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[[caption-width-right:350:Now this is a nice piece of Mithril!]] Roa (the boy with the gem in the page image) was drafted as an unpaid intern in the "Hero" party for a good 7 years, per the apprenticeship system sponsored by his home country.\\
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Naturally, once this party reaches A-rank, they get it in their heads that having "an all-rounder" in their roster will somehow shame them, so they literally throw him out of their base, with little more than the clothes on his back, and pointedly ignore all the instructions he left behind, since, per their native culture, "all rounder" is the lowest possible adventurer rank, due to being an uncertified apprentice, [[CircularReasoning and since they never bothered to certify him]], he's just "a talentless loser."\\
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They manage to coast along, for a while, because the party's self-proclaimed tamer uses Roa's familiars as his own, seeing as the beasts didn't realize Roa had been literally kicked out right away.\\
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The instant said familiars realize their master, whom they all see as family, has been evicted unjustly, thanks to the so-called "hero's" own boasts, they abandon this abusive and exploitive party to their fate.\\
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This is ''just the beginning'' of Roa's woes, as the country's top brass is strangely proud of this heavily flawed apprenticeship system, and often, very often, uses assassins to eliminate all evidence of the glaring flaws present, by assassinating and erasing from all records the very apprentices that prove the system isn't as flawless as the country wants to believe.
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Naturally, once this party reaches A-rank, they get it in their heads that having "an all-rounder" in their roster will somehow shame them, so they literally throw him out of their base, with little more than the clothes on his back, and pointedly ignore all the instructions he left behind, since, per their native culture, "all rounder" is the lowest possible adventurer rank, due to being an uncertified apprentice, [[CircularReasoning and since they never bothered to certify him]], he's just "a talentless loser."\\
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They manage to coast along, for a while, because the party's self-proclaimed tamer uses Roa's familiars as his own, seeing as the beasts didn't realize Roa had been literally kicked out right away.\\
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The instant said familiars realize their master, whom they all see as family, has been evicted unjustly, thanks to the so-called "hero's" own boasts, they abandon this abusive and exploitive party to their fate.\\
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This is ''just the beginning'' of Roa's woes, as the country's top brass is strangely proud of this heavily flawed apprenticeship system, and often, very often, uses assassins to eliminate all evidence of the glaring flaws present, by assassinating and erasing from all records the very apprentices that prove the system isn't as flawless as the country wants to believe.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Now this is a nice piece of Mithril!]] When he was ten years old, Roa (the boy with the gem in the page image) was drafted as an unpaid intern in the met Crack of Dawn, a "Hero" party who promised to train him as an adventurer. Seeking a way to learn the art of fighting, Roa signed in.
Alas, it was all a trick: Crack of Dawn promptly took advantage of the power they now held over young Roa (now an "all-rounder") to turn him into their unpaid servant, forcing him to do all sort of menial tasks and never bothering to fulfill their promise. And, due to how the Kingdom of Perdu sees apprenticeships, Roa couldn't hope to find someone else to teach him or just get out of the group. So, fora good 7 seven years, per he was forced to bear it, even as all his achievements were stolen (including his taming of a gryphon and two elemental wolves) and the apprenticeship system sponsored by his home country.\\
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Naturally, once this party reaches A-rank, theyothers took everything he did for granted.
And then, Crack of Dawn reached the coveted A-rank. The group promptly let the success getit in to their heads heads, and decided that having "an all-rounder" an "all-rounder" in their roster will somehow would shame them, so claiming Roa to be a "talentless loser" since he was still an uncertified apprentice [[CircularReasoning (even though they literally throw never bothered to certify him)]]. So, they promptly threw him out of their base, base with little more than the clothes on his back, and pointedly ignore all back (and without the instructions stuff he left behind, since, per their native culture, "all rounder" is the lowest possible adventurer rank, due bought for himself).
