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Quentin has always been on the outside looking in. He's awkward, unsure, overthinks everything, He's the sort of guy always pining from afar (especially for his childhood best friend, Julia). It's no wonder the world of magic – especially in his favorite book series, Fillory and Further – has been such an escape.

But, as Quentin discovers upon entering Brakebills University, magic is more than the card tricks he's learned over the years. It's very real and he can wield it. For the first time in Quentin's life, the future doesn't look so bleak.

Julia, Quentin's longtime best friend, has always been a perfectionist and an overachiever. She's embraced pragmatism; a nice apartment, a respectable boyfriend, an acceptance to Yale.

Everything Julia has wanted, Julia's gotten. Except for magic. And she will do anything to get it.

Alice is a phenomenally talented magician, but you'd never hear that from her. In fact, you never hear much of anything from her. Alice is painfully shy, but that all evaporates when she's practicing magic. Her potential is limitless, unsurprising given her family legacy.

But Alice's past is filled with some darkness, moments she's determined to not let interfere with her future.

Eliot is one of the more established students at Brakebills. He's got an opinion on everything and - if you ask him - it's usually right. Don't let his excellent sense of aesthetics and "vigorous hedonism" lead you into thinking life has been easy street. As Eliot is one to remind you, magic comes from pain. And he's a very good magician.

He also makes a fantastic cocktail.

She's not a bitch; she's just honest. At least, that's what Margo will tell you. She's as equally gifted in partying as she is magic. In fact, Margo's a study in contrasts: intellectual yet academically unfocused, reserved yet social. The only thing that's dependable is her unpreditability.

Well, that and consistently
excellent wardrobe.

For Penny to know you is for Penny to loathe you. Perpetual annoyance might be the best way to describe his demeanor. It'd be less infuriating if Penny wasn't so talented.

So gifted, in fact, that the true limits and nature of his powers may be unknown. Brakebills may be the best thing for a loner like Penny but he'd never, ever admit that.

Kady is a former student of Brakebills and is the daughter of Hannah, a hedge-witch. Kady spent most of her time under the servitude of Marina Andrieski, as she was sold as payment.

Kady is a girl with a strong character and cold, detached attitude, trying to ward off potential friends or feelings, preventing any sort of attachment because of previous betrayals. She speaks her mind, though she keeps many secrets.

Also known as Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic, Brakebills Academy for Magical Pedagogy, or simply Brakebills, is the premier institution for the study of magic in North America and one of two magical universities found in the United States of America.

Fillory was a magical world led by the twin gods Ember and Umber and the setting of the Fillory and Further series, a collection of novels written by Christopher Plover recounting the experiences of the Chatwin children.

There is also Castle Whitespire is the castle of the kings and queens of Fillory. It serves as the headquarters of the High Council.

Or simply the Library, is a multiversal archive that contains all knowledge in the multiverse. There are books about magic and books about entire lives; what has been and what will be. Travelers founded The Library and filled it with knowledge from across the universe. Librarians formed the Order of the Library of the Neitherlands, a group that guards and protects the knowledge in the Library. As of 2017, the Library has assumed control of all magic production of the Wellspring.

The Underworld is the dimension souls travel to right after death, it acts as a way station before souls reach their final destination. It was created by Hades and run by both him and his wife.

Also known as the Mirror World, is a dimension that exists between Mirror Bridges. The Mirror Realm is a dark reflection of the Material World. In it, everything is the opposite of the world in the state you enter in.

Spells are not wished to life, they are cast with action and purpose. Contrary to popular belief, most spells don't actually require the waving of a magical wand, but instead the magician's own hands and will. From simple snaps to complicated hand gestures, all movements of the hands are used to harness magical energy from the Wellspring and produce the desired magical effect(s).

But a spell needs something more than hand movements and the proper knowledge of its Circumstances. Along with the physical aspects of magic, the psychological aspects of magic are crucial to properly performing a spell.

Magic is based on something powerful within a magician, much like willpower. It is a focused intensity, a clear view, an unwavering sureness. For a spell to work, it has to be done from the heart. The magician has to have no doubt that the spell will work, and needs to intend to do that spell wholeheartedly.

More complex works of magic such as those used for healing, curses or invocations require the use of external ingredients like herbs, candles, incantations, and symbols or tools to focus the intention of the magician, such as wands.

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Quentin Coldwater arrives at Brakebills University, a school dedicated to training Magicians. There, he and fellow students Alice, Penny, Margo and Eliot hone their skills, test their mettle and form new (and often times, problematic) relationships, all while facing a dangerous and deadly threat from a magical world. Meanwhile, Quentin's friend Julia - rejected from Brakebills - pursues magic on her own down a dark, often dangerous, path.

Magic is dying. With our characters transported to the magical kingdom of Fillory - and named Kings and Queens of the land to boot - can they save magic? Oh, and there's still the Beast to deal with, don't forget. Meanwhile, Julia is on a no-holds-barred revenge quest against the evil God that attacked her.

Magic is dead so our team of intrepid team of Magicians must embark on a series of quests to find seven keys that will restore enchantment to all worlds. Also amid this chaos, the threat of losing their crowns loom as Eliot and Margo battle angry Fillorians and merciless Fairies who are tired of being ruled by children of Earth.

Good thing it's not a game because our Magicians are not here to play. It's time to spark a revolution.

Last season, magic was saved, but at a terrible cost: the life of Quentin Coldwater, who died heroically to save his friends— and the world. Julia, Alice, Eliot, Margo, Penny 23 and their friends (and frenemies) must learn to navigate a world without him. Now, a new threat has arisen: in freeing magic, the balance tipped the other way and there's too damn much of it, and as the excess builds, an apocalypse looms. Can the magicians get their shit together to save the world without Q?

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