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The Izzet League is organized into units designated as
laboratories that specialize in certain fields of research.
Though they all operate under the general guidance of The Laboratory of Gravitational Inversion conducts
the lzmundi, each laboratory is typically left alone to research on means of flight and maintains a workshop
conduct its research. New fields of study emerge all the near Augustin Station in the Tenth District.
The Laboratory of Plasma-Dermatology places em-
time, but the more established laboratories-each pop-
ulated by hundreds of mages and their attendants-in- phasis on the combining of opposing elements, with
clude the following: the purpose of creating creatures called weirds.
Izzet laboratories function in a constant state of high
The Laboratory of Pyrology has a prominent facility in
the guildhall, Nivix. Its emphasis is on heat, fire, and energy that propels researchers from one experiment
explosion. to the next. Some grand-scale experiments draw on the
The Laboratory of Storms and Electricity focuses on resources of an entire laboratory, while others are a lone
controlling the weather as well as containing and con- visionary's labor of love.
ducting electrical energy. Its headquarters is in a spire G OALS OF THE l ZZET
atop Nivix, known as the Lightning Rod.
Research into smelting and forging, most often using The lzzet League thirsts for knowledge, cherishes intel-
the magical metal known as mizzium, is conducted at lect. and speculates about the secrets of the multiverse.
the Laboratory of Metallurgy, which bas a small out- It brings to its scientific pursuits a flaming passion that
post in the Tenth District's Smelting Quarter. turns its search for knowledge into an insatiable hunger,
The magical science of transmuting one substance to makes its cold intellect brilliantly fruitful, and widens
another is the study of the Laboratory of Alchemy. its speculation into a search for connections between
The Laboratory of Orientation, concerned with telepor- wildly disparate objects or concepts. It is manic in its ex-
tation and spatial recombination, has multiple work- pressions of creative energy, shifting from careful anal-
shops that seem to appear and disappear at random. ysis to intuitive leap seemingly for no reason, always
The Laboratory ofMimeography studies means of thinking outside the proverbial box. As the Izzet see it,
duplication. unpredictable action, far from being antithetical to me-
The Laboratory of Continuism emphasizes the study of thodical research, has experimental value. In the words
temporal manipulation. of one researcher, "The only action worth taking is one
Research into counter-magic and redirection takes with an unknown outcome."
place in the Laboratory of Arcane Geometry, which As Ravnica descends into increasing turmoil, the
has a small presence in Prism University in the lzzet have further intensified their frenetic research,
Tenth District. though now their efforts are mainly directed toward one

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