While Roa manages tobeing an uncertified apprentice, [[CircularReasoning and since they never bothered to certify him]], he's just "a talentless loser."\\
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They managefind work with a friend trader that had been mentoring him, Crack of Dawn manages to coast along, for a while, because the party's self-proclaimed tamer uses along by taking advantage of Roa's familiars as his own, seeing as being unaware that Roa was expelled. Then, the beasts didn't realize Roa had been literally kicked out right away.\\
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The instant saidgroup screws up mightily by causing a catastrophe - just after they accidentally reveal to the familiars realize their master, whom they all see as family, has been evicted unjustly, thanks about Roa's real situation, which prompts them to leave the so-called "hero's" own boasts, they abandon this abusive and exploitive party to their fate.\\
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fate and reunite with Roa.
This is''just just the beginning'' ''beginning'' of Roa's woes, as his story of success in spite of the country's top brass is strangely proud of this heavily flawed apprenticeship system, and often, very often, uses assassins system prompts Perdu's leadership to eliminate all attempt to have him murdered so they can ignore the evidence of the that their "flawless" system has many glaring flaws present, by assassinating and erasing flaws. But, after Roa handled seven years of thankless work, he certainly won't allow anything else to keep him from all records the very apprentices that prove the system isn't as flawless as the country wants to believe.
prospering!
Alas, it was all a trick: Crack of Dawn promptly took advantage of the power they now held over young Roa (now an "all-rounder") to turn him into their unpaid servant, forcing him to do all sort of menial tasks and never bothering to fulfill their promise. And, due to how the Kingdom of Perdu sees apprenticeships, Roa couldn't hope to find someone else to teach him or just get out of the group. So, for
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Naturally, once this party reaches A-rank, they
And then, Crack of Dawn reached the coveted A-rank. The group promptly let the success get
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: The country Roa calls home has a top brass that believes its own propaganda that the apprenticeship system they tout as flawless, doing a great job of separating the wheat from the chaff, since ''over 80%'' of the apprentices wash out, which makes sense on paper. In reality, the system is anything '''but''' flawless, and who knows how many of those 80% were simply victims of being screwed over by abusive or exploitive mentors, not being psychic and choosing a mentor for the job they're most suited to, since there's no magical appraisal tools or spells, and any apprentice trying to change mentors is just summarily treated as a "cowardly quitter."
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: The Perdu, the country Roa calls home home, has a top brass that believes its own propaganda that the apprenticeship system they tout as flawless, doing a great job of separating the wheat from the chaff, since ''over 80%'' of the apprentices wash out, which makes sense on paper. In reality, the system is anything '''but''' flawless, and who knows how many of those 80% were simply victims of being screwed over by abusive or exploitive mentors, not being psychic and choosing a mentor for the job they're most suited to, since there's no magical appraisal tools or spells, and any apprentice trying to change mentors is just summarily treated as a "cowardly quitter."
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* BrokenSystemDogmatist: Despite the many, ''many'', '''many''', '''''many''''' flaws in the apprenticeship system of Roa's home country, which is filled with teachers StealingTheCredit, apprentices being forced into effective serfdom due to the lack of oversight without actually being taught anything and are considered at fault for any conflicts with their masters, with any apprentices that have enough and quit being treated as radioactive and more, the top brass [[BelievingTheirOwnLies refuse to admit that the system doesn't work]], using CircularReasoning to justify things as just weeding out poor candidates and taking ''pride'' in how less than ''20%'' of apprentices graduate at all. If an expelled apprentice like Roa does well ''despite'' the system holding them back, they're either sent on an UriahGambit and made an {{Unperson}} or outright ''assassinated'' just so said top brass can pretend that said flaws do ''not'' exist or need to be dealt with.
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* BrokenSystemDogmatist: Despite the many, ''many'', '''many''', '''''many''''' flaws in the Perdu's apprenticeship system of Roa's home country, system, which is filled with teachers StealingTheCredit, apprentices being forced into effective serfdom due to the lack of oversight without actually being taught anything and are considered at fault for any conflicts with their masters, with any apprentices that have enough and quit being treated as radioactive and more, the top brass [[BelievingTheirOwnLies refuse to admit that the system doesn't work]], using CircularReasoning to justify things as just weeding out poor candidates and taking ''pride'' in how less than ''20%'' of apprentices graduate at all. If an expelled apprentice like Roa does well ''despite'' the system holding them back, they're either sent on an UriahGambit and made an {{Unperson}} or outright ''assassinated'' just so said top brass can pretend that said flaws do ''not'' exist or need to be dealt with.
