The dormitory
The dormitory is a key part of the collective, as most students either pay for or are offered a room to sleep in. These are small bedrooms designed primarily for rest and sleep, not for study or spell-practice. Each student can ask for an individual room, though there are also cheaper shared rooms. The dormitory itself is in one of the higher areas of the campus, and accessible either through a portal or through a tiring set of winding stairs.
Dormitory rooms and amenities
Each room comes with a bed, a chair, a bed table, a chamberpot, two sets of bed linens, a thick cotton plaid for colder weather, and a small brazier for warmth, as well as a reading-lamp for the bedtable. Some rooms have a full table, though these are generally reserved for paying students.
Common areas have fountains with drinkable water, showers and streams for chamberpot disposal. All of these are fuelled by magic, as the dorm is too high up to have its own native water-streams.
Dorm rules are straightforward: no alcohol or drugs, no violence of any kind, no loud noises. Minor spells are tolerated, but any use of destruction magic or volatile energies is grounds for loss of one’s room, or the loss of various privileges like access to the commissary.
A refuge for students
Dorm entertainment is allowed, to a point: students are allowed to practice music, there are various plants which create pleasant aromas and shade for informal study areas, and open plazas for sports or spectacles.
Staff deliberately avoid dormitories to create an area of relative quiet from their discipline and oversight, but they will step in when rule-breaking is suspected. As many professors can use some form of scrying, the headmaster strictly prohibits remote viewing of individual bedrooms in the name of decency and basic privacy.
