Alabaster Lyceum

The Alabaster Lyceum in Emon is the highest place of learning in Tal'Dorei, serving as an arcane college and research facility for magical and divine artifacts.

Appearance
The building appears to be built out of white marble, with very high ceilings, stretching up in some areas as high as 80 feet. Much of the building appears to be lit by magical orbs that are either set into the walls or into chandeliers. Some of the rooms have carved pillars depicting battles between devas and demons that spiral up the pillars. The building has guards near the entrances adorned with silver and gold armor wearing elven-like helmets.

Within the Lyceum grounds is the Traverse Junction, a large pyramidal structure sapphire pyramid that houses many teleportation circles connecting to cities across Exandria.

Society
Tuition at the Lyceum is expensive, so most of its students come from money or a family of high station. Students come to research the history and lore of Exandria, learn about politics and government, or refine their spellcasting as a wizard or sorcerer. Students at the Lyceum have access to any set of tools necessary, though said tools cannot leave the college grounds. Additionally, spellcasting services have a 25% discounted price to Lyceum members.

Campaign 1: Vox Machina
Vox Machina used the Circle of Teleportation at the Lyceum to escape from the illithid in Yug'Voril. The Horn of Orcus was temporarily placed in the Lyceum while the trip to Vasselheim was prepared.

During the Chroma Crisis in late 810 PD, in which the dragons of the Chroma Conclave attacked Emon and was taken under the rule of Thordak, the Lyceum was damaged and many of the magical items owned by the college were looted and added to Thordak's hoard. Following the Conclave's defeat, members of the Lyceum reconstructed the collage and the rest of the Erudite Quarter, doing so themselves rather than enlist the newly formed League of Miracles out of distrust for their motivations.

After already attending the College of the Savvy, Scanlan's daughter Kaylie attended the Alabaster Lyceum, where she lorded her humble origins over the children of the various nobles.

Staff

 * Thurmond Adlam: Headmaster of the Lyceum.
 * Jorlund Vohr: Professor of archeology.
 * Xanthas: Evening gatekeeper of the Traverse Junction.
 * Heinrich Runescribe: Junior member of the Lorekeeper Society.

Students

 * Delilah Briarwood: Studied here briefly.
 * Kaylie
 * Drath Mephruhn: A student ousted from the collage at a young age for dabbling in "dark, forbidden things".

Background option
The Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting and Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn sourcebooks offer the Lyceum Student character background with skill proficiencies in Arcana, History, or Persuasion (pick two), knowledge of two languages, and equipment befitting a relatively well-to-do scholar.