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[@Darkraven] so 90% of mages would likely travel from the North. 
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Yeah, she would have been born in a small village in the South colonized by some humans from the north, and she would have learned her magic from the village mage. She would then have sorta roamed around in the South, visiting ruins and studying all the freaky-ass spells there, picking up all sorts of magical odds and ends that she would use.

Her magical knowledge would have these massive gaps in it, since the majority of what she does know was either from a subpar mage who taught her some spells and then from what little she was able to grasp of the spellwork found in crypts and ruins and spooky things.