| “ | Have power On this dark land to lighten it, and power On this dead world to make it live. | ” |
– Motto of House of Scroll & Key | ||
Scroll & Key is one of the Ancient Eight. It is the second oldest society and was established in 1842. Members of Scroll and Key are colloquially called the Locksmiths. They specialize in duru dweomer, or astral and etheric projection and portal magic.
Book Information[]
The following is information found in the final pages of Ninth House provided by Leigh Bardugo on the Houses of the Veil.
- Motto: Have Power on this dark land to lighten in, and power on this dead world to make it live.
- Teachings: Practices Duru dweomer, portal magic. Astral and etheric projection.
- Famous Alumni: Dean Acheson, Gary Trudeau, Cole Porter, Stone Phillips.
Magic and Influence[]
The Locksmiths specialize in duru dweomer, or astral and etheric projection and portal magic. The Locksmiths historically have used portal magic to travel big distances or enter secure buildings.[1]
The origins of the Scroll and Key's magic, portal magic, was stolen during the Crusades from Middle Eastern sorcerers. This issue is debated by scholars the Locksmiths themselves, who argue that they have come by their magics by honest means.[2] In any case, they generally disregard their magics true origins, referring to their branch of the arcane as duru dweomer, a term derived from Middle English; duru meaning door or opening,[3] and dweomer from dweomercræft, roughly meaning magic or sorcery.[4] Portal magic as a general craft is very versatile, allowing one to summon object(s) from far away using a telescope portal[5] and even summon a person's body to an early version of itself.[1]
Tomb[]
The exterior of the Scroll and Key tomb is influenced by Middle Eastern architecture, an homage to the true origins of their power.[2] The exterior architecture consists of golden Moorish screens and dark-striped bands against light-colored stone that emphasized symmetry. In the Scroll and Key courtyard, there were enchanted orange trees that bore fruit year-round. These trees were taken from the Alhambra, the fortress palace in Andalusia, Spain and monument to 13th century Islamic architecture.[6]
In contrast, the interior of the tomb is dedicated to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table. As part of their homage to Arthurian legend, there are inscribed quotes all around the tomb from Lord Alfred Tennyson's series of poems "Idylls of the King." There is even a round table at the heart of the tomb. The table said to be from Avalon, while others claim the Temple of Solomon and some say Stony Creek, Connecticut.[2] The society's motto, also inscribed on the tomb, originates from the first poem, The Coming of Arthur.
History[]
Scroll and Key was founded in 1842. The violent consumption of Paoletta DeLauro's soul in 1869 created the nexus on which the Kingsley Trust Association constructed tomb of Scroll and Key.[7]
Ninth House[]
It is agreed by Lethe affiliates that the magic of Scroll and Key has been waning for some time. Lethe has speculated that portal magic as conducted by Scroll and Key is so disruptive that it has been eroding the power nexus their tomb is built on.[1]
Scroll and Key tapped Colin Khatri at the start of his senior year. Colin and other Locksmiths would set out to solve the problem of Scroll and Key's waning portal magics. Utilizing his connection to Blake Keely, Colin breaks society rules by recruiting outsiders Tara Hutchins and Lance Gressang to make psilocybin in Yale's greenhouse—creating a drug that could facilitate the opening of portals. Tara found success where Colin couldn't, distilling the mushrooms and creating working portal tabs. However, the portal tabs still depended on the use of Scroll and Key's nexus to travel big distances.[8]
The Locksmiths hid their actions from Lethe House, at Alex Stern's first encounter with Scroll and Key, the society would purposefully fail their attempt at a portal to Budapest, Hungary,[1] even go so far as to cancel a scheduled Thursday ritual—much to Darlington's suspicion.[9]
Known Members[]
- Colin Khatri
- Robbie Kendall
Real World Information[]
Scroll & Key Society at Yale[]
The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest Yale secret societies and reputedly the wealthiest. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head. Each spring the society admits fifteen rising seniors to participate in its activities and carry on its traditions.[10]
HISTORY[]
Scroll and Key was established by John Addison Porter, with aid from several members of the Class of 1842 (including Leonard Case Jr. and Theodore Runyon) and a member of the Class of 1843 (William L. Kingsley), after disputes over elections to Skull and Bones Society. Kingsley is the namesake of the alumni organization, the Kingsley Trust Association (KTA), incorporated years after the founding.
Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."
TRADITIONS[]
- At the close of Thursday and Sunday sessions, members are known to sing the "Troubadour" song on the front steps of the Society's hall, a remnant of the tradition of public singing at Yale. The song (written in the 1820s by Thomas Haynes Bayly) was recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford on his 1956 album, "This Lusty Land", as "Gaily the Troubador".
- In keeping with the practice of adopting secret letters or symbols such as Skull and Bones' "322," Manuscript's "344," and the Pundits' "T.B.I.Y.T.B," Scroll and Key is known to use the letters "C.S.P. and C.C.J.".
- Members of the society sign letters to each other "YiT", as opposed to Skull and Bones' "yours in 322".
- Outside of its tap-related activities, the society has been known to hold two major annual events called "Z Session"
Trivia[]
- Gifts to Yale :In addition to financing its own activities, Scroll and Key has made significant donations to Yale over the years. The John Addison Porter Prize, awarded annually since 1872, and in 1917 the endowment for the founding of the Yale University Press, which has funded the publication of The Yale Shakespeare and sponsored the Yale Younger Poets Series, are gifts from "Keys".
Trivia[]
- Darlington likes the architecture of Scroll and Key the most.
Gallery[]
Notable Alumni[]
| Name | Yale class | Known for [10] |
|---|---|---|
| Leonard Case Jr. | 1842 | Philanthropist and Founder of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland |
| Theodore Runyon | 1842 | Envoy, then Ambassador, Germany; Battle of Bull Run |
| Carter Harrison, Sr. | 1845 | Mayor of Chicago, five terms 1879–93; US Representative, 1875–79 |
| Homer Sprague | 1852 | President of the University of North Dakota |
| Randall L. Gibson | 1853 | US Senator 1883–1892 (Louisiana); US Representative, 1872–1882; Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army; President, Tulane University |
| George Shiras Jr. | 1853 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| John Dalzell | 1865 | US Congress |
| George Bird Grinnell | 1870 | Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer |
| Edward Salisbury Dana | 1871 | American mineralogist |
| Fred Dubois | 1872 | First US Senator from Idaho 1891–1897, resigned, re-elected 1901–1907; Opponent of gold standard; Engineered statehood for Idaho |
| Henry deForest | 1876 | Southern Pacific Railroad |
| Gilbert Colgate | 1883 | President and Chairman of Colgate & Co. |
| George Edgar Vincent | 1885 | President of the University of Minnesota and the Rockefeller Foundation |
| James Gamble Rogers | 1889 | Collegiate Gothic architect, favored architect of Edward Harkness and designed many of Yale's buildings |
| Herbert Parsons | 1890 | US Congress 1904–1910; leading supporter of League of Nations |
| Harvey Cushing | 1891 | Neurosurgeon considered father of brain surgery |
| William Nelson Runyon | 1892 | Acting Governor of New Jersey (May 1919 – Jan 1920) |
| Frank Polk | 1894 | Davis Polk & Wardwell; (acting) Secretary of State, managed conclusion to World War I |
| Allen Wardwell | 1895 | Russian War Relief, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Bank of New York; Vice-President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce |
| Lewis Sheldon | 1895 | US Peace Commission, Paris Peace Conference, 1918; Olympic medalist, track and field |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt III | 1895 | Brigadier General in the U.S. Army during the First World War |
| William Adams Delano | 1895 | Award-winning Architect; designed many of Yale's buildings |
| Joseph Medill McCormick | 1900 | U.S. Senate 1919-1924; publisher, Chicago Tribune |
| Joseph Medill Patterson | 1901 | Founder, New York Daily News; manager, Chicago Tribune |
| Robert R. McCormick | 1903 | Chicago Tribune; Kirkland & Ellis |
| James C. Auchincloss | 1908 | US Congress Rep 1943–1965, Governor of the NYSE., US Military Intelligence World War I |
| William C. Bullitt | 1912 | US Ambassador, France, 1936–1941, first US Ambassador, Soviet Russia, 1933–1936 |
| Mortimer R. Proctor | 1912 | Governor of Vermont, 1945–47 |
| Cole Porter | 1913 | Entertainer, songwriter |
| Dean Acheson | 1915 | 51st Secretary of State |
| Wayne Chatfield-Taylor | 1916 | President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |
| Dickinson W. Richards | 1917 | 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Ethan A. H. Shepley | 1918 | Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis |
