- no prior education (can’t read/write anything but names)
- has only drawn spells under intense duress
- has mostly drawn spells on skin and various body parts, arguably harder to draw on than paper
- had maybe one day of actual guidance from an experienced adult
#whaspoilers
teen orufrey eating watermelon in the great hall and qifrey accidentally swallows a seed so olruggio jokes that a tree is gonna grow inside of him now and qifrey looks at him like this