Half the population could learn Prestidigitation if they tried, every village usually has at least one person who knows laundry magic.  Five percent of the population actually is first-circle wizards - Cheliax is proud of this, that's the highest ratio in the known world, reflecting Cheliax's excellent education system that among other things identifies smart-enough people and wizard-tracks them - and then it halves for each circle up from there, more or less, with sharper dropoffs as you start going past 4th, 7th.

Speaking Baseline is Divination, the lights above are Evocation, the instant-movement spell is 5th-circle Conjuration, most instant-movement spells are, though there's a 4th-circle Illusion called Shadow Step that lets you step into one shadow and out of another.  What Albe tested was Conjuration.

A thousand spells sounds about right?  Maybe a little low?  Fifteen hundred?

Half the population could learn Prestidigitation if they tried, every village usually has at least one person who knows laundry magic.  Five percent of the population actually is first-circle wizards - Cheliax is proud of this, that's the highest ratio in the known world, reflecting Cheliax's excellent education system that among other things identifies smart-enough people and wizard-tracks them - and then it halves for each circle up from there, more or less, with sharper dropoffs as you start going past 4th, 7th.

Speaking Baseline is Divination, the lights above are Evocation, the instant-movement spell is 5th-circle Conjuration, most instant-movement spells are, though there's a 4th-circle Illusion called Shadow Step that lets you step into one shadow and out of another.  What Albe tested was Conjuration.