Revolt of the Biretta

Series of magical clashes that happened in the year 1112 in Northport, Medeia.

The revolt of the biretta takes its name from the typical hat that the bachelors wear when attending the classes in the university.

Origin of the conflict
The University of Stahgrow was for four hundred years exclusively a school of magic. When the dean and ceda of Medeia Gladis Amor decided to start offering other type of studies in the curriculum, students, professors and scholars raised their voice to try to block the initiative. Protests started to happen without any success. A group of the oldest professors gathered and proposed to start a parallel school of magic in Northport, without the supervision of the Ceda. The proposal was shunned down by the inquisitors under the orders of Gladis. A squad of the corps entered the headquarters of what would had been the new institution and arrested its founders who were released shortly after. The tension then exploded and a few days later the first clashes between mages started to happen.

The revolt
The confrontation lasted for three days in which several areas of the city of Northport were damaged. The inquisitors, the army of Medeia, the Ceda and her loyalists magicians confronted the side of the rebel, composed by some of the oldest members of the university and their students. During the first hours the loyalists seemed to have been caught by surprise and were overwhelmed by the initial actions of the rebel, but the tide soon changed and under the command of Gladis Amor the revolt was smashed to the last of its members. As a result at least 50 rebels died and a similar number were arrested and executed in the following years charged with treason and conspiracy against the Kingdom. On the loyalist side around a hundred members of the army and ten inquisitors died.

It is estimated that two hundred civilians died in the combats as collateral damage.

Aftermath
The leaders of the revolt were either killed in combat or arrested to die in the coming years in the prison of Northport. The university introduced Law and Civil Engineering in its curriculum and the studies of magic were watered down to teach only the basics of magic. A royal edict was cast in which anyone who would try to create a school of magic aside of Stahgrow in the territory of Medeia would be considered an enemy of the state.