The Re-establishment era

Muerto the Reborn and the Third Academy
It is with the signing of the new contracts by the man commonly know as Muerto the Reborn or Muerto the False that the modern age of magic really begins. His rise to power signalled the end of the Forgotten Age and a new era of magical research.

The Third Academy of Teronovious was founded under his leadership, and much of what we know as modern historical and theoretical research began there, such as the trail-blazing work of the then-controversial Professor Ourin, and Doctor Merrick, not to mention the now-controversial development of the Anamnesic Department. Important historical manuscripts, such as the Tendin Documents were re-discovered.

As part of Muerto's claim to continuity with the Second Academy leader, he enforced a rigid orthodoxy on magical theory. Later documents, such as the Falcor papers which famously resurfaced as part of the Rebecca Sansa trial, cast doubt of Muerto's claims, and many historians believe that the nature of the second Muerto's rituals and discoveries differ in major and fundamental ways from magic as it was practiced in the Golden Age.

Muerto's grip on magical innovation began to slip under the extraordinary intellectual energy of the age, and with the high-profile work of Rebecca Sansa and and Dorran Falcor, it became commonly accepted that vast territories lay unexplored. Despite that, the incredible economic prosperity and military might of Muerto's kingdom enabled the Third Academy to not only survive Muerto's death, but to continue it's influence for a considerable period, mostly by assimilating and then regulating major new discoveries, like some of Sansa's alchemical discoveries and the development of golems.