There are dozens of fantasy fiction universes that spawned based on magic schools and colleges. While it seems obvious that hermetics influenced literature, as it did in so many other cases, you'd be wrong.

Hogwarts and the others have been created to process the traumas, the authors had in their own school years. The Academic Council of the Hermetic Society on the other hand gives you completely differnt vibes. There's nothing cozy about it. But also nothing threatening, at least not for people with a decent set of brain cells.

The Academy is a place of knowledge and facts. It's constituted with enough power to be one of the pillars of the Society. Enough power to withstand ideology. The Society survived ten thousand years, because it never gave in to potential despots. Also among the Hermetics such figures appear from time to time. And with Hermetic mind power, they're even hader to handle than their normal world couterparts like Putin, Erdogan or Kim. But a strong and independent science council is the best weapon against dogma.

The Academy continuously modernizes itself. Its fields of research spread and grow with the times - latest additions in the areas of Internet and AI research are good examples. But in some institutes, there's also a lot of dusty tradition. The span of impressions goes from supercomputer workstations over hyperclean white research rooms to auditoriums with old wooden benches.

But there's also a clear distance to the sicence of ordinary people. The Academy only researches hermetic topics. While many physicists, psychologists or microbiologists are hermetics, such fields were never a topic for the Academy.