"He was rich, too; not because he'd been given the money, but because he'd earned it in his Quests… they're like errands that Questors do for the Lord Prelate. He was asked to go on a lot of Quests because he was such a good mage.
"I was very depressed because I'd tried a lot of different types of magic and still hadn't found the right one. Loras gave me a long talk about how awful it had been for him when he was learning to be a mage, and how he often wished he was back in his father's smithy.
"He made me talk about my family, although I didn't want to. I didn't have a happy childhood, and I didn't like my parents for sending me here. If I'd been from a really poor family, I'm sure they wouldn't have put up with me here for long, because I wasn't a very good Student. My parents had just enough money to send me here, and I felt like they'd locked me away from the world rather than have me around. I hated them and almost everybody else. Loras made me see just how wrong I was. He even visited my parents to see how they were coping, and I think he gave them some money.
"Nearly everybody liked Loras Afelnor. He did get a lot of trouble and teasing from the richer boys at first, because he was a country boy, and they weren't very kind to him. Still, he was a good Student, by far the best of his age group, and nobody was too surprised when he became a Questor."
With this last sentence, Doorkeeper had glossed over several important details. He knew little of what the Magemasters did to turn a Student into a Mage Questor, but he knew it was very different to what was done to most of the House Scholasticate's inmates.