Chaldea University is an elite international university renowned for gathering exceptionally gifted, influential, and unusual students from across the world. Officially, it presents itself as a prestigious private institution specializing in history, political science, medicine, engineering, archaeology, astronomy, and cultural studies. Behind its polished academic reputation, however, Chaldea is infamous for attracting students and faculty members with extraordinary personalities.

Arthur Pendragon
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Rhongomyniad Pendragon
Artoria Pendragon Rhongomyniad — Fate/Grand Order College AU

Lalter Pendragon
Artoria Pendragon (Lancer Alter) — Fate/Grand Order College AU

Mordred
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Medea
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Caenis
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Chaldea University occupies a vast private campus built around a mixture of historic stone architecture, modern research facilities, landscaped courtyards, athletic grounds, and residential halls. The university was expanded gradually by its founding families, particularly the Animuspheres and Pendragons, resulting in a campus where prestigious old buildings stand beside sleek laboratories and newer student facilities. The campus is large enough that students commonly use bicycles, shuttle buses, or covered walkways to travel between distant buildings. Most central locations can be reached on foot, though crossing from the dormitory district to the far research complex may take considerable time. Founders’ Hall Founders’ Hall is the symbolic center of Chaldea University. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious buildings on campus, constructed from pale stone and decorated with the crests of the families that financed the university’s creation. The main entrance opens into a vast ceremonial hall lined with portraits, plaques, historical documents, and displays describing Chaldea’s founding. The Animusphere and Pendragon crests occupy the most prominent positions, though other donor families are represented throughout the building. Founders’ Hall contains formal reception rooms, ceremonial chambers, donor meeting spaces, and the offices used during major university events. It hosts speeches, award ceremonies, prestigious lectures, board meetings, and formal gatherings involving wealthy families or important visitors. Students are permitted to enter its public areas, but several upper floors and private meeting rooms are restricted. The Central Courtyard The Central Courtyard lies directly behind Founders’ Hall and serves as the main gathering place of the university. It contains stone paths, lawns, benches, flower gardens, fountains, and a raised platform used for announcements and public performances. Students meet here between classes, clubs promote events, musicians perform, and protests occasionally gather near the main fountain. During festivals, the courtyard fills with temporary stalls, decorations, stages, and food stands. Because several major pathways connect through it, the courtyard is one of the easiest places to encounter classmates, rivals, or popular students unexpectedly. The Main Academic Quarter The Main Academic Quarter contains the majority of Chaldea’s lecture halls, seminar rooms, faculty offices, and general classrooms. Its buildings form several interconnected wings surrounding smaller courtyards. The quarter houses courses in history, literature, law, political science, economics, languages, philosophy, theology, and social sciences. Many first-year classes are held here, making the area especially crowded during mornings and early afternoons. The oldest lecture halls have carved wooden interiors and traditional tiered seating, while newer rooms contain digital boards, recording systems, and modern presentation technology. The Great Library Chaldea’s Great Library is one of the largest buildings on campus. It contains several floors of academic collections, private study rooms, computer areas, archives, reading halls, and restricted historical materials. The main floor is usually busy and social, while the upper reading rooms are quiet and heavily supervised. The underground archive contains rare books, family records, donated manuscripts, old university documents, and materials accessible only with special permission. The library remains open late during examination periods and is a common location for study meetings, private conversations, accidental encounters, and students hiding from unwanted attention. The Student Center The Student Center is the social heart of everyday campus life. It contains lounges, club offices, meeting rooms, cafés, vending machines, convenience stores, printing services, game areas, and large public noticeboards. Many student organizations have offices or shared rooms inside the building. Club recruitment, election campaigns, charity drives, and student protests frequently begin here. The lower floor contains several inexpensive restaurants and seating areas that remain crowded throughout the day. The upper floors are quieter and are often used for committee meetings, group projects, and unofficial gatherings. The Student Council Wing The Student Council Wing is attached to the Student Center but operates as a separate administrative area. It contains the main council chamber, offices for elected representatives, committee rooms, records storage, and a reception desk for student complaints. Rhongomyniad Pendragon’s presidential office is located at the far end of the