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** Apprenticeships don't do interviews. So there's no way to know if the mentor an apprentice chooses, or is appointed to, suits them until they sign up, but once they sign up, they ''can not change or withdraw'' without being treated as a "quitter" and thus will be treated as radioactive by any other mentor the apprentice might want to try.
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** Apprenticeships don't do interviews. So So, there's no way to know if the mentor an apprentice chooses, or is appointed to, suits them until they sign up, but once they sign up, they ''can not ''cannot change or withdraw'' without being treated as a "quitter" and thus will be treated as radioactive by any other mentor the apprentice might want to try.
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** It bears repeating, but Roa's treatment under the party Crack of Dawn isn't the exception, ''it's the rule'' in the kingdom of Perdu. Novice apprentice adventurers, aka, "All rounders" are assigned a party to train them to be competent adventurers, and are looked upon by the adventuring party, the guild, in its entirety, ''and the nation'' as '''parasites''' until they're certified by the party to be competent enough to fend for themselves and treated poorly. As Roa's case demonstrates, these "all rounders" are, for all intents and purposes, ''hazed'' endlessly during their tenure and the mentoring party has no obligation whatsoever to actually teach them anything. Whenever there's a problem, the all-rounder is blamed and it's pretty much a case of '''divine intervention''' that the poor guy gets certified as legit. Yes, it's all coded into law. Visitors from foreign powers are baffled how the nation manages to persist.
** In the aftermath of the golem stampede triggered by Crack of Dawn, the party Nostalgia ''has to hide'' their hard earned loot of Mithril that they got from taking down Mithril golems at terrible personal risk and effort, because if they don't, the adventurer's guild would legally confiscate it all without compensation of any kind. And that's not because they're foreigners, but '''standard operating procedure.'''
** In the aftermath of the golem stampede triggered by Crack of Dawn, the party Nostalgia ''has to hide'' their hard earned loot of Mithril that they got from taking down Mithril golems at terrible personal risk and effort, because if they don't, the adventurer's guild would legally confiscate it all without compensation of any kind. And that's not because they're foreigners, but '''standard operating procedure.'''
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** It bears repeating, but Roa's treatment under the party Crack of Dawn isn't the exception, ''it's the rule'' in the kingdom of Perdu. Novice apprentice adventurers, aka, "All rounders" "all-rounders" are assigned a party to train them to be competent adventurers, and are looked upon by the adventuring party, the guild, in its entirety, ''and the nation'' as '''parasites''' until they're certified by the party to be competent enough to fend for themselves and treated poorly. As Roa's case demonstrates, these "all rounders" "all-rounders" are, for all intents and purposes, ''hazed'' endlessly during their tenure and the mentoring party has no obligation whatsoever to actually teach them anything. Whenever there's a problem, the all-rounder is blamed and it's pretty much a case of '''divine intervention''' that the poor guy gets certified as legit. Yes, it's all coded into law. Visitors from foreign powers are baffled how the nation manages to persist.
** In the aftermath of the golem stampede triggered by Crack of Dawn, the party Nostalgia ''has to hide'' theirhard earned hard-earned loot of Mithril that they got from taking down Mithril golems at terrible personal risk and effort, because if they don't, the adventurer's guild would legally confiscate it all without compensation of any kind. And that's not because they're foreigners, but '''standard operating procedure.'''
