Grim Island

[dans]

Do we have any idea about the geography of Grim Island, the island in the South Pacific which touches several of the 5 Earths but is not really part of any of them, where the Grimoire Academy is located? Doc gave it a backstory in Magic and Demons and Ghouls, Oh My! We know these things about it:

• It is the location of Grimoire Academy of Applied Knowledge, and is a unique island accessible by five different Earths.
• Grim Island is secluded in the South Pacific and surrounded by a magical protective barrier looking like a fog bank, which not only shields the island from discovery by the outside world, but also prevents magical arrivals or departures, such as by flying or teleportation.
• Although Grim Island had only come into existence relatively recently, in 1948, and the Grimoire Academy was officially founded in 1951, both the island and the academy were paradoxically extremely ancient.The island is an incarnation of the isle of Tourmaline 
• Tourmaline was the home of an ancient school of magic. the 'White School' founded by the Homo Magi species on the several earths which touched Tourmaline.
  
• Tourmaline and the White School were destroyed in World War II, and mystically, they are linked with Grim Island and Grimoire Academy

My feeling is that being in the South Seas, Grimoire Island has great beaches. I'm wondering if, based on its recent rebirth, it might be a very big island, with a good variety of geography, much of it still unexplored, maybe some mountains in the center of the island, maybe an almost impassible jungle, some dinosaurs, a section of desert, etc...

What do you guys think? I may have an idea for some stories set there, once I get Alex, Carol, Joanna and Atom back to their own worlds...

[DocQuantum]

Sure, just please carefully read CSyphrett’s Books of Magic stories to see what has been done already. There are mythological animals on the island. Chrissie also wrote some stories that I started publishing a while back after making some necessary edits/rewrites.

I get a sense that anything could appear on the island given its connection to Hell and/or the Darkworld of chaotic magic. So while some geography might be nailed down we don’t want the island to be exhaustively catalogued — it’s a place of endless mysteries.

[DocQuantum]

And the Clock Tower in particular was created in order to give opportunities for other places for students to visit, so the island Itself doesn’t need to be too crazy with its own geography.

[dans]

I mostly want to confirm that there are a) beaches, so when I have Sunbeam and Corona come to visit Atom in the future, there can be bikinis, and b) there are places on the island where adventures are possible, i.e., the whole island is not some magically tended park with short grass, trimmed shrubs and bushes, and well-tended flower gardens... I don't want to make a map and pin things into place...

[DocQuantum]

Yes, we’ve seen beaches in stories before. I’d imagine the island is quite beautiful, and maybe larger than it might appear to be by simple circumnavigation.

[dans]

That would be fun, wouldn't it, if it was bigger inside than outside!

[redsycorax]

Any lost artefacts from the sunken continent of Mu in the vicinity?

[DocQuantum]

Feb 2, 2021 1:23:31 GMT redsycorax said:

Any lost artefacts from the sunken continent of Mu in the vicinity?

Most likely, yes.

[dans]

Heck, maybe surrounded by the unexplored mountain range in the center of the islands, there is a valley of monsters, along with a secret nexus that connects with an island in the Pacific on the world of the Fantastic Four? Seriously, though, it sounds like there might be enough unknowns on the island that it could be a good place for an adventure. Who knows what might have happened between when it was missing, morphing from Tourmaline to Grim Island? Although I mentioned in the story thousands of years of wizards erecting their own defenses or updating existing defenses as magical 'technology' improves over time, those defenses are focused on the school and school grounds, so they don't make the whole island 'safe' (whatever safe means...)