This world is, for most part, very similar to our own. Much of the technology and culture is the same; all of the names on the map are ones that most Travellers from modern day Earth would recognise. The main difference is that this is a world where creativity is magic, and everyone knows it.

Art, therefore, has a greater significance in this society. And for those who have the creativity needed to be able to cast powerful magic, there are special magical schools where one can go to learn how to create art - and spells. There are many such schools that teach creativity magic on all grade levels. Most primary schools have weekly or bi-weekly lessons. Most secondary schools have it as elective. Most universities have it as a possible major. There are private schools and magnet schools that have it as their primary focus.

There are, however, three schools that are known to be the most prestigious of all: Her Majesty’s Royal Academy of the Arts in Britain, Lone Star Academy in the United States, and Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen in Japan. Every three years, the chosen students of those schools gather at one of their campuses for the Triad Creation Tourney, a celebration of skill and creativity. Each school is allowed up to thirty student representatives in the tourney, although there is usually one student who everyone’s hopes rest most fully upon, nicknamed that school’s champion.

The Triad Creation Tourney of 2007 is Great Britain’s turn to play host, despite a series of troubling incidents that took place in 2006 and early 2005 in which a Dark Magician repeatedly attempted take over Britain, culminating in an attempt to become Prime Minister by force which was accidentally thwarted by a Majesty’s student on a school field trip. Said Dark Magician escaped arrest and is still at large--however, they haven’t tried to take over Britain since then, so maybe they died or something. No one really knows.