From what the Seniors have been exclaiming, it seems as if with each generation the wizards get younger and younger. Why? I think this is because every day the world is getting closer and closer to entropy (Just look ahead in W@W, the Seniors have even lost their powers! CHAOS IS TAKING OVER!!) The reason that the Powers have been giving the Oath to older wizards until now, seems to just be common sense. The older you are, the more experience and logic you have. Sure, the younger wizards are stronger, but strength of power isn't everything. The Powers have been getting more desperate, so the average age for the Oath has lowered.

If the Powers only offered people the Oath because they would make very POWERFUL wizards, the wizardly cummunity wouldn't be as strong as a whole. What is power without a plan to execute it? A young wizard with TOO much power might mess up or overdo him/herself in a spell and ruin everything! Lack of experience, can also lead a very young wizard into dangerous situations that even their brute power won't save them from.

Differing ages for being offered the Oath is best. That way, there's strong wizards AND experienced ones. Each wizard can specialize in a specific area, instead of just being "strong." It seems like the Powers just used common sense in this case.

i wholehartedly agree with kaiba4ever. but i can understand why dariene got wizardry when she was so young. she was like a prodigiy.

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Originally posted by kaiba4ever:
From what the Seniors have been exclaiming, it seems as if with each generation the wizards get younger and younger.

While the reason for a mixture of ages would make some sense, I don't see anything in the books to suggest wizards are getting younger. We know how old Nita, Kit, Dairine and Darryl were when they were offered the Oath. (Spoilers for wizards' names in later books.)

What we don't know is how old Tom, Carl or any of the other older wizards were when they were offered the Oath. Tom and Carl may have been about the same age as Nita and Kit were when they took their Oaths. The only example we have of an older wizard is in the Concordance, and it specifically says he was unusually late in starting his Ordeal.

I think it may need to be given young because of the ordeal. I mean, if you first go on ordeal when your older, and your not that powerful, how are you going to take on the LP? i mean, seniors can do it if necessary becuase they have experiance, but if your first becoming a wizard, you wouldn't even have that!

It's all about age when you'regiven the oath. Like Dairnie she was given the oath at 11. If I was given the oath today I would be more powerful than she was.

oh, and theirs also the fact that it's harder for an adult to accept magic then a kid. I mean, when your young, you can still accept the idea of magic. it may take some recconsiling, but you can do it. chances are, when your young, deep down, you already believe in magic, or at least hope that it's true and this is just a reafirming of your beliefs. but when you get older, alot of people loose that, become convinced give up the hope, and when that happens it's alot harder to convince them that magic could be real, so they couldn't really become wizards.

I agree Young Reader, Just recently because i was ill and spent so much time in bed I started lossing that ... faith/feeling/beifief/wish etc that magic was real in some sense. I've always believed that that something extra exisitied in the universe but recently I've started to feel silly and at a loss, I think i might be a little depressed or down and i'm finiding it hard to belive as i did.
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yeah...It's hard to hold on to the belief in magic...I do it by writing fantasy. it's hard to be a fantasy writer without at least hoping that the world you are putting to paper may exists. THen again, i'm only fourteen, so it's not that difficult.

to me when you lose faith in something it's hard to get it back but ...till you have to start beviling in something when your young... plus it would be cool if THAT THE POWERS THAT BE (DD) made a 8 year old a wizard for the 8th book W@W. and to yr I write alot becaus eI have half of my first book done!

I don't know about that… I think that, although someone should learn and believe in magic for there whole life, it would be better if they had had a little more experience with life in general first.

I think people should be offered it at a young age, when they can still believe in magic. But, I also think they should be old enough to understand the commitment of it. I think around a young teen, or somehting around there should be the youngest age. Well, if magic lives in your heart, ("magic does not live in the unwilling heart"), why not?

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("magic does not live in the unwilling heart"),

that is my favorite quote
well any way if I was given the oath now I would be as powerful as darienie was @ the begining "I'm the most powerful" lol had too get that out of my system well any way it would be cool if a 8 yr. old was given the oath

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