Talk:Beacon Academy/@comment-24.193.118.88-20150817031640/@comment-24891101-20150917001502

Considering its political and cultural importance (by no means, of course, the only Hunting academy in Vale, merely the most ancient and prestigious), they probably nominally own or administer vast tracts of land outside the city, because no one cares about that land, being outside the country proper.

That said, I myself am inclined to mostly dismiss the implications for Beacon's land area of my own analysis, putting it down to the map being bad Doylistically. It's one thing to have a megalopolis the size of Egypt, it's another to have a university which controls the land area of a small country.