Location from Wednesday by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
A boarding school for supernatural outcasts — part Hogwarts, part asylum, entirely gothic, built on the ground where a pilgrim tried to burn freaks alive four centuries ago.
Nevermore Academy is the only school of its kind — a haven for supernatural outcasts (werewolves, sirens, gorgons, psychics, vampires, and others) who can't attend normie institutions. It provides education, community, and protection for students whose abilities would make them targets in the outside world. The school is both sanctuary and cage: safe, but isolated, perpetually one scandal away from losing its social license. Founded on the site where Joseph Crackstone attempted to massacre outcasts in the 1600s, Nevermore's very existence is an act of defiance — building a school for the people someone tried to exterminate, on the ground where they were meant to die. This history runs through everything: the secret society (the Nightshades), the tension with Jericho, the recurring threat from the Gates family. Principal Weems manages the school's reputation with iron-fisted diplomacy, aware that normie tolerance is conditional and revocable. The student body self-organizes along outcast-type lines (werewolves with werewolves, sirens with sirens) while the school officially promotes integration. It's a microcosm of outcast politics: how do you build a community from people whose defining trait is not fitting in?
A sprawling gothic campus of dark stone towers, arched windows, and ivy-covered walls perched on a hillside overlooking the town of Jericho. Gargoyles line the rooftops. The architecture is deliberately imposing — pointed spires, heavy wooden doors, stained glass windows depicting outcast history. Interior: dark wood paneling, candlelit corridors, stone staircases worn smooth by centuries of students. Dorm rooms vary wildly based on their occupants (Enid's half: rainbow explosion; Wednesday's half: monastic darkness). The grounds include a quad, a library, secret passages, and wooded areas that connect to the surrounding forest. A raven weather vane crowns the main tower.
Also known as: Nevermore, Nevermore Academy, The Academy