![]() ![]() To the nobility, she is salvation-a benevolent visitor that trains their young before a disastrous accident occurs. For over sixty years, she has traveled Borca to shape young sorcerers and wizards. Pribuska has made a career out of finding and manipulating emergent magi. As a wraith, Narcissa cannot leave the grounds of Scholomance and abhors sunlight. Unable to touch her, Narcissa vents her rage upon the villagers and custodians, enforcing a nightly curfew. She detests Pribuska Windischmann, who she remembers as a troublesome student. True to her namesake, Narcissa recognizes no authority but her own. The wraith roams the halls of Scholomance day and night, eager to find disobedient students. As the Dean of Discipline, there is no punishment too revolting for her to order. Undeath has twisted Narcissa’s already dark heart. The spirit endures as a lesson to why no apprentice should ever murder her master. None know who raised this wraith from the dead, only that she has forgotten more of magic than most will ever learn. The carnage it reaps is like no other, for Scholomance’s students are only permitted to leave as graduates or as corpses. Disguised as one’s lover, Varmala betrays secrets or confidence, laying with another student or instructor. When it isn’t a disguised Varmala that starts this tryst with a few flirtatious letters or longing glances, the fiend is certainly the one that ends them. In every class of Scholomance arises a relationship between two (or sometimes more) students. Through spells of disguise self, the rakshasa sows chaos and mistrust. No torment is sweeter, it believes, than the affairs of the heart. The fiend plays games with students and visiting instructors alike. Varmala is cruel, sadistic and perpetually bored. If Borca is smothered by darkness, the fiend believes it may have a chance to return to the hell whence it came. It has laid all its hope upon the waking of Vathreneer. Although Varmala predates Borca’s absorption into the Domains of Dread, it can find no means of escape. The fiend is a prisoner like any other Borcan. The academy is run by Varmala, a rakshasa masquerading as a man. It is said the Devil himself presides over Scholomance-and the myths could be no closer to the truth. ![]() Scholomance’s mysterious instructors-all alumni and members of the Rainmaker Society-come and go with the seasons, but three individuals remain to run the academy: The Devil Whomever wears such a title when the drake awakens will have the honor of riding that harbinger of ruin across the skies in Borca’s final days. Only the Solomanari, the Rainmaker Society’s archwizard, may tame the beast. It is said that in the warrens below slumbers a dragon with scales forged from shadow, and whose rage-if the leviathan wakes-will quench the sun itself. Neither classes truly know where the estate stands, only that it is to the east of Mount Gries, far from the reach of the law. Amongst the common folk, it is a legend-a manor of obscene decadence ruled over by the Devil himself. Scholomance is an open secret-a known institute amongst the Borcan nobility, who seldom dare whisper its name. Those who triumph over this gauntlet are welcomed into the Rainmaker Society, a dark cabal that exerts great influence over the country. For seven years these students go without the sun, forced to remain in the warrens below the manor-and those that fail to graduate are not permitted to leave. Only the most depraved and desperate survive, overshadowed by the most wicked of pupils. No student can be admitted without a sponsor, whose absurd expectations can rarely be met. ![]() Most are chosen from Borca’s elite-from noble families, merchant guilds, or influential circles. Within this dark academy study students of wizardly descent. In the shadows of Mount Gries stands-in proud countenance-Scholomance, Borca’s institute of black magic. ![]()
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