Melee-Magthere

Melee Magthere was the warrior school for the drow of Menzoberranzan. Notably, Drizzt Do'Urden spent time here in training.

It was one of the three schools that noble children of the drow were expected to attend. Their education usually began at 20 years old and continued on for another 10 more years. Graduates of the academy did not hold as high a prestige as those who graduated from the wizard or clerics school, but still held a greater distinction than those who were normal citizenry. One of the events of training there was the Grand Melee, in which Zaknafein Do'Urden was the victor seven years running, three times against older more advanced students. Drizzt Do'Urden, it seems, would follow his father by doing the same and every year after his third he would go against student three years ahead of him and still would beat them all to be the top in his class.

It was a relatively plain compound when compared to the other schools of The Drow Academy. It was basically a pyramid shaped structure that consisted of the utensils and fighting arenas needed to learn the art of melee combat. The students of Melee Magthere spent their first fifty days listening to tales that were mostly lies regarding how the elves of the surface world mistreated the drow, then about nine years in combat tactics, followed by a year of rounding out their education by spending the first six months at Sorcere and the last six months at Arach-Tinilith.