Magic/Tech Level

Magic can get really complicated. It saturates the air in some realms and is completely repressed in others. Magic has it's own brand of chemistry of how well each discipline will react in different circumstances and of course, GM discretion. Fair warning: actual chemistry varies by the realm and therefore, technology often has unexpected results, or lack of. This is referred to as Magic/Tech Levels. Alright, you still want to try, well, you'll need to learn a first level tier spell, probably from someone teaching you, but there are other ways. There is a forest of spell trees or disciplines and you'll need to learn the first spell on a tree and perform it so well that the next tier will become self-evident to you. You may eventually ace that one so well that a third tier might come to you, you'll keep going, some times you'll come to branches where you need to choose which path. For each spell tree, you'll have to start at the bottom and start the slow climb.