Just for your understanding. We have a Adult a few hundred years old, from a few hundred years into the future, with a photographic memory, he probably knows more than we do in maths and the sciences, and we are probably gods among men in the middle ages. What a student learns in school is far a head of even the most intelligent men/women in the middle ages. Simply because we are a society focused on knowledge and will. In terms of physical training even our athletes are ill equipped for the Dragon Age setting. If you have the mindset and the morals needed to survive as a warrior in this age, you are a menace to society nowadays, and this is good, as killing somebody simply because he is in our way is impossible to us (well most of us). We are simply to soft to survive in this age outside of city walls. But the moment we step into a City, and have the possibility to show what we know, we will have no problems being part of the wealthy elite in this age (or dead). Lets face it, we are not going to be the badass berseker that kills everyone that stand in our way, the moment we set food into the Dragon Age Universe. We are cowards, weaklings, but a fifth grader knows more that most educated men in a medieval setting. And know apply this knowledge to somebody from the future.
Vyrantium, Umbralis/Firstfall, Dragon:27/2021TE
Time has passed at a astonishing pace, but that was the nature of a Routine, the lessons with Paulus went pretty well, as he was a good and attentive student, captured by the knowledge possessed by a mere now 11 Year old half-Elvhen. The boy might not notice, but he was just unnatural. No 11 Year old should know what he knew. When after half a year he found Paulus struggling with a tomb on the Nature of Numbers, Mathematics as it was called, he easily solved the Questions, that Paulus was struggling with. When he was asked how he knew it, he simply shrugged his shoulders and told him, that this was easy, and promptly introduced him to what he considered difficult Math for a 16 Year old. And Paulus mind was turned into mush, pulverized, and then puzzled back together in a matter of hours. The sheer volume of numbers and formulas utterly alien to him, was mind-numbing. 3, 4 Dimensions, graphs more complicated than anything Paulus had ever seen, and concepts that he simply could not understand, as it was beyond his understanding. And he understood that he has to stay friends with this boy, as he was probably the next Archon, he had a place in the Magisterium secured, he was a powerful mage, proficient with magicks rarely seen nowadays and by far the most intelligent person he had ever met. And it seemed the boy was oblivious to this fact.
And so it came that the boys stopped attending lessons at all, and as lessons were something that you could chose to attend, nobody complained about it. And while the students continued their normal routine of, sleeping, eating, attending lessons, learning, training, eating and sleeping, Paulus and Lynrael were continuing their own lessons, only taking the Exams with their „classmates", and the moment they got the confirmation they could continue their studies as they passed the exam, they went back to their Library and the garden. After all, mortal teachers could not compare to spirits of knowledge and Wisdom, and the sheer otherworldly knowledge a certain small boy contained in his head.
And Paulus knew what he had to do, and so he continued to study under his friend, and after some time he introduced him into the World of ever shifting alliances and plots that made up the maze of Tevinter Politics.
And they both looked forward to the Exam that every student at the Circle wants to complete,
the „Nito ut admittatur ad tertium genus ex Magi", the Exam that gave you the rank of a third class Enchanter, the lowest rank of Mages. It was basicly a testament of the ability of the title barer. After that came the second and first class, and it was a unspoken rule that a Magister had to be at least a Enchanter of the second or first class. The Archon himself was a Grand Enchanter, even more skilful and powerful than a First Enchanter, said to be able to wipe out armies and level cites, if they want too… and for Lynrael there was another bonus, as he was officially declared Heir to the Peverell Family, and was introduced to the World at large. The Heir was usually given control of some part of the Family Fortune, and should show, that he could grow his possessions, or if nothing else, keep them together. For this was a important part of the responsibility he would be faced with, when the current Lord died.
And this Exam was coming in fast….