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Graycott, WI

Explore the town of Graycott and the lore behind it

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Graycott High &
Sombaster Prep

Graycott High and Sombaster Prep are the high schools that serve the county of Graycott

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Silverleaf Ley Line
University

Dive into the lore of the famous university

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• Lore, Locations, and Secrets

Jadegarden Prospects

Jadegarden Prospects is a 43+ acre trailer park that holds over 245 plots where many of the college students reside during the school year. The back of the park, which is constantly expanding, holds the nicest of the trailers (think doublewide, triplewide) while the front of the park is home to the oldest of the trailers and tends to be looked down upon by certain members of the community.

Rosegold Bay

Rosegold Bay is the upper crust of Graycott. With a view of Lake Michigan from almost every house and a private clubhouse, you can bet most people here spent 500,000+ on their homes and they want you to know it.

Hit Your Groove

Hit Your Groove is the record shop/music store in downtown Graycott. Owned by Thomas Byrne and managed by Axel Rosales, the store is known for being quiet and cozy, with Axel always open for a chat or to hear the latest gossip, just don't expect him to share any secrets of his own.

👑 THE ROYALS & THE KINGS

Nick Bollien, football star and walking Abercrombie ad, fell head-over-cleats for an outcast. Rumor has it he’s been seen skipping parties to hang with said mystery misfit behind the bleachers. Cute, tragic, probably doomed.
He and fellow Grizzly jocks Seong-Hwan Wilstrum Lee (yes, that Lee family, heirs to an oil empire) and Riley Benowitz form the Trio of Kings. Rich, pretty, talented—boring, right? Except Seong-Hwan is secretly super intense, Riley’s been losing it lately, and all three are definitely hiding something. We love emotionally repressed man-dramas.

🎨 PUNKS, FREAKS & BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS

Odessa James: artist, rebel, and alleged hallway graffiti bandit. She tagged the girls’ bathroom with a full mural last fall and somehow never got caught. (Legend.)
Then there’s Decker, aka Alan Deckerman—crowned King of the Freaks—ruling over the misfit kingdom with his goth girl lieutenants Nadia and Daphne. They smoke cloves behind the auto shop and will hex you if you even look like you listen to Imagine Dragons.
Santiago Pineda, on the other hand, isn’t just bad—he’s dangerous. Word on the street? Crime family ties. Word in the halls? He’s got the kind of stare that even makes teachers flinch.

🎭 THE DRAMATICS (ON AND OFF STAGE)

Blake Dixon skates during the day and sings his heart out at night. He's got a skateboard in one hand and a script in the other, and honestly? He’s probably the most emotionally stable person here.
Which is saying something, because Tyler Parker—our favorite wolf demi himbo—is bench pressing people and feelings. (Yes, he’s also on the football team. Yes, he’s that nice.)
And speaking of the unexpected: Sasha Eaton, Josh Grant, and an unnamed outcast are in a full-blown, hall-walking, PDA-having throuple. We love representation and chaos.

💄 THE GLITTERATI

Lacey Summers is queen of the popular girls but has the emotional intelligence of a golden retriever in the best way. She's the only one who says hi to the lunch monitors.
Bryce Mercer is dating the kid who edits the yearbook and has a Pinterest board for prom. Connor Jameson is your classic bad boy who probably vapes strawberry ice but looks hot doing it.
And then there’s Austin Schmidt—a jock dating a college kid (questionable??), with triplets for siblings: Angelica, the cheerleader, and Aaron, the tech nerd who once hacked the vending machine.

🕳️ THE PIT DWELLERS

Don’t ask where the name came from. Just know that Ian Baker is currently spiraling because he’s in love with his new stepsibling, who’s... wait for it... popular.
Xavier Knight is their tall, brooding bestie who hasn’t spoken since sophomore year. Some say he’s in a band. Some say he’s cursed.
Luke Hoerter is the group’s lovable chaos muppet, and Bianca Hoerter (adopted sister/cousin/whatever—it’s Graycott, just roll with it) is the only reason they’re still enrolled.

