The Melee Academy was a pyramidal structure in the eastern part of the Tier Breche district, and nicknamed the "Fortress". The Melee Academy is the warrior school for the drow of Orthae Qu'lith. It is part of the Tier Breche district.
The Melee Academy is one of the three schools that noble male children of the drow are expected to attend. Their education usually begins at 20 years old and continues on for another ten more years at least. One of the events of training there is the Grand Melee, in which students are able to compete against other students once each year. The students of the Melee Academy spend their first fifty days listening to tales that are mostly lies regarding how the elves of the surface world mistreated the drow, then about four years in one-on-one combat.
The Ceremony of Graduation iis regarded as very holy by the followers of Lolth, and it take place in the hall of the Fane of Lolth. The soon to be graduated don a ceremonial robe and sit in circles against the wall of the hall, while circles of priestesses sit and chanted around a large brazier.
The matron mistress of the clerical school will award the highest honor to the best female student that graduates in the same year. After the matron mistress coaxed a narcotic red smoke from the flames, the student strips naked and summons a glabrezu from the flames. Other priestesses then start selecting males from the outer benches to engage in sexual activities, which would be enhanced by the narcotic smoke. It is implied that the glabrezu also engaged in sexual intercourse with the student that summoned it.
It may be that this is how draegloths were actually begotten. Older students from Melee-Magthere trained priestesses at Arach-Tinilith in the art of swordcraft. Languages such as Common are also taught here.
