Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25343239-20150319182007/@comment-26893431-20180310235128

Busiao No Laughs wrote: Blademaster Jauffre wrote: J'zargo claims he will be the next Arch-mage, and states he is the best wizard at the college... Are you really using him as a reliable source? Just because the Synod and College of Whispers also have a political goal does not mean their mages are bad. If anything, I'd argue J'zargo was too bad a wizard to join them, judging on his scrolls. He lets his ego get in the way.

There is nothing stating the Synod and College of Whispers has an authority on magic... Kind of the reason why a place like the College of Winterhold is able to exist....

The Synod are not trashy. A group of researchers is clearly not the same thing as those who'd serve as Battlemages. They are not just simply a group of researchers. Synod are politicians who worries more about getting ahead of their mage peers in the Cyrodiilic Society, playing politics, backstabbing and worries about backstabbing first. Then they are mages.

No, I'm saying everything should be taken with a grain of salt  and that there's a glimpse into the Synod's environment hints that it is a place that create mages who will become Politicians first before mages hence 2nd rate Politicians and 3rd rate mages.

J'zargo's claims and ambitions are also a very good indication that he is a very driven mage. Someone who is very driven when stating that the Synod and College of Whispers are too busy with politics which one can catch a glimpse during the quest, is a reliable source. Just by J'zargo alone, I wouldn't say that and even thenm I stated clearly take everything with a grain of salt

It is just far more likely that the environment will create 3rd rate mages in Cyrodiil because of how it was like. The Nords didn't impose laws to ban mages or whether the College needs the permission of the High King to exist. It is different from Cyrodiil. So yeah, nope. I am still leaning that the "actual" mages are in High Rock and their allegiance... well High Rock's a province of its own.

So nope, because of the glimpse into the environment in Synod under their circumstance in Cyrodiil and that College of Whispers are a recognized Mage institute under similar situation... I am leaning to believe that they are 3rd rate at best. From what we read of the College and Synod in the Novels, we'd sooner argue the opposite...