⚽️ THE SECRETS

Max Hollister, captain of the soccer team and certified golden boy, has been seen sneaking out of the library with someone decidedly not golden. A loser, even. Hmm.
Ross Newman, resident 4channer and president of the Ley Line Conspirators Club, is 100% convinced the school is built on a portal to another dimension. Not saying he’s wrong.

💔 Beckett Whitmore: The Prince in Love with a Pauper

Let’s start with Beckett, our melancholic heartthrob with a Rolex and a secret—he’s hopelessly, desperately in love with someone from Graycott High. Yes. Public school. He’s been sneaking across town like a lovesick Victorian poet with a fake Starbucks study group alibi. If the Whitmore family ever finds out? It’s over. For everyone.

👑 Celeste Ellington: Blonde. Rich. Terrifying.

Queen Bee of Sombaster since freshman year. Celeste doesn't walk through the halls—she glides, flanked by designer bags and girls who laugh at jokes they don’t understand. She’s rumored to have gotten her rival expelled sophomore year for “disrespecting legacy.” Currently dating a senator’s son who attends SLLU. Possibly cursed.

🧠 Asher Vale: Brainiac with a Body Count

Top of the class. Member of five academic societies. Looks like he hasn’t slept since eighth grade. He’s been known to leak test answers to sabotage rivals—and once allegedly convinced a physics teacher they’d misgraded their own test just to move ahead in rank. The true dark academic energy of the school.

🎻 Ophelia "Fifi" Astor-Denning: The Prodigy

Plays first chair violin and speaks five languages but once got caught vaping imported French tobacco in the art gallery during a donor gala (someone call the drama police.) She’s on thin ice with the headmistress, but her mother is an opera patron and her godfather’s on the Board, so… ice melts.

🎭 Julian Cross: The Theatre Royalty

Julian says he’s method acting, but let’s be real—he just lives for the drama. He’s been at the center of at least three love triangles, two onstage and one during tech week that almost shut down the winter musical. He’s rumored to be closeted… but everyone knows. Like, everyone. Constantly seen quoting Oscar Wilde while chain-drinking sparkling water and sashaying through the halls in custom-tailored blazers. If he ever actually came out, the school would probably throw a themed ball.

🥇 Gemma Kline: The Golden Girl with Cracks in the Gold

Openly lesbian, unapologetically intense, and quite literally vaulting toward the Olympics—Gemma is Sombaster’s star gymnast and the face of at least two school brochures. Her focus is legendary. Her balance beam routine has made grown men cry. But behind the perfect landings, whispers follow: her mother, a once-famous equestrian turned socialite, is rumored to have a serious gambling problem. Like, “selling the vacation house in Aspen” serious. Some say the family's fortune is already gone. Gemma denies everything—but the stress lines are showing in her routines, and someone saw her crying in the locker room last week after a very long phone call.

Headmistress Seraphina Wythe

Mysterious, radiant, and ageless, Seraphina Wythe has served as Headmistress since SLLU's founding. She appears to be in her early forties, yet the earliest records depict her exactly the same. Her eyes reflect leyfire when caught in the right light, and no spell cast in her presence ever misfires. No one knows what she is—only that she is not human, and not to be crossed. She rarely leaves the Obsidian Spire, but when she does, the Everburning Flame flares white-hot and silent. Students call her “Lady Wythe” or, in hushed tones, the Timeless One.No one knows exactly what the Wythe siblings are, but rumors say they're two halves of a single, forgotten deity, or born from a dying star.

If Seraphina Wythe is the ever-glowing pillar of SLLU, Thaddeus Wythe is its long shadow—the kind that stretches across time itself.Tall, composed, and eerily ageless like his sister, Thaddeus carries an air of calm inevitability. He rarely speaks above a whisper, but his voice has a way of stopping storms—both literal and personal. He served as sole Headmaster during the university’s "Veiled Era" (approx. 400 years ago), a time of secrecy and experimentation when parts of the campus vanished and reappeared for weeks at a time.He now resides in the Endercroft Archives, a restricted subterranean level few students are even aware exists. He walks the labyrinthine corridors barefoot, cataloguing ancient magical phenomena, and is said to have a pocket watch that ticks backward. Students who stumble into his presence report visions, déjà vu, and temporary loss of time.

