Becoming a wizard is no easy task. During the Age of the Wizards, an education process was created to guide young children to becoming wizards.
Primary Schools[]
At around the age of five, a young child wishing to be a wizard will enter a primary school. He or she will stay there through age 11. At primary schools, children have basic education on wizards, magic, dragons, elements, and DragonVale in general. Children at a primary school may do simple spells occasionally, but the majority of magic and spells are not learnt until wizard school.
Bonding Ceremony[]
After primary school, a wizard-in-training will bond with a dragon in a bonding ceremony. (See Bonding for more information on this ceremony.) A bonding ceremony celebrates not just bonding, but also the wizard-in-training's graduation from primary school. A wizard-in-training is not egligible to advance to wizard school until he or she has completed his or her bonding ceremony.
Wizard Schools[]
After a wizard-in-training completes his or her bonding ceremony, he or she will choose a wizard school, usually based on the bonded dragon's elements. Wizards-in-training will usually start wizard school at age 12 and end at age 18. At wizard schools, actual magic and spells are learnt.
Classes[]
There are usually seven particular classes taught by schools.
- Geography Class
- History Class
- Magic Theory Class
- Dragon Care Class
- Dragon Flight Class
- The two magics of the elements associated with that school.
Wizard Apprenticeship[]
After wizard school is finished, the student is now officially a wizard. However, some wizards who want to be advanced in magic will get a wizard apprenticeship. This is quite different from school: the student will hire a master to privately teach him or her. Wizard apprenticeships, though expensive, are a very good method to gain mastery in one field.