Edgar Allan Ravens

The **Edgar Allan Ravens** are the Class 1 Exy team of Edgar Allan University, the nation's first and best NCAA exy team.

Their stadium is Castle Evermore, which doubles as the US Court's home stadium. They are located in West Virginia.

## History

### Castle Evermore

When Tetsuji Moriyama petitioned colleges across America to develop an Exy program (offering to fund it himself and act as coach), he ultimately signed with Edgar Allan University. Castle Evermore was the first collegiate Exy stadium, followed by stadiums at University of Southern California and Penn State. As the only three NCAA Exy programs, the three competed against each other until more team were acquired into the NCAA they were more useful hosting home games against teams without a stadium. The Ravens were originally part of the northern district.

### Transfer

The Ravens transferred to the southeastern district so they could compete with the Foxes. This transfer was kept quiet until June since the ERC recognized that Kevin's transfer to the Foxes had already caused a backlash and they wanted to give Coach Wymack a chance to protect his players. The transfer was approved because the Ravens are the only Class I Exy team in West Virginia and the ERC anticipated lots of publicity for having Kevin and Riko compete against each other.

## Training

The Ravens rigorous training includes running on 16 hour days and a pair based system. Players are paired with each other and the success of one depends on the success of the other, as well as the other way around. Players also do not go anywhere without at least one other team member, including classes, which Ravens take in groups of at least 3.

When the team plays scrimmages for practice, the subs sit on the sidelines and watch. Afterward, both the subs and those who played in the scrimmage get together in the center of the court and critique the match.

The Ravens have a series of eight drills every player must practice. Once a drill is completed, the player moves on to the next one.

1. The first drill consists of toppling over cones on a rebound in whichever order is announced. Only if a player has mastered this drill are they allowed to play in a Raven game. New players spend weeks to months on perfecting this drill.

## Members

### Players

As of the end of The King's Men:

* 16: Wayne Berger, striker
* 19: Brayden Williams, striker
* 21: Cameron Winter, striker
* 24: Phil Engle, striker
* 25: Colleen Jenkins, striker
* 27: Sergio Perez, striker
* 26: Zane Reacher, backliner
* 12: Grayson Johnson, backliner
* 18: Jasmine Lane, striker
* 31: Luke Cardy, backliner
* 39: Martin Dawson, backliner

### Former players

#### Transferred

* 2: Kevin Day, striker
* 3: Jean Moreau, backliner

### Staff

* Tetsuji Moriyama, head coach (resigned)

For the school year occurring from The Foxhole Court to The King's Men, the Ravens rostered of 22 team members (including Jean). This included 7 strikers, 5 dealers, 3 goalkeepers, and 7 backliners.

There are only two women on the team. Jasmine, mentioned in the extra-content story "Nevermore," is the first to break in the aftermath of Tetsuji's resignation.

## Trivia

* Upon Renee rescuing Jean and getting the main faculty involved, the Raven have now gotten "unwanted" attention from the main campus due to realizing how detached its Exy team was from the rest of the school and began raising questions regarding them and their activities.
	+ Due to realizing an inkling to how bad things were in the Nest, the main campus of Edgar Allan began advocating that it be shut down and the Raven be brought back to the main campus for their psychological health.
* The Ravens are likely named as such after Edgar Allen Poe's popular poem "The Raven," with Castle Evermore also coinciding with the fact that "evermore" and moreso "nevermore" are words repeated many times within the poem.

## References

1. ↑ Post on Tumblr by Nora Sakavic, 11/24/2023