The Grand Salle
A highly respected school of swordwork run by and on the villa gronds of House Agundar.
The Grand Salle of the Agundarhalls is an incredibly highly respected school of sword-work. Though the building itself is part of the House's villa, the Grand Salle is also the Agundar's school of the fighting arts, and it is not merely members of the House who are trained there.
Students—sometimes called salle-swords—who reach a notable place within the school are given purple-and-silver half-capes to wear as markers of their membership. They will often roam the streets between nightlife venues looking to challenge duelists of other schools—or anyone else wearing a blade they like the look of—to duels, usually to first blood. Students of the Swordshigh Salle in particular are favoured targets. Though the Sallemaster frowns on this sort of nonsense, the masters at the Grand Salle don't go out of their way to inhibit their students.
The building consists of a long gallery along its southern edge, with a passageway that cuts all the way across and the southern wall divided into a number of smaller two-person practice salles. The northern wing of the building features a large-melee hall, most often used for demonstrations where the school's student body is gathered, or for the occasional mass-melee exercises. The upper stories have living spaces for instructors who are retainers of the House, and for those members of the House who prefer to live here. The third floor is entirely given over to the Sallemaster, with ample living quarters, a private salle, armory, and library. The portion of the floor that faces the street outside ends in a rooftop patio where the master frequently practices.