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About Brakebills


Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy is the only institution on the North American continent that offers instruction in the practice of magic. Its student body is made up only of the brightest candidates, as determined by the college's rigorous selection process.

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Brakebills CrestBrakebills was established in 1678; evidence that an earlier school of magic existed prior to that on the same site is tantalizing but ultimately incomplete. It was named for one Boaz Concord Brakebills, a farmer who owned most of the land in the area, though as far as anyone knows he died ignorant of the existence of the school that bears his name. The school crest, familiar to generations of Brakebills students as "the key-and-bee," may once have had some symbolic significance, but it is now lost to history. Contrary to the popular myth it is not in any way related to any rituals whatsoever for summoning cacodemons.


Since its founding the existence of Brakebills has remained proudly hidden from the wider, non-magical world. To this day it is a closely guarded secret, and any student, faculty member or staff member caught discussing it with a non-magician will be immediately and permanently expelled. Once you leave this website, all traces of it will be wiped from your memory. Your browser cache will also be magically purged.
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The school sits on 200 verdant acres on the banks of the Hudson River in upstate New York. Its principle structure, known simply as the House, is a jewel of late-Victorian architecture, and it contains the school’s library, its classrooms and its observatory, as well as accommodations for all students and faculty. The topiary in the hedge maze ranks among the finest examples of that art in the world. Although it is mobile, the topiary poses no danger to students who do not deliberately antagonize it.

The campus is invisible to non-magicans and protected from almost all forms of magical intrusion. The spells involved in securing Brakebills have unfortunately had the effect of shifting the campus slightly backwards in time -- two months and 28 days. So far that effect has proved sadly uncorrectable.
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