Which mage is best?
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
You decide to compromise between price and comfort. You don't want to sleep in shit, but at the same time you don't want to waste your money. All in all, it was an easy choice to make. You head to the inn, pay the one silver, and reserve a room. You don't have much you have that isn't too valuable to leave, but you do place your dresses and the last of your supplies in the room.
After that, you ask the innkeeper if knows of any mages that are looking for an apprentice. He looks at you a bit funny, likely because the majority of people who could afford an apprenticeship would already know. Still, he tells you about three different mages. You did spend a silver on this place, after all.
The first is Laydon, a mage specializing in exotic effects and spells. He is obsessed with strange magics, and generally considered to be a bit insane, but the innkeeper doesn't know if that is actually true, or just hearsay. There are even whispers that he practices necromancer and fools with demons, but he is either bad at it, not too knowledgeable, or just harmless, considering that no uptight Heroes or zealous priests have come after him.
He comes from a noble family, which is where he gets all his money from, as well as sometimes joining explorer parties if he thinks he will find rare spells. His family is also the reason that most people actually takes him seriously. The cost to a apprentice under him is eighteen gold, which may be due to his family cutting him off. You think if you are willing to give him your summoning spells, or your time stop spell, they he may just teach you for free, though.
The second is Aaron, a young and mostly untested mage. He doesn't seem to excell in any particular area, nor does he seem to be weak in any. The one thing you can say about him is that he knows spells, lots of spells. He seems to want a good apprentice in order to gain some more fame through their feats, and to help him with his own magical workings. He is asking for twelve gold.
The third one is called Mannkev, and he is one of the best mages in the city, if not all the whole region. He doesn't use a lot of spells, but he seems to have complete mastery over those he does use. There is a tale that he once killed an entire bandit camp with a single, ordinary, fireball spell, and that you can still see the crater he made today. Some even say he used to be a companion to a hero. He placing a heavy emphasis on training base magical ability, which can often take a long time, be exhausting, and tedious. Incidentally, that is part of the reason why all his previous apprentices left, because he refused to teach them until then reached a certain level, and they were not willing to stick around to achieve it.
Often times, people learn magic for one of three reasons, to protect themselves, to be useful, or to be able to brag about it. The first is relatively is easy to achieve but last two, not so much. Most noble famlies have their children apprentices to a mage in order from them to quickly start making money for the family with their talents, or for them to be able to amaze and impress others with their new found "prodigious" skill (it is not unknown for families to grant a "good teaching bonus" in order for the mage in question to speak of the apprentice's greatness).
Mannkev's staunch refusal of these bribes, as well as his methodical steady teaching style, in top of his personality, that of a demanding, abbrasive, and stern man, didn't mesh well with the nobles he was teaching nor their families agenda. Which is why, even with his fearsome reputation that nets him apprentice's in the first place, he has never had an apprentice become a journeyman. To learn from him, it costs fourteen gold, and you will need to pass a trial. Still, your base ability is much higher then normal, so things should be easier for you.
[] Looks for one of these mages to apprentice to.
-[] Layton
-[] Aaron
-[] Mannkev
[] Look at the bounties available
[] Read a book and go to sleep
-[] Which book?
[] Write in
After that, you ask the innkeeper if knows of any mages that are looking for an apprentice. He looks at you a bit funny, likely because the majority of people who could afford an apprenticeship would already know. Still, he tells you about three different mages. You did spend a silver on this place, after all.
The first is Laydon, a mage specializing in exotic effects and spells. He is obsessed with strange magics, and generally considered to be a bit insane, but the innkeeper doesn't know if that is actually true, or just hearsay. There are even whispers that he practices necromancer and fools with demons, but he is either bad at it, not too knowledgeable, or just harmless, considering that no uptight Heroes or zealous priests have come after him.
He comes from a noble family, which is where he gets all his money from, as well as sometimes joining explorer parties if he thinks he will find rare spells. His family is also the reason that most people actually takes him seriously. The cost to a apprentice under him is eighteen gold, which may be due to his family cutting him off. You think if you are willing to give him your summoning spells, or your time stop spell, they he may just teach you for free, though.
The second is Aaron, a young and mostly untested mage. He doesn't seem to excell in any particular area, nor does he seem to be weak in any. The one thing you can say about him is that he knows spells, lots of spells. He seems to want a good apprentice in order to gain some more fame through their feats, and to help him with his own magical workings. He is asking for twelve gold.
The third one is called Mannkev, and he is one of the best mages in the city, if not all the whole region. He doesn't use a lot of spells, but he seems to have complete mastery over those he does use. There is a tale that he once killed an entire bandit camp with a single, ordinary, fireball spell, and that you can still see the crater he made today. Some even say he used to be a companion to a hero. He placing a heavy emphasis on training base magical ability, which can often take a long time, be exhausting, and tedious. Incidentally, that is part of the reason why all his previous apprentices left, because he refused to teach them until then reached a certain level, and they were not willing to stick around to achieve it.
Often times, people learn magic for one of three reasons, to protect themselves, to be useful, or to be able to brag about it. The first is relatively is easy to achieve but last two, not so much. Most noble famlies have their children apprentices to a mage in order from them to quickly start making money for the family with their talents, or for them to be able to amaze and impress others with their new found "prodigious" skill (it is not unknown for families to grant a "good teaching bonus" in order for the mage in question to speak of the apprentice's greatness).
Mannkev's staunch refusal of these bribes, as well as his methodical steady teaching style, in top of his personality, that of a demanding, abbrasive, and stern man, didn't mesh well with the nobles he was teaching nor their families agenda. Which is why, even with his fearsome reputation that nets him apprentice's in the first place, he has never had an apprentice become a journeyman. To learn from him, it costs fourteen gold, and you will need to pass a trial. Still, your base ability is much higher then normal, so things should be easier for you.
[] Looks for one of these mages to apprentice to.
-[] Layton
-[] Aaron
-[] Mannkev
[] Look at the bounties available
[] Read a book and go to sleep
-[] Which book?
[] Write in
Last edited:
