User blog comment:Bato of the Heavy Iron Rock Hammer/A thirteenth member of the Spriggan Twelve/@comment-31.132.65.53-20150721222433/@comment-24102956-20150722045314

Except August who's a badass Gandlaf-type chararacter, unless there are other older members of the Spriggan Twelve.

I can guess that they are already formidably powerful and skilled Mages in their own right unrestricted of growing their power in decades of training by the Magic Council who happens to be doing that in Isghar's own Mages.