The Scholomance: Fabled Romanian School of Black Magic

Unexplained Mysteries

If you have not heard of the Scholomance, perhaps you should have. Abraham Van Helsing, Bram Stoker’s mercurial expert on maladies both material and mystical, had certainly heard of it; he suspected the Count Dracula of being a student of the place.

This hidden school in the mountains of Romania was where the Dutch doctor thought Dracula had learned his dark arts. A fabled school for witchcraft and wizardry to rival any dark palace of gothic nightmares, it was known to produce the most powerful of warlocks, just as it was known to exact a heavy price on its students.

From where do these stories come, of a school where students would learn the secrets of dark magicks from the Devil itself? Where was, and perhaps is, the Scholomance, and what can one learn there?

Ten Students and Nine Graduates

The students of Scholomance were also called the Solomonari. The school would enroll only 10 student, the strongest, finest and most devoted to be found from all around the world.

The Solomonari would learn different spells and harness magic powers to become witches and wizards at this unique magic school. The students would also be taught about the speech of animals and how to speak to the animals.

These students would be taught such powers by the Devil himself, and nine of them would graduate to return to the material world and use their powers for whatever evil plans they chose The tenth however, would stand apart, and would not return unchanged.

Of the ten who entered the Scholomance, nine would return with knowledge of dark magicks. The tenth would remain and become the Weathermaker (2ragon / Adobe Stock)