[quote=@Invader Len]
[@Gareth] 

Also, its not uncommon for Mages and Familiars to marry one another. There is no stigma attached to being born either a mage or a familiar.


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I meant by perhaps unsurprisingly like I was trying to say perhaps it is common.

[quote=@Invader Len]
[@Gareth] Most everything seems in order, could you perhaps elaborate on how your character got a scholarship and why he wants to attend the academy? Assuming his parents are not wealthy farmers. Which is possible, just not in the way described.

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I have an idea.  

Idea: His parents convinced many of the citizens of the towns around the academy to back Aaron for a scholarship.  Because his parents are well known and trusted by those village people because of a relationship they have established with each other over years-a village rep. and Aaron parents went together to the academy to convince them of Aaron's scholarship worthiness and that the boy has great potential.  Maybe Aaron had one great thing about him that the Academy people saw when they tested him to see if he was worthy of a scholarship.