Blacktower Academy

The rite for newly enrolled students. Each heir receives a house registry tablet, engraved with their branch, status, and allotment. But the disinherited descendants of the Eighth Branch receive a blank tablet.

The school where the heirs of the Seven Great Houses study together. On the surface an educational institution; in truth, the densest concentration of hostages, betrothals, and assassinations in the capital. Its crest bears seven rings—the topmost one empty.