The series begins with Quentin Coldwater (played by Jason Ralph), a high school student who is obsessed with a fantasy book series called "Fillory and Further." When Quentin discovers that magic is real, he enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret college in upstate New York. There, he meets a group of students who become his friends and fellow magicians, including Eliot Waugh (played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Margo Whitton (played by Stella Maeve), and Kady Grant (played by Julia Gambino).