** In the aftermath of the golem stampede triggered by Crack of Dawn, the party Nostalgia ''has to hide'' their
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* BrokenSystemDogmatist: Despite the many, ''many'', '''many''', '''''many''''' flaws in the apprenticeship system of Roa's home country, which is filled with teachers StealingTheCredit, apprentices being forced into effective serfdom due to the lack of oversight without actually being taught anything and are considered at fault for any conflicts with their masters, with any apprentices that have enough and quit being treated as radioactive and more, the top brass [[BelievingTheirOwnLies refuse to admit that the system doesn't work]], using CircularReasoning to justify things as just weeding out poor candidates and taking ''pride'' in how less than ''20%'' of apprentices graduate at all. If an expelled apprentice like Roa does well ''despite'' the system holding them back, they're either sent on an UriahGambit and made an {{Unperson}} or outright ''assassinated'' just so said top brass can pretend that said flaws do ''not'' exist or need to be dealt with.
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* {{Unperson}}: The top brass are ''so'' proud of their apprentice system that they'll have any and all evidence that it has flaws eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins and their existence erased.
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* {{Unperson}}: The top brass are ''so'' proud of their apprentice system that they'll have any and all evidence that it has flaws eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins and their existence erased.erased.
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* LegalizedEvil: It bears repeating, but Roa's treatment under the party Crack of Dawn isn't the exception, ''it's the rule'' in the kingdom of Perdu. Novice apprentice adventurers, aka, "All rounders" are assigned a party to train them to be competent adventurers, and are looked upon by the adventuring party, the guild, in its entirety, ''and the nation'' as '''parasites''' until they're certified by the party to be competent enough to fend for themselves and treated poorly. As Roa's case demonstrates, these "all rounders" are, for all intents and purposes, ''hazed'' endlessly during their tenure and the mentoring party has no obligation whatsoever to actually teach them anything. Whenever there's a problem, the all-rounder is blamed and it's pretty much a case of '''divine intervention''' that the poor guy gets certified as legit. Yes, it's all coded into law. Visitors from foreign powers are baffled how the nation manages to persist.
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** It bears repeating, but Roa's treatment under the party Crack of Dawn isn't the exception, ''it's the rule'' in the kingdom of Perdu. Novice apprentice adventurers, aka, "All rounders" are assigned a party to train them to be competent adventurers, and are looked upon by the adventuring party, the guild, in its entirety, ''and the nation'' as '''parasites''' until they're certified by the party to be competent enough to fend for themselves and treated poorly. As Roa's case demonstrates, these "all rounders" are, for all intents and purposes, ''hazed'' endlessly during their tenure and the mentoring party has no obligation whatsoever to actually teach them anything. Whenever there's a problem, the all-rounder is blamed and it's pretty much a case of '''divine intervention''' that the poor guy gets certified as legit. Yes, it's all coded into law. Visitors from foreign powers are baffled how the nation manages to persist.
** It bears repeating, but Roa's treatment under the party Crack of Dawn isn't the exception, ''it's the rule'' in the kingdom of Perdu. Novice apprentice adventurers, aka, "All rounders" are assigned a party to train them to be competent adventurers, and are looked upon by the adventuring party, the guild, in its entirety, ''and the nation'' as '''parasites''' until they're certified by the party to be competent enough to fend for themselves and treated poorly. As Roa's case demonstrates, these "all rounders" are, for all intents and purposes, ''hazed'' endlessly during their tenure and the mentoring party has no obligation whatsoever to actually teach them anything. Whenever there's a problem, the all-rounder is blamed and it's pretty much a case of '''divine intervention''' that the poor guy gets certified as legit. Yes, it's all coded into law. Visitors from foreign powers are baffled how the nation manages to persist.
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* LegalizedEvil: It bears repeating, but Roa's treatment under the party Crack of Dawn isn't the exception, ''it's the rule'' in the kingdom of Perdu. Novice apprentice adventurers, aka, "All rounders" are assigned a party to train them to be competent adventurers, and are looked upon by the adventuring party, the guild, in its entirety, ''and the nation'' as '''parasites''' until they're certified by the party to be competent enough to fend for themselves and treated poorly. As Roa's case demonstrates, these "all rounders" are, for all intents and purposes, ''hazed'' endlessly during their tenure and the mentoring party has no obligation whatsoever to actually teach them anything. Whenever there's a problem, the all-rounder is blamed and it's pretty much a case of '''divine intervention''' that the poor guy gets certified as legit. Yes, it's all coded into law. Visitors from foreign powers are baffled how the nation manages to persist.
