Character Development

[MTKnife]

There's an old discussion of Feral Upbringing here, making some of the same points Salutor does:

Feral upbringing

Mages can take feral upbringing. HoH:MC says, in the sidebar on page 37, that it used to be common in House Bjornaer, but that it isn't so much now as they are trying to escape their reputation. The problem I have with "Apprenticed from the Wilds" is that it wouldn't count against the Personality Flaw limit. In any case, outside of any mechanical effects you can and should consider it in the same way as Faerie and Sheltered Upbringing as to what kind of reactions are expected from the characte…

My reading of the RAW agrees with your old SG, and it does stand to reason--if you've got character development after returning from the wild, it's just pushing around highly fungible skill points, arguably to the advantage of the PC, for something that should be a Flaw.

I think something like Salutor's solution would work.

Scott