Presumably there is a 'school' or other method of learning such as apprenticeship that teaches the first level of magic. #Professor of magical studies full#At that level they're already strong enough to be major movers in the world barring a world full of high level casters, and would also likely want to unlock the final secrets of magic (namely 8th and or 9th level spells). These are people who demand both respect and results and a bunch of bumbling non-adults wanting to learn magic is not likely to be appealing. Personally though, I struggle with any caster wanting to teach after a certain point for a number of reasons.įirstly, if a caster is level 13+ it's hard to imagine them wanting to teach a bunch of adolescents the secrets of magic. Galorion by comparison is much more inclined towards higher levels and IIRC the Acadamae from Korvosa's professors are 10th~14th level. Alternatively, maybe your world is full of heavy-weight casters and they need to be 15+ to be prestigious enough to be respected, though at that level you have to seriously question why they'd be teaching.ĭ&D 3.X suggested that level 5 was the point at which a caster was well learned enough to teach, but it was also predicated on most of the world capping out around 6th level. A 'professor' could be a level 3 mage if the entire town is desperate for magical training. He welcomes student and research questions on these subjects and sundry.This is entirely dependent on the setting and can be anything. He has presented public and scholarly talks in over twenty different countries. His forthcoming work includes edited books on Thai Manuscripts, Buddhist Biographies, and Buddhist ritual. In 2012 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2014 a fellow of Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He was named one of the top ten most innovative professors in America by the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2019 and his work on pedagogical methods in the controversial courses Existential Despair and Living Deliberately have been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and many other venues. He has won teaching and advising awards at Harvard U, Ohio U, the University of California, and the Ludwig Prize for Teaching at Penn. He is the co-editor of the journals: Buddhism Compass, Journal of Lao Studies, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He has received grants from the NEH, Mellon, Rockefeller, Fulbright, PACRIM, Luce, the SSRC, among others. He also has forthcoming work on the study of Human Flourishing and the Discipline of Religious Studies. He has published over 100 articles and book reviews on a wide variety of subjects in Buddhist Studies, Material Culture, and Religious Studies. He also has published edited volumes on Asian Manuscripts and Material Culture, Buddhist Biographies, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Ritual, Buddhist Literature. He has two new books forthcoming - Wayward Distractions: Studies in Thai Buddhism (National University of Singapore and Kyoto University Presses) and Cosmologies and Biologies: Siamese Illuminated Manuscripts (Holberton). His third book, Architects of Buddhist Leisure, was supported by grants from the NEH and Kyoto University. His second book, The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magic Monk, won the Kahin Prize. His first book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words, won the Harry Benda Prize. McDaniel's research foci include Lao, Thai, Pali and Sanskrit literature, art and architecture, and manuscript studies.
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