History Literature / TheTowerAndTheFox

Among the new students are one Phillip "Kip" Penfold, a fox Calatian determined to become the first Calatian sorcerer. Coppy, an otter from London who's a close friend of Kip's. And Emily Carswell, a progressively minded human woman. The three of them and the few allies they've gathered must survive the rigors of a school half-full of sorcerers who don't want them there, or worse, and attempt to discern who or what killed off their predecessors.

[[caption-width-right:300:Just like Zootopia around the American Revolution but with magic and without a rabbit]]

''The Tower and the Fox'' is a 2017 fantasy alternate history novel by [[Creator/KyellGold Tim Susman]]. It is part of a series consisting of.

In a version of our world where magic is an accepted fact, history has gone on a few unexpected tangents, most notably the creation of human-animal hybrids known as "Calatians" and the failure of the American Revolution. In the 1810s Colonial America's one sorcerer college, Prince George's, is attacked by an unexpected enemy, killing most of the students and leaving the college desperate for new admittants.

''The Tower and the Fox'' is a 2017 fantasy alternate history novel by Tim Susman. It is part of a series consisting of.

* TallPoppySyndrome: The Penfolds are ostracized by most of the rest of the New Cambridge Calatian community after Kip enrolls, for fear of reprisal for one of their number "reaching above his station". Leading to Kip's parents moving to Georgia, and Alice's parents breaking off her engagement to him, twice.

* BadassNormal: Victor Adamson has no magic of his own, but his knowledge of magical theory is second to none, [[spoiler: enough to allow him to create spells for others to cast that can destroy Great Feats.]]

* AmericaIsStillAColony: The 1783 revolution failed, largely due to England’s massive advantage in sorcery and the magic-built Road crossing the Atlantic, and the Americas are still under British rule in the 1800s. Though UsefulNotes/JohnQuincyAdams is still advocating for colonial rights. In The War and the Fox Kip joins a new American Revolution [[spoiler: which succeeds.]]

* IneptMage: Victor Adamsen knows the theory behind magic, but has little to no ability to actually use it, the only reason he stays at the college is his father's wealth.

* MonumentalDamage: Fantasy monument in The War and the Fox, the Road connecting Britain and the American colonies [[spoiler: is utterly destroyed in Kip and Cott’s duel. It was accidentally undone by Cott’s antimagic spell but since he died in the process the Revolutionaries spread the rumor that their sorcerer was responsible.]]

# ''The Revolution and the Fox'' (set for release July 2020)

In a version of our world where magic is an accepted fact history has gone on a few unexpected tangents, most notably the creation of human-animal hybrids known as "Calatians" and the failure of the American Revolution. In the 1810s Colonial America's one sorcerer college, Prince George's, is attacked by an unexpected enemy, killing most of the students and leaving the college desperate for new admittants.

# ''Revolution and the Fox'' (set for release July 2020)

# ''Revolution and the Calatians'' (set for release July 2020)

''The Tower and the Fox'' is a 2017 fantasy alternate history novel by Tim Susman, forming a trilogy with ''The Demon and the Fox'' (2018) and ''The War and the Fox'' (2019).

* KarmaHoudini: Farley faces little to no consequences for his vicious, even bloody, bullying of Kip and Coppy in the first book, avoiding expulsion thanks to Victor's father pulling strings.
** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the second book though, Farley loses control of a powerful demon, which turns him into a Calatian marmot. And is expelled.]]

''The Tower and the Fox'' is a 2017 fantasy alternate history novel by Tim Susman, followed in 2018 by a sequel, ''The Demon and the Fox''.

* AlternateHistory: Sorcerers have been around and drastically affecting the course of history since at least Ancient Greece. In England alone they allowed the Lancasters to win the War of the Roses, stopped the American Revolution, and conquered Louisiana from Napoleon. In addition to the creation of a new set of sapient species.

* PettingZooPeople: The Calatians, a mixture of human and assorted animal species created in the 1400s by sorcerers as an external source of magic.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Just like Zootopia around the American Revolution but with magic and without a rabbit]]

* ElementalPowers: Some magic is organized into the four classical elements, such as Kip's fire magic, but there's other classes of magic. Elemental spirits can be summoned, and tend to be more agreeable then demons, but they're named for elements of the periodic table rather than classical elements, i.e. phosphorous elementals instead of fire elementals.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Masters Argent, Windsor, Odden, and Jaeger are among the few sorcerers to give Kip and his friends a chance.

* ArrangedMarriage: Common among both humans and Calatians, the latter moreso due to the scarcity of any given species in an area and anti-miscegenation laws. Kip is engaged off and on again to a 14-year old vixen named Alice, while Emily escaped an arranged marriage by manipulating her husband into having an affair and successfully filing for divorce.

** KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the second book though, Farley loses control of a powerful demon, which turns him into a Calatian. And is expelled.]]

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Demons are summoned as servants by sorcerers, if bound properly they can be commanded to perform a variety of tasks, either visible or invisible and largely formless. If bound improperly they have a habit of cursing their summoners, ranging in severity from itchy skin to transformations from the more powerful demons. Unlike summoning elementals most sorcerers need an additional source of power to muster enough magic to bind a demon.

* PerceptionFilter: Kip finds a journal written by a 17th century apprentice that renders himself unnoticed when held, [[spoiler: a side effect of the spell the apprentice's ghost cast on himself when he bound himself to the tower. He let Kip see through it because he was the same species as himself.]]

* TheNoseKnows: Kip's family are perfumers, taking advantage of their keen sense of smell, they even have words for specific smells.
* PettingZooPeople: The Calatians, a mixture of human and assorted animal species created in the 1400s by sorcerers as an external source of magic.

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