London

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London at night. The Gherkin and The Cheesegrater can be seen.

Partial map of the London metropolitan area.

London at night. Tower Bridge and The Shard can be seen.

London (ロンドン, Rondon^?) is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom as a whole.

Principles

• London's skyline, with the BT Tower and London Eye visible.
• Aerial view of London from the manga.

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The city is separated into administrative divisions known as boroughs, which themselves contain several districts. Two areas within London have city status themselves, the City of Westminster, occupying much of central Greater London and home to many of the sites associated with London, and the City of London, the land formerly occupied by the old London prior to the city's expansion. The Thames, the longest river in England, runs through the city.

London Underground

Main article: London Underground

The London Underground, nicknamed the Tube, is one of the oldest subway systems in the world, acting as a public rapid transit system for Greater London.

As it has been modified often and spreads out over the city like a spider web, there are apparently a lot of abandoned lines and stations which not even the maintenance workers know out. Some of these have been adapted by the Anglicans for their own purpose, made into vaults and training grounds, though the underground labyrinth formerly used to test new recruits for Necessarius was decommissioned as it was too dangerous and too many people kept dying there.

Magic Side

As the capital city of a country with a large magical foundation, London is the home of many magical facilities, persons and factions.

Infrastructure

A fair number of important magic-related sites in the city are famous or important buildings, public institutions or tourist attractions, and as such have both an open public side and a hidden magic side. Examples include Westminster Abbey, the British Museum and the Tower of London.

There are various magical defensive systems in place both in and around London in order to protect the capital. One of these defensive formations, intended to defend the capital from invaders, is the England-Londinium Fortress, which extends 88km out from London into the countryside. The three outer layers consist of long walls of dried grass in the country fields, manipulated by crop circles and then ignited to produce walls of fire. The innermost layer, the complex triple-quadruple final barrier, manifests as a dome enclosing the capital. It is generated by a core located in the Tower of London.

As there are many churches in London, there are also many bell towers in the city. These can be rung according to a magical procedure to perform a large-scale magical attack over a wide area and crush magicians hiding in the city.

Aside from the three main magic side factions of the United Kingdom (the Royals, the Knights and the Church), there are also various magic cabals and independent magicians operating in London. At the end of the 19th century, it was home to the Golden Dawn, the world's greatest magic cabal. In the present day, there are Golden-style cabals based in the city, the largest of which being the Dawn-Colored Sunlight.

Background

London's history extends back two millennia, with the Roman settlement of Londinium as its first iteration, established in 47 AD.

Chronology

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Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Necessarius Special Admission Test

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London was the setting for the initial events concerning the Amakusas' admission test to Necessarius, as well as a plot to destroy the city's magical foundation by members of the "pound economy".

British Royal Family Arc

Main article: British Royal Family Arc

The London skyline as the coup d'état proceeds. You can recognise Tower 42, the Walkie-Talkie, The Gherkin, and The Cheesegrater.

London was the site of many of the key events surrounding Carissa's coup d'état attempt.

Birds-eye view as the Curtana overloads

Following the overloading of the Curtana Original at 2:30 AM on October 18th, while there wasn't much physical damage to the capital, many of the spiritual items across the city were affected by the magical explosion, with likely half of the spiritual items in Buckingham Palace rendered useless and three small churches destroyed. Additionally, a dense concentration of Telesma covered London, such that using magic would risk causing an explosion which would envelop the city, forcing both sides to delay hostilities until it dispersed to a safe level.

This section requires expansion New Light chase, Occupation by the Knights, Battle of Buckingham Palace

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Coronzon Arc

Main article: Coronzon Arc

During the Crowley's Hazard invasion of the United Kingdom, the final barrier of the England-Londinium Fortress was activated to prevent the invaders from reaching the capital. After Kamijou Touma destroyed the barrier's core in the Tower of London and Aleister Crowley entered London, the city's landscape was drastically altered by the activation of the Divine Mixtures.

Kamijou Arc

Main article: Kamijou Arc

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Christmas Day Arc

Main article: Christmas Day Arc

On Christmas Day, George Close, one of R&C Occultics' cooperators, attempted to attack the London Stock Exchange to eliminate evidence of his corruption using magic he had learned online but ended up setting himself on fire, in front of many witnesses.

Locations

The locations listed below are locations which have been featured or referenced in some form within the series.