Headmaster Emeritus Thaddeus Wythe

Lord Caelthorn Veilryn
The Thornbound Regent

Elegant, aloof, and terrifyingly brilliant, Lord Veilryn was a highblood fae-elf from the Sylvan Courts, exiled for his controversial belief that magic should be cultivated in all beings, not just nobility. A master of ley weaving and spatial enchantment, he sculpted the original protective wards of the campus and is said to have sung the stones of the university buildings into place. His legacy lives on through the Veilryn Building of Arcane Theory—and through whispered rumors that he walks the glimmering halls of the restricted library on moonless nights.

Brash, warm-hearted, and fiercely loyal, Thorne was a wolfblood demihuman from the far northern territories. He brought the original Circle of Guardians to campus—an ancient magical pact that ensures SLLU's neutrality and protects its grounds. He taught combat magic and kin-aligned spellcasting, founding what would become the School of Defense and Warding. Thorne was known for howling during storms and challenging dueling students to run the Midnight Loop. A statue of him, grinning with his twin at his side, stands in front of the athletics dome.

High Fang Thorne Graypaw
Of The Frozen Reach

Moonbinder Bram Graypaw
Of The Frozen Reach

More introspective than his brother, Bram was a gifted chronomancer and ley line cartographer. He was the first to identify Silverleaf’s convergence as a “living web” of interdimensional power, and he created the foundational spells that allow students to draw from it without harm. He also designed many of the enchanted dormitories, including Aether Hall, which shifts locations nightly. His disappearance during a ley storm remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in SLLU history—though some claim he still writes notes in the margins of certain textbooks.

Professor Tansy Hollis was the embodiment of wild knowledge—wise, stubborn, and rooted in the old ways. A master of hedge magic, warding, wildcraft, and the use of natural ley lines, Tansy helped shape Silverleaf Ley Line University's more grounded, hands-on magical curriculum. While other founders focused on theory and legacy, she focused on dirt-under-your-nails magic, the kind that could save your life in the woods or summon protection with salt and blood and iron.Named for the herb tansy—long used in folk medicine and magical wards to repel spirits and protect the living—she was known for her fiercely protective nature and no-nonsense teaching style. Tansy believed magic should be accessible, adaptable, and always have a practical use. She famously taught barefoot and insisted students learn to “listen to the hum of the earth” before attempting any spellwork.

Professor Tansy Hollis
Grandmistress of the Hedgepath

The UnNamed Portait

Location: East Wing, Shadowed Alcove outside the Department of Esoteric Histories
Artist: Unknown
Date: Uncatalogued

The oil painting is clearly a formal, posed composition, expertly rendered in deep, moody hues.The woman sits with regal composure, her hair long and unbound—very unlike the short, precise style students associate with Headmistress Seraphina Wythe today. The man stands behind her, clean-shaven and watchful, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Headmaster Thaddeus Wythe.

Tucked into a shadowed alcove in the East Wing, just outside the long-unused lecture hall of the Department of Esoteric Histories, hangs a painting known simply—reverently—as The Unnamed Portrait.

There is no nameplate. No signature. No mention of it in any official catalog of university holdings. Magical forensics return conflicting results when attempting to date it—some spells suggest the portrait is over a thousand years old, others claim it's only decades. Even attempts to analyze the materials of the canvas and pigment have yielded inconclusive, and at times contradictory, findings. Despite—or because of—its mystery, the portrait has become a quiet legend. Most within the university accept, without needing confirmation, that it must depict the Wythes in their youth. The resemblance is too exact. The energy too familiar. Some students have even noted that if you look long enough into their painted eyes, you’ll feel something ancient looking back.Traditionally, first-years visit the portrait in their first week as a kind of informal rite. Some leave offerings—quills, poems, woven charms. Others simply stand, staring, wondering what it must have been like to be young and already eternal.