Dear Forgettable:

There's two ways to look impressive:  One, have a lot of Splendour, two, actually be impressive.  It sounds like the former plan isn't working out for you.  Absent Splendour, before you can try to be enigmatic, you need something to be enigmatic about.

If you have a lack of natural talent to complement your lack of Splendour, I really have no advice for you.  Because you see, in that case, you don't deserve to be happy, and I don't want you to be.

But if there's anything you can do, that you could be enigmatic about once you'd done it - whether that's making it to the top of the class, or conquering your apparent betters with blackmail - go do that.  If you're any good as a wizard, somewhere in there, eventually you'll be able to cast Eagle's Splendour so you can be enigmatic without any actual accomplishments to back it up.

Dear Forgettable:

There's two ways to look impressive:  One, have a lot of Splendour, two, actually be impressive.  It sounds like the former plan isn't working out for you.  Absent Splendour, before you can try to be enigmatic, you need something to be enigmatic about.

If you have a lack of natural talent to complement your lack of Splendour, I really have no advice for you.  Because you see, in that case, you don't deserve to be happy, and I don't want you to be.

But if there's anything you can do, that you could be enigmatic about once you'd done it - whether that's making it to the top of the class, or conquering your apparent betters with blackmail - go do that.  If you're any good as a wizard, eventually you'll be able to cast Eagle's Splendour so you can be enigmatic without any actual accomplishments to back it up.