Lady Deadly

Lady Deadly is fanfiction of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education as game design utilizing the form and mechanics of Lady Blackbird by John Harper to bring the world of Scholomance to life.

This work is also available on Archive of Our Own.

Growing up, only one in eight wizards make it to their eighteenth birthday alive. A wizard going through puberty is just about the tastiest thing for every nasty mal looking for a little snack. Which is why the enclaves set up Scholomance, a school suspended in the void where wizard teens can cram their heads full of the knowledge needed to survive.

That’s right, when you turn sixteen the enrollment spell scoops you up, drops you right into the most insane self directed curriculum on the planet. And you better learn because at the end of your three years the only way out is through the graduation hall where all of the strongest mals have been waiting all year for a tasty young adult snack. Eight hundred pimply teens go in, and four years later, two hundred hardened wizards come out.

How will El and the gang survive through graduation?

Who will make out in the shop class after hours?

Will the events of the book repeat themselves? If they do, will the dice cooperate? By the time you go to find out will you even want them too?