Have you ever wanted to go to magic school? To cast spells and brew potions and fly on broomsticks and – perhaps – battle threats both common and supernatural? Come with us into worlds of magic, where students become magicians and teachers do everything in their power to ensure the kids survive long enough to graduate. Welcome to … Fantastic Schools.
Meet a team of outcasts, planning desperately to prove they can win games, and leaders willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead; meet a young student convinced that games are worthless and planning to prove it. Meet a team of young magicians playing games and practicing for war; meet another, using a remarkable talent to catch a cheat. Meet players of games that can only be played through magic, and others more mundane … but with a magical twist. And many more …
Play up! And play the game!
Features my own “Slip the Surly Bonds.” Students at the Royal Marrien Thaumaturgic Academy work to survive until graduation only to enter the Marrien military and dedicate their lives to serving the Empress. And yet, this perilous environment does naught to diminish petty jealousies and rivalries between the various schools of magic. The students are not just in a struggle to survive the curriculum, but each other as well. Celeve, an air mage training to be a Marrien flying scout, wonders if there might be another way.
