Lodge Commons is the shared home for each of the five Elemental Lodges on the School website and in GSW Mobile. After signing in, members are shown the Commons associated with their School Lodge assignment. It brings together Lodge information, current competition placement, Patronage, Lodge Challenges, and the features currently available to the Lodge.
The Common room displays the features currently available to the Lodge. Depending on its Patronage choices, these may include a message from the Prefect, a member poll, or a featured member contribution. The Prefect manages this content. When a member poll is available, linked members may cast or change their vote while it remains open. The Prefect can review the results.
Members can also explore their Lodge’s traditions and recorded history. Lodge archives remain incomplete, so an absent historical entry should not be understood to mean that an achievement never occurred. The separate School History tab presents the wider history of the Grey School.
The trophy case
Each Lodge’s trophy case displays its current holdings of the Lodge Cup, Lumos Award, Wizard’s Cap, and Berserker Trophy. An award appears in gold when it is currently held. A recessed impression means that the award is not currently held; it does not mean the Lodge has never won it.
Selecting either a trophy or an impression opens an explanation of the award, how it is earned, and its established benefit for the Lodge. The case reflects the School’s official award assignments. It does not replace the existing award process or alter the effects of an award.
School awards are separate from Patronage. They do not cost Perk Points, and members do not need a particular Patron tier or personal Campus Standing to view their descriptions. The existing handbook entries on awards and the Lodge Champion Boon continue to govern their operation.
Faculty Commons and Lodge oversight
Faculty Commons provides teaching guides, School resources, School history, and a faculty announcement area managed by the Headmaster.
The Headmaster, Master of Pupils, Captain, and Vice-Captain may switch views to inspect other Lodges. These visits are read-only and do not grant authority to spend another Lodge’s Perk Points, vote in its polls, reset its selections, or edit its Common room.
The Captain and Vice-Captain retain their normal reference-access requirements when visiting another Lodge. Authorized faculty inspection permits review of the Lodge references. Pupil leadership appointments do not provide access to Faculty Commons.
Lodge study and shared benefits
Use Patronage to review the Lodge's Perk Point budget, selected benefits, and any current ballot. Lodge Patronage and Perk Points explains the four branches, prerequisites, voting, and resets.
The central Lodge emblem is selected when Patronage opens. Select it to read its details: As your Lodge develops its Patronage, its identity may find further expression.
The Grimoire Perks branch ends with Multiplayer for website games. When the chosen game and Multiplayer are active for both players' Lodges, pupils may challenge Lodge mates or eligible pupils from other Lodges in Berserker or Wizard's Duel. Theban Master remains solo. Website and app matches are separate. See Lodge Patronage and Perk Points for the two-minute invitation countdown, saved matches, and reconnecting.
Lodge Challenges provide up to four published opportunities per active term through which accepted contributions can earn shared Perk Points. Lodge Benefits in GSW Mobile explains the weekly study and correspondence allowances.
When their Patronage benefits are active, members can use the Lodge Almanac and Guilds and Guild Towers. Individual reference chapters continue to follow Access to Lodge References.