OtterOfFun

I feel like he should be more careful to hide his training; there are many things he doesn't know about this world.

My guess is that he's sort of starting the process of mastering these forces by sort of conceptualizing them

Boo!!! Don't come back, stay in Magictown Mctownyface!

To be fair, though, maybe if your project relies on technology that hasn't been invented to be successful, it's probably not gonna happen.

Maybe there's a region of the world that's inspired by Greece and has Greek-sounding names?

Which books? The first one? Or the second and third ones, which were written in a different language? Since it refers to "books" in plural, it makes me think it's the second and third, but at the same time, I feel it would make more sense if it were the first book that was written in common.

Feels like he could learn that in a day...

I feel like it's more because of the city, like a sort of "medieval Hollywood of music," you have a specialized "musician high class", but for each of those, you have 30 more that didn't make it big, like uncle Joel.

The legendary secret revenge of secrecy

He could always say he fell down the stairs 17 times in a row, then add that he's pretty clumsy like that, and follow it up with a casual laugh