Everyone has Wild Magic, it is both harder and easier to learn than the other kinds. It's the most natural, based in emotion and instinct, it's actually the first one I think a lot of people here learn as children.
To be able to supersede Academic Magic like that, he (they? I know a woman was with him) would have to understand how it works. They would have both had to be extremely skilled mages, and that means extensive training. The other interesting aspect is that they understood the court well enough to know where everyone was and to get ahead of the execution, and what spells they'd need to use to get around them. That doesn't just take skill, it takes cunning, and I would wager, inside information.
Where they were trained I don't know, but Thorne wouldn't admit to the Summoned if these were their own Hayle-trained mages going rogue, so we won't get any answers from them.
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To be able to supersede Academic Magic like that, he (they? I know a woman was with him) would have to understand how it works. They would have both had to be extremely skilled mages, and that means extensive training. The other interesting aspect is that they understood the court well enough to know where everyone was and to get ahead of the execution, and what spells they'd need to use to get around them. That doesn't just take skill, it takes cunning, and I would wager, inside information.
Where they were trained I don't know, but Thorne wouldn't admit to the Summoned if these were their own Hayle-trained mages going rogue, so we won't get any answers from them.