Laguna Sanctuary for the Magically Inclined Wiki

* The Sanctuary
* Our Policies
* Our Admin

In 1950, Laguna Sanctuary for the Magically Inclined was founded by Laguna Beach residents in the hills surrounding their beautiful California town. It was created under the guise of being a prestigious private arts school called Laguna School of the Arts, which turns away all No-Maj applicants automatically and cannot be found on any online resource. There were

Laguna Sanctuary caters to witches and wizards almost exclusively from Orange County, but accepts transfer students from the rest of the United States and its neighboring countries Mexico and Canada if their applications are impressive enough. It is based off of a grade system, where students attend school for five years starting at 13 years old and graduating at the age of 18. It is a boarding school, where all students remain at least part-time on its campus meanwhile Orange County residents are allowed to return home on weekends. All students are placed in large rooms in groups of five based off of their grade and gender they identify with, because there are no houses to sort students by.

Despite the school once requiring all students to wear formal robes, the school now lacks a school uniform and students are allowed to freely wear No-Maj clothes both in and out of class as long as they are appropriate. There are also no official quidditch or quodpot teams, but there have been long-lasting student-ran teams or clubs that compete on the school's respective fields. Students at the Laguna Sanctuary spend Monday through Friday attending school in a structured schedule according to their classes' time slots and days. Outside of class, students are able to explore Laguna Beach as well as the Sanctuary's campus.

All students are required to take their core seven courses: Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Healing, Herbology, History of Magic, Potions, and Transfiguration. Students in Grades 1 and 2 are required to take one, but no more than two of the following electives: Astronomy, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, and Muggle Studies. Students in Grades 3 through 5 are required to take two, but no more than three of the following electives including the previous ones: Alchemy, Ancient Runes, Arithmancy, and Xylomancy. All students in Grade 1 are required to take Native American Studies and students are required to take at least two years of either American Sign Language or Spanish unless they can prove they are fluent in at least two languages.

OOC Policy

* All users **must** be at least 16 years old.
* All vandalism and disruption towards pages and users on the wiki will result in an automatic ban of varying degree.
* All copying of coding from users on this wiki or others will result in an automatic ban of varying degree.
* All personal attacks towards users or attempts at impersonating other users will result in an automatic ban.

Character Policy

* Users cannot have more than 20 characters. If a user surpasses the character limit, they will have to surrender some of their characters.
	+ Users can make characters "inactive" (not roleplayed) or put them up for "adoption" by other users whenever they choose, taking those characters off of their character count.
* All characters must be witches/wizards or squibs, but may have special powers or attributes subject to approval by the administration.
	+ Acceptable birth attributes include half-Veelas, half-Vampires, maledictuses, metamorphmagi, parselmouths, and seers.
	+ Acceptable acquired attributes include animagi, legilimens, and werewolves.
* Some other special characters are allowed such as ghosts, which are considered minor characters and don't count against a user's character count.
* No character can be related to important *Harry Potter* characters.

Face Claim Policy

* All users must list the face claims used for their characters on the Face Claim Registration, which reserves their right to have that face claim exclusively to themselves (although they are welcome to share).
* All users are allowed five reserved face claims for either future characters or the future face claims of currently approved characters, which reserves their right to have that face claim until the reservation expires.
* All face claim reservations not for already accepted characters must be used within three months from the reservation date before they must surrender that face claim.
* Users' face claim reservations are automatically removed after three months of no editing on the wiki.

Role-Play Policy

* No godmodding/bunnying to control another character or the outcome of something. All situations in which this takes place must be agreed upon by the users involved.
* No unrealistic roleplaying by any means. A character cannot light the whole school on fire and kill everyone in it nor do they know what is going on around the corner from them.
* All characters in the wizarding world become adults when they turn 17 although they must remain in school through the end of Grade 5 to graduate. These characters are still not able to drink alcohol legally until they are 21, but roleplaying underage drinking is allowed as long as the user(s) involved understands the consequences.
* All characters above the age of 18 can get married, but relationships should not be held between adult and student characters unless it is only a one year age difference.
* All character relationships must be appropriate. Don't roleplay any sexual encounters, but users are allowed to roleplay the build up to those occurrences.
* All drug substance use is considered illegal and is able to be roleplayed with some consequences to the character(s) involved. Adult characters are allowed to smoke marijuana and gillyweed.
* Censor swear words such as f\*ck, c\*nt, b\*tch, d\*ck, etc. although they are able to be used in roleplay.

Bureaucrats

ShugarMoon - Character Department