With lunch over with, Elric spent the remainder of the first day of class going over the key differences between the fake magic that mages use, real magic that magical beast were born with, that witches were gifted the ability to tap into, and learn, and the magiteck used by dwarfs.
"You will also want to take note of the fact that mages have ranks based on their level of knowledge of the craft, and ability to use that skill. The lowest is called an initiate, and are more or less the mage equivalente of a recrute or trainee if compared to military or knight rankings. while the strongest would be a arch or grand magius, and they should be more than able to best their sword welding counterpart that would hold the rank of general. There are several ranks in between such as acolyte, apprentic
