[quote=Frizan]
Or any Elder Scrolls game, actually. I'm always a spellsword/theif. Thought I'd finally break the mold and be a graceful High Elf mage. The first thing I did after breaking out of Helgen was wrecking shit in Bleak Falls barrow and sequence breaking everything by grabbing the Dragon Stone. Then I went off to do the College of Winterhold quests....at level six. 

A sad time indeed...I'm currently at the Labyrinthian, and I'm so bloody underpowered that I'll probably have to do stuff elsewhere for a while and build up my magicka pool. I think Faendal is the only reason I got THIS far.
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Pure mage? o.o Wow, that's a rather tall order, hope it work out for you. 
BTW, which school is your mage specializing in? Destruction/Conjuration/Restoration/what?