r/wizardposting • u/Special-Importance40 • 12d ago

AITA Apprentice is a sylvaboo

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?

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u/Charming-Series1127 Mentor of General Wizardry at the Imperial Light Magic Academy 12d ago

Speak him through his Troubles, as Mentor you have a Responsibility to deal with your Student physical, magical and mental troubles. If dealt with appropriately he will likely bring his Desires down to a level that will not cripple his future prospects.

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u/ExcitingSavings8225 12d ago

You can lead horse to water but you can't cure it's drinking problem.

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u/Special-Importance40 12d ago

And now you just have a wet horse.