Taako and Lup were canonically passed around from family member to family member as kids and struck out on their own fairly young, taking odd jobs with traveling caravans or running confidence scams and spending most of their time on the road.
Which makes it super fucking impressive that they’re both really accomplished and powerful wizards? You can’t become a wizard by accident. You can spontaneously manifest sorcery, and you can certainly be tricked, manipulated, or forced into a warlock’s pact you didn’t intend to make, but you really can’t just accidentally start doing wizardry. Wizardry is magic gained through intense study. The twins must have fought tooth and nail for every scrap of magic they learned. Finding wizards who would give them a few lessons before they moved on, comparing notes and checking each other’s work, buying begging or stealing spellbooks to painstakingly decipher.
Taako keeps careful track of what material components they both need for their spellwork, learns what they need to get, and what he can transmute from something else, and where they can make substitutions.
Lup always checks Taako’s math for him.
Later, when he’s on his own, Taako doesn’t understand why it’s so hard for him to learn new spells. Everything takes longer than he thinks it should. He forgets to carry the one and the whole page of notes is useless.
Probably it’s just that he’s an idiot, Taako figures
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