The Yards are a collection of outdoor magical laboratories that sprawl across a wide valley filled with enclosed casting fields, open-air workstations, and squat stone labs. The ground is covered in overlapping grids of chalk sigils, some fresh, others half-erased by bootprints and rain. Training dummies stand in various states of ruin, while shattered glass and melted metal are swept into tidy piles by slow, overworked cleaning charms. Students haul crates of components between sheds, shouting warnings when something volatile begins to hum. Protective runes hang lopsided on their hooks beside dented goggles, clipboard checklists fluttering in the wind like defeated flags.