Negima: High School Magical

This is the page for the Negima themed M&M3e game, set in the fictional Raleigh Academy

Setting[edit]

Raleigh Academy is a respectable, if not well known, secondary education boarding school located on an island off the coast of North Carolina. Attendance is by invitation only and expensive, though there are many alumni sponsored scholarship opportunities, and it offers a first rate education.

Underneath the public facade, however, Raleigh is America's equivalent of Japan's Mahora Academy; a school founded by mages to provide a safe place to familiarize young mages to the mundane world, and help introduce them to potential Pactio partners. A large number (though still a significant numerical minority) of the students are secretly magic users, and an even larger group are unusual individuals lured to the school, knowingly or unknowingly, because of their potential as partners.

Just as Mahora academy was built around the World Tree as a source of magic power, Raleigh was built on top of another ancient site, where the eldritch horror Yug'Ghanath was sealed away nearly a millenia ago by a combined Native American and Viking army. It was later released by inhabitants of the Roanoke Colony (Some of you may believe the colony of Roanoke was actually on Roanoke island. That's what they want you to think.) when they tried to dig a cellar, but the site is still magically powerful. Yug'Ghanath now serves as the school football team's mascot, though most students just think it's a guy in an extremely elaborate costume*. The labyrinthine caves and corridors under the school are popular with the spelunking club as well as students wishing to break curfew.

Raleigh is a very strange place, full of bizarre incidents just plausible enough that quick explanations can keep the normal students from contacting the authorities ("No, that wasn't the Dean flying around dogfighting a dragon, it was a rare daytime display of the Aurora Borealis!"). When the explanations don't work, it's time to break out the memory alteration spells.