The Celestial Academy had stood for nearly ten thousand years, its floating islands suspended above the ordinary world with the specific permanence that very old institutions developed across centuries of continuous existence. The vast majority of students believed it was built to cultivate the strongest Beast Tamers of the era, to provide training and resources that would allow exceptional individuals to develop their capabilities beyond what ordinary circumstances would permit. The Hall Masters believed it existed to preserve seven ancient inheritances, to maintain knowledge and practices that would otherwise be lost to time's erosion. Even the imperial kingdoms that had supported the academy's continued existence regarded it as the birthplace of countless legends, the source of the most powerful tamers that had ever emerged to influence the political landscape.
All of them were correct in their understanding.
