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Levels of Mage.
Apprentice. An apprentice is bonded to a master for twenty years, during which period he/she is fed, clothed, housed, trained and given a small allowance. They are constantly supervised and monitored to prevent them from breaking the rules and/or killing themselves.
Journeyman/woman. A journeyman/woman is bonded to the same master for a further one hundred years during which they are expected to find work within and without the magical community and pay back their debt of training (not necessarily money, but time and obligation). Many end up in the world of scientific academia where control of the elements and power manipulation helps them reach fairly high levels in universities and research laboratories throughout the world. They are warned not to become too conspicuous. Many also do research within the magical community as well as in various disciplines; magic is too much fun not to play with it.
A few end up working for the Council's enforcement groups around the world and essentially make sure that as few people as possible come into contact with real magic and/or clean up the mess in cases where it goes wrong or there has been a confrontation with the Coalition. It normally requires a high level of discipline to work in enforcement, though there are exceptions and the casualty rate can be quite high.
Mage. A Mage is a fully qualified magic user. He or she is financially independent and free of ties to a master, though most retain ties of affection and respect. They can more or less live where they want and do as they want so long as they follow the Council's rules.
High Mage. Though not a title as such, a High Mage is a one who has mastered the hidden higher magics in the iso depth and quantum layer fields. Whilst many Mages will touch upon one area or another (power, spells, healing, etc.) only a High Mage is master of all. The title is often used confusingly of any senior Mage.
Seer. A Seer is a specialised Mage, highly intelligent (even by Mage standards) and capable in gestalt of correlating masses of information. Specifically a female genome trait, they are very rare and treasured by those races and organisations that have them.

Yes, weighing in at 2mb, 1200 pages in 126 chapters, it's finally in it's SOL format.
I'll increase the posting to at least twice a week and hope you enjoy.

I don't get a lot of feedback, which isn't the problem :-D
The feedback I do get though is highly pertinent, a guy told me that he really liked Magician, but was losing interest as the updates were slow. Another that he didn't want to start reading it until it was finished (quite a few of you are like that).
Well, I've decided to increase the updates of Magician to one every week or so despite it not being finished. Currently I'm up to writing chapter 93), so there's a lot of slack there.I hope by the time the chapters catch up to where I currently am that I'll have completed the work. I reckon it'll take another 20 chapters, but when I first started, I reckoned the book would only be 50)As it is, you're going to have to hope that it's finished before the chapters stop coming, though I can (almost) guarantee it will be finished.
If you want more, sorry, but I will let you know when it's done.

One of my favourite authors passed away yesterday, if you haven't read any of his stuff, you've missed a treat. He had a way with words and a story line I could only envy and not even get close to emulating. RIP Invid Fan, you'll be missed by so very many avid readers.
My condolences to his family particularly his sister.

The Bach that is, Chapters 6 to 10 are queued up in the submissions queue and will appear every other day.
Magician is still an ongoing project and whilst it's only up to chapter 43) on SOL I'm currently writing chapter 73)so there's a long way to go yet and I'm enjoying a lot of constructive feedback, which is why in a sense I'm writing so far ahead of posting, as I'm often having to edit earlier chapters to take into account the later plot twists. With a bit of luck I'll get it finished this year, if that's the case I'll speed up the delivery, but not until... naturally.