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My magic academy gathers all talented of certain age in the kingdom. Technically everybody can learn magic, but the academy has set a threshold for aptitude to be admitted and conducts tests to measure any individual's talent. A big part of academy life is survival. The first two years are rather safe, but then all safety lables are removed and Darvin takes over. In the fourth year, students are sent out to gather spell and research ingredients, many of which being body parts of dangerous monsters. The academy doesn't expect more than half the students to survive (and even less to return). By the time the students graduate, no more than a quarter of their classyear is expected to still be alive.
Sounds really interesting! I do have a question, the same I'd ask of any academy with a high mortality rate: For what reason does the academy think 3/4 of a talented student body dying is a good exchange for the 1/4 that pass through alive? I think high mortality rates make things engaging, it just needs to answer that question well to work, in my opinion.
@@J-Bat Mostly control. Not giving away everything about it, since I hope to once day actually write a novel. They want wizards of a certain minimum skill/talent level, and they don't want more wizards walking around than they can keep tabs on. Fewer great wizards are regarded as better than many good ones, even if it comes at the cost more dead apprentices.
We may admit that Harry Potter was successful with Hogwarts. In my opinion, the main reason for the success of the Harry Potter universe is the characters, who have personalities we can recognize in real life. Hogwarts is more about adapting the Harry Potter universe to schoolchildren, who know the problems with bullies and weird teachers. --- As for what the religious organization goes, Star Wars having the Jedi, is in this category. Here the teaching strategy is the master-apprentice relation. The result is mixed. The problem is the authors disagree on how their relationships are. --- What military academies go, then I know no good examples. They are popular in war gaming but almost always fail at supplies. The authors think food and supplies are boring, thus soldiers have to do without them. But food and other supplies are crucial for an army's success in real life.
@@larsdahl5528 Those who are already good at it can do without thinking about the how. You need to read minds of those who only just recently learned it. But how do you learn how to read minds?
Thank you all so much for 1,000 subscribers. It's insane we've made it this far in such a short time, and that the little community we have is so positive.
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And a link to the Patreon: patreon.com/OfficialJBat
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My magic academy gathers all talented of certain age in the kingdom. Technically everybody can learn magic, but the academy has set a threshold for aptitude to be admitted and conducts tests to measure any individual's talent.
A big part of academy life is survival. The first two years are rather safe, but then all safety lables are removed and Darvin takes over.
In the fourth year, students are sent out to gather spell and research ingredients, many of which being body parts of dangerous monsters. The academy doesn't expect more than half the students to survive (and even less to return).
By the time the students graduate, no more than a quarter of their classyear is expected to still be alive.
Sounds really interesting! I do have a question, the same I'd ask of any academy with a high mortality rate: For what reason does the academy think 3/4 of a talented student body dying is a good exchange for the 1/4 that pass through alive?
I think high mortality rates make things engaging, it just needs to answer that question well to work, in my opinion.
@@J-Bat Mostly control. Not giving away everything about it, since I hope to once day actually write a novel.
They want wizards of a certain minimum skill/talent level, and they don't want more wizards walking around than they can keep tabs on. Fewer great wizards are regarded as better than many good ones, even if it comes at the cost more dead apprentices.
Well, there you go then. I could certainly see such a thing being the case
I modeled mine more like the real world monastic system, with a heavy lean towards libraries/museums.
We may admit that Harry Potter was successful with Hogwarts.
In my opinion, the main reason for the success of the Harry Potter universe is the characters, who have personalities we can recognize in real life.
Hogwarts is more about adapting the Harry Potter universe to schoolchildren, who know the problems with bullies and weird teachers.
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As for what the religious organization goes, Star Wars having the Jedi, is in this category.
Here the teaching strategy is the master-apprentice relation.
The result is mixed. The problem is the authors disagree on how their relationships are.
---
What military academies go, then I know no good examples. They are popular in war gaming but almost always fail at supplies.
The authors think food and supplies are boring, thus soldiers have to do without them.
But food and other supplies are crucial for an army's success in real life.
A large chunk of Starship Troopers is Military Academy. Technically, Top Gun is also Military Academy.
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Yes, a thought I have had is:
If you are good at mind-reading then you should be able to teach yourself, by mind-reading those who can already do it!
@@larsdahl5528 Those who are already good at it can do without thinking about the how. You need to read minds of those who only just recently learned it. But how do you learn how to read minds?