First Witch's Tale

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A thousand years before Emily was brought to the Nameless World, the concept of magical education was very new and the early magicians were struggling to codify the laws of magic and devise ways to cast spells safely. It was a very different and dangerous time, with inhuman threats lurking in the shadows and magicians often at risk from their own spells. It was rare, in those days, for women to study magic, let alone practice openly.

This is the story of the first female student at Whitehall, and how she blazed a trail for so many others.

The novella is written to be stand-alone, but it is – at least partly – a direct sequel to Past Tense (Schooled in Magic X). If you would like to see the novella expanded into a full novel, please feel free to let us know.

Despite the importance of Whitehall School, there have been surprisingly few attempts to unlock the secrets of the school and its history. Successive grandmasters have been reluctant to permit archaeologists to explore underneath the school itself, or to search the pocket dimension for clues that might lead to whoever built the school. Worse, a significant amount of historical material was destroyed during the wars and what remains is not informative enough to put together a full picture of just what happened, the year the Whitehall Commune stumbled across the castle and turned it into the first school of magic. The result is a hodgepodge of historical sources that regularly contradict one another, and even contradict themselves, and can therefore not be considered reliable.

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