Bregentved is a small town on the western coast of Inis Nuadha. In 8723 SE, during the Asnor Succession War of 8723 SE, local and island authorities supported the establishment of a permanent College Arcanum academy in the town.
The academy became the first durable center of formal arcane instruction accepted within Asnorland after centuries of deep cultural suspicion. Its work includes the safe education of young or inexperienced practitioners who might otherwise have little guidance in controlling developing magical ability, as well as more advanced study for experienced spellcasters. Students of the academy are not automatically members of the College.
By the modern era, Bregentved is one of the places where trained arcane practitioners are most readily accepted in Asnorland. The College’s service during the succession crisis and decades of ordinary teaching afterward have produced substantial goodwill, although attitudes elsewhere in the kingdom remain mixed and often divide along generational and regional lines.