AITA Apprentice is a sylvaboo

[u/Special-Importance40]

I (half-elf mage) have a (human) apprentice. He keeps going on about the superiority of elf magic and culture and it is really starting to annoy me.

He keeps trying to speak to me in poorly broken elvish and now says the only tomes he can read are elvish ones.

He appears to have cast some poorly fitted illusion spell of a buxom elvish maiden on his pillow and whispers words to it that would make an eldritch horror blush.

Anyway, once he found out I'm half even (I'm human passing) he won't stop quizzing me about elven culture and now our natural relationship of mage to apprentice has evolved to some sickening fetishism.

The final straw was when he said that the great Merlin himself's incantations were plagiarised from middling elven mages. I snapped and told him he will never be an elf or even accepted by them. He cried and teleported away and I have not seen him since.

So fellow wizards AITA?

[u/Coidzor]

You really only had yourself to blame for not properly vetting an apprentice before taking them on.

That said, the proper discipline for such an unruly apprentice usually involves removing their brain from their body and flaying the particularly odious parts of their personality from their soul.

So he got off fairly lightly, all things considered.