"This is bigger than the Royal Academy in the capital of the Burning Ice Kingdom!" Ysara exclaimed, her eyes wide with shock.
The Royal Academy of Ice and Fire, the great academy where Ysara had served as director centuries ago, had been a colossal undertaking by the royal family.
A project that had taken fifty years to complete.
Of course, the main reason for the delay was resistance from the nobility.
At the time, fear had spread among the noble houses that the king would try to force their children to attend the academy, placing them under the direct influence of the Crown.
The king, for his part, insisted that the academy existed solely for the lesser noble houses and for selecting talent among the peasants.
Not that many people believed him.
In the end, the academy barely got off the ground, nearly costing the kingdom a civil war. Even now, centuries later, it remained a major point of conflict between the royal family and the feudal nobles.
