**Morgrave University** is an institution of higher learning in [Sharn](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Sharn "Sharn"), the City of Towers, in [Breland](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Breland "Breland"). While not the most reputable university academically speaking, it has made great gains in research regarding the continent of [Xen'drik](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Xen%27drik "Xen'drik"), mostly by funding expeditions of adventurers, who bring back artifacts and information to fill the university's museums and libraries.
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> …a beacon of knowledge shining from the tallest towers of the city, illuminating the forgotten secrets of the past."
> — Lord Lareth ir'Morgrave, founder of Morgrave University, 738 YK
> ## Location[](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Morgrave_University?veaction=edit§ion=1 "Edit section: Location")
The university's main campus lies in the [University District](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/University_District "University District") of the Upper Menthis ward in Sharn. It lies close to the center of the Menthis Plateau and amongst its uppermost towers. Morgrave University owns much of the property in the surrounding University District, which is used for rental accommodation for staff and students, businesses that service the university (scribing, bookselling, stationery, cartography, _etc_.) and even non-university-connected activities. Thus, the University district is a center of learning and high-brow entertainment in Sharn. A good proportion of staff and students live in the nearby [Ivy Towers](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Ivy_Towers "Ivy Towers") district and many self-professed sages, even those not employed or associated with Morgrave, live nearby or in neighboring districts.
A smaller campus is also maintained in [Wroat](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Wroat "Wroat").
Morgrave University also has an enclave in [Stormreach](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Stormreach "Stormreach"), a city in Xen'drik.
### Research[](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Morgrave_University?veaction=edit§ion=19 "Edit section: Research")
As Morgrave University has limited resources compared to other, better institutions and has a hard time building an academic reputation, its staff are constantly looking out for any chance to prove their worth and have what some call a rough-and-tumble approach to research. Nevertheless, they are passionate and well-educated academics,) usually interested in ancient history and lost and foreign cultures. They operate as scholars, instructors, and archaeologists and it is a good place to hire sages on a range of subjects for short- and long-term research. They spend almost as much working in the field as they do in office and a number of professors are renowned scholars, explorers, and adventurers. Some, however, may delve too deeply into esoteric lore and into madness and the [Cults of the Dragon Below](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Cults_of_the_Dragon_Below "Cults of the Dragon Below").
### Expeditions
They are trying to fund and organize more expeditions for research and exploration, especially after the end of the [Last War](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Last_War "Last War") and the shock of the [Mourning](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Mourning "Mourning"). These often focus on the continent of [Xen'drik](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Xen%27drik "Xen'drik"), which is only a relatively short distance from Sharn, making the City of Towers are common starting for point for expeditions and Morgrave University a popular meeting place for explorers and scholars. There is usually more than one Xen'drik expedition underway simultaneously. In Xen'drik, Morgrave scholars have long studied the ruins around and beneath Stormreach and mapped the environs and they are experienced at uncovering its secrets and winning its treasures. Some of the most experienced explorers of Xen'drik are primal scholars.
Because of this, Morgrave University offers fledgling adventurers chances for jobs and opportunities with which to build their own careers, Staff can provide letters of introduction to other institutions, letters of marque from the Brelish crown that allow them to explore ruins, traveling papers and other documentation as required, and even sponsorship or patronage for the most successful. Such hired adventurers are sent to purchase antiquities, retrieve relics, or go on treasure hunts. Naturally, the university retained the right to claim any finds for research or display in a museum like the Dezina, with the remainder permitted to be sold. Thus, they, like other institutions, will often host the explorers known as thunder guides, who bring back information and finds, give lectures for a handsome fee, and network with their fellows.
### Academic Misconduct
While the majority of Morgrave staff are genuine scholars, who are focused more on the historical and academic value of a piece, some merely pretend to be, concealing a greedy and mercenary nature more into the monetary or ever magical value of a relic. These few, from students to scholars to professors, are corrupt and connected to the criminal element, including thieves and smugglers, or at the least are black marketeers themselves. On too many occasions, about once a year, invaluable relics discovered in Xen'drik or [Dhakaani](https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Dhakaani "Dhakaani") sites have disappeared from the vaults, reported stolen, and resurfaced on the black market or in private or Aurum-owned collections. The sheer quantity of artifacts brought back and held in the vaults seems to encourage their sale. Despite Master Larrian ir'Morgrave swearing to crack down on such practices, not much has actually been done.