Eden's Garden Academy

Spoilers warning!*This article contains spoilers for Project: Eden's Garden. Read at your own risk.*

**Eden's Garden Academy** is an Ultimate Academy that provides education for Ultimate students from the United States of America. The school is based on the Garden of Eden, and it is the presumed location of the Killing Game featured in Project: Eden's Garden.

## Building

Almost all of the information available about the structure of Eden's Garden Academy comes from Damon Maitsu's first-hand experience inside the Killing Game arena. While the host of the Killing Game, Tozu, claims that the two places are one and the same, the veracity of his statements is often questioned by Damon.

### Location

According to the Discord FAQ, Eden's Garden Academy only recruits students from United States of America. However, it is not certain whether or not the academy itself is located within the United States, as several students had to get there by train, suggesting that it's located far away from all of their residences, and all knwon students fainted before the train could reach its destination.

### Exterior

The exterior of Eden's Garden Academy is seen during Damon's flashback and, as such, it's the only element of the academy's architecture that can be attributed without doubt to the academy.

### Dormitory

The dormitory building, for the most part, has an abandoned look. However, the dining hall is especially tidy and several bits of modern technology, such as high-tech security cameras and washing mashines, had been installed throughout the building at the time the Killing Game took place.

The dormitory has at least two floors: a basement floor and a first floor.

#### First floor

The first floor contains a looping hallway that is connected to the exit to the garden. From the corridor, it is possible to access a dining hall, sixteen dorm rooms, a laundromat, and a janitor's closet, as well as wooden stairs that lead to the basement floor.

The dining hall is well-equipped and elegantly furnished. It is divided into a dining hall area, containing a table and chairs, a menu, and four sofas, and a kitchen area, which is connected to a dark pantry.

The laundromat contains several batteries of washing machines, drying racks, baskets, a monitor, and a door that leads to an unknown area.

The janitor's closet is located in the center of the first floor. It contains several shelves with cleaning supplies. A broken digital clock is installed on top of the door. According to Ingrid Grimwall, the cleaning supplies present in the janitor's closet were no longer in production at the time due to safety concerns. This is the place where Cara Koskinen's murder was reenacted by Tozu and where, according to Tozu's account, the real murder of Cara Koskinen took place.

#### Basement Floor

The basement floor contains a long hallway that connects to four storage closets and a boiler room.

The boiler room consists of a raised platform surrounded on by shallow non-conductive water. According to scenario writer Hayden Graves, the platform is only surrounded by water on three sides, and the door is located on the side that is not surrounded by water. Inside the water, there is a power generator with several worn-down warning signs plastered on it.

The storage closets are filled with disparate supplies, such as carpets, milk, and paint.

### Main building

#### Central building

The central building contains two room: the Tree Room and the Trial Room.

### Courtyard

A round courtyard connects the main building to the dormitories. The architecture inside the courtyard is described as being reminiscent of Roman architecture.

### Portraits

During the Killing Game, the academy contained several altered versions of real-life paintings. These alterations ofter consisted in covering the subject's face with an animal mask.

Thanks to a community effort on the Project: Eden's Garden Discord server it was possible to find the original versions of these paintings. The name of the modified versions can be found inside the game files.

## Academic profile

Eden's Garden Academy is a co-ed academy that claims to offer education for both high school and college-aged Ultimate students, that is, teenagers and young adults from the age of 13 to 24. The academy promises its students not only a tighter grasp on their respective skill sets, but also proficiency at leadership, communication, and persuasion.

The Academy is an Ultimate Academy, which means it was built in partnership with the Ultimate Talent Program. As such, it scouts for its own students and does not accept applications.

According to Damon Maitsu, Eden's Garden Academy exhibits substantial resources. This claim is also supported by the academy's integration of a train transportation system.

## History

According to the Discord FAQ, Eden's Garden Academy is a fairly new educational institution, as the students attending it with Damon Maitsu are its first batch. However, according to Tozu, the Ultimate Teacher's Aide Cara Koskinen has been killed in the school prior to the events of the game, suggesting that the school was already active before the arrival of the students. Furthermore, the information contained in the FAQ is also questionable due to the FAQ stating that the school had only recruited 16 students that year when, according to Grace Madison, other students were also present on the train.

## Symbolism

Keeping with Christian symbolism and themes, Eden's Garden Academy symbolizes the Garden of Eden. This symbolism manifests in many ways, such as the apple in their emblem and on top of the pillars at each side of the entrance gate, which is often used to represent the forbidden fruit in European and Western art. Also, according to Tozu, the Tree of Ignorance in the middle of the Tree Room is an artificial replica of the "Tree of Knowledge", whose name is reminiscent of the biblical tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

## References

> Actually, the water is only towards the back of the room
> There's no water at the door, it's on the raised part
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— haydengraves on Discord
2. ↑ snowysnowwish on Discord