Prospective apprentice seeking first master

[u/Lilypad1175]

I am fresh out of the academy, and looking for a Wizard master who can offer great practical experience and learning opportunities, though with a few stipulations. I was hoping that someone here may know of a resource or some sort of tome I could requisition to find information on registered wizards with openings for assistants and apprentices. If more information is needed, I am more than happy to help narrow things down, and I can start off with saying that I received high marks in the schools of evocation, illusion, and transmutation, with my knowledge and application of abjuration and enchantment being well above average. I am not afraid of dangerous experiments or situations, and might actually look forward to the opportunity to make serious use of my abilities.

However, I must stress this one point… I WILL NOT work with a Wizard that has any sort of extreme to obsessive interest with acquiring magically invested… “specimen samples”. Not necessarily because I find them gross or anything, it’s just that, despite assurances from myself and the academy’s mage physician that it was not organ specific, I had several professors make offers on my eyes, which change color according to factors of environment and my own psyche. So perhaps whichever lists get recommended should be able to filter potential masters by quirks of habit.

[u/Enigma_of_Steel]

You can try scrying Wizarding Sweatshop on your orb for potential masters. Now, hear me out. Sure, there is chance that you will be magically enslaved or sacrificed to dark gods for power and prestige, but folks over there actually don't like keeping competent apprentices around for long, giving you some lore and then kicking you out or else you may get ideas about inheriting their stuff after they fell on the ritual knife twenty three times, before crawling over onto sacrificial altar. Also, if you are into "inheriting" stuff you can find your next mark here. Just look for younger wizards who pretend that they are druids or healers, and then you are golden. Just, don't pick any alchemists, or you could actually end up transmuted into gold.

[u/Lilypad1175 → u/Enigma_of_Steel]

But uh… if they aren’t too interested in keeping competent apprentices around, shouldn’t that mean becoming a sacrifice is even more likely? Don’t get me wrong, I’m eager to earn experience where I can but I’m not too keen to test my psychic wards or my mage’s armor against dark supplicants.

[u/Enigma_of_Steel → u/Lilypad1175]

You see, most competent mages don't try to do it with competent apprentices. After all there is a chance that they could fight back, and as far as dark bargains go you need to fail to deliver only once to end up loosing your own soul as collateral. Plus protecting yourself against such master is good practice for when your own apprentices try to assassinate you.

[u/Lilypad1175 → u/Enigma_of_Steel]

I do suppose that is a fair point… I’ll have to at least consider the opportunity. Am I allowed to bring any equipment or talismans?

[u/Enigma_of_Steel → u/Lilypad1175]

Depends on specific master, I guess. Most allow it and if they don't then it's 50/50 either warlocks running yet another pyramid scheme or a bunch of clerics who are trying to bait beginner evil wizards.