The Royal Mage Academy is an important location in Metaphor: ReFantazio.
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The Mage Academy is founded by King Hythlodaeus V and is open to everyone who is willing to study magic without using an Igniter regardless of race. However, some time prior to the king's death, Sanctifex Forden took advantage of his depression over losing his son (which he orchestrated the assassination of) and manipulated him into shutting it down so he could monopolize magic through Igniters and further his grip on the country. As the king's mind was too weak to resist the treachery, he did exactly as the sanctifex told him to.
The interior of Akademeia is based on the now-defunct Mage Academy.
When confronting Rella, the true culprit of the prince's curse, she draws them to the now ice-covered ruins of the Mage Academy to start their battle. After her act of being a cold villainess was exposed by Junah, Rella summons the ice dragon Sogne the Icebound to battle the party in order to gauge the strength. Once the party defeats the dragon, she exposes Forden's crimes and commits suicide by freezing herself in ice, freeing the prince of his curse and quickly rendering the sanctist church politically impotent.
When the protagonist became king, he ordered the Mage Academy to be reopened and had Junah appointed to be its headmaster.