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SCHOOL OF EVERSHADE

Where Learning Feels Magical

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A free school of real history and real science, taught through a magical lens. Open to scholars of every age, everywhere.

Take the Sorting Quiz Explore the Courses About the School

The Four Houses

Four houses, set by direction and season. The sorting suggests, and the scholar chooses.

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Septentrio
North · Winter · Air

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Oriens
East · Spring · Water

House Meridies crest

Meridies
South · Summer · Fire

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Occidens
West · Autumn · Earth

Explore the Houses

The Seven Classes

Runes and Ancient Writing crest Runes & Ancient Writing
The history of writing itself, from the first marks to the alphabet.
Scrollwork crest Scrollwork
The craft of the written page: ink, quills, and manuscripts.
Herbology crest Herbology
The science of growing things, from seed to harvest.
Potions crest Potions
The apothecary's craft: real ingredients, real methods, real history.
Celestial Studies crest Celestial Studies
The sky above: its motions, its calendars, and its stories.
Creative Arts crest Creative Arts
The workshop craft of making things with your hands.
The Bestiary crest The Bestiary
The school's records of beasts and beings, from first record to modern face, kept by Professor Sable Rookmere.

How Study Works

Read & Learn. Every lesson is free to read, written as a story of how people really did things.

Practice & Create. Each lesson carries hands-on assignments, marked with the assignment key: ✎ written work · ⚒ hands-on practical · ◐ both.

Record & Reflect. Keep your own scholar's journal of what you made, found, and wondered. No grades, no deadlines, no credits: learning for its own sake.

Join the School

Start with the sorting quiz, then introduce yourself in the Quadrivium and step into your first class. Joining a house is optional; curiosity is the only requirement.

Take the Sorting Quiz Introduce Yourself

Join the school mailing list, and the Scholar's Starter Pack will be on its way to you: Headmaster Squirty's welcome letter, the four Houses, your name in runes, bookmarks to cut out, and your own Scholar's I.D.

Notices, Shops & Support

Term notices and school news gather in the Quadrivium, the school's shared commons. Student work hangs in the Student Gallery, and the castle itself is open to explore. The general kit every scholar starts with lives on the School Supplies page.

Printables, downloads, books, and merch all gather at the School Shops, where the Shop, the Bookstore, and the Merch Shop each have their own door.

Support the School

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Wear the Crest

Hoodies and shirts bearing the school crest — and your house — live in the Merch Shop.

Visit the Merch Shop

This Season at Evershade: Autumn

Autumn is House Occidens’s season, and its table is laid in the Terrace. Games and pastimes for the season, from the school shop:

Evershade — Autumn Bingo Game: 20 Cards + Calling Cards (House Occidens)

Autumn Bingo

$2.95

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Evershade — Fall Word Search: 4 Puzzles + Answer Keys (House Occidens)

Autumn Word Search

$2.95

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Evershade — Autumn Crosswords: 2 Puzzles + Answer Keys (House Occidens)

Autumn Crosswords

$2.95

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Evershade — Autumn Activity Bingo: 10 Challenge Cards (House Occidens)

Autumn Activity Bingo

$2.95

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Evershade — Autumn Scavenger Hunts: Outdoor + Indoor, 40 Finds (House Occidens)

Autumn Scavenger Hunts

$2.95

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Evershade — Autumn Reading Bingo: 4 Cards + Reading Log (House Occidens)

Autumn Reading Bingo

$2.95

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Evershade — Autumn Fill-In Stories: 2 Castle Stories + Word-Ask Pages (House Occidens)

Autumn Fill-In Stories

$2.95

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Evershade — Autumn Trivia: 24 Cards + Score Sheets (House Occidens)

Autumn Trivia

$2.95

View in the Shop

See the whole Autumn shelf in the Terrace →

The 2027 School Planner is here. A dated year at Evershade — December 2026 through December 2027 — printed and bound, on the Evershade Collection shelf.

See the Planner