Modifications to canon

The Scholomance of the megacontinuity includes several changes to how the canon Scholomance works. These changes, which varied between intentional and not, include:

  • The addition of a mundane nurse (the canon Scholomance has no nurse)
  • The weight limit including inductees plus their luggage (canonically, there is no evidence of students trying to change their own body weight before induction via shaving etc., which suggests the weight limit does not work that way)
  • Beads and other small objects being used to carry mana (canonically, most power sinks are large and bulky; El's mum's crystals are an exception). We've been trying to shift to following canon on this, though.
  • Some rooms have void floors, with grates and a hatch to get stuff in/out of it. The hatch is large enough to let a person though (see: Chantal bullet point on cheat sheet wiki page). (Canonically, there is no mention of void floors, although it seems possible that they exist.) 
  • In canon, the rooms on the upper level are "arranged cellblock-style, stacked on top of one another with a narrow iron walkway outside the upper rooms". We missed this when doing rooms so we just have an upper hallway and a lower hallway with stairs at the section junctions. (Maybe? some later threads have balconies?)
  • Thule exists. Unlike other cases when Thule exists in glowfic, it is not a country in and of itself, but there is an indigenous population in Greenland that does not recognize Denmark's rule and is basically ignored by everyone. Thule has an intensely honor-based society and an aristocracy. (Barrayar. Thule is Barrayar but on earth, that is what it is.)
  • Canon puncturing is not allowed, so any canon that a megacontinuity character comes from either does not exist or has a different character occupy the same narrative role. (eg the Harry Potter books do not have a Luna.)
  • The canon Shanghai students are from Beijing instead.