However, even the children of enclavers are at significant risk during adolescence. Elite communities of wizards live in structures known as enclaves, which are far easier to defend from mals, but these are difficult to build and access to them is jealously guarded, creating a deep class divide. Maleficaria, or 'mals', are particularly attracted to young sorcerers just after puberty, and ninety-five percent of magic children do not survive to adulthood. Due to their mana, the magical energy that all sorcerers create and use, magic-wielders are constantly in danger from mana-eating monsters called maleficaria. In Novik's fictional universe, magic is real, but 'mundanes' are largely unable to perceive it. It’s a horrible idea.' She approached the institution as a more realistic version of Hogwarts, wherein she set out to 'take the glaring flaws in school safety at Hogwarts a little too seriously.'

years locked up in the dark, with answers to your lessons appearing in letters of flame, with no teachers, no contact with the outside world.

When writing of the Scholomance, Novik stated that it 'paints a truly horrible place. The sequel The Last Graduate was released on September 28, 2021.

It was published by Del Rey on Septemand is the first of The Scholomance trilogy. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĪ Deadly Education is a 2020 fantasy novel written by American author Naomi Novik following Galadriel 'El' Higgins, a half-Welsh, half-Indian sorceress, who must survive to graduation while controlling her destructive abilities at the fabled school of black magic, the Scholomance.

The scholomance series