![]() ![]() Despite this, Joel embraces his education. Unlike the other students at Armedius, Joel is the son of a poor campus janitor, not a child of privilege like his classmates, and he is not a Rithmatist. Joel is not a Rithmatist, but he is obsessed with Rithmatics, studying it intensely. Joel Saxon is a student at Armedius Academy in New Brittania, a prestigious school for young people. The Europeans learned Rithmatics to protect themselves against the chalklings in the present day, Rithmatists have learned how to control the power of various kinds of chalklings to use for their own benefit. ![]() When the Europeans came to colonize America, they found the islands uninhabited except for the presence of chalklings, wild two-dimensional creatures that wandered the land with no known predators. The book opens in a world like our own Earth, except North America is made up entirely of islands. The book is the first in the Rithmatist series. Obsessed with Rithmatics, Joel is recruited to become part of an investigation about a series of missing Rithmatist students, alongside the eccentric Professor Fitch. ![]() Joel dreams of becoming a Rithmatist though he is not one when the book begins. ![]() The Rithmatist is a young adult fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson about an alternate Earth, which contains a kind of magic known as Rithmatics, through which Rithmatists, or practitioners of this magic, can control wild chalklings, two-dimensional creatures made of chalk. ![]()
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