Maleficaria

Maleficaria or Mals are the "creatures" that are intent on going after young wizards to suck out all of their Mana.

*See also: Magic System § Mana*

Most Mals don’t have names as there are a lot of different types and some just come and go. The ones that are named are usually the greater ones, and they are very hard to kill.

**Maleficaria Studies**

The students attend a class on “Maleficaria Studies”. The class is held in a huge hall with a giant mural of the Graduation Hall full of Mals. Each class, one of the Mals morphs out of the picture as an illusion and wanders around demonstrating all of the ways that is can attack the students. The students each receive a textbook in their main language and they read along, as there is no lecture.

**Classes of Mals**
There are different classes of Mals. Mentioned include:

1. Hybrid category – Cross-breeds
	* Clever alchemist stuck together two incompatible creatures for fun and profit
2. Hydra Class
3. Bestial Class
4. Vermin Class
5. Psychic Class
6. Eldritch Class

### A

agglo
Tiny, with a shell that attracts debris such as two screws, half a lozenge, and a pen cap stuck to its shell.
They are responsible for the breaking of the cleansing equipment in the Graduation hall.
Argonet
smooth, armored plate atop the argonet head that was completely filling up the space of a maintenance shaft on the other side.
A talon, roughly a foot across, was resting atop a ladder. It has nine of its eyes. A fist-sized tooth, was used in the Sirenspider Lute for the turning pegs
### B

Blood-Clinger
bloody sucker-marks wrapped around his arm twice like a twining bracelet.
### C

Chimaera
fire-breathing tail
(chimaera might not have stuck to me - not sure what that means?)
Crawler
*See also: Crawler*

### D

Digester
A Mal that, when it hasn't recently eaten, can spread itself so thinly over a flat surface that it cannot be seen. Digesters often do so on the landing of stairwells, doors, and walls. They eat victims by lying in wait and then wrapping themselves around whomever or whatever comes near enough
Death Wyrm
crawls out of the depths of the nearest cavern,
### F

Flingers
Nest
### G

Grogler
iridescent jelly around a neon-pink vein, with a red knot in the middle.
*was so big that you couldn’t see the thin pink cords running through the center of the tentacles, or the big red knot that was presumably somewhere in the middle of that mass.*
Groglers aren’t known for patience or long-term strategy. To kill, the center where the big red knot is, has to be destroyed.
### H

Harpy
taken to her nest to be eaten alive by her chicks
### K

Kvenliks
Tear apart their victims
### L

Lockleeches
*adult spindly thing comes quietly down at night and pokes an ovipositor into any big clumps of hair, lays an egg inside, and creeps away. A little while later the leech hatches inside its comfy nest, attaches itself to your scalp almost unnoticeably, and starts very gently sucking up your blood and mana while infiltrating further. If you don’t get it out within a week or two, it usually manages to work its way inside the skull, and you’ve got a window of a few days after that before you stop being able to move.*
### M

Maw-Mouth
*See also: Maw-Mouth*

Mimic
Can change their shape into anything, such as looking like chairs.
### S

Scratcher
Scratchers aren’t hard to kill, any reasonably skilled freshman could do for one with the basic blunt-force spell we all learn in the second month of Maleficaria Studies,
fingers - long jointed things with claws like the blades of paring knives.
Made of metal
Scuttlers
Run in packs
They’d pressed the frontmost ones right squish up against it: five or six pairs of round lemur eyes staring at me full of hungry longing, drooling from their mouths full of needle-teeth.
Shrikes
flock of shrikes
Sirenspider
*See also: Sirenspider*
Soul-Eater
*See also: Soul-Eater*
### R

Rilkes
A cloud of rilkes went boiling after him, their wings making the shrieking bird-noise, dripping blood beneath them like rain.
### W

Wauria
Wauria are mals that attack students while they take showers. They slither up through the drains to latch onto their ankles.
## References

1. ↑ Novik, Naomi. A Deadly Education (The Scholomance) (p. 226). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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6. ↑ Novik, Naomi. A Deadly Education. (The Scholomance) (Time 00:53:45). Random House Publishing Group. Audiobook Edition.
7. ↑ Novik, Naomi. A Deadly Education (The Scholomance) (p. 16). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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10. ↑ Novik, Naomi. A Deadly Education (The Scholomance) (p. 111). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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