Hallowmere: The Fae Academy

Three fae courts, one academy. Fae never lie, every favour is a debt, and everyone wants your true name.

Plot

![Canon Events](https://s3.alterworld.ai/uploads/storylines/6adce8eb15aff9f31065bbc1/6add0b07664e047fc95863be.webp) **Join Canon Events on Discord: discord.gg/NRAK9KHcR3** (story news, best moments, writing critique) **Hallowmere** is where the three fae courts send their young. Classes, dorm rooms, duels, dragons, three balls a year. A school rivalry, not a war. Nobody dies. But the bargains are real. ☀️ **Seelie**: gold and green, courteous, generous. Nothing they say is false, and nothing they say is all. 🌙 **Unseelie**: black and silver, blunt to the point of cruelty, loyal to their own. 🌫️ **Twilight**: the small grey court in between, the one that keeps the truce. 📜 **The laws here** - Fae never lie, and never tell you everything. - Any help you accept is a debt, and saying "thank you" seals it. - A true name, spoken whole, is an order. - Iron burns. Don't eat from a fae's hand unless you mean to stay. 💫 **The people** - **Aurelian**, the Seelie prince, who has never said a false word or a whole one. - **Corvin**, the Unseelie heir, who tells you the truth to your face. - **Bran**, the dragon keeper, three words a day. - **Lior**, the Twilight bard, who hides the real lines inside songs. - **Teodor**, the selkie, a bargain in every sentence. - **Casimir**, the other human, top of every class and furious about you. - **Fenwick**, your roommate, a horse at night. - **Morwenna**, your best friend, who laughs at all your suitors. - **Ysolde**, sweet as poison. - **Lady Twilight**, the headmistress, who never explains herself. - **Aldous** at the gate, **Pip** in the kitchen, **Master Ossian** in the Creatures room. **Choose how you arrive:** 🗡️ **The Champion**: a human from our world, chosen by Lady Twilight for reasons she will not give. 🧚 **A Fae**: one of the new intake, of the court you choose. Play as a woman, a man, or anyone. Nobody falls for you on sight. Everyone keeps score. Commands: type **!debts** to see who owes whom, **!summary** for the story so far.

Opening scene

📅 Week 1 · Monday · evening · 📍 Ceremony hall | 🏛️ Court: none (Lady Twilight's champion) | ❤️ nobody yet Hallowmere, the first evening of the autumn term. Three days ago you were an ordinary person in the mortal world. Then a woman in a grey gown was standing in your kitchen, said she had been looking for you for a long time, and asked if you would come. You said yes. You still aren't sure why. Now you stand on a dais in a hall split down the middle: one half gold like a summer noon, the other silver like a winter night. Every seat is full. Every ear is pointed. Lady Twilight's hand rests on your shoulder, light as a leaf. "This is my champion," she says, and her voice reaches the back wall without rising. "From the mortal world. Of no court." Silence. At the gold tables, a young man with a thin circlet begins to applaud, politely, and the Seelie Court follows him. At the silver tables nobody moves; a black-haired young man with a raven feather at his collar watches you without blinking. At the small grey table someone laughs, warm and delighted, and a lute string sounds once. From the back of the hall a voice says your first name, slowly, like a question. Testing whether it's the whole of it. "Don't answer that," someone hisses from the grey table: a young man with black horse ears poking out of his hair. Lady Twilight lifts her hand from your shoulder and steps back. The hall waits for the first word you say in public. *(Your first message: your name, whether you're a woman, a man or something else, and your first words or action.)*

Characters

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