upper floor. It is formal, carefully organized, and frequently occupied long after normal working hours. The disciplinary committee also holds hearings in this wing, making it an uncomfortable destination for students with repeated rule violations. The Dining Hall and Cafeteria Chaldea’s main dining hall is a large, modern building located near the center of campus. It serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner to students, faculty, and staff. The hall contains multiple food stations offering international dishes, inexpensive daily meals, vegetarian options, desserts, and late-night snacks. Students often claim unofficial seating areas based on friendship groups, clubs, sports teams, or social status, though there are no formally assigned tables. The cafeteria is one of the main sources of campus gossip. Arguments, rumors, public breakups, celebrations, and unexpected meetings regularly occur there. Smaller cafés and food stalls are located throughout the university, but the main dining hall remains the busiest shared social space. The Dormitory District The Dormitory District occupies the quieter eastern side of campus. It contains several residence halls, shared courtyards, laundry facilities, small convenience stores, study lounges, and recreation areas. First-year students are strongly encouraged to live on campus, while upperclassmen may remain in university housing or move into apartments nearby. Residence halls vary greatly in reputation. Some are known for quiet academic students, others for athletes, wealthy heirs, international residents, or constant parties. The dormitory district becomes much less supervised at night, making it a common setting for secret meetings, late-night conversations, unauthorized visitors, and rule-breaking. University Apartments A group of apartment buildings stands beyond the main dormitories. These are primarily occupied by upperclassmen, graduate students, visiting researchers, and students with special housing arrangements. The apartments offer more privacy than standard dormitories and include small kitchens, private bathrooms, and shared residential courtyards. Wealthier students sometimes rent larger private apartments or houses in the surrounding university district instead. The Medical Center Chaldea University Medical Center is both a teaching hospital and a campus healthcare facility. It contains an emergency clinic, student health offices, specialist departments, laboratories, classrooms, and private patient rooms. Medical students complete supervised practical training there. The center also handles injuries caused by athletic events, laboratory accidents, fights, exhaustion, and other campus incidents. The student clinic occupies the front section of the building and provides basic treatment, counseling referrals, prescriptions, and health examinations. The Science and Engineering Complex The Science and Engineering Complex is one of the most modern areas of campus. It contains laboratories, workshops, robotics facilities, computing centers, fabrication rooms, and high-security research spaces. Students studying engineering, chemistry, physics, astronomy, computing, and advanced technology spend much of their time there. Unauthorized experiments, equipment failures, power interruptions, and minor explosions have given the complex a notorious reputation. Several laboratories require electronic access passes, and students caught entering restricted sections may face severe disciplinary consequences. The Observatory The Chaldea Observatory stands on elevated ground at the northern edge of campus. It is closely associated with the Animusphere family and remains one of the university’s most recognizable landmarks. The facility contains powerful telescopes, astronomy laboratories, lecture rooms, weather-monitoring equipment, and a large observation dome. It is used for academic research, public viewing nights, private events, and prestigious donor gatherings. The hill surrounding the observatory is quiet after sunset and is popular among students seeking privacy, though access to the building itself is restricted outside scheduled hours. The Arts Quarter The Arts Quarter contains music rooms, theaters, dance studios, galleries, costume workshops, recording spaces, and visual arts classrooms. Its central building includes a large performance hall used for concerts, plays, speeches, competitions, and university ceremonies. Smaller black-box theaters and rehearsal rooms are scattered throughout the surrounding structures. Murals, sculptures, posters, and student installations frequently change the appearance of the area. The Arts Quarter is lively, expressive, and often louder than the rest of campus. The Athletics Complex The Athletics Complex occupies a broad section of the western campus. It includes a main stadium, indoor gymnasium, swimming pool, weight-training facilities, fencing halls, martial arts rooms, archery ranges, running tracks, and outdoor practice fields. The complex hosts university tournaments, athletic club training, public competitions, and major interdepartmental events. A smaller training hall is reserved for supervised combat sports and sparring. Fights outside approved facilities are still considered disciplinary violations, regardless of whether the students involved belong to athletic clubs. The Equestrian Grounds Chaldea maintains a prestigious equestrian center beyond the main athletics fields. It contains stables, riding arenas, training tracks, veterinary facilities, and open practice grounds. The equestrian program is especially popular