| John Enders | 1919 | Shared 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Brewster Jennings | 1920 | Founder and President of the Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York; president, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research |
| Seymour H. Knox I | 1920 | American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company |
| Richardson Dilworth] | 1921 | Mayor of Philadelphia 1955–1962 |
| William Hawks | 1923 | Film producer |
| James Stillman Rockefeller | 1924 | President and Chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew |
| Huntington D. Sheldon | 1925 | Central Intelligence Agency; Director of the Office of Current Intelligence; President, Petroleum Corporation of America |
| Newbold Morris | 1925 | New York lawyer and politician |
| Benjamin Spock | 1925 | Pediatrician and author (Baby & Child Care), antiwar activist, Olympic gold medalist |
| John Hay Whitney | 1926 | U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, major philanthropist to Yale University, and during his college years coined the phrase "crew cut" |
| Frederic A. Potts | 1926 | Chairman, Philadelphia National Bank; New Jersey Senate; Republican candidate, New Jersey Governor |
| Paul Mellon | 1929 | Philanthropist |
| Benjamin Brewster | 1929 | Financier, Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon) |
| Raymond R. Guest | 1931 | US Ambassador, Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, 1945–47; horse breeder; Polo Hall of fame |
| Donald R. McLennan | 1931 | Founder and Chairman, insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan |
| Robert F. Wagner, Jr. | 1933 | 102nd Mayor of New York City 1954–1965 assembly person from New York City 1937–1941 |
| J. Peter Grace | 1936 | W. R. Grace & Co. |
| Peter H. Dominick | 1937 | US Senator 1962–1974 (Colorado); US Congressman, 1960–1962; US Ambassador, Switzerland |
| Sargent Shriver | 1938 | Peace Corps; 1972 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| Cyrus Vance | 1939 | 57th Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Robert D. Orr | 1940 | Governor of Indiana; US Ambassador, Singapore |
| Cord Meyer, Jr. | 1943 | Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists |
| George Roy Hill | 1943 | 1974 Academy Award for Directing, The Sting |
| Frederick B. Dent | 1944 | US Secretary of Commerce |
| John Vliet Lindsay | 1944 | 103rd Mayor of New York City 1966–1973 Congressman from New York City 1959–1965 |
| Thomas Enders | 1953 | Ambassador, Spain 1983-1986, Assistant Sec. of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Ambassador to the European Union 1979-1981, Ambassador to Canada, 1976-1979; Salomon Brothers |
| Philip B. Heymann | 1954 | Watergate Special Prosecutor, Deputy US Attorney General; Professor, Harvard Law School |
| Warren Zimmermann | 1956 | US Ambassador, Yugoslavia, 1989–1992; author of book about the causes of Yugoslavia's dissolution |
| Roscoe S. Suddarth | 1956 | President, Middle East Institute; US Ambassador to Jordan; American Iranian Council |
| Calvin Trillin | 1957 | American writer |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti | 1960 | 19th Yale University president; National League president, MLB Commissioner |
| Peter Beard | 1961 | Photographer |
| Garry Trudeau | 1970 | Doonesbury Cartoonist |
| Stone Phillips | 1977 | Dateline NBC |
| Gideon Rose | 1985 | Foreign Affairs |
| Fareed Zakaria | 1986 | Editor, Newsweek International and host of CNN show |
| Dahlia Lithwick | 1990 | Editor at Newsweek and Slate |
| Jeannie Rhee | 1994 | Special Council member for the Obstruction of Justice Investigation |
| Alexandra Robbins | 1998 | Journalist, New York Times Bestseller |
| Ari Shapiro | 2000 | Co-host of All Things Considered for National Public Radio |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ninth House Chapter 21 (Winter)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ninth House Chapter 16 (Winter) Lethe Days Diary
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/duru#Old_English
- ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dweomercraft
- ↑ Ninth House Chapter 7 The Il Bastone Library works with a telescope portal
- ↑ Ninth House Chapter 10 (Last Fall)
- ↑ Ninth House Chapter 29 (Early Spring)
- ↑ Ninth House Chapter 24 (Winter)
- ↑ Ninth House Chapter 6 (Last Fall)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Wikipedia:Scroll and Key. Retrieved on 2021-07-03.