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* IgnoredExpert: After tossing Roa out, the "Hero" party ignores the written instructions he left behind for his familiars because they believe he was a "talentless loser". This ends up biting them in the butt as not only do the familiars eventually leave to find Roa, but the party loses everything while causing a mithril golem incident.
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* {{Unperson}}: The top brass are ''so'' proud of their apprentice system that they'll have any and all evidence of that it has flaws eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins and their existence erased.
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* {{Unperson}}: The top brass are ''so'' proud of their apprentice system that they'll have any and all evidence of that it has flaws eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins and their existence erased.
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* {{Unperson}}: The top brass are ''so'' determined to prove that their apprentice system is flawless that they'll have any and all evidence of mistakes eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins.
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* {{Unperson}}: The top brass are ''so'' determined to prove that proud of their apprentice system is flawless that they'll have any and all evidence of mistakes that it has flaws eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins.assassins and their existence erased.
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* {{Unperson}}: Then top brass are ''so'' determined to prove that their apprentice system is flawless that they'll have any and all evidence of mistakes eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins.
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* {{Unperson}}: Then The top brass are ''so'' determined to prove that their apprentice system is flawless that they'll have any and all evidence of mistakes eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins.
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* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Literally kicking Roa out of their party was the biggest mistake the self-proclaimed "Hero" party could have ever made. Not only were they exploiting the hell out of their country's apprenticeship system to get free labor, of excellent quality to boot, but they were ''entirely'' dependent on everything he did for them and on using his familiars as their own. Sure, they manage to coast along for a while because the familiars don't catch on right away, but the instant the familiars do realize what went on, and bolt, their fame and fortune collapses in epic fashion, ''and'' they trigger a major disaster involving mithril golems running amok, because they couldn't be bothered to follow written instructions their "talentless loser" left behind.
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* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Literally kicking Roa out of their party was the biggest mistake the self-proclaimed "Hero" party could have ever made. Not only were they exploiting the hell out of their country's apprenticeship system to get free labor, of excellent quality to boot, but they were ''entirely'' dependent on everything he did for them and on using his familiars as their own. Sure, they manage to coast along for a while because the familiars don't catch on right away, but the instant the familiars do realize what went on, and bolt, their fame and fortune collapses in epic fashion, ''and'' they trigger a major disaster involving mithril golems running amok, because they couldn't be bothered to follow written instructions their "talentless loser" left behind.behind.
* {{Unperson}}: Then top brass are ''so'' determined to prove that their apprentice system is flawless that they'll have any and all evidence of mistakes eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins.
* {{Unperson}}: Then top brass are ''so'' determined to prove that their apprentice system is flawless that they'll have any and all evidence of mistakes eliminated. That includes apprentices such as Roa, who are hunted down by assassins.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Now this is a nice piece of Mithril!]] Roa (the boy with the gem in the page image) was drafted as an unpaid intern in the "Hero" party for a good 7 years, per the apprenticeship system sponsored by his home country.\\
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Naturally, once this party reaches A-rank, they get it in their heads that having "an all-rounder" in their roster will somehow shame them, so they literally throw him out of their base, with little more than the clothes on his back, and pointedly ignore all the instructions he left behind, since, per their native culture, "all rounder" is the lowest possible adventurer rank, due to being an uncertified apprentice, [[CircularReasoning and since they never bothered to certify him]], he's just "a talentless loser."\\
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They manage to coast along, for a while, because the party's self-proclaimed tamer uses Roa's familiars as his own, seeing as the beasts didn't realize Roa had been literally kicked out right away.\\
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The instant said familiars realize their master, whom they all see as family, has been evicted unjustly, thanks to the so-called "hero's" own boasts, they abandon this abusive and exploitive party to their fate.\\
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This is ''just the beginning'' of Roa's woes, as the country's top brass is strangely proud of this heavily flawed apprenticeship system, and often, very often, uses assassins to eliminate all evidence of the glaring flaws present, by assassinating and erasing from all records the very apprentices that prove the system isn't as flawless as the country wants to believe.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: The country Roa calls home has a top brass that believes its own propaganda that the apprenticeship system they tout as flawless, doing a great job of separating the wheat from the chaff, since ''over 80%'' of the apprentices wash out, which makes sense on paper. In reality, the system is anything '''but''' flawless, and who knows how many of those 80% were simply victims of being screwed over by abusive or exploitive mentors, not being psychic and choosing a mentor for the job they're most suited to, since there's no magical appraisal tools or spells, and any apprentice trying to change mentors is just summarily treated as a "cowardly quitter."
