Editing The University

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|image1 = University.png
|caption1 = The life of the mind. Art from FL.
|location = [[Fallen London]]
|alias = University College London (Benthic)<br>King's College London (Summerset) 
|allegiance = 
|notable_inhabitants = The Provost of Summerset<br>The Principal of Benthic College
|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/an-embassy-waltz An Embassy Waltz]
}}''"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."''

''"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.)''

'''The University''' is [[Fallen London]]'s bastion of knowledge (though it's full of time-appropriate pseudoscience), otherwise known as King's and University College. The University is divided into two colleges, which have a notoriously fierce rivalry.__forcetoc__

==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."''

'''Summerset''' is the more well-bred side of the University, typically comprised of the children of higher [[society]], [[The Church|clergy]], lawyers, and [[The Constables|officials]]. It does not allow the [[The Soul Trade|soulless]] in.

'''The Provost of Summerset''' is, ironically, a [[Hell|devil]], who takes great care to file down his horns and teeth.

Following the exodus to [[The High Wilderness|the stars]], Summerset established a base camp within [[Traitor's Wood]] in [[the Reach]]

==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."''

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

==Known Departments==
[[File:Classroom.png|thumb|400px|center|Class is in session. Art from FL.]]
*The Department of Additive Surgery (probably involves organ grafting)
*The Department of Antiquarian Esquivalience (the study of avoiding age-old responsibilities)
*The Department of Chiropterochronometry (the study of using bat's flight patterns to measure time and encode message)
*The Department of Contemporary Cryptotheology (may be related to the rites of the Crooked-Cross)
*The Department of Criminal Rehabilitation & Eradication
*The Department of Cryptopalaeontology (the study of cryptic fossils)
*The Department of Cryptophilology (the study of cryptic languages)
*The Department of Cryptospelunking and Transportable Antiquities (the study of [[The Forgotten Quarter|cryptic excavation of relics]])
*The Department of Esoteric Cryptozoology (the study of specialized cryptic animals)
*The Department of Infernal Rarefactions (the study of [[Hell]])
*The Department of Neocartography (the study of new maps, because maps are weird down here)
*The Department of Palaeomycology (the study of extinct fungal lifeforms, [[The Uttershroom|very important]] down here)
*The Department of Paradoxic Optics (the study of [[The Neathbow|Neathbow]], or at the very least the study of Apocyan)
*The Department of Phrenology & Applied Cranial Exploration (the study of brain segments)
*The Department of Semi-Semiotics (the study of half-symbols?)
*The Department of [[Gods of the Unterzee|Subterranean Divinity]]
*The Department of Tonsorial Alchemy (alchemy with barbers, we suppose)
*The Department of Venomous Rarefaction ([[The Cantigaster|how pertinent]])
*The Department of _______ ([[the Correspondence]])
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