A mage's talent was one in ten thousand. Of nearly four hundred thousand people of eligible age who were tested, only 112 showed mage talent.
Those 112 promising mages ranged in age from five to eighteen. Only ten of them were eighteen-year-olds who could begin practicing the Meditation Method right away.
No one could resist becoming a Transcendent. Kurd Magic Academy was an academy Medivh had founded himself, so it didn't have to follow the rules of the Academic School.
After signing loyalty agreements with Medivh, they were allowed to study at Kurd Magic Academy.
Medivh assigned some Skeleton Mage instructors to teach them the Meditation Method and basic magic.
Not everyone was Medivh, with a near-cheat method of mental cultivation powered by the Spring of Time.
Ordinary mage apprentices needed to take potions to aid their mental cultivation, and advancing to a first-tier mage took a decade.
Medivd had no interest in managing them himself, so he left Kurd Magic Academy's operations to the Skeleton Mage Corps.
"Medivh, when you have time, send your Skeleton Mages to the Hobarton Family's territory. You should find plenty of promising mages there."
The Second Elder believed in keeping benefits within the family. Seeing how few people there were at Kurd Magic Academy, he asked Medivh to screen for talented young mages on the Hobarton Family's lands after the war.
"If the Hobarton Family needs it in the future, its members can come to Kurd Magic Academy for further study."
Medivh accepted the favor and offered something in return. If the Hobarton Family's members had no other way to study magic, they could come to him.
He would help train a few mages and help the Hobarton Family lay the groundwork for a Court Mage system.
He wouldn't teach them everything, of course,