Ustalav
Source: Advanced Class Origins, p. 15
Although Ustalav is a land of superstition, it’s also home to a great bastion of rational thought: the University of Lepidstadt. Investigators among the professors, deans, and senior students of the University study and teach the “mortal sciences” (especially in the schools of history and science), or else travel the land uncovering the causes behind murder sprees, incurable plagues, disappearances, or widespread ill luck and calamity. In addition, Ustalav is also home to such information- gathering agencies and secret societies as the Sleepless Agency, Conference Z, the Bureau of Criers, the Anaphexia, the Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye, and many others.