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Revision as of 13:29, 4 June 2020

"What is the University? It is what you may call a castle manned by learning and scholarship. Or a vicious and permanent dog-fight between Benthic College and Summerset College."[1]

"Fallen London's two colleges, Benthic and Summerset, enjoy a healthy rivalry. They play team sports with each other. They play pranks on each other. On certain days of the year, they play trumpets and French horns at each other." (Like the Oxford-Cambridge boat race. But with trumpets.)[2]

The University is Fallen London's primary institution of period-appropiate pseudoscience ahem, knowledge and innovation, formerly known as King's and University College. The University is divided into two colleges, Benthic and Summerset, which have a notoriously fierce rivalry.[3]

Summerset

"What's Summerset College like? A place of indolent privilege. Minor nobles rub shoulders with the black-gowned children of clergy, parliamentarians and lawyers in its peaceful quadrangles."[2]

Summerset is the more well-bred side of the University, typically comprised of the children of higher society, clergy, lawyers, and officials.[3] It does not allow the soulless in.[4][5]

The Provost of Summerset is, ironically, affiliated with devils, enough so that there have been rumors about how he's actually a devil who files down his horns and teeth.[6]

Following the exodus to the stars, Summerset has established a base camp within Traitor's Wood in the Reach. Unfortunately, their expedition seems to be for nought.[7]

Benthic

"What's it like at Benthic College? Eager young radicals throng the halls. Students flaunt their tolerance and diversity; friendships with devils are highly prized. Revolutionaries infest the eaves. The soul trade thrives."[2]

Benthic, the lower-bred college, is more inclusive; it allows the soulless, devils, revolutionaries, and children of poor families to enter.[3] Its more tolerant researchers may also exchange items of value with those who've been formally banned from the university[8], and Benthic actively rewards students for being prosecuted by the Ministry of Public Decency.[9]

Known Departments

Class is in session. Art from FL.
  • The Department of Additive Surgery (probably involves organ grafting)[10]
  • The Department of Antiquarian Esquivalience (the study of avoiding age-old responsibilities)[11][12]
  • The Department of Chiropterochronometry (the study of using bats' flight patterns to measure time[13][2] and encode messages [14])
  • The Department of Contemporary Cryptotheology (may be related to the rites of the Crooked-Cross)[15]
  • The Department of Criminal Rehabilitation & Eradication[16]
  • The Department of Cryptopalaeontology (the study of cryptic fossils)[17][18]
  • The Department of Cryptophilology (the study of cryptic languages)[19][20]
  • The Department of Cryptospelunking and Transportable Antiquities (the study of the cryptic excavation of relics)[21][22]
  • The Department of Esoteric Cryptozoology (the study of specialized cryptic animals)[23][2]
  • The Department of Exotic Herpetology (the study of exotic amphibians)[24]
  • The Department of Infernal Rarefactions (the study of Hell)[25][26]
  • The Department of Neocartography (the study of new maps, because maps are weird down here)[27]
  • The Department of Palaeomycology (the study of extinct fungal lifeforms, very important down here)[28][2]
  • The Department of Paradoxic Optics (the study of the Neathbow)[29]
  • The Department of Phrenology & Applied Cranial Exploration (the study of brain segments, a notorious pseudoscience; usually involves very blunt objects)[30]
  • The Department of Semi-Semiotics (the study of half-symbols?)[31]
  • The Department of Subterranean Divinity[2]
  • The Department of Supernumerary (the study of higher numbers)[32]
  • The Department of Tonsorial Alchemy (alchemy with barbers, we suppose)[33][2]
  • The Department of Venomous Rarefaction (how pertinent)[34]
  • The Department of _______ (the Correspondence)[35]

References

  1. ↑ The University, Fallen London
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Sidebar Snippets, Fallen London
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hallowed Quadrangles, Fallen London
  4. ↑ Disguise yourself and cause mischief, Fallen London
  5. ↑ Lurk disconsolately around the margins., Fallen London
  6. ↑ Something to burn?, Fallen London
  7. ↑ A Campfire, Sunless Skies
  8. ↑ Under the counter, Fallen London
  9. ↑ A secret about the Masters, Failbetter Games
  10. ↑ A peculiar practice, Fallen London
  11. ↑ The body in the library, Fallen London
  12. ↑ The Professor of Antiquarian Esquivalience, Fallen London
  13. ↑ A colleague with a problem, Fallen London
  14. ↑ Cricket, Anyone?, Fallen London ""Bats!" [...] what we can learn by studying bats!" [...] Did you know they're sympathetic to a certain frequency? [...] what else you can encode into their flight patterns. [...] like the Hamburg Alphabet. [...] chiroptera can write it across time."
  15. ↑ Take tutorials for a little extra cash, Fallen London
  16. ↑ Address the University, Fallen London
  17. ↑ Trade in academic favours, Fallen London
  18. ↑ Pay someone else to research for you, Fallen London
  19. ↑ Sign here, and here, and here..., Fallen London
  20. ↑ A scholar returns to the Surface, Fallen London
  21. ↑ A meeting with the Dean, Fallen London
  22. ↑ Donate your finds to Benthic College, Fallen London
  23. ↑ Find someone who can help, Fallen London
  24. ↑ Polite, probing persistence, Fallen London
  25. ↑ The mechanics of progress, Fallen London
  26. ↑ The Other Thing in the Other Chapel, Fallen London
  27. ↑ Speak to the Dean of Neocartography, Fallen London
  28. ↑ Claim to know the Dean of Palaeomycology, Fallen London
  29. ↑ The Alarming Scholar, Sunless Sea
  30. ↑ Academic Discipline, Fallen London
  31. ↑ Get the Semi-semiotic Fellow on your side, Fallen London
  32. ↑ Buy your way in, Fallen London
  33. ↑ An Invitation to High Table!, Fallen London
  34. ↑ Visit him at the laboratory, Fallen London
  35. ↑ A long list, Fallen London
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