Are you able to choose what sort of magic you learn? Or are some born with greater skill in one area than in others?

[ she is sorry for all the questions, but the very idea of having an actual school where magic can be taught and learned and then everyone can go home pretty amazing. ]

You are a noble, then? [ that would explain the personal tutors and potentially being special. ]

There aren't any schools for magic in Thedas. Only the Circles. Magic is taught in them, all right. But once you enter a Circle of Magi, you seldom leave.

They can be seen as-- [ no, bethany. be honest. ] I mean they are prisons.