* BlamingTheVictim: Whenever there's a conflict between apprentice and mentor, the apprentice is held to blame, even if the mentor has a glaring criminal record and is ObviouslyEvil.
* CircularReasoning: The apprenticeship system Roa suffered under for seven years is glaringly flawed and glaringly self-reinforcing in its flaws.
** Apprenticeships don't do interviews. So there's no way to know if the mentor an apprentice chooses, or is appointed to, suits them until they sign up, but once they sign up, they ''can not change or withdraw'' without being treated as a "quitter" and thus will be treated as radioactive by any other mentor the apprentice might want to try.
** Mentor/Apprentice relationships '''have no oversight''', so the mentor can "train" the apprentice any way he likes, ''or not at all'' as is the case with Roa and the so-called hero party. Since the mentor is the one who decides if the apprentice graduates, this can lead to serfdom for the apprentice, thanks to the "quitter" policy above. Furthermore, any and all conflict between mentors and apprentices are always blamed on the apprentice, thus further reinforcing mentors who think themselves above their apprentices and never graduate anybody. If the apprentice is expelled from the apprenticeship, he is seen as the problem, and is also treated as radioactive because no other mentor wants to be associated with a "talentless loser" or "problem child with an attitude problem." The reason for the expulsion is never questioned.
** If an expelled apprentice, like Roa, winds up doing well ''in spite'' of the system, and what's worse, his dismissal shows that the mentor was just stealing the apprentice's accomplishments for himself, as in Roa's case, the top brass sends ''assassins'' at the apprentice in question, or sends the apprentice on an UriahGambit and then pretends the apprentice never existed.
** The system ''encourages'' StealingTheCredit because if the apprentice achieves something he hasn't been certified in, like beast taming, the mentor will take the credit to keep things legal.
* {{Dystopia}}: Of the false meritocracy variety. The country Roa hails from touts its apprenticeship system as a meritocracy, separating wheat from chaff, but it's a heavily flawed system that is far more often than not resulting in success ''by sheer luck'' and all the ones who are screwed over by the system are treated as the problem.
* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Literally kicking Roa out of their party was the biggest mistake the self-proclaimed "Hero" party could have ever made. Not only were they exploiting the hell out of their country's apprenticeship system to get free labor, of excellent quality to boot, but they were ''entirely'' dependent on everything he did for them and on using his familiars as their own. Sure, they manage to coast along for a while because the familiars don't catch on right away, but the instant the familiars do realize what went on, and bolt, their fame and fortune collapses in epic fashion, ''and'' they trigger a major disaster involving mithril golems running amok, because they couldn't be bothered to follow written instructions their "talentless loser" left behind.
