I felt that it would be best if I were well-rounded.
(Agriculture +3, Diplomacy +3, Economics +3, Geography +3, History +3, Religion +3, Smithing +3, Warcraft +3)
My fifth and final year at the Academy was very thrilling. I had been hearing about Archmage Lacius's private library since I first arrived.
As a regular student, I had no way to get into the library. The contents of the Archmage's library remained a mystery to me, at that time.
My Transmutation class was pretty boring, although it might just have been the teacher. We always seemed to be doing the same things, turn a stone into bronze, then to iron, then to gold.… That might sound like it should have been financially lucrative, but it wasn't. We used to spend hours in order to create the tiniest bit of gold from another material. I think I could have made the same amount of money for the time it took working at a normal job. I knew that Transmutation would eventually allow you to turn an enemy to stone, or to craft an item into giving it special powers, but that was very advanced magic.
We were each given a finely crafted statue of King Gareth at the beginning of the year. They had all been sculpted from stone by very talented artisans. Our task was to convert the statue into ruby, the royal gemstone.