Arcane Student

You are a budding mage, and you have been preparing to hone your craft according to the traditions of an ancient College of magic where you are an initiate, this can be Skyrims own College of Winterhold or another college of Tamriel such as the Arcane University of Cyrodiil, the Crystal Tower of the Summerset Isles or Sadrith Mora in Morrowind. Whether it is as an intitiate or by exchange you have a standing invitation to study at the presitgious College of Winterhold and wish to journey there, whether it is for learnings own sake, personal power or enrichment your goal is clear.   Variant: Bardic Student Instead of a budding mage, you are practicing to become a bard and have travelled to Skyrim with intent to join the Bard's College in Solitude. With this variant you get proficency with Performance instead of Arcana and must choose musical instrument instead of Artisan's tools for proficency annd equipment.

Features

Spellbook
When you discover a spell-tome, you copy it into your spellbook much like a Wizard does, with a Intelligence (Arcana) check with a DC equal to 10 + the spell’s level. If the check succeeds, the spell is successfully copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the spell-tome is destroyed.   Spells copied into your spellbook become available for you to prepare, if you are granted a number of spells you can prepare from your class or other feature. Regardless of your spellcasting class, spells learned this way use Intelligence as the spellcasting modfier.   If you are a wizard you can instead copy a spell from a spell-tome into your spellbook instantaneously, using only an action, though doing so destroys the spell-tome.   Arcane Initiate
Learn the Prestidigitation cantrip, this will not count against the number of cantrips available to you from class or other features.   Standing Invitation
You have a standing invitation to study at ethier the College of Winterhold or Bard's College (variant).