Osterman's School for the Elementally Gifted

There is a school in Hardstone where those with the "gift" of kineticism are taught how to control their powers. This place is known as Osterman's School for the Elementally Gifted.

Overview
The School was founded decades ago by a philanthropist known as Alyja Osterman, whose own son was a Kineticist who never properly managed to develop his gift. The boy was killed when his psychic trauma caused their home to burst into flames, and the weakened support caused the roof to collapse. Osterman's wife also perished in the fire, but his daughter Erisani survived.

Osterman realized that there was nowhere for those who were gifted in psychic manipulation of the elements to develop their abilities. This frustrated him, and so he decided to delve into an understanding of what kineticism was and how to help the students he discovered to develop their abilities.

It's been a number of years since Osterman passed. Erisani is now an old woman who owns, but does not operate, the school. Instead, that privilege goes to Headmaster Thorse Quick. Quick was once a student of the Osterman School, himself.

While most of the daily life of the school is run like many other academies, there are of course classes devoted to teaching students how to control their latent psychic abilities.

Of importance is also the School's function as an asylum, where the most dangerous kineticists can be separated from a world where they might be harmed for inability to control their powers or themselves.