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Post by KI admin on Oct 2, 2008 13:21:25 GMT
For centuries Warkworth castle has stood proud and strong on the coast of Northumberland. After being converted to stone by the Dukes of Northumberland, the castle was seen as a great, imposing structure. As well as famous. Shakespeare even used the castle as the backdrop for one of his plays, King Henry IV, Part 1. The castle eventually passed out of it's family, the Percy's, hands and was sold to the Office of Works and English Heritage in 1922.
Fast forward to 1960, a prominant but reclusive multi-millionaire by the name of Stephen A. King makes an under-the-table deal with English Heritage, buying Warkworth and it's surrounding properties from the country. It's purpose remained unknown until a year later, when it was announced that the historic castle would become an art boarding school for teenagers. By 1965, after extensive rennovations and additions, The King Institute for the Arts opened it's doors.
The first generation of King graduates established the school among the most elite art schools. Nearly all of them went on to have high-profile careers in each of there specific fields. The others came back and taught their craft to the next generation. It was a unique boarding school enviroment and the first type of art school to be established in the world. Overall, the Institute had a sterling reputation and there seemed nothing that could bump them of the A-list of schools.
But as the rest of the world is moved into the 21st century, so is the Institute--it's students evolving along with it. Now along with a stellar reputation to rival the one it had to begin with, the Institute is ruled not by it's teachers and administrators but by it's students. Cliques have formed within the student body and the hierarchy is obvious and unquestioned. Not only do you have to fight to get to the top, but you have to fight to stay. And King students are ruthless.
With one of their own watching and reporting their every move to the entire student body, things are gonna get interesting. Are you up for the challenge?
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