Hey guys!
This may seem like a strange question, but does anyone know if there are any careers that allows Elves to cast spells?

One of my groups has a High Elf Scholar that's about to pass rank 1 (He's come super close to death twice, but always lucks out!), and he's interested in skilling into a casting career.

I thought maybe he could hedge-magic it up, but after double checking it seems as though those two careers are limited only to humans - and my knowledge of the other careers is a bit limited at the minute.

So any suggestions?

From a lore perspective, elven spellcasters are so far beyond human wizards that they wouldn't work as a career.

I am sure there are ways to houserule it, but I am not sure it is really going to work all that well. Besides, being a caster is something you are born with, not something you can just learn by reading some scrolls. (Unless you count chaos-writings that give you ways to initiate dark pacts with deamons to gain spell casting abilities.)

I go with the 2nd edition fluff and rules approach ported into 3rd.

High Elven magic, used by Hoeth's Loremasters etc., Qyash etc. is beyond the scope of any Player Character. What Teclis does in background fluff or novels is not something any PC is ever doing.

Elves start learning magic by "colouring within the lines", in other words just like humans. They can be wizard-careers just like humans but without the "orders of magic fluff". About the time an elf would get to the top rank of any PC career in magic (and ready to retire under the rules) they are ready to enter the Tower of Hoeth and learn "real magic, seeing beyond the restrictions of colour etc.".

So you can have elven magic users as PC's, but they are not the much-older, much more powerful sorts people "think of as elven mages".

Since they don't have an order, you also have to decide if spells just "come to them" or if they still need teachers. Self-teaching magic in the Old World is a great way to stray into the use of dhar and fall prey to Ruinous Power corruption etc.

That said there is a fan-made supplement for 3rd edition that sets out an elven approach to magic.

According to the lore in Warhammer, elves have to master each and every wind of magic before they can learn high magic.

As Valvorik says, it's never going to happen for a PC. I'd just let them become a wizard just like a human and use the human rules as written.

Hmm.
Thanks for that. I wasn't going to let him become too power. (To be fair - he's way overdue a death, so likely won't survive the next chapter (Spoiler: They're about to hit the Lazarous Mourne chapter - and I don't think they'll be clever enough to work it out in time)
But I'll let him know the lore and options and let him decide... if he survives.

Though, I guess I can always let him go use Chaos magic