Month of the Magi (concept)
The Month of the Magi was a series of events (actually taking place over two months and three weeks) that culminated with the Pathosixyic Academies, the most important of the Mayikprolollans, declaring independence from Aversaria and their freedom from Imperial law. The events began in 1229 IS when Arch-Magister Terrox of the Mayikrata, a contemporary (and poorly regarded) colleague of Aautokratir Aeschraes (whom with he hosted a largely one-sided rivalry) and Aautokratia Axiaothea (with whom he hosted a far more one-sided romance), successfully purged his last rivals among the Academy staff and ruling Council and took absolute power of the Academy. After several years of battling internal rivals and disrupting the rule of Aeschraes in the Imperial collapse after Frodbrokna and the end of the Imperial Civil War, Terrox finally saw the Vilnian Assault as evidence that Aeschraes could no longer pose a threat to the Kalathipsomian academies and shortly thereafter declared himself an independent aautokratir with no connection to the Aversarian realm and formally closed the institution to students from those he deemed 'loyalist families to the false aautokratir'.
Word of the declaration would only reach the Mayikprolollan sto Thallas and sto Spathas a month after as several thousand copies of a near two hundred page declaration of independence reached the cities with orders for them to be shipped to rulers across Aversaria and as far as Kathun-Kai (it is commonly believed that in doing so, Terrox effectively ended Aversarian bookmaking, the last magic-based printing systems (the method of their creation lost in the 11th century) used by Magi breaking down from overuse and the resulting booklets being considered little more than paranoid self-centered ramblings undeserving of being possibly the last pieces of Aversarian literature).
Following the declaration, the Mayikprolollan sto Spathas would hastily declare solidarity with Terrox and swear fealty to his aautokrata — the academy and surrounding city's economy closely tied to the Maikyrata. In the following month, however, the chaos following the event and the further collapse of Kalathipsomi into feuding cliques would lead to four separate legions declaring intent to besiege the city, the city then declaring independence from Terrox and working with several nearby power-brokers to also obtain neutrality from foreign affairs in return for its own safety. The Mayikprolollan sto Thallas meanwhile would face great internal strife from the announcement, the campus of the Academy soon falling into civil war and the city around it — ostensibly independent from its affairs — falling into its own among political and economic lines. Only after 'the Magicoup' would the academy's council manage to form union with local authorities and emerge victorious and kill most of their opponents in a bloody night of assassinations. The city would then declare complete independence as well, ending the Month of the Magi with around 120 dead (over 90 of which were in the Mayikprolollan sto Thallas) and ending the Mayikprolollan's histories as academies for Magi.