The Magician's Apprentice (The Black Magician Trilogy 0.5) by Trudi Canavan

Taking place hundreds of years before the events of The Magicians'

Guild, The Magician's Apprentice is the new novel set in the world of
Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy.

In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer. Her mother would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn.
When the advances of a visiting  Sachakan mage get violent, Tessia unconsciously taps unknown reserves of magic to defend herself. Lord Dakon, the local magician, takes Tessia under his wing as an apprentice.

The hours are long and the work arduous, but soon and exciting new world opens up to her. There are fine clothes and servants - and, to Tessia's delight - regular trips to the great city of Imardin.

However, Tessia is about to discover that her magical gifts bring with them a great deal of responsibility. For a storm is approaching that threatens to tear her world apart.

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The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1) by Trudi Canavan

"We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician."
This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the
city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they
move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and
their work-—until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a
stone at the hated invaders...and effortlessly penetrates their magical
shield.

What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally
come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw
power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled
before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet
control.

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The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy #2) by Trudi Canavan

"Even if a magician's powers surface of their own accord, he will soon be dead if he does not gain the knowledge of how to control them." Alone among all the novices in the Magicians' Guild, only Sonea comes from lowly beginnings. Yet she has won powerful allies—including Lord Dannyl, newly promoted to Guild Ambassador.
But Dannyl must now depart for the Elyne court, leaving Sonea at the mercy of the lies and malicious rumors her enemies are busy spreading ... until the High Lord Akkarin steps in. The price of Akkarin's support is dear, however, because Sonea, in turn, must protect his mysteries and a secret that could lead a young novice mage deep into the darkness. Meanwhile, Dannyl's first order to resume High Lord Akkarin's long abandoned research into ancient magical knowledge is setting him on an extraordinary journey fraught with unanticipated peril as he moves ever-closer to a future both wondrous ... and terrible.

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The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy #3) by Trudi Canavan

In the city of Imardin, where those who wield magic wield power, a young street-girl, adopted by the Magician's Guild, finds herself at the centre of a terrible plot that may destroy the entire world...
Sonea has learned much at the magicians' guild and the other novices now
treat her with a grudging respect. But she cannot forget what she
witnessed in the High Lord's underground room - or his warning that the
realm's ancient enemy is growing in power once more. As Sonea learns
more, she begins to doubt her guildmaster's word. Could the truth really
be as terrifying as Akkarin claims, or is he trying to trick her into
assisting in some unspeakably dark scheme?

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