Talk:Yennefer/@comment-68.231.76.30-20150529024957/@comment-3506530-20150603204743

I think in one book the explanation is that studying magic is expensive and only noble families can afford it. But they'd rather use their daughters to forge connections through marriage. They only let those that really can't be married off become sorceresses. So many of them make themselves beautiful with magic as soon as they have the power, like Yennefer.

But I haven't read all the books, maybe that was changed in his later works.