[quote=@Spoopy Scary]
It was actually mentioned in Finchs comments on our Mage. He was near the end of his early education and was set on a path to the college, and of the branches, illusion stood out to him more. With the college just around the corner, it wouldn't be far fetched for a student to start looking into their intended field.

If that wasn't mentioned in the sheet, I am sorry. Working on a phone, you make shortcuts and forget things.
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From your sheet, you make no mention of magic anywhere in it, and I've made a copy of the back story for reference. From the early years portion, 

[i]Born under a soldier and Imperial estate agent, in the Imperial City, Finch had access to an early education and some fair amount of money. Nothing spectacular, nothing befitting of nobles, but it was suitable. When his father came back home after a tour, he’d sometimes show the young Finch around the barracks, sometimes show him how to shoot a crossbow and help him out when he had trouble pulling back the string. He was born in the city; he was no farm boy, so strength never played into his everyday life. His primary responsibility was to learn. Thinking was what he became good at.

It appeared he was set on a steady path, but everything changed after his father left to carry out a strike against a key Dominion target, something that might cripple their hold on a strong position. It was executed, and he came back sung as a hero. The father, Cassius Finch, was promoted to commander for his bravery and ability to lead, and he invited his family to visit High Rock with him while he met with the Breton leaders for tactical assessment following the strike. When they got there, they were given lodging, and one night a seventeen year old Finch wandered and looked in awe at the sights of Daggerfall under the full moons. It was that night that a Dominion agent assassinated his father, as well as his mother to eliminate any witnesses.[/i]

He was taught how to use a crossbow, so retconning that is out of the picture, and nobody taught him how to use magic, and there's nothing to suggest he even had a predisposition to magic to begin with.

The rest of the sheet goes into lengths about his begging, thievery, and beginning infatuation with assassins and the Brotherhood, and the only book mentioned to have ever been in his possession is [i]The Night Mother's Truth[/i]. Not long after, he's arrested and the game begins.

So, yeah, that's the character that was accepted, and at this point, there's nothing to suggest that Finch would ever become a mage or have training in it. The addition of athletics is fine and I agree it's probably something that makes sense for his character, but I'm giving the magic skills a solid no. It's not what was accepted and the game's already started, and it would not make sense with his history.