Quite likely, [ Strange agrees. The comment’s a little judgmental, but unlike the professor, there’s no heat in it; speaking from academic observation than raw lived reality, not as personally tangled into the ugly history of Circle life. Definitely a rifter. But the description of higher-level lectures and lower-level classes sparks something, some old craving: he’s a perpetual student, always learning, a sponge for information. He’d done an MD and PhD at the same time. He’s voracious. ]

One of the templars here is Nevarran, so I’d gathered a little bit about how it works, but it’s— I feel like that ought to be the model. In my own world, I had the privilege of learning magic at a monastery of fellow scholars — the Masters of the Mystic Arts — so I admit I’m frankly spoiled. If the Circles could have been more like actual schools of magic, we’d presumably all have been the better for it.

[ A twinkle of mischief in his voice, half-joking: ] Are you still taking open enrolment? For, say, a hypothetical student of somewhat advanced age?