During the spring semester of their fourth year, they are all sent to Brakebills South in Antarctica, where Quentin and Alice begin a relationship. The Physical Kids also include Eliot, Josh, and Janet, who are a year above them. Though Quentin cannot be assigned one, he and Alice are sorted into the Physical magic group. Third year students are assigned a Discipline. One day during class, an otherworldly horror referred to as "the Beast" enters Brakebills and eats a student before the rest of the faculty are able to drive it away. Despite this, Quentin and Alice Quinn are able to move up a year by compressing their first year of studies. The curriculum involves learning many old and lost languages, and seemingly endless hand positions. It soon becomes apparent that magic is incredibly difficult and tedious to learn, as each spell must be varied in dozens of ways, depending on factors such as the phase of the moon and the closest body of water. He, along with 19 others, is accepted to the university and he moves there at once. On the day of his Princeton interview, he instead is examined for entrance to Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, the only school for magic in North America. He loves a series of books called "Fillory and Further," which involve the children of the Chatwin family discovering a Narnia-esque land called Fillory. Quentin Coldwater is a high school student from Brooklyn who, along with best friends James and Julia, attends an advanced school.
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