Renasci Academy for Gifted Students (RAGS)

RAGS is a school located in the Rocky Mountains, and is the location for the majority of the series. It's Headmaster was Mr. Doyen during Celia's time at school. He was replaced by Ms. Willowdell when Neeghan became a fifth year. It is sorted into five coteries. For information on these you may want to check out the pages on the individual coteries.

In order to graduate from Renasci, on must complete the three major tests of the Demense, as well as fufill as certain number of classroom hours.

The clue found within Renasci was in the Main hall, and said "Fix it at six, keep using your brain; Trowth, headmaster's office."

## Coteries

* Mensaleon
* Aquilegia
* Tattotauri
* Sprachursus
* Corpanthera

## Architecture

*"An enormous structure towered in front of them. Its front doors were two stories high, centered in the front of the building and flanked by smaller doors on either side. Massive wooden beams held up an angled roof, with heavy metal hardware holding them all together. Three granite steps ran the length of the building, leading up to the doors, which were constructed of large wooden planks and detailed with wrought iron fixtures."*

Renasci is a very large castle, that houses, feeds, and teaches 280 student.

## Layout

*"The school is kind of in a horseshoe shape. We're here in the main building. There are two buildings on each side-you can see them angled out here and here."*

Renasci is made up of three large buildings, with the commons in the center. Eliot memorized the layout of the school before arriving, suggesting that maps of some sort are available for use.

### Main building

The main building contains the Main Hall, Refectory, Library, Infirmary, Kitchen, and Auditorium. It more than two stories, although it's unclear how many. The Main Hall and the Refectory are on the first floor. The Kitchen and Auditorium are in the basement, along with offices, changing rooms, and other spare spaces. The Infirmary is on the top floor, just above the Library. In addition to these student spaces, administrative staff have their quarters in this building, but where is unknown.

### Other two buildings

> *Mensaleon is for mind, Tattotauri is for touch, Sprachursus is for speech, Corpanthera is for body, and Aquilegia is for sight.' Audra gestured to the buildings around them. 'Kind of in that order, around in a circle.*
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The two flanking buildings contain classrooms and dormitories. Housing is on the top floors of the buildings with the exception of Corpanthera because "it would be too noisy to put them on the top floor." With this information, conjecture can be made that Aquilegia and Mensaleon are in the far wings of the two auxiliary buildings, with Tattotauri and Sprachursus located on the top floors nearer to the Main Building.

## Library

"*The library at Renasci spanned two floors on the opposite side of the Main Hall from the refectory, but the high ceiling made Celia suspect it really took up more like four floors. As far as Celia could figure, it was upstairs from the Auditorium. There were spiral staircases and rows and rows of bookshelves. The room had a musty old book smell to it, and lots of corners set aside for reading and studying."*

The library houses an incredible amount of books as well as having digital copies of some, and library loaning system. All print books not found in the library proper are kept in a basement two floors down from the main one. Mrs. Romanclef adds that there is more storage spaces down there that "are not storage for the library."

## References

1. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *The Book in the Basement*, Neeghan's Journey 2 (Colorado Springs, CO: Hayes-Allan, 2019), [162-3].
2. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *The Final Word* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2015), [136].
3. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *The Book in the Attic* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2009), [Page 60-61].
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gunther, *New Beginnings*, [40].
5. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *Key to the past,* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2011), [Page 142]
6. ↑ Gunther, *New Beginnings*, [41].
7. ↑ Gunther, *The Book*, [Page 163-164].
8. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *Secrets Hidden*, Neeghan's Journey 3 (n.p.: Hayes-Allan, 2022), [188-9].