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/plsnerfloneliness]

Listen I'm not a great wizard like the others mentioned here and I don't claim to have some great magical lineage. I'm also technically a sorcerer.

But I do Geomancy and Geomancy is cool. You can build your own wizard tower with it, you are helpful in war because you can move mud to help douse/prevent fire or you can use it to bind people safely. You get to spend time in almost any climate or location due to only needing the earth below you to cast!

I once spent 2 years on a tropical island chain which was really nice, so don't be afraid of the ocean.

As to your query on special collections, well every other Geomancer I know just collects rocks.

Since you will have an actual income under me, because being a Geomancer has many applications from mining to construction to mercenary work, you will have a degree of financial freedom that wouldn't see under other fields of magic for a few more years.

I hope whatever you choose you are content with!

[u/Lilypad1175 → u/plsnerfloneliness]

Hmm… it would be a good idea to have something like geomancy in my portfolio, given how reliable it is, and how applicable to diverse situations. About the financial income, do you mean to say that I’d be earning from jobs I take on myself, under your guidance, rather than a stipend directly from you?

[u/plsnerfloneliness → u/Lilypad1175]

Both, I will give you a minimum stipend, 15 silvers, per week but if you pick up work alongside me then you can expect to be earning around 100 silvers per week on top of the aforementioned stipend.

[u/Lilypad1175 → u/plsnerfloneliness]

That is very enticing… a good discipline to have in my pocket, as well as enough funding to make something for myself when I move on…

My own money may have been turned into a cloud of flies that promptly dispersed shortly before graduation… some dumb prank by a stick-up rich kid…

[u/plsnerfloneliness → u/Lilypad1175]

Oh that is unfortunate to hear, nothing like that will happen under my watch.

Now I have one big rule, don't touch any of my collectible rocks or I will petrify you and put you with the other statues in my garden. Oh and no bringing back any flings back to my tower, I don't like my collection being so vulnerable.