Yes, with Aplomb

So with your fate looming near you set about your task with gusto, acquiring your merchant's writ of license and enchanting several items, a couple weapons, a few sets of armor and a couple shields, but the most in-demand items that you could sell were simple wondrous items that improved quality of life. Bags of holding, Handy Haversacks, Decanters of Endless Water, and most of all, Everfull Mugs. Your business connections were growing, as was your clientele, and you learned in the school of hard knocks how to use your charm, allure, and intellect as tools to build your wealth. You became quite the avid item creator, some even began calling you "the pseudo-artificer" or the pseudoficer for short.

By the time your deadline had arrived at the age of seventeen and a half years old, your quota was a mere drop in the bucket of your current assets, and your peers among the mercantile guild were astounded that you could rise so fast at such a young age.

However the merchant life had begun to wear on you. Along with your favored patrons, clients and connections, you had also accrued a number of rivals and detractors. They disliked your position among them for several reasons, your gender, your youth, your successes, and your analytical no-horseshit business practices. Ultimately spending the rest of your life selling magical bits and baubles was far from your ideal choice of a life. You wanted more from your magical talents, and having become an incredibly skilled enchanter, you wanted to see what more magics could be learned and what heights you could push your arcane talents to. Having been mostly self taught until this point, you decided that you needed a bit more guidance from those who had come before. You managed to liquidate most of your assets, and ended up with enough to start a modest sized town by yourself! But wealth wouldn’t directly gain you knowledge, so you sought out a place where you could further your studies. You looked at various schools, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Now reaching your eighteenth birthday, you have been settled on an academy in a distant land under the jurisdiction of a different duke that instructs and trains arcane mages in the arts and sciences of magic. Having said your goodbyes to your friends and family, you begin your preparation for the journey to the...