Wizard
A wizard is a magic user who studies and performs abstract magic from a spellbook, with the aid of an arcane focus such as a wand, staff, crystal, or orb. They are the most common and well-known practicioners of learnéd magic.
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Qualifications
Wizardry takes extraordinary diligence and intelligence, alongside years of careful study. Many wizards begin their careers independently apprenticed to a powerful mage, after which they traditionally go on to study at a wizarding college. Highly renowned wizarding universities include the Academia al-Sona, the Academium Arcanum al-Nabucco, Hildegard University, and the Wizarding University of the Aquatic Kingdoms.
Rarely, someone may be able to introduce themselves to wizardry via self-study alone. These informally educated wizards, often called prodigal mages, are almost never capable of casting anything more powerful than null-level spells (also known as cantrips) until seeking further training. However, they may progress more quickly through their education than those who begin as apprentices with no prior study.
After their basic schooling (and any graduate studies they may choose to take on), most wizards become either rank-and-file mages at a standing mage tower, or wandering wizards who offer freelance services in their school of expertise. Sturdy and brave wizards may choose the life of an Adventurer instead, though unprepared wizards used to a life of academia infamously die quite easily on the battlefield.
Career Progression
The taxonomy of wizard spells sorts them into ten numbered levels, from null-level (small, low-energy effects that are almost infinitely repeatable) to ninth-level (world-changing magic nearly impossible to control without immortal intervention). Progression through these levels makes for an easily trackable measure of a wizard's skill.
Wizards typically only know null-level and first-level spells upon their entrance to wizarding college, and will graduate from most programs knowing fourth-level and occasionally fifth-level spells. Graduate and doctoral studies teach spells up to seventh level, placing a heavier emphasis on expanding into supplemental schools of arcanum. Eighth-level spells are rare, with perhaps one mage in a large, prominent tower able to perform more than one. Ninth-level spells are practically unheard-of, beyond the mystrogogues of the Convocation of Wands and the few dangerous rogue mages strong enough to oppose them.
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