"You have many questions, some more easily answered than others. But many of them are at root interconnected. This school was founded a little over twenty years ago, now. When the Island itself was. Given the nature of the island, new students are rare at all, unless I have seen them grow from small children. As to why everything here is as you have observed... the reason is tied into why this Isle exists in the first place. And that is a rather long tale, I fear."