Spellz

Ted and Thren (and all mages/illusionists), you start with a total of 5 spells:

for magic users:
Read Magic
Detect Magic
Wizard Mark

for illusionists:
Read Illusionist Magic
Detect Illusions
Phantasmal Force

+2 more 1st circle of your choosing.

Here are some 1st level magic user spells:
Alarm, Affect Normal Fires, Charm Person, Burning Hands, Comprehend Languages, Dancing Lights, Erase, Find Familiar, Feather Fall, Friends, Grease, Hold Portal, ID, Jump, Light, Magic Missile, Mending, PFE, Sleep, Shield, Shocking Grasp, Spider Climb, Tenser's Floating Disk, Unseen Servant, Ventriloquism

Here are some 1st level illusions:
Audible Glamer, Change Self, Chromatic Orb, Color Spray, Dancing Lights, Darkness, Light, Hyp-motism, Phantom Armor, Wall of Fog, Spook, Gaze Reflection, Detect Invis

Languages? Well you know, the usual. Common, Elvish, French, Esperanto, Beholder, ASL, and so on. Yes beholders can write because they have telekinesis, in fact it's a very elegant script kind of like Thai.