University of Alexia

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By the end of the 1st century after Alexandria's martyrdom, the goodly races were slowly beginning to thrive once again. Many - the Odessans especially - resented sending their children to Flannary and Fresia to be trained. Many worried their native cultures would be lost and that the church was growing to be too powerfully influenced by the Universities and the nations that controlled them. The Odessans were the first to establish a specifically nationalist rival University in 93 FI by consolidating a series of specialty colleges in and around Farrandon and establishing a divinity program on the Fresian model.

In Alexia, however, the threat was not only a cultural one. Over the 150 years since the founding of University Wtherias, the university had grown rich and powerful, and was still directly controlled by the Wux family. The Great Assembly began to worry about the influence that the city, the university, and the Wux family in particular. It was hoped that chartering the university would counteract both perceived threats. While the university did become the Alexian center for divinity training, it did nothing to supplant the power or influence of the Wtheriasi.

By the 2nd Century FI, all of the Goodly nations had done the same, or chartered national schools from scratch, excepting Celstia.

For the duration of its existence, the University in Alexia remained the least prestigious center of learning on the mainland. What influence and respect it did have quickly evaporated with the Alexian state, and by the 1200s the University was all but abandoned, its books and equipment sold off or looted.

In late 1513 FI, the Neo-Alexandrian sect seized the old University district and rechartered a center of learning there.