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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Status 2 for a secondary/journeyman Enchnter is excessive. He's not a "business leader". His Master/Head of the Enchantment Circle might be. He might only be Staus 1 and it's the Guildmaster of Enchnters who's stauts 2.
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Its' either a privileged profession or it doesn't exist. There are too many other things a potential enchanter could be doing that would give a faster and better return on its' investment (and that of the people who are paying to support the mage while it is being trained). Like, say, the Earth College. Essential Earth is a lovely spell. Take Earth to Stone as well ... and you're a walking talking adamant/orichalcum mine. IQ 10 + Magery 2 means you're spending nearly seven months learning the necessary spells to a reasonable level rather than having to invest the four years necessary to become even an apprentice enchanter.
Spend a tad bit more than a year (total), and you can grab Purify Earth as well which does wonders for your desirability.
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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
Remember, Status 0 is not an actual average of how the population lives at TL3. It's a game mechanical norm. That secondary Enchanter with a rare-ish but not earthshaking talent might well take a job supporting "only" Status 0 when the alternatives were Status =2 serf or Status -1 poor citizen.
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The vast majority of the rural population are Status -2, with the vast majority of the urban population being Status -1.
I don't expect you are going to run into very many rural enchanters to begin with.