Location from Bastion by Phil Tucker
Bastion's forge of Great Souls — a training institution where reborn amnesiacs are shaped into warriors through a curriculum that is equal parts education and elimination.
The Academy takes people who have woken up with no memories and teaches them to fight, channel mana, and serve Bastion — in roughly that order of priority. Chancellor Praximar's administration emphasizes control: advancement is gated, deviation is punished, and the institution's survival is valued above any individual student's wellbeing. For Scorio, the Academy is both crucible and cage. It gives him the foundational skills he needs to survive Hell — mana manipulation, combat forms, the basics of tempering progression. It also tries to control him, sabotage him, and ultimately betray him when he proves too unpredictable for the system's comfort. His departure from the Academy isn't graduation; it's escape. The Final Gauntlet serves as the Academy's thesis statement: a test so extreme that surviving it is the only credential that matters. Everything before the Gauntlet is preparation. Everything after is war.
Institutional architecture designed to intimidate and instruct simultaneously. Training halls, lecture rooms, and gauntlet chambers organized with the efficiency of a military installation that has been refining its layout for centuries. The Final Gauntlet's arena dominates the complex — the place where neophytes prove themselves or fail trying.
Also known as: Academy, The Training Academy