Post by Falling Stardust Staff on Jul 31, 2012 17:35:28 GMT -5
Thank you for sending in your application to St. Carlisle's Academy. You have amazing potential and we were honored that you chose our school. However, we regret to inform you that your application to St. Carlisle's Academy has been denied........
This is the heading to most of return letters from the most exclusive private boarding school in the world, St. Carlisle's Academy. It is impossible to get in. Most people have never even met someone accepted. A member of the English Royal Family applied and do not get accepted. However....there is a reason why no one is able to get in.
St. Carlisle's Academy was started, and still run, by a vampire named Carlisle Donovan who is thousands of years old. He started the Academy over one hundred years ago to teach young mythical/magical/fantasy creatures how to control their powers and teach them how to live in human society. All these creatures have unique and interesting characteristics, most of which are obviously non-human. Carlisle Donovan wanted to be able to help, and in turn also protect, the many many different species out there that were at risk of discovery and eventual extinction with the start of the rise of technology in the early 1900's.
Since 1907, Carlisle has done just that. St. Carlisle's Academy has grown to become an entire castle on the west coast of Canada. St. Carlisle Castle is protected by magical barriers that keep unwanted "visitors" and outside events like extreme weather from over taking the school. The only way to get inside the barriers is to be an accepted student with their families (families allowed at the first and last days of the semesters) or a staff member. Otherwise, without approval from Carlisle himself it is impossible. The barriers also regulate the weather, which stays about the weather of southern California during the spring and summer months, moving into the weather of Michigan during the fall and winter months.
However, in the last year unsettling things have been happening. First, it was small: just little things not running correctly or smoothly.
But, at the beginning of the semester it was discovered that, somehow, 6 human students were somehow accepted and admitted into the school. It was only noticed when the students arrived at St. Carlisle Castle. After some thinking, Carlisle decided to allow the students to remain at the school because their parents had paid the tuition and they were already moving in. It was also decided that the students would be left to discover the existance of the creatures on their own, in hopes that they would've already made enough connections with the other students to not immediately judge just based on what they are.
It has been a couple of weeks since the start the semester and all the students, including the 6 "special" students. Which of the humans know about the other students? Which of them care? Carlisle still struggles to understand how there was such a huge glitch in his school's admission system and why so many human students were allowed to get into a creature school.
No one knows how this school year will go, how things will change. With so many unexplainable and strange things happening inside St. Carlisle's Academy, who knows what will happen next. Maybe everything will calm down and work out. Or maybe the pieces of the life and school Carlisle has struggled to build will fall to the ground like