Locations in the Dawn of Magic

***Spoiler warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.*
Below are listed the significant and minor locations described, explored, and mentioned in the Dawn of Magic. All the settings take place in the fictional city of Starhaven, Utah.

## Major locations

### Adira's school

The location where most of the story takes place. The areas within the school include:

* The **cafeteria**.
* **Outside** the school, where recess typically takes place. There is a tree that also appears in Kevin's *bevisthet*.
* The **portable**, where the Parent Teacher's Association holds after-school activities and where orchestra meets.
	+ The boys hang out behind the portable when Adira and her friends spy on their crushes.
	+ Behind the portable is a recurring spot where Adira, Kevin, and/or Lauren discuss Bekah's secret.
* **Mrs. Harrington's classroom**, where Adira, Lily, Lauren, and Bekah attend instruction.
	+ Adira and her classmates observe the "cloudless rain" from this room and promptly forget it when Bekah enters.
* The **band room** where Adira, Bekah, and Ethan play their instruments for the school's band.
* **Mrs. Yardley's room**, where the sixth graders learn science during rotations. Ethan is part of Mrs. Yardley's class, and Nathan sits at Ethan's desk during rotations.
* The **sixth-grade hall**, a hallway that connects all three of the sixth-grade classrooms and leads outside to a sloping hill and the parking lot.
* The **parking lot**.
	+ Adira and her siblings, Joseph and Rachel, wait for their mom to pick them up in her car, but when she doesn't show up, they walk home instead.
* **Mrs. Neilson's room**, the third sixth-grade teacher's classroom. The students get their history instruction from her.
	+ Adira watches a movie in there and gets Airheads to snack on.
* The auditorium with a stage.

### The waterfall

A waterfall. A small cave behind it contains an elegant door that only manifests itself for beings with magical properties in six-hour intervals. It is approximately fifteen minutes away from Adira's house and not very far away from the school. It is the portal to a magical world.

## Minor locations

* **Adira's house:** it is near her school and the waterfall. There is a back porch where Adira likes to read books at sunset and her mother's room.
	+ Adira comes home after school on her birthday, and her mother announces that she, her siblings, and her cousin will be swimming for her birthday.
* **Starhaven Rec Center:** the recreation center for Starhaven. It is a ten-minute drive from Adira's house. There are slides, a wave pool, and a cafe in addition to "exercise programs, yoga, basketball, and many other physical activities one can participate in."
* **Lagoon:** an amusement park. Note that this directly references the Lagoon Amusement Park in Utah.

## Trivia

### Interesting facts

* Like many aspects of the story, several locations are based on real places. They take inspiration from Adira's hometown, Provo, Utah.
* Adira's school was based on the elementary school the author attended while writing a portion of the book, Rock Canyon Elementary. All the classrooms and other notable locations in the Dawn of Magic paralleled what existed at the real-life school until it was demolished. Around the time of the eighth chapter, the author was in middle school, so she tried to change some aspects of Adira's school that matched a typical middle school, such as adding lockers.
	+ Kevin's locker combination was the author's combination to her seventh-grade locker.
* The waterfall is based on the portal to Wakizasu from My Story.
	+ The waterfall is the only location that does not exist in real life. However there is a waterfall in Provo Canyon, but that was not the source of inspiration for it.

### Mistakes

* Lagoon is stated to be in Starhaven, even though the drive took a long time.
* Starhaven is accidentally called "Stonehaven."

*End of spoiler warning*
## References and citations

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dawn of Magic, chapter 1, page 1
2. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 1, page 2
3. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 10, page 2
4. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 1, page 4
5. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 3, page 6
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dawn of Magic, chapter 1, page 5
7. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 2, page 1
8. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 1, page 7
9. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 3, page 7
10. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 2, page 5
11. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 1, page 6
12. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 4, page 3
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Dawn of Magic, chapter 3, page 4
14. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 4, page 2
15. ↑ Dawn of Magic, Chapter 2, page 2
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Dawn of Magic, chapter 2, page 7