[[caption-width-right:350:Now this is a nice piece of Mithril!]] Roa (the boy with the gem in the page image) was drafted as an unpaid intern in the "Hero" party for a good 7 years, per the apprenticeship system sponsored by his home country.\\
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Naturally, once this party reaches A-rank, they get it in their heads that having "an all-rounder" in their roster will somehow shame them, so they literally throw him out of their base, with little more than the clothes on his back, and pointedly ignore all the instructions he left behind, since, per their native culture, "all rounder" is the lowest possible adventurer rank, due to being an uncertified apprentice, [[CircularReasoning and since they never bothered to certify him]], he's just "a talentless loser."\\
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They manage to coast along, for a while, because the party's self-proclaimed tamer uses Roa's familiars as his own, seeing as the beasts didn't realize Roa had been literally kicked out right away.\\
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The instant said familiars realize their master, whom they all see as family, has been evicted unjustly, thanks to the so-called "hero's" own boasts, they abandon this abusive and exploitive party to their fate.\\
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This is ''just the beginning'' of Roa's woes, as the country's top brass is strangely proud of this heavily flawed apprenticeship system, and often, very often, uses assassins to eliminate all evidence of the glaring flaws present, by assassinating and erasing from all records the very apprentices that prove the system isn't as flawless as the country wants to believe.
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* BelievingTheirOwnLies: The country Roa calls home has a top brass that believes its own propaganda that the apprenticeship system they tout as flawless, doing a great job of separating the wheat from the chaff, since ''over 80%'' of the apprentices wash out, which makes sense on paper. In reality, the system is anything '''but''' flawless, and who knows how many of those 80% were simply victims of being screwed over by abusive or exploitive mentors, not being psychic and choosing a mentor for the job they're most suited to, since there's no magical appraisal tools or spells, and any apprentice trying to change mentors is just summarily treated as a "cowardly quitter."
* BlamingTheVictim: Whenever there's a conflict between apprentice and mentor, the apprentice is held to blame, even if the mentor has a glaring criminal record and is ObviouslyEvil.
* CircularReasoning: The apprenticeship system Roa suffered under for seven years is glaringly flawed and glaringly self-reinforcing in its flaws.
** Apprenticeships don't do interviews. So there's no way to know if the mentor an apprentice chooses, or is appointed to, suits them until they sign up, but once they sign up, they ''can not change or withdraw'' without being treated as a "quitter" and thus will be treated as radioactive by any other mentor the apprentice might want to try.
** Mentor/Apprentice relationships '''have no oversight''', so the mentor can "train" the apprentice any way he likes, ''or not at all'' as is the case with Roa and the so-called hero party. Since the mentor is the one who decides if the apprentice graduates, this can lead to serfdom for the apprentice, thanks to the "quitter" policy above. Furthermore, any and all conflict between mentors and apprentices are always blamed on the apprentice, thus further reinforcing mentors who think themselves above their apprentices and never graduate anybody. If the apprentice is expelled from the apprenticeship, he is seen as the problem, and is also treated as radioactive because no other mentor wants to be associated with a "talentless loser" or "problem child with an attitude problem." The reason for the expulsion is never questioned.
** If an expelled apprentice, like Roa, winds up doing well ''in spite'' of the system, and what's worse, his dismissal shows that the mentor was just stealing the apprentice's accomplishments for himself, as in Roa's case, the top brass sends ''assassins'' at the apprentice in question, or sends the apprentice on an UriahGambit and then pretends the apprentice never existed.
** The system ''encourages'' StealingTheCredit because if the apprentice achieves something he hasn't been certified in, like beast taming, the mentor will take the credit to keep things legal.
* {{Dystopia}}: Of the false meritocracy variety. The country Roa hails from touts its apprenticeship system as a meritocracy, separating wheat from chaff, but it's a heavily flawed system that is far more often than not resulting in success ''by sheer luck'' and all the ones who are screwed over by the system are treated as the problem.
* RemovingTheCrucialTeammate: Literally kicking Roa out of their party was the biggest mistake the self-proclaimed "Hero" party could have ever made. Not only were they exploiting the hell out of their country's apprenticeship system to get free labor, of excellent quality to boot, but they were ''entirely'' dependent on everything he did for them and on using his familiars as their own. Sure, they manage to coast along for a while because the familiars don't catch on right away, but the instant the familiars do realize what went on, and bolt, their fame and fortune collapses in epic fashion, ''and'' they trigger a major disaster involving mithril golems running amok, because they couldn't be bothered to follow written instructions their "talentless loser" left behind.
