Succession Rites

          To the majority of Slavic people, the mystical island ‘Buyan’ is a place only existed in fairy tales. To a handful of the same demographic group, they know Buyan actually exists, with a school on it, in the middle of Lake Ladoga with veiling fog year round.

          A spin-off project with the setting of magical schools exist for hundreds of years around the world to educate 'descendants of fables' - the people who wield power of fairy tale characters. For some reason, after the invention of printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440, characters in fairy tales began to appear in real world. Being in the middle age, some with the fable power were mistaken for witchcraft and face persecution. Thus, these 'new additions' to human society learned to band together and live along side ordinary humans while concealing their powers most of the time. The first school for children who were born from these 'fable people' was first opened in France in 1700, then slowly expanded to other parts of the world. There are two in Russia -one for boys located in Lake Ladoga since late 19th century and then the girls' side split away in 1980, moving eastward to the foot of Urals Mountains in Bashkortostan.

           The main setting for this plot is the school in Lake Ladoga, other seven schools will be mentioned in background story.