Mages in America are more likely to marry Normals (CO 18)
America: the more magick you use, the more powerful you will become (CO 186)
Americans and Scandinavians send their magician children to Normal schools. (CO 233)
There is some communication and are some meetings between American magician scientists-both among themselves and internationally. (CO 326)
American mages are less organized than ones in the World of Mages: "They live all over the country and mostly do their own thing. But there's more money there." (CO 326)
There are no Magickal school is America. Most countries don't have magick schools. (WS 29)
Some mages get sent to Watford for a year as a cultural and learning experience. (WS 29)
"Some magicians [in America] go their entire lives without meeting a mage who isn't a relative." (WS 51)
Most magician/Normal couplings end up with the kids being magicians, but that is not always the case (WS 51)
Magicians born to mage/Normal parents are seen as less powerful. If this true, it is unclear if this is because of genetics or because on average, they receive less training. (WS 51)
Not all magicians in America have magickal jobs. (WS 51)
“Micah thinks English magicians get too hung up on magic. ‘My family uses magic,’ he says, ‘but it’s just part of our identity’ ” (WS 51)
It is unknown if America has magickal authorities (WS 110)
"[The Mage] told [Simon] to avoid America at all costs: 'Every kind of magician and magickal creature has made its way there. There's old magic and new. Hybrids and twists you can't anticipate.' " (WS 126)
Magicians are called "Speakers" (WS 134)
There are treaties in America splitting up areas between "Speaker territory" and areas that belong to "the creatures." The creature areas' are referred to as "Quiet Zones." The treaty states: "No Speakers in the Quiet Zone, not outside of the reservation or off the interstate. The Normals in these parts, few as they are, are [the creatures']." (WS 139)
"The Mage always said America was a constant threat to the World of Mages. America is decentralized, unorganized, magically lawless. The magicians here don't even talk to each other if they're not related. It's every mage for himself. 'Mavericks and terrorists,' the Mage said. 'No sense of community, no common goals. Half of them using their magic to wash the dishes, half of them living like debauched sultans. I blame the vernacular. Wholly unstable! Too much in flux! Their dialect is like a river stripped of its natural bends and shallows--their spires expire before they ever master them. My heart is always with the rebels, Simon, in any struggle. But America is a failed experiment. A chaos country where mages have lost all sense of themselves. where they live off of Normals like parasites--like dark creatures' "(WS 142-143)
"The Quiet Zones happen naturally. No people? No spells. Some of these margickal creatures were the first immigrants. They had plenty to get away from back home, right? So they came to the Great Plains, and, yeah, there were native Speakers and creatures here already, but there was also a hell of a lot of room. It wasn't till the Irish and the German Speakers showed up that there was real trouble. At some point, everyone agreed to mostly stay out of each other's hair. The Quiet Zones were left to the creatures. The Speakers didn't want them anyway." (WS 155)
In America, Normals are called "Talkers" (WS 156)
American Normals who are aware of magick call magickal beings "Maybes" (WS 157)
Most of America's Vampires live in Las Vegas (WS 201)
American Vampires call Normals "Bleeders" (WS 239)
Magicians in America only go after vampires if they "start affecting population numbers" (WS 239)
For American Mages, "The Normals are more of a threat to themselves. The magicians [in America] are more worried about guns than they are about vampires." (WS 239)
The only lllama herd outside of South America is owned by Malcolm Grimm. (AWTWB 39)
