Sorcery Division

Sorcery Division is a division of Akademeia, the magic academy of the Dominion of Rubrum, in Final Fantasy Type-0. It is headed by archsorceress Arecia Al-Rashia, whose office is at the Sorcery area of the academy. Beyond her office lies the Crystal Room of the Vermilion Bird Crystal. In the Sorcery area of Akademeia there is also a man who allows Class Zero to accept special orders during missions.

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The Sorcery Division does magic research. They research the Crystal that grants the citizens of Rubrum area the power to wield magic, but the Sorcery Division itemizes the magic spells and discovers ways to enhance them. They also research phantoma, the members of Sorcery sometimes tasking the Class Zero cadets with obtaining phantoma for research purposes. Sorcery also does research on Eidolons and is the instance that grants summoning permits. Sorcery is also responsible for creating the combat simulations for the arena coupled with artificial weather effects.

Class Zero is the archsorceress Arecia personal project and her attempt to augment a group of cadets to be able to wield magic but not depend on the Vermilion Bird Crystal, instead harnessing the power of phantoma to conjure spells. This power proves crucial when the Militesi Empire invades Akademeia and deploys its crystal jammers to cut the Rubrum forces off their Crystal, leaving Class Zero as the only ones able to wield magic and thus fight off the invasion.

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''The Vermilion Bird Crystal blessed the citizens of the dominion with the ability to use magic, but this gift was passed down by Agito Cadets and cadets-turned-instructors propagating the Will of the Crystal. The state played no part in managing the transmission of magic in the dominion.''
 * Pyr. XXVII, 297 RG Establishment of Akademeia's Sorcery Division

''Nevertheless, once the four Crystal-States had been established, the dominion government had no choice but to follow the example set by the other nations, promoting and overseeing the blessings of the Crystal. No longer living in constant fear of ferocious monsters, the denizens of Orience now faced a far more terrifying breed of foe: each other.''

''Fortunately, no other nation had threatened the dominion's borders since the expulsion of the Dracobaltians. However, news of the Lorican-Militesi War quickly reached Rubrum, and the dominion government thought it wise to strengthen its magic faculties so as to prepare itself against a potential assault. Thus, Akademeia founded the Sorcery Division.''

''This department was responsible for any and all magic matters. Up until that point, spells had been transmitted from citizen to citizen on an individual basis. Sorcery's first order of business was to classify these spells by type and unify the standards behind them, thus creating an environment in which anyone with magical ability could cast spells at will.''

''The establishment of the Sorcery Division and the systemization of spells also brought about great changes in the organization of the dominion military. Previously, the legionaries fought solely based on their individual magical prowess. Now that the military could form squads united around a single class of magic, the legions saw the rise of units defined by characteristic spells, such as Fire Squad or the Cure Squad.''