Outside view of the Wizard's Sanctum
The interior of the Wizard's Sanctum
The Stormwind Academy of Arcane SciencesTemplate:Cite is also known as the Wizard's Sanctum. This vine-covered tower sits to the west of the city. For a long time, the Academy was considered to be the second-best school of magic compared to Dalaran, but since that region's destruction by the demons and undead, the northern mages fled to Stormwind and took up residence in the tower. It's full to bursting with mages, and somesay it's difficult to get a word in edgeways with the differing opinions inside. Yet, as it's the only magic school left in the east, few complain openly.Template:Cite
It is located in a mystic pocket plane[citation needed] in which the Alliance's sorcerers and archmagi research, train ,and experiment. After the fall of Dalaran, many young wizards and mages relocated to Stormwind's Mage Quarter, where bountiful ley energies still lay untainted by the Burning Legion. Led by Maginor Dumas, the magi strive to decipher arcane mysteries and uncover eldritch lore. Larimaine Purdue, the resident portalmancer, has created a rift portal deep in the Sanctum. She keeps the portal under close guard, and for now, will not let anyone venture through its swirling vortex.
The Sanctum houses the Stormwind wizards' guild, Academy of the Arcane Sciences, and it is the foremost centre of human arcane research and study today. Many High Elves also seek refuge in the arcane halls, quenching their addiction and thirst for power in a safe environment.
Outside the Sanctum can be found several female mages discussing, in great and confusing detail, such topics as portals and polarity — however, if one listens for long enough it is revealed that they are just trying to develop a love potion for one of the group's crushes ('All this for a love potion? He better be worth it...').
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