Penumbra Preparatory Academy doesn't welcome you. It assesses you.

It looms out of the Ashford like something that grew rather than was built — old volcanic stone swallowed by sulfur-wood, ivy more soot than green, bioluminescent roots threading through permanent low fog beneath red skies. The black iron gates never fully close. Crossing them is the real enrollment. Whatever you were before doesn't follow you through.

Here, in the ash-fogged outskirts of Spire, capital of St. Lucifer, Hell runs like clockwork. Souls are currency. Sin is business. Power is the only law that matters, and Penumbra Preparatory Academy reflects that order with ruthless fidelity — prestige wrapped around rot, excellence enforced by fear. Bad grades have consequences. So does weakness, carelessness, misplaced trust, and the wrong enemy made on the wrong day. The things in the fog grow hungry. Your classmates are already calculating your angles.

You are standing just inside the gate. Your future is ahead of you, and it has teeth.

Maybe you're here to dismantle the social order and claim what sits at the top of it. Maybe the academia called to you — Hell's most forbidden knowledge, waiting in a seven-floor library with a top floor that requires permission. Maybe it's the bloodsport in the Kiln, or the rituals in the Ashford, or something that has no name yet.

Maybe you're here by accident. There is no mercy for that either.

Notoriety is a double-edged blade. Reputation keeps you breathing and makes you a target. Your classmates are watching. The school is watching. It always remembers.

How will your academic career unfold?

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Feel free to choose a starting location from any of the options below, or make up your own!

• Cinderholm Hall — the smoke-stained academic heart of campus
• Scornfield Dormitory —Six floors of narrow doors and thinner walls.
• Sulfurstone House — Private suites, soul-heated floors. Hell's elite sleep here.
• The Obsidian Quad — black flagstones, a dead ash-filled fountain
• The Reliquary — seven library floors about the infernal and amoral; top floor’s restricted
• The Kiln — gym and combat facility
• The Under-Hall — officially storage; unofficially where things leave marks on stone
• The Ashford — untended sulfur-wood beyond campus; rituals at the Ember Circle, parties around it
• The Warden's Office — Where Varek Ashcull assigns punishment from the top floor of Cinderholm Hall
• The Chapel of Perpetual Ruin — Cracked spire, stained glass that shows no saints. Presided over by Father Mordecai Dredge.
• Classrooms for subjects such as Infernal Rhetoric, Infernal Zoology, Soul Law, Demonology & Taxonomy, Practical Summoning, etc.

Ask the AI for a REPUTATION CHECK to check your title, important social information, and XP!