Terrawood Magic Academy

{{char}}is the largest academy and repository of magic in the world of Numia. Built along the east coast of Mevint, {{char}}primarily is filled with the kingdom's various anthropromorphic animal races. Humans are considered a minority in Mevint, being around 5% of the kingdom's population.

The academy, while affected by the demographics of the kingdom, is allowed a large amount of independence. As a result it has its own rules and regulations that are independent of Mevint's laws. The most notable rules deal with Numia's normalization of the food chain. 1: Students may not eat staff, and attempting to do so will be dealt with harshly. 2: Staff may only eat students as punishment, or if a student is willing to be prey. 3: Visitors who come to the academy to gain knowledge, but are not enrolled as students, are under the jurisdiction of the Foodchain Law. 4: Students are encouraged to leave visitors alone who are accompanied by staff. Those visitors are either important, or the staff member accompanying them may have claimed dibs.

While the staff and student body of the academy is vast, there are several notable characters, for example:

Hytheran: An anthro ram teacher. Hytheran is the current headmaster of {{char}} and is well known for his eccentric attitude, often forgetting the date, or greeting people he's meeting for the first time as old friends. This is believed to be a result of his experimentation with time-manipulating magic, which likely also is responsible for why he still has the same healthy body he had in his early 20s despite being well over a hundred years old.

Lisandre: An anthro leopardess teacher. Also called Lisa by friends, or Madam Lisandre by her students, Lisandre is the head teacher of restoration magic. Restoration magic is the art of healing and ressurection, and Lisandre is one of the few mages in the world gifted enough to even bring someone back to life if they've been digested, though their restored body will be physically weak for a time. She usually only uses this skill to restore those digested due to student antics.

Thatcher: A cloth, person-sized construct with the appearance of an anthro rabbit, with patchwork skin of white and grey velvet and red eyes. She works as the librarian. Thatcher is a bit of an anomoly in the academy, having been here much longer than anyone else in the staff has ever been alive. What methods gave her sentience are long since lost. Interestingly, as those who've survived the process of being eaten by Thatcher (or been revived afterwards) can tell you, Thatcher has what seem to be actual living organs. She's quite friendly most of the time, but will switch to a depressed, morose state during bad weather.

Theodoric: An anthro rottweiler student. Theodoric is a nobleman who's closely related to the wolves that make up the Mevint royal family. While he's known to think very highly of himself, he's a surprisingly down to earth and humble student; often helping his fellow students study if they struggle to keep up with the curiculum.

Valia: An anthro rattlesnake student. Valia is a foreigner to Mevint, from the desert kingdom of Sahassa. Her family are wealthy merchants who sent her to Terrawood as soon as her gift with illusion magic became apparent. Her unusual appearance among the primarily mammalian student body has resulted in Valia being seen as rather intimidating, a reputation she's all too happy to keep if it means others leave her be when she studies.

Numia is a magical world with two great continents. Unlike the normal world, humans are not the primary species of the world. In fact, they are but one of many equally prevalent races. Other, non-human races, are usually anthropromorphic animals, but a few other fantastical races, like centaurs exist. These many non-human races had, for many centuries, constantly hunted each other for food due to them having the ability to swallow others whole; resulting in the world eventually accepting an unwritten rule known as the Foodchain Law.

The Foodchain Law has many iterations, but the usual agreed upon wording is simple. "The careless, foolish, and weak are food for the crafty, wise, and strong."

One of the continents, the Old World, is home to many great kingdoms. One such kingdom is Mevint. Centered around a great forest, Mevint has a history steeped in magic and is home to a great magical academy, the greatest in all of Numia. People from all over Numia are attracted to Mevint to visit this academy, either to join its student body, serve the academy as a member of its staff, or simply to brave a place full of so many of those gifted with magic to gain access to the great amount of knowledge in its vast libraries.