Boroughs and Districts

Name	Type	Location	Details
Hammersmith	District & Borough	Hammersmith, Inner London	Hammersmith is the name of both a district and a borough (full name London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) in the western part of Inner London.
Kensington	District	West London	A high-class residential area in western London, and district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Lambeth	District & Borough	Lambeth, Inner London	Lambeth is the name of both a district and a borough within Inner London, the former within the latter.
Soho	District	City of Westminster	Soho is a major entertainment district in the City of Westminster, located in London's West End.
City of London	Borough	Central London	One of two boroughs to have city status themselves, the City of London is the land formerly occupied by the old London prior to the city's expansion.
City of Westminster	Borough	Inner London	One of two boroughs to have city status themselves, the City of Westminster occupies much of central Greater London and is home to many of the sites associated with London.
Outer London	Borough group	Greater London	The group of London Boroughs which form a ring around Inner London. During the events surrounding the Crowley's Hazard invasion of the United Kingdom, Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki found themselves somewhere in Outer London after crash landing the Anti-Art Attachment.

Featured and Referenced Locations

Name	Type	Location	Details
36 Blythe Road	Apartments	Hammersmith	Formerly the Golden Dawn's most important ceremonial ground and armory. The site of the Battle of Blythe Road.
British Library	Library	Camden
British Museum	Museum	Bloomsbury, Camden
Buckingham Palace	Royal residence	City of Westminster	The official royal residence of the British Royal Family, often used for meetings with important people from other countries.
Chinatown	Ethnic enclave
Heathrow Airport	Airport	Hillingdon
Hyde Park	Royal park	City of Westminster
Isis-Urania Temple	Apartments		Formerly the Golden Dawn's original temple (#3), prime ceremonial ground and primary meeting place in London. Long defunct.
Japantown	Ethnic enclave
Lambeth Palace	Residence	Lambeth	The official London residence of the senior bishop and principal leader of the Anglican Church, originally the Archbishop of Canterbury but now the Archbishop of Necessarius after the transfer of power to St. George's Cathedral.
Little Venice		City of Westminster	An artificial sluice and set of canals, based on Venice.
London Stock Exchange		City of London
London Underground	Transportation network	Multiple	A rail network and public rapid transit system serving Greater London, nicknamed 'the Tube' and one of the oldest subway systems in the world.
Necessarius Underground Labyrinth	Training grounds	London Underground	A group of unused tunnels and stations in the London Underground, formerly used by Necessarius for testing new recruits, now decommissioned due to being too dangerous.
Necessarius Women's Dormitory	Residence	Lambeth
Piccadilly Circus	Road junction Public space	City of Westminster	A road junction and public space in the West End, originally built to connect Piccadilly and Regent Street, famous for its theatres and shopping centers.
Naked Shopping Center	Shopping center	Piccadilly Circus	A hardware-based shopping center located in Piccadilly Circus.
Palace of Westminster	Parliament building	City of Westminster	Also known as the Houses of Parliament, the meeting place of the British parliament.
Primrose Hill	Hill/Park	Camden
Red Star Monastery			An Anglican Church institution, with a bell tower that can used in conjunction with others for a magical bombardment.
Royal Academy of Arts	Art institution	City of Westminster
Scotland Yard		City of Westminster	The headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, the metonym being derived from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters (located at 4 Whitehall Place in the St. James's district of Westminster, the public entrance for which was on a street named Great Scotland Yard) and having come to be associated with police activity in the capital. Golden Dawn co-founder William Wynn Westcott was also a coroner of Scotland Yard.
Seven Days Church			An Anglican Church institution, with a bell tower that can used in conjunction with others for a magical bombardment.
Southwark Cathedral
St. Gabriel's Church			An Anglican Church institution, with a bell tower that can used in conjunction with others for a magical bombardment.
St. George's Cathedral		Lambeth	The headquarters of Necessarius and the Anglican Church as a whole.
St. Julian's Cathedral			A cathedral of the Anglican Church. The recent bishop was given his position as a reward for supplying personnel to Necessarius, though this provision was later revealed to be the result of illicit manipulations intended to set a trafficking system.
Sword Sanctuary			A Necessarius facility for the storage and customization of powerful and dangerous spiritual items. The facility has one of the bell towers in the city which are used in conjunction for a magical bombardment.
Tower of London		Tower Hamlets	Historic castle and prison. A major tourist attraction in the present day, but secretly still used as a magic side prison.
Trafalgar Square	Public Square	City of Westminster
Waterloo Station	Railway station	Waterloo, Lambeth
Westminster Abbey		City of Westminster
Unverified library	Library		The City Library, where grimoires are kept in the storage room.
Unnamed bar	Bar	Islington	A bar which Lessar visited while New Light was transporting the Curtana Original and caused a disturbance at after accidentally losing track of her suitcase.
Unnamed cemetery	Cemetery		A Public Cemetery, where the bodies of great men are preserved in a storage vault.
The 'Living Mansion'

External Links

• London (Wikipedia article)