Magic In America

Magic has been around since the dawn of time, and is something that can never be truly destroyed. As soon as forms of magical travel were created, magical communities began to connect with one another all over the globe--long before the Non-Magical populace of the world ever did.

The first wizards from Europe arrived in North America in 233 BC, completing the unification of all the magical world. With grand cities, they were able to thrive in peaceful settlements and share their magical knowledge with the others of their new land. They remained, living peacefully with the native wizards of the land, and the sparce contact with the Non-Magical population up until the Hyperkasen Cataclysm. Once Ancient Magic was purged from the wizarding population, they retreated from their global reach, fearing more war and destruction. They focused on relearning how to control magic again and rebuild their shattered world.

By 1492 when the Non-Magical society finally traversed the ocean to land in America, wizards had returned and were beginning to set up their own cities again, separate from the Nonbloods. They became frontiersmen and women and travelled distant expanses of the wilderness in search of their own area to call their own, outside of the native inhabitants. Six of these early wizards and witches banded together in their early thirties and looked to the future of their magical society in this new land. The recognized that a school needed to be created to teach new children the ways of magic, and searched for the ideal location where they would be safe to practice and teach. They finally found the perfect location at a nexus of magic in what would become the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and began their construction.

By the spring of 1579 the building was completed, and most of the new school's staff was gathered to teach the next generation of wizards and witches for the fall semester--Native American and European witches and wizards combined. The school was christened Gerhardt School of Magic and over the next hundred years showed just how elite of a school it was, surpassing the magical schools of the rest of the world.

Upon the League of Magic strengthening the secrecy laws on magic globally, North America was plunged into two separate societies--Magical and Non-Magical. Despite the separation, many wizards and witches dabbled in Non-Magical politics, attempting to assist them in their development of their society. But both societies for a time seemed to mirror one another, finding growing pains.

Both the Non-Magical society and the Magical society saw that creating a new country and government wasn't as easy as they had first thought. Over the course of the next 200 years, they had tension amongst each other and fought their own civil wars almost simultaneously. One over the issue of slavery, and the other over the issue of blood supremacy. In the end, blood supremacy was nearly wiped out in America, only select Pureblood Houses keeping those corrupted ideals alive.

Post 1900, the United States magical populace began wanting to lower the secrecy laws to conjoin the two separate societies back into one after centuries. The Non-Magical world having created even more powerful weapons than had ever existed before was something that was greatly alarming, and the United States Magical Congress advocated to reaching out and having a wizard or witch present on the staff of all Non-Magical governments. After some pressuring, and the ending phases of the Second World War, the League of Magic finally agreed and reached out to all of the Non-Magical governments to request a representative be placed in their cabinets.

Since 1944, the President of the Magical Congress and the President of the Non-Magical United States have been in constant communication to prevent a war from breaking out and ending one or both of their civilizations, and to keep the secret of the existence of magic.

Despite magic's secrecy, certain populations of Non-Magical people suspect that magic does indeed exist, and think that they can use a form of it. Among them is a sect called Wiccans. Although they believe in magic, they cannot use it. However, they have been looked at as a population to test out the removal of the secrecy laws, and telling them of it's existence since the early 1990s by the United States Magical Congress. The League of Magic has refused this suggestion dozens of times when it was brought up in gatherings by the President of the United States Magical Congress.