First time posting, I hope I'm doing this right.
A friend and I are highly academic sorts, and we do a lot of theorizing and trying to apply real world logic to RPG settings. Usually this is just idle talk over lunch or whatever, but recently I've started writing an entire world and its history based off this question: if it is possible to gain magical casting via study (like wizards do), why aren't there more wizards? In the real world we are expected to go through 13+ years of mandatory education before entering adulthood. I would like to post my early writings here for feedback, if that's OK.