Before the academy’s founding, every clan educated their own, raising their own Arcanists born into their families and onto their lands. Mother told me of how the clans would endlessly war over Arcanists just as they had once warred as kingdoms over the resources used to make cards. Tensions arose from some clans simply being luckier and having more Arcanists born on their land, which led to jockeying for power and then, ultimately, to the Clan Culling—a legendary war that wiped out half the clans. From that war, Oricalis rose, and the laws governing Arcanists were put in place.
