"Sorry, no," she confirmed, with a shake of her head. "As for why only boys, well, that's just the way they do it. If you ask them, they just tell you that women better suited making mages, than becoming them," she said, dryly. Simple sexism was nothing that Aedan hadn't encountered before, but to see it robbing this land of gods knew how many potential spellcasters; even the church back home had both clerics, and nuns, capable of using magic. Regardless of his opinion on the matter, it seemed that their were some parts of this northern culture that were just as backward as he had heard.