


The Valedictorian of El's year, Liesel, builds a careful facade of niceness that she drops completely the moment she gets the title.However, after the rankings went up with her name at the top during her last semester, she was sure to post all her top marks outside her room, to make it clear to everyone that she deserved it. What made Clarita different from the usual stock is that she wasn't obvious about it, being careful to keep her head down all four years and even do a few maintenance shifts to make it seem as if she was on the maintenance track.Academic Alpha Bitch: Anyone aiming for Valedictorian tends to be decisive, ruthless, and increasingly arrogant.She also destroys several outright by draining them in a desperate fight. Ability Depletion Penalty: El can usually transfer Mana to and from her storage crystals at will, but when they're completely drained, she needs to take time to re-enchant them or else they're permanently ruined.However, his luck picks up when he gets a promised enclave spot in exchange for participating in the repair mission and then proceeds to survive that mission. Angel Torres, who came in thirteenth in the class rankings, hasn't done well enough to make it into an enclave.As El puts it "13 is a number with distinction".

The Scholomance contains examples of the following tropes: The problem? Her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students. It would be easy enough for El to defeat the monsters that prowl the school. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions. And beware of the monsters who lurk everywhere.Įl is uniquely prepared for the school's dangers. or die! The rules are deceptively simple: Don't walk the halls alone. Survival is more important than any letter grade, for the school won't allow its students to leave until they graduate. There are no teachers, no holidays, and no friendships, save strategic ones. The series is set in a school based on the mythical Scholomance, a place for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) - until one girl, El, begins to unlock its many secrets.

The series consists of three books: A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, and The Golden Enclaves. The Scholomance trilogy is a Dark Fantasy Black Comedy Coming of Age series by Naomi Novik.
