Sects (University of Isana)

The comprehensive colleges of the University of Isana tend to be grouped unofficially into one of three groups known as Sects, or Shirba in Mirselec. There are three such sects, Blue, Silver and Black.

The division arose from the very founding of the university, under a stipulation in the royal edict for the university's colleges that all future colleges' individual colours must include one, and only one, of those three colours. The reason for the law was to allow easy identification of any college as belonging to the university and the nation, since the three same colours were those of IA and of the royal house as well.