Wizard Adventure Ideas?

[Kelb_Panthera]

Let's see here.

Wizards are, canonically, scholars that work arcane magic. To that effect, you might:

Explore an ancient ruin of a highly magical society, such as an expedition to where one of the floating mountain-tops of old netheril fell.

Aid in a senior member of the academy's research by fetching rare ingredients from the field, such as phase-spider silk which is famously used in portable holes.

Escort an important sponsor either to the academy itself or to some field location to show off research in progress so as to justify continued patronage.

Seek out and defeat, not necessarily in combat, the members of a rival school.

Participate in a grand magical fair (see Complete Arcane) in one or more of the various events.

Root out a cult of anti-arcanist ludites that want to undermine and/or eliminate the academy.

Negotiate an exchange of research or researchers with another school to help avoid a conflict.

Investigate a magical anomaly.


And, of course, any of the attendant supporting actions necessary to accomplish any of the above.

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One thing to remember is that arcane academies as they're discussed in the various D&D books and similar fantasy settings are much closer to classic "places that those who wish to further knowledge, both their own and their peers', gather with the like-minded" rather than the modern "high-school 2.0" that universities and colleges have become. No one expects youngsters to join one. They have to not only show talent but intense interest and some ability to justify being sponsored to it rather than simply joining the family business (almost certainly a farm unless it's a merchant's holdings) or apprenticing under a more common artisan like a smith or mason. Except in halruua. In halruua, anyone who shows even the faintest glimmer of arcane ability is immediately toddled off to be taught proper magic in state-sponsored schools. You said silverymoon though so that shouldn't come up except perhaps in an exchange student.

You are, of course, free to tweak or toss that out in your own world-building but it's what is generally meant in the published settings.