murder Ridcully. The wizards were also in eight orders, each wizard fighting for the higher positions in the order, and fighting off other orders.
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People donate food regularly to the place, on the basis that if there were a lot of daft old men living on enough magic to rip a hole in two realities near you, you'd want them to be too full to move as well.įor many centuries, the wizards in Unseen University vied for the top position, the Archchancellor. Additionally, the University doesn't spend much, on food especially. Much more recently there has been the money made from the Thaumatological Park. This comes from the rents of Sator Square, the Plaza of Broken Moons, magical services throughout the city and the classrooms that are rented out for various uses. As the area is still inherently dangerous, a really cynical senior wizard might reflect that it could even thin their numbers out a bit, which is no bad thing. This serves two purposes: it earns money for the University by selling commercially useful by-products of research magic such as the Dis-organiser, and it keeps young wizards trained by Ponder Stibbons usefully occupied after graduation, otherwise there's no telling what minds like those would find to do. However, part of this area has since been developed into the Thaumatological Park. The area used to be the University's dumpster, and the magic contamination has until recently made the ground unusable for any housing or farming. The Unreal Estate is an area outside of the University walls. Sometimes Old Tom also rings during incidents involving a massive amount of magic, making verbal communication very difficult during the emergency. Every hour this bell chimes heavy silences which render all sounds inaudible. Old Tom is the University's bell and it is made of octiron. The more famous buildings are: The Tower of Art, the Library, and the High Energy Magic Building. The grounds are enclosed in brick walls, but there are some places where bricks can be removed to offer convenient footholds for young and reasonably athletic students to climb over. Other notable features are the Uncommon Room, the staffroom of the Faculty (see below) the gymnasium (which is for students to practise spells, not exercise, and - as such - is lined and protected very powerfully) the Emperor candle and the Tesseractical floor.
Also noteworthy are the hundreds of paintings and busts of former Archchancellors that line the vestibule just outside the Great Hall. Inside the University is the Great Hall, where the Wizard's four main meals of the day are eaten. The unusual architecture of the building suggests that the top storeys and roof were built before the ground floors. The buildings are of ancient stone, and contain many dark, winding corridors and small rooms, far more than the size of the grounds should allow. The University has an octagonal lawn, roses, other plants, and compost heaps tended by Mr. The Unseen University has gates of octiron, and single-minded Bledlows to perform the Ceremony of the Keys every night.
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