Merriam Academy
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**Merriam Academy** is an elite, all-boys finishing school for homo magi — located on an island off the coast of Cardiff, Wales. Its current headmaster is Pasha Lovetts, Knight of Merriam Academy. The headmaster's position carries a connection to the Sidereal Council's social hierarchy, placing the Academy within the broader network of legacy families and Council-adjacent power.
The Hell Hunt takes place on the Academy's island — an annual coerced trial held on the last day of autumn. Participation is expected of students. Fatalities are not uncommon.
Claiming the Heartseed — the Briarhart's heart — confers the title of Knight of Merriam Academy, a formal honorific of significant prestige in European homo magi circles.
The Academy's precise curriculum and standing relative to other homo magi institutions remain to be developed in full. What is established: it produces practitioners who move in Council circles, and its headmaster is a figure of sufficient standing to be worth cultivating as an ally by someone like Anne Murray.
Anne Murray has leveraged her connection to the headmaster in her secret arrangement concerning Eva Murray. The full scope of what she has set in motion through this channel is not yet public knowledge — not even to Eva's parents.