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   A prestigious four-year arcane academy. Its doors are only open to students deemed to possess magical aptitude as determined by a magical artifact called the Dark Mirror.

   Night Raven College is a co-ed college and the main setting of Twisted Wonderland. It is a four-year magic educational institution located on top of a mountain on the north side of the Isle of Sages. This place possesses a protective spell over its campus to protect it from unwanted visitors.

   Students are only allowed to enroll in this school if they have the potential for being a great magician, a factor which is determined by the Dark Mirror. A black carriage will be sent to personally pick up incoming students, which can even travel underwater. They are kept unconscious in coffins called "Gates" until arriving at the academy. In most cases, they can only be awoken if their Gate is unlocked with a special key, however there are exceptions. All students are given a magical pen upon enrollment. These are fountain pens which hold the user's magic gemstones, and so are also utilized as wands. The color of one's gemstone is determined by which dorm they are in. They are capable of changing form, but so far this has only been shown with the dorm leaders. Students who have received an invitation to enroll in the school can choose to decline or ignore the offer. However, should they change their minds, they can approach the principal with the original invitation at any time. The principal will accept them if they are motivated to learn and enroll them in that year's new cohort of beginning magicians. Invitations have no time limit, and this policy applies even if the Headmaster who sent the original invitation has retired.

   Dark Mirror: The Dark Mirror is a magical mirror that sorts the new students into one of the seven dorms based on the nature of the student's soul and essence of their being. It can only sort students who possess magical powers. While it's possible to transfer dorms, it's a complicated process and requires a new ritual. The Dark Mirror is one of NRC’s most prized magical artifacts and the Mirror Chamber is strictly off-limits to outsiders regardless of circumstance, with the special exception of Halloween, during which photography is prohibited. However, the defenses of the school are not impenetrable; during the Fairy Gala story, fairies somehow managed to get in and steal an important object kept there. Ace seems to imply that there is at least one mirror gate, called a school mirror, in each student’s hometown that only connects those places to the Dark Mirror. During the winter holidays, these mirror gates can close and disallow travel from one end to the other. Should anyone need to use them to return, they will have to use other modes of transportation. In Book 5, Jamil is skeptical about the mirror's power to identify the nature of souls. It's implied that its omniscience and power seems limited because items carried inside the Dark Mirror can disappear if someone is not careful with their luggage. Crowley always remembers that any valuable item can be sent through the mail. There are many types of magic mirrors, but like the Dark Mirror, are rare. Before coming to NRC, Vargas had never seen one.

   Night Raven College has a history of over 500 years and was founded by humans. Each of the seven dorms at Night Raven College is modeled after The Great Seven, a group of individuals legendary in Twisted Wonderland. Upon entering the school, students are sorted into these dorms based on the qualities of their souls: Heartslabyul: based on the Queen of Hearts' spirit of strictness; Savanaclaw: based on the King of Beasts' spirit of persistence; Octavinelle: based on the Sea Witch's spirit of benevolence; Scarabia: based on the Sorcerer of the Sands' spirit of mindfulness; Pomefiore: based on the Fairest Queen's spirit of tenacity; Ignihyde: based on the King of the Underworld's spirit of diligence; Diasomnia: based on the Thorn Fairy's spirit of nobility; There is a dorm that is not part of the seven main dormitories: Ramshackle, a dorm that has been abandoned and occupied by ghosts.

   Each of the dorms (other than Ramshackle) are large pocket dimensions accessible from a single room of mirrors. The dimensions to not exisit in the campus, but their access mirrors does. Which is why they are able to have their own biomes and climates. If in a dorm dimension, they cannot see the main campus until they leave the dorm and the mirror dimension

   Night Raven College also has a sports rivalry with Royal Sword Academy, another prestigious school for mages that other magically-gifted students (such as Che'nya and Neige) attend. For the past 99 years, RSA has beaten NRC at the annual Inter-School Spelldrive Tournament

   Academic Progression: The school year begins September every year. Students usually arrive at NRC via the Dark Mirror and participate in a solemn ceremony in the Mirror Chamber. Each grade has about two hundred students, around thirty from each dorm, that usually throws a welcome party for the freshmen the same night as the ceremony. Night Raven College's school year is structured in a similar way to normal schools, with two semesters punctuated by winter and summer holidays and ending with a final exam. Students have the option of staying at NRC for the winter holidays. Those who choose to stay at the castle during the holidays do not have to attend classes and participate a feast on New Year. However, students whose scores on midterms are low have remedial classes during winter holiday. Other than breaks and weekends, students do not receive holidays but are occasionally allowed to visit Foothill Town, the local village. There are various feasts in a year, and the school normally celebrates Halloween, Starsending, Night Raven College Founding Day, winter and summer holidays, and Spelldrive Tournaments (Interdorm and Interscholastic). There are joint classes where students of various grade levels are in attendance, most frequently P.E. classes. Some classes cannot be joint because there are different materials covered per grade level. Third years attend an orientation meeting in the springtime to prepare them for the application process. To graduate NRC, students must complete mandatory off-campus internships in their fourth year; a structure common among magic schools. Internships begin in September, around the same time classes start and they don't return to campus until the cultural festival in February. Because of this, seniors are unable to participate in a majority of school events until their return.