among wealthy students, competitive riders, and members of old families. However, scholarships allow skilled riders from less privileged backgrounds to participate. The grounds are quieter than most of the athletics complex and are sometimes used for private conversations away from campus crowds. The Club Annex The Club Annex is an older building assigned to student organizations that require larger, noisier, or more specialized spaces than the Student Center can provide. It contains rehearsal rooms, equipment storage, workshop areas, kitchens, training rooms, and several poorly maintained basement spaces. Clubs with prestigious reputations occupy renovated upper rooms, while less respected or troublesome organizations are often assigned to the lower floors. The Argonauts’ clubroom, commonly called the Argo, is located in one of the basement sections of the annex. The University Chapel and Reflection Garden The University Chapel is a non-denominational historical building used for memorial services, private reflection, interfaith gatherings, weddings, and ceremonial events. Behind it lies the Reflection Garden, a quiet area of hedges, trees, stone paths, and small pools. Students often visit the garden to study, rest, hold private conversations, or escape the noise of central campus. Despite its peaceful reputation, the garden is also a common location for secret meetings and emotionally charged confrontations. The Memorial Walk The Memorial Walk is a long tree-lined path connecting Founders’ Hall to the observatory hill. Plaques and statues along the route commemorate university founders, major donors, former professors, distinguished alumni, and students who died while enrolled at Chaldea. The path is beautiful but formal, and it is frequently used during graduation ceremonies, remembrance events, and Founders’ Week. The Old Campus The Old Campus consists of several buildings that predate Chaldea’s modern expansion. Some remain in active use as seminar halls, archives, guest residences, and faculty offices, while others are partially closed due to age or renovation. The area contains narrow corridors, unused classrooms, sealed staircases, forgotten courtyards, and numerous campus legends. Students from the Occult Research Society frequently investigate claims of hidden rooms, secret tunnels, and unexplained noises. Most supernatural rumors remain unconfirmed, though the university discourages students from entering closed buildings at night. The Maintenance Tunnels A network of utility tunnels runs beneath much of the university. They carry electrical lines, heating pipes, communications systems, and maintenance access routes. Students are officially forbidden from entering them. Despite this, delinquents, pranksters, club members, and students attempting to avoid campus security occasionally use the tunnels as shortcuts. Maps of the system are restricted, and several older sections are believed to connect to sealed parts of the Old Campus. The Lakeside Grounds A small artificial lake lies near the southern edge of campus. It is surrounded by walking paths, lawns, trees, and picnic areas. Students visit the lake to relax, exercise, study outdoors, or spend time away from crowded buildings. Certain university events use the lakeside for temporary stages, evening gatherings, or fireworks displays. The area becomes particularly popular during spring and early autumn. Campus Gates and Security Chaldea University has one main entrance and several smaller access gates. The main gate faces the surrounding university district and is staffed throughout the day. Students and employees use identification cards to enter residential, research, and restricted areas. Campus security patrols the grounds, responds to disturbances, and monitors major events. The university remains open to registered visitors during daytime hours, but access becomes more limited at night. The University District Beyond the main gates lies a busy district shaped by Chaldea’s student population. It contains cafés, restaurants, bookstores, bars, clothing shops, apartment buildings, convenience stores, entertainment venues, and public transportation connections. Popular locations include inexpensive student cafés, late-night diners, karaoke rooms, gaming shops, music venues, and bars known for ignoring minor student misconduct. The district is not controlled by the university, though serious incidents there may still affect a student’s standing at Chaldea. Travel Across Campus The campus is designed to feel active and populated rather than empty. Students regularly cross paths while traveling between lectures, club meetings, meals, athletic practices, and dormitories. Central locations such as the courtyard, cafeteria, Student Center, and Great Library are usually crowded. The observatory hill, Reflection Garden, lakeside grounds, Old Campus, and dormitory courtyards offer greater privacy. Characters should use locations appropriate to their activities. Academic meetings generally occur in faculty buildings or the library, disciplinary scenes occur in the Student Council Wing or administration offices, athletic confrontations occur near the sports complex, and casual social scenes most often take place in the cafeteria, courtyard, dormitories, or university district. Chaldea University’s campus functions as a small city of its own. Its formal buildings represent prestige and tradition, while its dormitories, clubs, hidden corridors, cafés, gardens, and crowded public spaces provide the setting for ordinary student life, rivalry, romance, scandal, and personal growth.