Devil school

The term "Devil school" has not been confirmed by official sources and is merely conjecture or a fan invention.

The **devil school** (Danish: *Droleskolen*, "the Drole School") is a school in Hell, located in the devil city. Here devils go to educate themselves in academic subjects, in ways to be evil, bully and prank, and also how to use the special abilities pertaining to their specific breed of devils, including transformation. The school building resembles a school on Earth, being big, boring and made of red bricks. The school is run by a principal.

## Subjects

### Diabolic

The language of the devils and all of Hell. Devils have to learn to speak, write and read in Diabolic in order to use the language, however a supernatural force, possibly a form of magic, causes non-native beings to be able to speak, write and read Diabolic while they are in Hell, whilst appearing to resemble their own native tongue to themselves - a change that is only mental. Other beings' talking and writing will also resemble their own tongue to these people. For this reason, only devils need to learn the language, hence why it exists as a subject at the devil school.

### History

The history of Hell, and some of that of other underworlds connected historically to it.

### Transformation

A class and power specific to tempters, they learn how to transform themselves into other beings, whether it be another devil or a whole other kind of species. Transformation is one of the first things tempters learn at the school.

### Temptation

Tempters learn to tempt others. It is possible that other types og devils take this class too.

### Summoning

A class where devils learn to summon themselves physically in other worlds, such as on the surface of the Earth, so that they can tempt people and make bad things happen there. Summoning oneself in physical form is extremely difficult, and as such it is first part of the curriculum in the 90th grade.

### Possession

Like summoning, possession of foreign bodies is extremely difficult, and first appears on the curriculum in the 90th grade. It's so hard that Satina Dargue was only able to possess simple animals like mosquitoes when she went to 83rd grade, without having learned how to do it.

### Evil deeds

#### Wedgies

At the devil school, the devils also learn how to perform wedgies as part of their training in evil deeds, pranks and such. When Flux had become a teacher assistant, wedgies had been on the lesson plan, however as many of the school's teachers had left Hell to join up in Aziel Stofeles' army, he'd been left to do a lot of overtime and he had ended up with both blisters and wrist pains giving others wedgies to demonstrate, however according to Sam, who had come to Hell at this time, this was in fact due to Flux's grip. He wound up showing the devil-boy how to properly hold the victims.

## Students

### Current

* Satina Dargue
* Flux
* Sam
* Beelse
* Dagon

### Former

* Aziel Stofeles
* Droel
* Howel Valfoot
* Hisser
* Philip Engel (one day)

## Teachers

### Current

* Sam, as teacher assistant
* Flux, as teacher assistant

### Former

* Kokabiel, history teacher and once Diabolic substitute teacher

## Appearances

### *The Gret Devil War*

* *The Devil's Apprentice* (omtalt)
* *The Die of Death*
* *The Wrongful Death*
* *The Angel of Evil* (mentioned)
* *The Fallen Angel*

## Danish name of the school

In the original Danish edition of *The Devil's Apprentice* (*Djævelens lærling*), the school in Hell is called "droleskolen".

According to Ordbog Over Det Danske Sprog (Dictionary of the Danish Language), which includes many historical and obsolete terms, "drol(len)", as well as "drole" and "droll", is a proper noun with many different related meanings, and appears in different forms in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German and Dutch, where it typically means "devil", "evil spirit" a "trickster", and is found in Danish as a word for "the Devil" or "Satan". In modern Danish the term *drillepind*, literally meaning "trickster", would most likely be used instead, though there does exist a word *drilleånd*, "trickster-spirit", which originates in folklore.

The word is also found in French, in the form of *drôle*, and its meanings are derived from the abovementioned.

According to Collinsdictionary.com, *drole* and *droll* is an adjective in British English that carries the same kind of meanings as the Nordic, German, Dutch and French versions of the words mentioned above, and have etymologically been derived from the French and Dutch versions specifically. Furthermore, *drole* can be a noun meaning "scoundrel".

## References

### References to books in the *Great Devil War* series

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Die of Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback). Høst & Søn, October 11 2018 (English e-book). (Original Danish version published August 31, 2007 by Høst & Søn)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Wrongful Death*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback) (Original Danish version published April 30, 2009 by Høst & Søn)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Devil's Apprentice*. Høst & Søn, October 19, 2018 (English print-on-demand paperback). Høst & Søn, October 11 2018 (English e-book). (Original Danish version published September 30, 2005 by Høst & Søn)
4. ↑ Kenneth B. Andersen. *The Angel of Evil*. (Publication House) October 20, 2019. (Original Danish version published April 29, 2010 by Høst & Søn)

#### Original Danish editions

1. ↑ Andersen, Kenneth Bøgh. *Djævelens lærling* Høst & Søn, September 30, 2005. (original Danish edition of *The Devil's Apprentice}}*

### References to other literature

1. ↑ Drole at ODS.dk.
2. ↑ *drôle* at Wiktionary.com.
3. ↑ *drole* at Collins Dictionary.
4. ↑ *droll* at Collins Dictionary.

## Notes

1. ↑ In the original Danish edition of *The Wrongful Death* (*Den forkerte død*), in chapter 40 *The Real Apprentice* (*Den rigtige lærling*), Flux (Danish: *Fluks*) says that "pant-water" (Danish: *buksevand*) has been on the lesson plan. This is a uniquely Scandinavian bullying tactic where the bully wets their victim's pants, either by putting them in a sink, fountain or toilet, often sticking the faucet into the pants as well. However, this term has no direct translation in English, even though the concept also exist in American and British culture. The only thing that is close in mainstream knowledge is a wedgy (*olfert* in Danish), and this is what is mentioned in the English translation of the book instead of the "pant-water." Since the Danish editions are canonical, the wiki's policy is that this bullying tactic is what Flux truly spoke of, however since there is no proper English term for it we have left the official English translation's term as it is - for now.