Pathfinder’s New Setting Book ‘Rival Academies’ Features Six New Schools of Magic
Pathfinder Lost Omens: Rival Academies, out for pre-order now, introduces six new schools of magic and a whole new Runelord to play with.
Pathfinder’s latest setting book, due out in February 2025, is up for pre-order now. Inside Pathfinder Lost Omens: Rival Academies, you’ll find all new schools of magic.
Only they aren’t schools of magic like Conjuration and Evocation – but rather actual schools. That teach all sorts of different magical knowledge. And with new magical schools come new magical tools to play with, including a new Runelord that gives you all new ways to be one of the deadliest, evilest things to ever happen to Golarion.
Pathfinder’s Rival Academies Wants You to Stay in School
The new book focuses on the grand Convocation of Golarion’s magical academies. You’ll learn the secrets of Sarkoris through the Academy of the Reclamation.
From Cobyslarni, the fey academy, you’ll learn the power of oaths and agreements. The Kitharodian Academy is Taldor’s school for Bards and Spies, while the Magaambya is one of the oldest magical academies in Golarion, extending its influence beyond the Mwangi Expanse. The Monastery of Unbreaking Waves has recently come back from being utterly destroyed. Meanwhile, the University of Lepidstadt straddles the line between science and heresy with its experiments on lightning coils and the reanimation of the flesh.
Journey to a fortress-city in demon-ravaged Sarkoris to learn the ancient magical secrets of the Magaambya’s wizards, Lepidstadt’s bleeding-edge theories on reanimating flesh with electricity, the extraplanar fey philosophies of the Cobyslarni, and the lore of more than a dozen other academies! With so many prominent scholars in one place, rivalries are sure to abound—whether in the classroom, on the sports fields, or during field trips to dangerous lands.
This 128-page book gives GMs and players a vibrant roster of luminaries, students, athletes, and wizards to build their very own magical academies. Whether players build bonds with classmates or clash with rivals, they’ll gain diverse options like advanced spymaster gear, dazzling new martial arts techniques, or new wizard spells and schools, including the remastered Runelord!
But more exciting than any of that, the destructive power of Rune Magic may be unleashed in a bold new archetype that will surely not threaten the foundations of Golarion. Unless those Runelords rise again.
