BASTRIN WAR COLLEGE
To stand on a wall. To fight the never-ending hordes of Orcs in Uzar?g. For some, these are the heights of warfare.
But defenses fail and armies inevitably take the field. When this happens, only the most talented officers and generals can stand against the Warlord.
The history of the struggles against the Warlord is one of attacks and feints. No patrols or defenses can hold the Great Fiend inside Uzar?g and eventually someone must put him back in his Ulcer.
While bordering cities squat behind their defensive walls, armies range across the land: armies whose sole goal is to destroy the Orcish marauders.
Thus was Bastrin War College established.
Over the years, the singular purpose has blurred. Now it has become a school of general warfare, with an emphasis on fighting orcs. Still, this is one of the premiere strategy and tactics schools in the world. The cost is exorbitant (10 gp per term), but many nobles send their sons here to learn the ways of war.
Bastrin War College has a friendly rivalry with the Premane War College. Every few years the two schools conduct a series of war games to increase their enrollment and put the fire of competition under the students.
Most students attend the school only to pick up some tactical, strategic and logistical skills. Not many students have the wherewithal to dedicate their lives to the school, with its cost and its tremendously competitive studies.
Those who do are rewarded with the advanced skills and wisdom to lead entire armies in battle. The world?s next crop of generals will come from these ranks. And rightly so.
