Extremely Advanced Arcanistry

For an Arcanist, no honor stands above earning a Title. A Titled Arcanist is expected to advise rulers, found a Tower, or lead armies to war. Markus wants none of that. He wants to teach, research, and use arcana to improve everyday life. Which would already be strange enough, except Markus is not an ancient master with a vast source of power and decades of renown behind him. He is in his mid-twenties, backed by no great house, and possesses only a graduation-level Well. By all reason, he should not stand among the great Arcanists of the age. And yet, he bears a Title. This is the story of the youngest Titled Arcanist in history: a brilliant, stubborn innovator whose creativity far outstrips his power, and whose dream is not conquest, but usefulness. The world, unfortunately, has other plans.