Hilalian school of Necrotic Powers

The **Hilalian school of Necrotic Powers**, or **HNP** in short, is the leading authority on all things necromancy located in the city of Hilal. The school is build on the eastern arm of the Crescent Mountains and has partly incorporated an old sentry tower that had been build there before the orc revolution.

Most students attending the HNP are Hilalian locals or born of orc blood. Members of other races who show promise with the art of necromancy are allowed to enrol into the HNP, but orc students are prioritised. To have studied at the Hilalian school of Necrotic Powers is seen as a prestigious education by most in Sahul so students from outside of the Kraterocracy of Hilal have to pay an heavy tuition fee before they can attend.

## History

The school was founded by the lich Grugsmash, one of Zog the Eldest's first acolytes who had betrayed the Dusk Lord during Zog's assault on the dark god's fortress. Grugsmash founded the school with the hope that it could prevent others from falling to the same dishonourably mistakes that he had made when he was younger. It took 50 years before the HNP was officially recognised by the other wizarding schools as an legitimate learning institution and that necromancy itself was recognised as a true magical archetype.

### Sarum Incident

*Main article: Sarum War*

In the year 1407 students of the school made their way to Sarum a small region controlled by humans. Seeking adventure they drunkenly raised the dead causing an international incident that led to war in 1410 with the Reyimic Fellowship. In a response the school banned the students according to official moral guidelines. But further denied that the investigation team had failed to apprehend the students on time. However within the school it was clear that new measures were put in place to prevent this situation from happening again.

## Layout

The first thing students see when they enter the school is a small park forever cast in a mild darkness by the long shadows of the neighbouring buildings. From this park students walk into the main lobby, a long rectangular building with a small bell tower on top, crafted with the same black monolith that the rest of the city is build with. The lobby is attached to the mountainside. It is inside of this rock that most classrooms have been carved away, with smooth and well decorated tunnels connecting them to a central staircase. This staircase goes all the way to the old sentry tower which gives a beautiful view of the city, Ishtar's wastes, and the savanna. It is in this tower that the headmaster of the HNP keeps his personal office and where he lives for most of the school year. The students themselves have to life inside of the city, for the school has no dormitories them to sleep in.

## Moral code

The HNP has a strict moral code for the use of necromancy. For one it is seen as taboo to raise the death as thralls without them agreeing on it before their death. On the other hand it is also frowned upon to bring incomplete beings back from the dream such as ghosts and bind them one's own will. The HNP has a small but skillful secret investigation team assigned to investigating and enforcing these morals outside of school grounds.