From the publisher's website:

Argent: the Consortium is a 2-5 player game of secret conspiracies, power, and intrigue at a Magical University. Become a candidate for Chancellorship and muster your apprentices to gather resources and followers. Research to master more and more powerful spells that you can use to sabotage your rival candidates and their plans! Learn the true motives of the secret Consortium, and become elected the new Chancellor of the University!