Elise Kova
Hi again :)
The apprentice system in the tower I imagine to be about 5-7 years. But it depends since people can manifest at different ages and some will learn to master their sorcery faster than others. It's less of a strict education system and more of a collective to teach young sorcerers how to control their magic and not go around randomly freezing or burning things.
After confident in their magic, apprentices can either work in the Tower and instruct future generations or go out and find jobs across the main continent. Most of these jobs for sorcerers are in the West (given the West's love/non-issue with sorcery), but many Waterrunners will go to the coastal and mountain towns in the South as well (since that's also home for many).
Because the world is such a harsh place for Sorcerers and the Tower offers a literal oasis for people with magic the mentality of "The Tower takes care of its own" developed. There's no formal payback system because the need has never arose. Most of the "alumni" (if you will) turn around and donate back to the Tower to ensure that younger sorcerers have the same safe haven they did.
And, even if they didn't, most citizens like the existence of the Tower because it "corrals" the sorcerers and helps them be "less dangerous". So the Empire wouldn't see it disbanded due to lack of funds.
In modern terms... it'd be like a not-for-profit funded mostly by donations and subsidized by the government as needed.
The apprentice system in the tower I imagine to be about 5-7 years. But it depends since people can manifest at different ages and some will learn to master their sorcery faster than others. It's less of a strict education system and more of a collective to teach young sorcerers how to control their magic and not go around randomly freezing or burning things.
After confident in their magic, apprentices can either work in the Tower and instruct future generations or go out and find jobs across the main continent. Most of these jobs for sorcerers are in the West (given the West's love/non-issue with sorcery), but many Waterrunners will go to the coastal and mountain towns in the South as well (since that's also home for many).
Because the world is such a harsh place for Sorcerers and the Tower offers a literal oasis for people with magic the mentality of "The Tower takes care of its own" developed. There's no formal payback system because the need has never arose. Most of the "alumni" (if you will) turn around and donate back to the Tower to ensure that younger sorcerers have the same safe haven they did.
And, even if they didn't, most citizens like the existence of the Tower because it "corrals" the sorcerers and helps them be "less dangerous". So the Empire wouldn't see it disbanded due to lack of funds.
In modern terms... it'd be like a not-for-profit funded mostly by donations and subsidized by the government as needed.
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Hello Ms./ Mrs. Kova? While I was just perusing random books on Goodreads and found your series today. I haven't even read the first book yet and am already getting overly hyped. I feel like this is a series that I could buy off Amazon right away without any reservations, which I have done in the past, however; each book in hardcover is $30. I was just wondering why that is?
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