pparou sits in the merchant quarter of Nicea. A large three-story building with both an inner and outer courtyard is the center of the conventum. Various buildings surrounding it hold sancta for some members. The conventum partakes in a second magnitude Divine aura, like much of the surrounding city.

Ipparou was originally founded as a small capitulum of a conventum in Constantinople, but Greek magi fleeing that city sheltered at Ipparou, expecting it to be a temporary abode. Decades later, the conventum has become a permanent home for some, loathed as it might be.