The Magicians (TV Series)

Impractical Applications (2016)

Hale Appleman: Eliot Waugh

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• Eliot Waugh : In 18th century England, a secret society known as "The Brethren" encrypted hundreds of spells to hide them from the church. You may open your blue books. Each team must decode and cast their spell by 9:00 a. m. Screw up, and it's back to page one. FYI, this test is pretty much impossible.

• Eliot Waugh : Hello, first years. At this appointed hour, as tradition dictates, it falls upon the upper class to administer what is known simply as "The Trials". The Trials test your ability to think and act like a Magician. Pass, your journey begins. Fail, you flunk out. This is a test engineered to thin out the herd. Only those who should will survive.

  [the first years are silent] 

  Eliot Waugh : Oh, nut up, this isn't Harvard. It requires actual effort.

• Margo Hanson : I'm sure by now you've realized Brakebills teaches us to be arch and ironic about magic. But this one plays it serious.

  Eliot Waugh : You must bare yourself in the presence of another magical adept and expose your highest-governing internal circumstance, which is to say, your utmost truth. You have till midnight.