   Obligatory rules for the fourth years: There are three periods for the internship; students can choose to remain at the same site or take up to three different internships, each lasting three months. A student's internship site options will vary depending on the individual's electives, class credits, and grades. Some internships require special technical exams and/or interviews. It is also possible that some internship sites will scout desired students in advance. Each quarter, fourth years must receive an evaluation of B or higher, as well as submit a written report about their experience. In order to take the final exam to graduate, the student must receive credit in at least two out of three internships in order to qualify for graduation.

   Night Raven College has in its faculty a selection of talented professors each specialized in a specific department. There are a variety of classes these included both the core curriculum and the electives, available from first year forward. All students is required to complete a set of examinations to get into the next year of schooling. Being a high-level private college, the curriculum is notoriously tough to deal with. Every year, there are always a couple of dropouts or students who have to repeat a grade. However, there have been no such cases for Heartslabyul after Riddle became the housewarden of that dorm. Main fields of magical study taught at the magical school of Night Raven College are: History of Magic, Flying, Alchemy, Potionology, Physical Education, Magic Analysis, Poison Refining, Astrology, Practical Magic, Art, Musicology, Animal Linguistics and Ancient Magic.

   History of Magic: History of Magic is also a required class taught at NRC and its materials are divided up into different sections and taught based on your year in schooling. The lessons in this class are only lectures about significant names, dates and events in magical history or the Great Sevens; Flying and P.E: Flying is described as an elective class, but not many Pomefiore students take it. All students must take part of P.E, but Physical Training and Swimming seem to be P.E. elective courses; Alchemy: Alchemy is the study of magical plants and fungi, including their care and their magical properties and uses. Some magical plants formed important ingredients in potions, while others has magical effects in their own right. This class is a required course for all students, as it seems to provide the base knowledge for potion making before students qualify for other more complex science electives. Alchemy classes are held in the greenhouses and included plenty of hands-on activities, including harvesting mandrake or water the plants; Potionology: Potions are magical liquids created by mixing various ingredients in a cauldron according to very specific rules. These mixtures must usually be drank to give their magical effect. Though the instructor may lead in making healing potions, there are legal restrictions on who can brew and administer potions in society at large. Riddle even mentions licensed potion pharmacists that formulate potions, as those who consume them may undergo physiological changes. Magical potions can only be brewed by licensed professionals or under the supervision of a licensed professional like Crewel. Some potions are ineffective if not brewed by the person who intends to drink it, while other potions require infusions of magic while harvesting the ingredient or preparing the potion in its cauldron; Enigmics: Enigmics is a branch of magic that was concerned with the magical properties of numbers. Enigmics at Night Raven College is taught by Professor Crewel. In his class, students are expected to write essays and to be able to understand complicated number charts, which are part of their homework; Astrology: Astrology is the system of using the relative positions of celestial bodies (including the sun, moon, and planets) to try to predict future events or gain insight into personality, relationships, and health. The students of Scarabia particularly excel in this subject; Ancient Magic: Ancient Magic is a subject and presumably be taken by students third year. It is the study of ancient language (or runes) and it is a mostly theoretical subject that studied the ancient scripts of magic; Practical Magic: Practical Magic involves using spell formulas in order to achieve a practical goal, such as autocleaning. Enchanting objects is described to be a "basic, rudimentary magic" that even first years are capable of performing. This is a required subject, failure to pass means you are held back one year; Training Class: There is a mandatory practical training class in which students fight magic projections of staff; this puts things learned in Practical Magic into use via combat. The practical training class used to be done off-campus in deserted areas booked for NRC use. This, however, led to issues like people going missing, students colluding, and fights between teachers and students. Modern technology has made it possible to create realistic environments and opponents while still on-campus; Culinary Crucibles: The Culinary Crucible is a program in which the student can develop culinary skills by helping in the Cafeteria. Those who pass the Culinary Crucible taste tests will be granted optional credit; Art and Musicology: Art and Musicology are required, as they encourage and expand one's imagination. This is important because spellcasting is enhanced by having a strong imagination; Further subjects: Elective courses we don't have much information about: Defense Magic, Summoning, Biology, Toxicology, Magic Energy Engineering, Mathematics and Poison Refining.

   General rules: First year students focus more on concepts and theories. The older students have classes which involve more use of magic than theory; Third years must choose between Poison Refining and Changes & Comparisons of Abbreviated Spells in Ancient and Modern Magic History as an elective. The latter is a lot of writing and making chronological tables; It is against rules to bring an untrained familiar; Students are not allowed to use signature spells during class. They are, however, allowed to use magic in fights if directed to by the instructors; Crewel heads the Science department, Trein the Humanities, and Vargas Physical Education.

   Fun facts: The design of the Gates is supposed to signify "parting from the other world and being reborn anew."; The school has vending machines with drink cans; In Book 4, a character mentions reaching the edge of a dorm's "dimension". This implies that all seven dorms do not take up space in the real world, but rather in small pocket dimensions that mimic different environments. The farthest edges of said dimensions appear to be dark and desolate; The wishing well in the courtyard is modeled after the wishing well in the Beautiful Queen’s castle; Riddle holds the record for becoming the housewarden in the least amount of time, but Leona has the most experience as leader (due to his being held back).

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