Development happens with time
Characters develop, just like real people - all it takes is time.
Maybe you feel that we slow you down and discourage your ideas about how to progress your character. That is probably true: Forced development will not be good for your character. We'll help you to develop them naturally.
Our hub GMs are roleplaying for years, some even for decades - just get in touch.
Aim and purpose
You normally will have goals of some sort for your character. Or if you don't, your character will have those. There won't be any tests to tell you if you are ready, we don't initiate anyone, but of course you can climb the ladder and gain new skills in the speed you deem right for your character.
Please keep in mind a few things when you do, though.
The powerful have to respect the weak - OOCly
The more powerful your character is, the more limited your RP becomes - simply because having a jack-of-all-trades around will ruin the RP for others, robbing their characters of challenges and reduces them to the role of ducklings who scuttle after the Master Wizard and do his bidding.
That obviously doesn't mean that low power tiers get to bully the wizards - let me give you an example situation:
Neloth Telvanni and a bunch of Wardens are at the same Ayleid Ruin, Neloth researching star constellations in April 1E132 and the Wardens having some super-sneaky plot where they are about to retrieve an artifact for the Aetherial Blade.
They will eventually bump into Neloth, who will, of course, ask them what they are doing here.
Given that he is a s'wit (and doesn't want to ruin their RP) he will not single-handedly pull their artifact out of the behind of the lich who was supposed to be their bossfight, instead he'll make a snarky remark and continue to stare at a wall mosaic. He will, maybe, lower himself to help them, if they ask him to, but in general the Wardens will just sneak on, commenting on what weird guys those wizards are and that they now have to kill the lich extra-silently so they don't annoy the wizard.
Apprentice-RP and different learning speed
When you begin as an apprentice and want to progress beyond quickly because you find that apprentice RP doesn't suit you well, that's entirely up to you. But please note that other players enjoy playing a kena-viya-relationship and will progress much more slowly than you do.
Given that their slower progress doesn't come down to their characters being any less clever than others (usually), but to a player decision, they shouldn't be in-characterly ridiculed for that. Instead, those who make faster progress should make sure that it feels natural to have their characters skyrocket towards their (imaginary) wizard diploma.
Remember, Telvanni are nerd.
You don't join the Chaos Computer Club because you want to work for Microsoft, you do it so you can hang out with other nerds and talk about computers.
Political progress
The higher you ascend in the ranks, the thinner the air gets and the more fierce the competition.
The rank of a Spellwright is the politically reasonable place to go - anything above that will make you stand out, and that's most likely not a good thing.
If you play a noble, it will be taken for granted that you are part of the political power play in the House. Getting to safe distance from that, or finding your place in it, will be part of your character's custom plot.
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