Little did Andreas the Wise, one of the Lord's at the binding, know, but in his very own Barony in Kildare, there were some of those "older magics" left. Faded from their former glory, yes. Hiding often from the more popular non-magical civilisation, often. But still there, and still alive. And suddenly finding their magic diminished. Realising the arrogance of what he had done, and also realising that it had occurred because Kildare (and Shireroth as a whole) had gone far, far too long without a Lord of Magic, he proposed to establish outposts of his own Novatainian Academy in the Barony of Atterock, to train those interested in the new ways of SCM. The outposts were named ANOVA - Atterockian-Novatainian Outpost for the Variously Arcane. The goal was to use as few Novatainian Archmages as necessary - so that, soon enough, the native Atterockians would become proficient in the new magic and be able to manage the outposts themselves. For the transistion period, they exist as this:
The ANOVA here, clearly, was on the side of Libertopia. In fact, they'd merely taken over the buildings of the old Mage Guild - the enchantress Lucinda was happy to help. Here, many eager pupils were instructed in all manner of SCM knowledge - much as classes would be delivered in MANA. To reflect this, all manner of races were on the teaching staff - Dwarves, a werewolf, a troll, a pair of Vampires, Humans, several Dragoon, and even a Wraith.