Editing The College of Quietus (section)

==Ranks and Types==

Quietan magi are naturally territorial; a given neighborhood cannot typically support more than one of their sorcerers. Some powerful Quietans, known as Zai, have networks of influence that extend over an entire city-state and they themselves have lesser Quietan magi indebted to them. Some cities lack any Zai and instead are divided up among experienced and established Tarn who jockey for influence and control among themselves.

Like most sorcerers, Quietans do not often have families or many close personal relationships; they fear those they love could become targets of sorcery’s anger. However, apprenticeship is important to every Quietan and is often their only true way of leaving a legacy. If a Quietan magus has children, one is often groomed for apprenticeship, but more often a magus will buy a promising slave-child and raise that child as their apprentice. It is not a coincidence that the slave-child’s freedom and tutelage become the first considerable obligation owed to the Quietan tutor. 

After their initial tutelage but before they can grow too powerful, every Quietan apprentice is sent away on a period of wandering called the szu’kai. The wandering apprentices, called tu’szu’kai, are to experience the world and establish themselves, gaining wealth and power so that eventually they can carve out their own network as a Tarn or inherit their master’s network of influence. Some tu’szu’kai serve with trading caravans, others become marauders, and some sell their services as adventurers, but all are learning to build their obligation networks while earning some coin.